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alright I guess my two biggest gripes were the killing of Snoke, and, the decision to go with Ren as the new "final" boss for our heros to slay. One person earlier in this thread wrote they found the movie predictable; I would say this movies unpredictable plot choices were a benefit. Did people really think that Luke would die, Snoke would die, and Leia would survive? I sure as #### didn't.

I remember when they were planning on how to solve their jump to light speed issue. This whole plot was really paper thin, and I remember thinking "well, they obviously arent going to leave the ship to go to some other plan.... or they are...". It REALLY deflates the sense of danger when they can just go on a space run to a space casino, watch some space horse racing, and then wind up in space jail. then get space rescued by a space lockpicker, and space escape. All in time to get them out of the jam.

And whats worse? They actually have it not work. All that #### was for nothing. So you expect it to work, and when it doesn't I guess its kind of surprising but... there's no sense of danger still for the main characters.

Rose was kind of a crappy throw in and her time would have been better spent with Rey and Snoke. Rey is actually really fantastic. Her character is interesting, the actress is delivering her great and is sexy AF, but its not super distracting.

Kylo Ren has basically been brought along as a pissy little child, and he's now the supreme leader? Stupid. They had a lot of really interesting directions to go with and they chose very poorly. They could have have the Snoke/Rey/Ren as the final ending, leading into a new trilogy. Instead they wanted to do everything under the sun in this movie.

Oh and don't get me started on the ridiculous plot device of Luke not really dying in battle with Ren, only to die right after anyways. I wanted to throw popcorn at the screen.

Lots to like about the movie itself but that all gets bogged down by very questionable "big" decisions. Ill close tho by writing that I think writing Reys parents as "nobodies" was in fact the right call. She is the best part of this trilogy easily and I am very pleased she will now be the primary hero. She also would have made a delightful villain but this is the right move.