Here be spoilers!I suppose since I'm making the thread, I'll say what was thinking during the movie:
Mark Hamill/Carrie Fisher are/were an amazing actor/actress. Rey and Luke could easily be ported to Mimara and Achamian in TJE (as someone noted either in Quorum or in the facebook group).
Also, story-telling has gotten remarkably simplistic (or I just read into narrative far too often). Movies are allowed to be subtle. We're doing story-telling and ourselves a disservice catering to the lowest common denominator rather than raising the bar. I did spoil myself before I saw the movie but - while she was awake at least - I pretty much forecast all the major beats of the plot to the SO about a quarter of the way into the (longest ever, apparently, Star Wars) movie.
Miscellaneous aside, a lot of homages by Johnson, specifically BSG and old Samurai/Westerns (I'd have to look it up again but apparently there is a person-antecedent that both Lucas and Johnson were paying tribute to).
Also, a lot of people on the internet saying that *that* lightsaber battle is the best choreographed in the entire series and that the fight in
The Phantom Menace is runner up. Sorry, Anakin and Obi-Wan in
Revenge of the Sith is the single best piece of choreographed lightsaber battle in the whole series, thanks very much.
Looking forward (as I know FB is, without even having seen the movie) to what Johnson is going to do with a whole trilogy - Disney made a terrible decision with this new generation trilogy letting each writer/director make their own single movie arcs and not having major plot beats planned across the trilogy.
EDIT: Also, since GJ got such a laugh when I was texting him through the movie: date night at the theater was specifically planned so that the SO could have a nap away from work and the children and I could likewise have a night out. We made out, sat in the back of the theater, she fell asleep, and I drank half a mickey
. It was great.