“There has been an awakening.”
Why does it have to come from her parents?
It is kind of lame storytelling to just have things ‘appear’ out of the blue. - Why is Rey so powerful ‘cause she is’ is not very satisfying.
Agreed. Setup and payoff. We have the setup, but no payoff.
Kind of like in ESB where Han is frozen?
There’s still another movie to go.
No, not like that. I’m not talking about unresolved plot threads, I’m talking about how the Last Jedi takes things that were set up in TFA and resolves them in a way by saying it doesn’t matter. The twist is there is no twist. Snoke’s role makes no sense and is unsatisfying, Rey’s force vision makes no sense and is unsatisfying (I like that she’s random but I don’t like its execution), and so on.
The Last Jedi doesn’t even really leave much to look forward to. Everything that was set up to be important in TFA is resolved here, and leaves nothing but Kylo Ren either being killed off or redeemed or both for the finale.
I left this film feeling very conflicted about it, there is some great stuff and some not so great stuff, but as time goes on I find less and less to like about it.