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There wasn't a love story. They didn't kiss at the end, they just held hands and hugged as they awaited sure death. I know what you mean though. I thought for sure they would kiss, and was pleasantly surprised when they didn't.

As it was, I thought the moment was pretty powerful.

The drunk ones were generally my least favorite. So I guess the ones for the prequels can be kinda annoying. I also just want to make counter arguments all the time when I listen to those.

So what do we have to do to get Trey in here to tell us what he thought of the movie?

I know he said on Twitter he liked it, but I need more from our resident old guy

I'd say you should try listening to the soundtrack to this one then. There is some really good stuff there along with the classic themes.

Rey's theme is great and very recognizable once you know what to listen for. Kylo Ren and Finn also got their own solid themes, but not nearly as developed as Rey's.

I do think that JJ's approach doesn't lend itself as well to showcasing the music as George's did. Because the movie doesn't stop to breath as much, the music doesn't feel as integral to the storytelling as it did in the other movies.

I'd definitely say that John Williams delivered. But then again, I'm not one of those crazy people who thinks he's been on autopilot for twenty years. So I would say that 

My immediate take on the movie as a prequel apologist was that it's clearly more fun than the prequels, but also less ambitious. What that's going to mean for my enjoyment of it in the long run remains to be seen, but I'm feeling really positive towards it so far.

Random thoughts incoming:

Acting is great. Old and new characters are great. Actually, the characters were so enjoyable that I just wish JJ would allow himself to slow down a little so they could actually talk to each other for a few minutes once in a while without another action sequence interrupting them. Felt like Harrison was really engaged in the movie. I've been saying since it was announced that he'd be in it that he'd finally get his wish and die, so that wasn't much of a surprise. Sad that we'll never see Han and Luke together ever again, but it makes sense. I like that his death reinforces the rhyme of a mentor figure dying in the first installment of the trilogy.

Rey is AMAZING and ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE!! While I was watching it, I really wanted her to be another child of Han and Leia. I still think there's a way to make that work, but it's probably more likely that she's Luke's daughter. I don't think it would work for her to be the daughter of random people we don't know yet after they clearly established that there's something mysterious about her origin and her family. That just feels like it would be shoddy storytelling. I did hear that Ewan McGregor voices Obi-Wan at the end of her vision-thingy, so I suppose it's possible there's some connection to him, but I'd definitely prefer her to be part of the Skywalker family in some way.

Snoke is stupid. He looks dumb and has a dumb name. And I don't like that holograms apparently no longer looks like holograms. Snoke is stupid.

Before watching it, I thought I would be really bothered by how all the planets looked like remakes of old ones, but it ended up working better than I thought it would. As long as I think of Jakku as a junkyard/scavenger planet and not as a desert planet, I actually think it's pretty cool. The only one of the main planets which I think should have been different was D'Qar (the one with the Resistance base). It is so blatantly a Yavin IV stand in that it's just distracting.

I was initially fairly disappointed by the score because I wasn't able to pick out any significant new themes while watching the movie. But having listened to the soundtrack on its own afterwards, I actually think it's great and another solid entry in Star Wars musical library.

Third death star is really boring and the less said about it the better.

Also, Snoke is stupid.

Is it because Mel Brooks decided to spoof something popular that he didn't understand and not something he actually had an intense love for? 'Cause that's totally  my reason for why it sucks.

I'm a massive Bioshock fan and this definitely looks interesting. I've heard Ken Levine (the main creative guy behind Bioshock) mention Joe Fielder enough in interviews to know he's worth keeping an eye on, so I'll probably end up backing. I'll give it a couple of days before I decide on what backer level I want though.

Seeing pictures like that one makes me feel really bad about the fact that I've almost completely stopped noticing northern lights at all. They're just another awesome thing that's always there. I guess that comes with having lived in Northern Norway (almost) my entire life, or I'm just generally bad at being awed by nature...

Isn't that sometimes how it goes though? One day, it's like a flip is suddenly switched in your brain and you start seeing someone differently than you did the day before. That's certainly happened that way with for me. I thought the way it was triggered by Harry seeing Ginny with someone else (Dean) was particularly human and truthful to real life. I think that before HBP, Harry was too hung up on Cho to have seen her that way.

Re: Ron/Hermione: I love Rowling, but she will have to pry that relationship from my cold dead hands.

First, for context I should mention that I'm born in 1985. And the first three movies that come to mind are:

Star Wars (1977) - My first exposure to anything Star Wars was the game Super Star Wars for the SNES. It was loving that game that made me really excited about watching the movie when it aired on television at some point in 1993. I taped it on VHS and watched that movie an obscene amount of times in the following years.

Back to the Future Part 2 (1989) - Saw it for the first time in 1994 and it was actually the first BTTF movie I saw. I have an extremely vivid memory of building a lego spaceship as I watched this for the first time on a really crappy VCR. I also remmeber not understadning any of it, but knowing that I loved it. It's still to this day my favorite BTTF movie.

The third spot is the hard one to pin down. There are probably even some Norwegian movies that (almost) nobody here will have heard of that could be in the running, but I think I'll have to go with...

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Have little memory of when and how I first watched it, but I owned it and Temple of Doom on VHS. Judging by when I watched Last Crusade, I only know that I at least had seen Raiders before 1995.

Not being able to mention any runner-ups is killing me, so Pavlich, know that I hate you.

I'm really surprised to hear that Under the Dome is so disappointing.

I'm not watching it myself yet, because I want to read the book first and I have over 30 other King books to get through before I get to that one.

But anyway, I'm surprised that it's so lackluster considering Brian K Vaughan did some really good Lost episodes and is the sole writer of what might just be my favorite comic book of all time (That would be Y: The Last Man for those wondering).

On the topic of Under the Dome. I hate to be the guy who points out these things, but Trey got a lot of the writer/director credits for who had done what before mixed up on the podcast. I'd point out specifics, but it doesn't really matter and nobody should care.

Finally actually listening to this and I'm with Trey on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I read the first four or five chapters last year and couldn't get into it at all.

In fact, I pretty much found it infuriating.