Ha! Just got back from seeing it and checked Hubski first thing, wanting to talk about it, and here's your thread. Thanks johnnyFive!

I clapped after this film. I loved it. Right now I think it's the best of the 9. I need to let it sit a few days to be sure. So much worked wonderfully in this film. I really didn't like 8 much because it was just a remake of 4. But in this one they built lots of connections to Empire Strikes Back without it feeling like they were copying anything.

For example, it started with a Rebel evacuation, but the bomber sequence was new and awesome. It had walkers attacking a base with underarmored rebel ground ships attacking back, but at the end of the film with a fresh feel and oh those beautiful lines in the sand!

The whole "lifting rocks" was wonderful. Flashbacks to the Weird Al song "Yoda". (So, I used the Force I picked up a box. I lifted some rocks)

Kylo killing Snopes was so unexpected -- Snopes was just developing as a very interesting villian and then SLICE! And then I expected Ren and Rey to join forces and NO! I was reeling!

But are Rey's parents nobodies? I don't think so. In Star Wars extended universe Han and Leia have twins. One of them goes to the dark side. And Rey in this film sits in the turret of the Falcon and makes the exact same kind of comment Luke made when he was in the turret for the first time. I think Rey is somehow a Skywalker. But how? She couldn't be Leia's daughter or they both would have known when the met, dontcha think? I still think somehow she and Ren are brother/sister.

Loved how the entire rebellion is reduced to a crew that fits on the Falcon. What a devastation!

Finally, loved the ending with little kid using the force and holding a broom like a light saber.

So good!