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Yeah, he's a fantastic character, it's just that he's not really given much of anything memorable to do after his return. If it had been Greg Grunberg's character, or Nien Numb, or anyone else who ended up finishing off the Starkiller base, it really wouldn't have made much difference.

Well, I loved Poe's reunion with Finn--telling him to keep the jacket. That alone made his return memorable, to me.

Has anyone else heard the theory that Rey is actually Obi-wan's granddaughter? (It is also often connected to a theory that Obi-wan and Padme were lovers in the prequels). I don't remember anything hinting that Obi-wan had any lust.

I like the idea of a Kenobi-descendant, though I hate the idea of Kylo Ren being the only Skywalker legacy.

I always assumed Obi Wan followed that Jedi oath of chastity/love pretty strictly.

Rey looks like Padme to me (the facial structures) and her personality has bits of Luke/Anakin (being good at technology and survival). So if Disney is going for the obvious "She is Luke's daughter" angle, that works too. Speaking of Padme, I do wonder if Rey is going to be given new outfits in the next movie. She's not exactly a princess (at least not yet, maybe the marketing gods at Disney are planning that), but it would be kind of boring if she wore the same thing all three movies.

For everyone wondering why we saw so little of Poe Dameron after the opening scenes...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/wait-redacted-was-supposed-to-die-in-the-force-awake-1748949179

In terms of Poe, I just figured that they needed someone the audience would be invested in during the fighter battles since the main characters were all planetside... (or maybe that's what JJ figured out?)

Rey seemed to me to embody almost all the best characteristics of all the previous heroes.

And of course she'll have different outfits! She's got figres to sell! ... and also, if she's to become Luke's follower (in spirit if not Jedi training) her wardrobe will certainly display her progress during the films as Luke's did (white, then grey, then black)

Found myself agreeing a lot with Blacula’s post.

Enjoyed the movie a lot for the most part but it had a fatal flaw: bad baddies. Only baddy I even enjoyed or found intriguing was Phasma. Too many scenes of red-headed guy and hey actor, less is more. Found snoke boring. Ren is supposed to be conflicted (whiney, take your pick) but found nothing charismatic, compelling or convincing about the actor.

I enjoyed the homages but I can see how some would find them distracting. On second watching they didn’t pop out quite so much.

BB8: I went in expecting to be totally annoyed. Enjoyed this new character a lot.

Rey great character, greatly acted! Heck, even little Rey’s three seconds broke my heart. The actress brought the chemistry no matter who was opposite. Rey’s a pilot, hinting at Anakin’s line but I don’t recall Luke and Mara having a child taken away. She was apparently at the slaughter of the new trainees and was dropped off at Jakku by the Falcon. I’ve no good guesses what they’re hinting at here. Maybe she’s not connected to anyone. One weakness with acting I thought maybe was the athletics: running, fighting seemed awkward.

Max Landis’ comments: dude wrote “Victor Frankenstein.” He don’t get a vote.

Finn: a bit too much Gilligan for a storm trooper but loved his enthusiasm for the adventure. I think the actor played it the way told, I want to know more of his back-story and I appreciated that the actor pulled off the “American” accent without that gravelly voice thing so many use to cover up the British.

Maz: total fail. No charisma. No character in the voice. No reason given to exist. Hinted at and dropped the ball on a history with Chewie, a scene or two would have been to her credit. Jar Jar II.

Ford/Han was being his most enjoyable grumpiest, really good chem with Rey.

Leia, not enough Leia. Why are they treating the character as if she’s not force adept?

Plotting: Enjoyed the story and look forward to the next. Complaints: Rey, way too strong too quickly. There’s no way I would easily accept a completely untrained taking on someone that had destroyed so many Jedi. It should have been her saved by the quake (or by Leia), not Ren. Not sure they left enough in her development for the future movies. Blowing up the weapon wasn’t particularly dramatic. Other than that, had a pretty good time with everything.

Casting: I do wonder if I’m ahead of a curve of being annoyed with the prevalence of British accents, particularly in sci-fi “American” movies but other than Driver (American) and the red-headed guy, I enjoyed all the casting here.

While I disliked the film I actually really liked Domhnall Gleeson as the fascist General Hux. I thought his glassy-eyed Hitler hate speech was really well done and found his rivalry with Ren to be interesting. He made a good villain you can root against.

Goes to taste, That scene came off to me as "try too hard." I see the actors has been in a lot of successful movies so he's obviously no quick-cast. The acting nor the character resonated with me, I kind of wanted him to go away. But then as I posted, I wasn't enamored with any of the bad guys other than Phasm. Even with her I could get picky.


Also thought Finn came off cowardly instead of conflicted (which I would have preferred) in the early scenes, though I really liked him later enough to forget that early impression.

And the actress playing Rey was into ballet so she is athletic and her scenes with the fighting stick were really good. It's the light saber stuff looked awkward, maybe acted that way. Looking at it again, her wide armed, foot stomping kind of way of running might be her acting like a young teen instead of someone in her early 20s?

On re-watch I see I was mistaken about the ship that dropped Rey off. It was a Correlian type freightor but had a different drive than the Falcon. I wonder how they will tell that story?

For comparing & contrasting with the speculation about the 2nd installment, with its own thread generously started by Lardy, for hindsight thoughts, and for a remarkable woman we lost too soon.