re: Star Wars: TFA -Official Discussion Thread - Spoilers

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who was the old guy on Jakku?

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Lor San Tekka.

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How did Rey know of Darth Vader? Did she read Kylo's mind?

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She was able to read his mind after he failed in his attempt to read her's.

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Was Snoke a Muun? If he was then that's Darth Plageis, I think he is.

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He's not a Muun, but Snoke is almost certainly Darth Plagueis.

If you need an unofficial confirmation, listen to Darth Plagueis' theme from ROTS. Then, listen to Snoke's theme from TFA.

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Did the New Death Star destroy Coruscant

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No. One new law or rule of the New Republic is that they move their capital from planet to planet every few years. That was Hosnian Prime that was destroyed.

To answer some further questions...

I'm not sure if y'all saw the new official map of the galaxy, but essentially Coruscant was at the center/core of their galaxy and naturally territory was expanded outwards. Well after the Battle of Jakku, the New Republic essentially signed a Armistice with the remnants of the Empire (now called the First Order) - Think the treaties that Germany signed after each of the World Wars. They were essentially suppose to demilitarize and stay on the outer reaches of the galaxy, which they did for the most part, while secretly militarizing themselves and eventually it wasn't so secret. Rather than have another all out galactic war, the Resistance was created to fight a proxy, somewhat Cold War. The First Order effectively declared an open war against the New Republic by destroying the current Capital and killing the new Chancellor (they dropped Supreme from the title for obvious reasons).

Hopefully on a galactic level we get a war for Episode 8 while on the micro level we get to witness Ren's final steps of training with Snoke (he clearly told Hux to bring Ren to him to COMPLETE his training) while we see Rey (who clearly has more midichlorians flowing through her veins than Ren) being trained by Rey. I am now committing myself to the idea that the big reveal in Episode 8 will be that Rey's mother was Force-sensitive, but she was seduced by the dark side and Luke had to kill her. I've heard one theory that Felicity Jone's character from Rogue One will be Luke's future wife/baby momma, but that seems too... easy. I'd like to think that Rian Johnson has more prowess and skill as a writer for that.

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nly think I haven't seen talked about is how big they made Snoke,

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It was a projection. He isn't that big, the first time we saw the Emperor in Empire, his face was 10 feet tall.

The snoke thing bothered me too. It was like starwars turned into LOTR for those shots. It would have been better if it was obvious it was a projection from the beginning.

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Snoke is a completely original character. This has been stated by both Serkis and JJ.

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and Khan was not in the second Star Trek movie, according to JJ before the movie was released.

Obviously Snoke is a very powerful force adept and the Sith ruled by the rule of two. They seek out all force sensitives and destroyed or corrupted the ones not part of the Order, how would Snoke survive? And who jacked his face up? Plaugeis could revive the dead, maybe even himself.

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Female heroines are stale. Every movie has them now.

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Why do you think of her as a female first? She doesnt have the "girl power" thing going for her at all. She's not cut from "Katniss" cloth if you will, in that she's an entitled bitch which almost all of these "strong women" are. She's simply a good character the way I see her.

It's simple why Rey is a female: we have had no female Jedi and it's an obvious way to differentiate it from the first two trilogies and it could make for a fantastic character we've never seen . Really as soon as I heard about the sequels, after calming down thinking Disney may ruin it and realizing George already had, then the first thought was "well, they'll clearly have Luke's daughter as the protagonist." It's a very obvious and organic route to take. I doubt any film maker would make Rey a male if they were to make this movie.

Rey is kind of a revelation when it comes to female characters. She's everything a character should be and just so instantly likable. As I said, that 3 silent minutes of watching Rey's day-to-day life was better than everything in the prequels combined and would have made for a fine short film on its own. It made me care for this person in a very short time frame, something the prequels failed entirely over 8 hours.

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know this may be a dumb question but was the snow planet and the new Death Star one in the same or different? At times it looked like it was built into the planet.

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I think it was built into the planet.

I only have a few nit picky complaints.

1. Chewy should have been the one to console with Leia after Han died, not Rey. Rey didn't know Leia and they first time they see each other was like they had known each other Rey's whole life. Instead Chewy is in the background celebrating the victory after his best friend and partner of 30+ years was just murdered. Walked right past Leia.

2. The final scene. Really wished Luke would have grabbed the light saber instead of Rey holding it out to him for what seemed like forever. At the least they could have shown him just starting to force grab it and cut to credits

3. How was Fin immediately so great with the light saber? Rey I kind of get being that she is so strong in the Force, but Fin takes on Ren like a seasoned veteran albeit not quite on Ren's level.

All in all I loved it. Great "oh shi"t moments, a few good chuckles, and great characters to flesh out over the next 2 movies.

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Really wished Luke would have grabbed the light saber instead of Rey holding it out to him for what seemed like forever. At the least they could have shown him just starting to force grab it and cut to credits

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I think the extended stare and associated sentimentality was to emphasize the point that Luke had finally encountered someone that he loved and cherished dearly - likely his daughter.

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How was Fin immediately so great with the light saber? Rey I kind of get being that she is so strong in the Force, but Fin takes on Ren like a seasoned veteran albeit not quite on Ren's level.

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I agree. Finn fared better against Ren than he did against a Stormtrooper. I don't care how injured or mentally mercurial Kylo may have been - he was a Skywalker that had received some degree of formal training from Luke and Snoke. That fight shouldn't have lasted more than two seconds.

I'll be dammed if that wasn't incredible. There's no such thing as a perfect movie particularly in a sequel 30 years later but that left me wholly fulfilled with a stupid high personal level of expectations.

The only character who left me in disbelief was Finn with a lot of comic relief for someone raised to be a stormtrooper. Otherwise his other screentime was great, Rey is a great heroine, and Ren is a wholly believable villain. Damn strong job JJ.