I won’t be happy if they go the redemption route at all. But so far, I’m fine with Kylo.
One of my favorite scenes was when he’s talking to the big dumb gollum-o-gram without his helmet on and the Hux guy comes in and explains how Kylo screwed up by letting the droid go. Without his scary helmet on, he looks like he’s been caught with his pants down, and you can see that Hux knows it. Good stuff.
I would like to see the fight with Finn cut to just two blows and Finn goes down, and then a shorter battle with Rey. But that’s easy enough.
I’ve only seen it once, but I’ll probably go again.
It’s weird, but it seems like this film becoming a part of my personal cannon really depends on how the ST plays out. I like TFA, but if the next one doesn’t follow up on some things in a satisfactory way, it will make TFA worthless. I also hope the next one has less callbacks to the OT and is more of it’s own thing. Though, really, the only big offender to me was the DSIII and how nonthreatening and pointless it was.
Going in, my theory was that the snow base we saw in the trailers would end up being the new superweapon, but that would only be revealed near the end of the film during a rebel attack on the Empire base. In the next film they would figure out a way to deal with it and then the the final film there would be a major attack on the new big Death Star. But, nope. We see what it is from the first establishing shot, a weakness involving a trench and shooting a small target is found and the thing is destroyed by the time the credits roll. Even Han and Leia seem unconcerned. “Ok, a bigger Death Star. How do we blow it up? We done this twice already. No big deal.” TFA had enough going on that it really didn’t need the DSIII battle at all.
At least it gave Poe more screen time. He’s great.