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2. Rey.
She probably is Luke's daughter. Get ready for that predictable twist. And that makes her entire plot line in this movie very contrived. You're telling me Luke Skywalker's daughter just happens to be an immensely Force-sensitive poor girl on the exact planet where BB-8 gets lost while holding a piece of a map to Luke Skywalker? You could argue the Force drew her to BB-8 since it works in mysterious ways, but that still seems like a pretty major contrivance. Other elements of her power do manifest themselves before she realizes she has the Force —for instance, she's a great fighter and pilot. I don't mind her having such a complete "awakening" and being able to use the Force so early on because we obviously are to interpret her as an enormously powerful future Jedi. But I do hope they avoid making her Rey Skywalker. We don't need that.
1. Finn's transformation.
God, this one is getting to me more and more. They brushed his turn from stormtrooper to resistance leader off as though it were nothing for him. If we are to believe that stormtroopers now are kidnapped at birth and trained for their whole lives to serve the First Order, why is Finn so charismatic? How would he have developed such an interesting personality? Furthermore, if stormtroopers are slaves and also the people Finn grew up with, why is he so OK with murdering them? In his very first battle, he kills stormtroopers with no hesitation. Wasn't murder the reason he was running?
With all of that said, it still was a very good movie. And there still is plenty of time —at least two more movies with this cast —to resolve three of those issues. I am looking forward to the next one.
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With #2, it's already very contrived whether or not Rey is Luke's daughter, which I think is a red herring.
1. The old brah with the map to Luke is on Jakku
2. Rey's on Jakku (whether she's Luke's daughter or just a random Super Jedi Brah is basically the same for contrivance purposes)
3. Finn & Poe crash within walking distance to Rey's camp on Jakku after being shot out of space.
4. Finn randomly guesses a direction that leads him to Rey and BB-8.
I think the ship/mechanic aspect of her character can be attributed to her scavenging work. She's been doing this for 20~ years, liable to pick up some know how. Know how to the extent of shutting off the Millenium Falcon mid-flight with such precision as to aim a broken turret? Probably not. As for her force powers, it beggars belief. But if we assume that she's immensely gifted, coupled with the fact that she only uses the force after seeing Kylo Ren using it (on her no less) a couple times, it sort of works.
2. Cold blooded murder of townfolk is different than battling with a purpose, with your friends lives at stake and knowing the opposing side is "bad". Stormtroopers in the film showed some personality; the two that u-turned during Ren's temper tantrum. Also, if we accept the fact that he can have a personality, I don't find his arc that unbelievable. He wasn't put into a leadership position with the Resistance; he was a unique perspective and subject matter expert for the specific mission that was going down. His input would be valued if his allegiance wasn't suspect, which it wasn't since he was co-signed by Han, Chewie, and Rey.
The biggest fuck up, besides the stretch of belief I listed above, is R2D2 just randomly waking up. Unless I missed something about that.