Wurzelkraft: Why is Rey force-sensitive? Luke's or Leia's secret daughter?

phaolo: (and saved by a crevice-ex-machina).

Wurzelkraft: Who is the old guy with the map in the beginning? He was played by Max von Sydow but I don't know anything about the character.

Wurzelkraft: Where is the Republic and why is Leia in the resistance? Never explained and a big plot hole.

Tallima: that makes me imagine more and better. I can't wait for the next one!

phaolo: Well, I preferred Star Trek [1]2 to Star Trek [1]1 (despite the usual problems), so there's (some) hope for a better SW8.
These movies are more connected, however, so I couldn't just forget the first one. We'll see.
(and maybe Kylo won't dare to remove his mask ever again)

BoxOfSnoo: When she lighted up the light saber the music kinda tells you something. Not sure if it was Luke's theme or Leia's theme.

Breja: That's my guess. I mean, There has to be something behind her "missing parents", and who else could they be? The Star Wars universe doesn't really have any other important, force-sensitive families.

BoxOfSnoo: You're really desperate to hate this movie. You haven't seen it so you're just following the hive mind. Since you won't stop posting nonsense...

- Rey is extremely unlike Luke. Luke was a sheltered farm boy, anxious to have adventure. Rey is NONE of the above. She wants to stay home, despite all of the difficulties there. She never complains. Luke has his family slaughtered and has a personal stake in bringing down the empire.
- Han is absolutely NOTHING like Obi-Wan. I can't even.
- BB8 is definitely more his own character than Artoo. In the original trilogy C3PO and Artoo were co-characters, this one kinda rolls it up in one, with some extra humour.
- Kylo Ren is *trying* to emulate Vader but he is way, way more driven. He's also kinda unhinged. There's something that makes him desperate to break away from the light side (we don't know what, yet) and he will sacrifice the things most dear to him to do it. It reminds me WAY more of Jacen in the books than Vader.
- Hux. No opinion. Not a significant character from the way I view the plot.
- Death Star. So? The First Order needs to be some kind of threat to the galaxy, a galaxy that is not actually under its control. It was the weakest part of the story but who cares? What would you suggest otherwise? A virus? A robot army? Then you'd just complain that they're stealing from other movies.

The map plot line is orthogonal to the new mega weapon.

BoxOfSnoo: The "two at a time" restriction was established by Darth Bane. His idea was that the dark side quest was all about power, the student needed to kill the master to prove his power over him and grow. A Sith Lord would never tolerate more than one student. Before that there were Sith academies, lots of students. The ancient Sith were a race, maybe he is supposed to be from that?

Then again, like you said, the movies haven't expounded on that, just the books have done so.

The whole Snoke thing was disappointingly vague. Then again, the whole Ben/Kylo Ren thing was only lightly addressed, there's lots to work with in the sequel. I wish they had laid a bit more groundwork though. I didn't see him as a threat at all, even in ANH the Emperor was the mind behind the Death Star, the one who corrupted Vader, the big bad guy behind the whole oppressive empire.

arrjayjee: My hope is that Kylo got messed up enough (guts turned to soup by Chewie's blaster, face cut in half by Rey's coup de grace) that he's more machine than man now, just like his idol.

arrjayjee: My hope is that Kylo got messed up enough (guts turned to soup by Chewie's blaster, face cut in half by Rey's coup de grace) that he's more machine than man now, just like his idol.

Lolling: I'm happy that i'm not the only one who consider Kylo Ren a good character with great potential (and,if Disney do a good job in the next movies, I think he can even be one of the best character in the Star Wars universe)