I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thought Rey in particular was excellent and has a lot of potential. Adam Driver was amazing and his character has a good amount of complexity. At times a serious badass and at others a petulant child. I loved the scene after Rey escaped and he backed up the room, you saw the stormtroopers walk by and quickly turn around in a "**** you don't want to get near him when he's in one of these moods" kind of way.
I think people are deliberately trying to pick holes where there may or may not be any.
Some say the first order came about too quickly after the defeat of the Empire. Well in real life it took Hitler less than 30 years after the complete distraction of Germany in WW1 to overthrow most of Europe and bring about WW2. So clearly not impossible.
I'm hoping that there is a lot more going on that we don't know yet. How old is Snoke? Is he a Sith Lord or something else? Could he have been the real power behind the emperor all along? Is he Darth Plageius who defeated death?
As far as Rey goes, there's also a lot of questions. My guess is that Kylo was Luke's star pupil until Rey came along and then she started showing him up. I suspect that Rey is Kylo's sister and that he killed all the other Jedi trainees but couldn't bring himself to kill her, so blocked her memory and hid her on Jakku, but told everyone that he killed her.
That's what tore Han and Leia apart. Kylo clearly admires his grandfather Vader and wants to "finish what he started". Well what is that? Again, my guess is that the Empire was looking for the first Jedi temple because of what it holds and had the map too it, except for the final piece.
With Kylo's rage and feeling like he let everyone down, Luke went into exile to protect the temple. So TFA wasn't really about finding Luke, it was about completing the empires mission of finding the first Jedi temple, where Luke happens to be.
Time will tell.
Hans death was also really well done and a fitting way to go. But of course they cut him for financial reasons. He's getting £23m for this film, vs Carrie Fishers £1m and daisy Ridley and John boys as £300,000.
Still a very solid movie and I can't wait to see it again and pay more attention to the flashback scene. I think that holds a lot of clues.
I think people are deliberately trying to pick holes where there may or may not be any.
Some say the first order came about too quickly after the defeat of the Empire. Well in real life it took Hitler less than 30 years after the complete distraction of Germany in WW1 to overthrow most of Europe and bring about WW2. So clearly not impossible.
I'm hoping that there is a lot more going on that we don't know yet. How old is Snoke? Is he a Sith Lord or something else? Could he have been the real power behind the emperor all along? Is he Darth Plageius who defeated death?
As far as Rey goes, there's also a lot of questions. My guess is that Kylo was Luke's star pupil until Rey came along and then she started showing him up. I suspect that Rey is Kylo's sister and that he killed all the other Jedi trainees but couldn't bring himself to kill her, so blocked her memory and hid her on Jakku, but told everyone that he killed her.
That's what tore Han and Leia apart. Kylo clearly admires his grandfather Vader and wants to "finish what he started". Well what is that? Again, my guess is that the Empire was looking for the first Jedi temple because of what it holds and had the map too it, except for the final piece.
With Kylo's rage and feeling like he let everyone down, Luke went into exile to protect the temple. So TFA wasn't really about finding Luke, it was about completing the empires mission of finding the first Jedi temple, where Luke happens to be.
Time will tell.
Hans death was also really well done and a fitting way to go. But of course they cut him for financial reasons. He's getting £23m for this film, vs Carrie Fishers £1m and daisy Ridley and John boys as £300,000.
Still a very solid movie and I can't wait to see it again and pay more attention to the flashback scene. I think that holds a lot of clues.