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Yes he was the alien guy that we only saw as the holo.

I'm guessing the arc of this last trilogy will develop him up, and then his defeat will ultimately be the end of the Empire/First Order for good.

She is voiced by a pretty big current actress, so I imagine we will see her again at some point. There is clearly something going on with her to have Luke's lightsaber locked up. And the fact that she seemed to know who Rey was as well.

Official map is up at 506. As expected from my last post, it's still minimal coverage, but at least in an area that I assume most of us reside.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out the Richmond market in regards to the NFL and CBS. A lot of weeks, it seems to be the dividing line on the map, and we don't get as many Ravens games as you would think from proximity. (A lot of Steelers and Jets, though).

This week, it's the one random station in Virginia getting Texans/Colts. North of us is the Chiefs/Ravens, and south is Titans/Patriots. WTF?

Yeah, that's fair. The only reason I'd expect more here is that this is the 7th movie in a series where we know pretty much the whole major backstory except the 30 year gap between 6 and 7. But as I said, plenty of time for that, and having those questions certainly didn't detract from the film. If anything, it just makes me more anxious for the next one, which might be the point.

I think we have the benefit of hindsight in that regard. Think back to A New Hope. We really had no idea about the Empire or Vader before he was Force choking dudes.

As you said, and I agree, the foundation laid was solid. The plot had a few issues certainly, but I will say that Rey is a character that I can find myself being interested in to see where her arc goes. I think there are a lot of possibilities as far as what to do with Finn. He was a bit of comic relief, but its believeable that he would be a badass with a blaster, as he has trained as a stormtrooper his entire life. As an aside, I thought it was really cool to give stormtroopers as a whole actual personalities which we have never seen. I assume that we have not seen the last of the chromed out lady trooper (who really was not developed in any way). So they can really do some neat things with his story too.

The pilot worked for me. Wedge was always one of my favorite original characters and I hope we see him in some fashion. And there is a major redemption arc built in for Ren, which seems a bit obvious, but after what JJ did this first go around, I think he has earned the chance to continue telling us the story he wants to.

Was planning to wait till the 26th to see it in the massive IMAX at Air and Space, but after having Han's death spoiled last night, I decided I had to see it before anything else was spoiled. Damn if I wasn't ready to hop right back in line after it ended. Lots and lots of unexplained holes, but it laid a solid foundation, and it looked fantastic. I wish they'd been a little more expository towards the First Order and Snoke, since both are totally new to the franchise and seem to be pretty damn important, but there's plenty of time left for that. I think my biggest beef with the movie was having Max von Sydow, and then killing him off rather unceremoniously 5 minutes in, without even bothering to explain how he knows the Skywalker family.

oh well lol. you maybe right. I know whit is at home right now in charlotte. was planning on getting up with him for the bowl game when we "thought" it was going to be the belk bowl. but both him and bonner were in Canada playing this year. idk when the season ends or anything like that. I don't follow it. I just figured Id say what I knew when I knew it.

Wiggins is going to make 260,000. I just heard a lot of rumors when he was leaving about how high AM was going to be going.

That's fits right into what I've always thought about Loeffler...he was more interested in the defense's weaknesses and errors than his offense's strengths.

Don't you get tired of the same old jokes in every thread?

EDIT: sigh, yeah that was the response I expected. But seriously, originality is pretty uncommon around these parts nowadays, let's at least try to be clever when we rehash to same joke for the 100th time in the same day.

"Selling pre-atomic submarines to people who don't leave full addresses.... good day, Admiral."

Oh wait, that was the 1960s Batman movie. A classic!

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