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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7689617" data-attributes="member: 177">No, not add focus.  Do not conflate "this is the sensible statement of what's likely going on" with "this is what the audience is supposed to focus upon".  Consider that the real main characters here are Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren.  All three of them are young, inexperienced, scared, and confused.  And, they are your viewpoint characters.  Do you expect to come out with a clean vision of what's going on if your viewpoint comes from characters like that?  No!  If you need to sit down and think out exactly what's going on, then the movie did its job of giving you the view from someone who doesn't really understand what's going on, yet!It is about them, and Kylo Ren.  Finn, for example, doesn't give a rat's butt about Snoke's larger plan.  He cares about the only people who have recognized him and respected him as an individual - Poe and Rey.  So, yeah, Finn's story won't really show you Snoke's larger plan.  But, Finn's story *can't happen* unless Snoke has a larger plan in motion.  And, since the movie is about those smaller stories, and not directly about that larger picture, you don't come away automatically understanding that larger picture until you sit down and really think about it for a few minutes, and work through the implicatiosn fo what we see.Heaven's forefend, did Abrams give us a movie we have to *think* about!?!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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