https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGonkY3NR78
A lot of random speculations in this video, but he does raise some interesting questions.
He points out that Kylo leaves his helmet/mask on Starkiller base (and I doubt he wasted time going back to get it as the planet fell apart), and he said that his lightsaber got destroyed by Rey (I can’t remember this, but I’ve only seen TFA a few times). So what will Kylo’s mask and lightsaber look like in ep. VIII?
A lot of the concept art show Kylo with a much more obvious Vader-looking helmet, and some of the Knights of Ren that we’ve seen so far also have very Vader-looking helmets. So maybe he’ll look more like Vader in ep. VIII. He’s also wounded this time around, so he might have ample reason to keep it on for the majority of the film.
Also, if his lightsaber was destroyed, it makes sense that he’ll make a new one. Perhaps in ep. VIII it’ll be a lot more stable and normal looking (hopefully not weirder).
I also doubt that ep. VIII will take place long after TFA considering how it ended so abruptly, so it might be that Kylo still occupied with his training with Snoke, so maybe he won’t be seen quite as much as in TFA. We don’t know who Benecio del Toro is playing yet, but he has more or less confirmed that he’s a villain. It could be a small part of course, but considering how every villain from TFA survived it’d be weird if they threw in another one to clutter the film. I get the impression that Rian Johnson is a bit less “compulsively-nerdy” (so-to-speak) than Abrams is.
Any thoughts?