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I find it incomprehensible that he didn't have one ALREADY!

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I think you're right on the money about that Bryan.

I disagree completely. One of the main things that made TFA (and TLJ) such a huge success was audience nostalgia for the OT and for Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker.

I agree about Obi-Wan. Not only that, as key as he was to the OT his was a peripheral character after Star Wars. Han Solo is one leg of the central tripod of characters that have been the focus of the OT and he features prominently in this new trilogy as well. He's a different case altogether...

Indeed, but my comment was in response to what you posted, which made it sound like you thought they were still alive. ;)

According to Ren, her parents are dead and lying in an unmarked grave on Jakku, aren't they? No follow-up at all for Rey.

And yet in TFA she's waiting for her family to come back to her on Jakku, which seems to keep her going, and she "sees" them leaving her in the Force vision at Maz's. I'd say that Rey's parents and the fact that they left her are a big part of her character's core.

I think so. :) Anyway, maybe Ren and/or Snoke planted that idea in Rey's mind. Certainly a possibility. Who really knows? It's all conjecture at this point. We'll find out, or not, when IX is released.

He already knew who her parents were, or played as if he did, didn't he? He goaded her into saying "They were nobody". How did he know in the first place?

How did Ren know?

My feeling is that Ren could have very well been lying to Rey in order to manipulate her into joining him. The conversation between them about her parents was by no means definitive.

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Ah, gotcha. It came across like you were arguing that his dialog didn't make sense from a scripting perspective.

But Snoke didn't KNOW that. HE was certain that he saw everything in Ren's mind, but obviously that wasn't the case. It's not a contradiction because in the character's frame of reference he was sure of his omnipotence, and it got him killed.

Technically, it's "the Resistance" in TFA, and they're not on the run. Leia is trying to find Luke and enlist his aid in preventing the rising First Order from becoming another Empire. The First Order is trying to find Skywalker first so they can kill him. The Republic that resulted from the...

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Smith has probably been smoking weed for most of his adult life. ;)

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Well, that's just like, your opinion, man. ;)

I like RO as well and think that it's the most beautiful of the new Star Wars films. The effects are just to die for. For me it's main flaw is the casting of Felicity Jones in the lead. I find her Jyn Erso to be bland and uninteresting. It's the supporting characters that work, with the...

I'll take EVERYTHING that Johnson has done with the Force over Lucas' idiotic Midi-chlorians and virgin births any and every day of the week. ;)

That's exactly what happened. Luke, whom we discovered had disconnected himself from the Force per his conversation with Rey, reconnected for the first time in who knows how long specifically to reach out to his sister. And she heard him.

They aren't assumptions because in the TLJ it was made perfectly clear that she DID have some powerful Force abilities. That's the direction the story went. Whether those abilities were developed or innate and they kicked in because she was in mortal danger remains unclear, but she obviously had...

Nothing was made clear about Leia's abilities or lack thereof in TFA. You're making assumptions based on nothing here. There's a LOT of road between simply using the Force and being a Jedi Master. Leia is the sister of arguably the most powerful Jedi Master ever, Luke Skywalker. To say with...

How did we learn this in TFA? Because she wasn't shown using the Force?

Should they have shown Yoda learning the ways of the Force? I swear, I don't believe that little green bastard was so proficient in using it because I never saw him training! How about Kenobi? Qui-Gon? Darth Maul? Windu? All Force cheaters!

IMO the Star Wars series should have ended with Return of the Jedi, but here we are.

Of COURSE they weren't! There was purposeful ambiguity about Luke's whereabouts in TFA. Johnson AND Lucasfilm AND Disney decided to go in this direction because THAT is the way they wanted to advance the story. Johnson didn't act alone in a vacuum. You may not like the direction they took Luke...

Going into exile and searching for the first Jedi temple are not mutually exclusive activities. :)