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Okay, I just read through the last 500 post topic quickly before it purged. Here's a bunch of thoughts on random things that popped out at me:

The Knights of Ren - These guys might still exist. TFA indicated that Kylo Ren destroyed the academy with the Knights of Ren and there's a vision of them standing looking all cool. TLJ Luke mentions that Kylo Ren massacred most of the students and left with a few of them. This is consistent. Those guys could still be out there and show up. Or they might just get forgotten. They might have been part of those lightsabre ninja guards of Snokes that got killed, but that seems unlikely to me.

Phasma - lame pointless character made to sell toys that did nothing in both movies. She could have been an interesting foil for Finn. Instead she's a pointless boring foil for Finn that shows up for a pointless and boring fight. She's a big disappointment

Snoke - I think he was fine. He was cool in this movie. Fit the bill for evil sith lord / galactic emperor 2.0 to a T. I'm completely okay with him dying like he did though. I thought they were building him up now for us to overcome in Ep 9, but instead he's just a cool sith lord they brought out of the wood work to facilitate Kylo Ren's rise to power. I've seen a lot of people complain about where he came from, but it honestly doesn't matter. It's not a plothole that he was around during the Empire's time. Obviously Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda survived off the grid. There's absolutely no reason that other Jedi or powerful dark side users couldn't have survived as well. Just because the movies told you there were no other force users left alive doesn't mean it's true. Palpatine could have known about Snoke, or he might not have. It really doesn't matter either way.

Wigs being confused on Kylo Ren's betrayal - For some reason Wigs kept talking out to himself about why Kylo Ren flip flopped on his allegiences. That's just a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened. Kylo Ren never flip flopped at all. He was always 100% loyal to Kylo Ren. He followed Snoke until it was no longer convenient to keep Snoke around (when Snoke wanted to Rey dead) so he killed Snoke. It's classic sith apprentice supplanting the master backstabbing and it was done wonderfully. The movie presents it to us as if he's face turning and joining Rey because of the relationship they've built (which was developed pretty decently well), and Rey genuinely believing Kylo Ren could be turned to the light side. However, Kylo Ren's plan the entire time was to kill Snoke, assume control of The First Order, and convince Rey to join him as his partner. He really believed it would all work, too. He never once changed his mind here or intended to "join the light side" . As conflicted and immature as he is, he's dark side for life.

Mary Poppins Leia - for some reason literally everyone is hating on this scene. No idea why. It's a cool scene. We know in the OT that Leia is force sensitive. The force protecting you from the void of space temporarily is absolutely within the realm of possibility of the force. It's not like it protected her from death... She still ended up in intensive care. It was just a cool inspiring moment for the rebels. She's a hero of the resistance. She's already a larger than life figure to them for what happened in the OT, but they literally watched her get blown into space and fly back in. It's great.
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