Preezy wrote:- Where were the Knights of Ren? That vision that Rey had in TFA was cool and the Knights of Ren were hinted at as being his disciples or special Sith Squad™, but nope there's zero mention of them at all. Maybe they'll get shown in the final part of the trilogy but introducing them, establishing them, giving something to do and then getting rid of them in 1 film would be a bit gooseberry fool. They should have been introduced in TFA. Lame.
I assume the Knights have only so far been referenced because to add them in too would just overcrowd the villain team - having too many big bad characters would be detrimental to the story.
I can only assume that, now Snoke is out of the way, the Knights of Ren will fill the gigantic void he left.
Preezy wrote:- The Porgs. Whilst they weren't as annoying as I thought they'd be, they existed purely to be something that Disney can now sell to kids. They were completely superfluous to the plot. At least the Ewoks took casualties and played a part on Endor.
The Porgs exist because the film crew couldn't keep the puffins on the island from getting in the way.
Preezy wrote:- The custodians on Luke's island - so they're his slaves? Where do they live? They weren't anywhere to be seen at the end of TFA or when Rey's initially following Luke around the island as he drinks walrus milk and catches fish, but then all of a sudden these nuns appear to fix holes in the wall and wash Luke's undercrackers.
They take care of the structures built by the First Jedi, presumably it's a cultural tradition thing for them. I assume they live in similar buildings out of sight, or in the island's cave system.
Preezy wrote:- The opening joke with Poe and Hux on the intercom, tonally didn't start the film off in a good way. We're supposed to be experiencing this tense evacuation of a base and the counter-attack against a Dreadnought and Poe's cracking jokes.
It was pretty funny to me, but I didn't feel like it needed to be at the beginning of the film. They could've done it a bit later on, after the hyperjump, and been fine.