Yeah, there was no way this young man could have been the son of Hans solo. I thought casting was so off. I didn’t like the death scene at all.
I thought they’d at least try to cast someone who bore SOME resemblance to Leah and Hans. I really thought he didn’t look AT ALL like either of them had and genetic link to him, the bad Jedi.
Maybe the reason Rey is stronger in the Force than Kylo Ren, and got dumped on that desert planet, is that she is Luke & Leia’s secret incest baby? Here is National Geographic’s review of this:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/09/tut-dna/dobbs-text
Anyone else think the diminutive, bespectacled Maz Kanata is Edna Mode?
Nope, don’t think Disney would touch incest–way too controversial. They want the Star Wars empire to keep minting them more and more $$$$. Why bog down in anything controversial?
Nope, I thinkRey is the twin they sent away, or possibly a niece. She is definitely related to Hans or Leah, or maybe one of the other Jedi Knights.
Luke had no words in this movie, but could he be more central to future movies?
The connection she had to Anakin/Luke’s light saber seems to point to her being of the extended Skywalker clan. Her age would preclude her from being Kylo/Ben’s twin.
The most likely scenario is she’s the child of Luke or Leia/Han. The accent could be a clue as in general in this universe only those born in the central core of the Empire/Republic have proper English accents. So this may point to her mother being from thereabouts. The abandonment still gives me pause though. At least with Luke and Leia, they were put into adoptive families, not just left in the clutches random scavenger.
I think perhaps Luke didn’t know Rey’s mom was pregnant when she fled due to visions/nightmares and perhaps died in childbirth or shortly thereafter, leaving Rey alone (no one knew she was alive).
Do we know for a fact that Yoda was male? Maybe Rey is Luke and Yoda’s secret love child?
Oh GMT, say it isn’t so!
Maz seems more like a Yoda love child. 
I’m totally bewildered about Rey’s origins.
If she’s Leia’s child, by Han or any other man, it explains why she’s strong with the force and why Kylo seems to sense something in her, but it doesn’t explain why Leia didn’t seem to sense anything about her. Wouldn’t she be able to detect that a young woman is her daughter? Leia may be untrained, but she has the Force.
Same argument if she’s Luke’s child. I would expect Leia to be able to detect that a young woman is her niece, just as I would expect her to be able to detect that she’s her daughter.
If she’s Han’s child but Leia is not her mother, it explains why Kylo may have sensed something but Leia didn’t, but it doesn’t explain why she has the Force. Having her mother (whom we have never met) be strong in the Force seems like cheating.
The age difference doesn’t seem to be great enough for her to be Kylo Ren’s child, although I think that could be an interesting possibility. But that would make her Leia’s granddaughter, and again there’s the problem of Leia not sensing the relationship.
Maybe she just looks younger because she has an awesome moisturizer.
Rey is about 20 (says the novel). Ben is 29/30, according to JJ Abrams. They are not twins.
I agree that Kylo Ren looks nothing like his parents. He does have the dark hair, height, temper and whininess of his grandfather, Anakin Skywalker.
Is whininess hereditary?
Yes, desert dry weather is known for awesome complexions and youthfulness. ! 
I think I figured it out:
Rey is Han & Leia’s true offspring, and Kylo Ren is a changeling. Kylo Ren is Supreme Leader Snoke’s secret love child.
Rey lived with her parents for some years on that desert planet. She wants to return, expecting her parents will come to save her. So, was she living with bio parents? I don’t think she is Lelia’s child. Could she be a love child of Anakin or Luke?
I hope Rey is Emperor Palpatine’s daughter!
Could evil Anakin still procreate? Did he cryogenically store his genetic seed before getting fried on that lava planet?
Or can Jedis just use the Force for noncoital impregnation?
I liked it. The storyline had elements of A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back to it. It shouldn’t be surprising that Abrams did that, he is a big star wars geek and on top of wanting to do an homage to the original, I suspect he wanted to seat the story in the original story line, then totally blow the doors off of it with the next movies. It will be interesting to see what happens with number 2, because Abrams won’t be directing, he will be doing a George Lucas and be the creative force but leave the directing to others.
I have heard people complaining that they don’t give a lot of backstory in this movie, but that was true of Star Wars A new Hope…people now ‘remember’ things that weren’t in that movie, so when we saw it we didn’t really know anything about the origins of the Empire, we hear references to earlier events, but we don’t know what they are, Luke doesn’t know his story,doesn’t know Leah is his sister, and we don’t really know the origins of the Empire (in the first movie of the original trilogy, we think the events happened long before the movie, when they obviously happened when Luke and Leah were born).
The alternate theory I have heard with Kylo Ren is that the reason he is conflicted is because he is a kind of double agent, that to get close to snoke and kill him he will need to kill his father to prove it, and there is some intimation in the story, when Kylo tells Han “Help Me”, that Han understands when he says “anything” and lets Kylo kill him (the real reason Han dies is that Harrison Ford wanted him to die off, he wanted him to die in “Return of the Jedi” in a noble fashion, so there could be reason for that scenario. Plus I was kind of bummed out that Solo died for no reason, it seemed so senseless a death. It could lay in an interesting story line that would be like Snape and Dumbledore, where the killing is a set up.
I liked all the actors, I like the guy playing Finn (whose designation number is the same as Leia’s cell number in A New hope), and the woman playing Rey is great, too. I suspect she is related to han solo, I loved the interplay between her and Hans, where they finish each others sentences, and she also gives back to him snark as good as he gave.
Some more trivia, there are a number of people with cameos as storm troopers. The Storm Trouper whom Rey bamboozles into letting her go was Daniel Craig, One of the storm Troupers was Michael Giaccino (who usually does the music for JJ Abrams movies), and there were others as well.
I loved the music, it was cool Abrams got John Williams to do the music, and that at his age he still wanted to and was able to do it. As I mentioned in a prior thread on this, the opening and closing credits music was conducted by Dudamel, the conductor of the LA Phil, which was kind of neat, and the music was all a live studio orchestra, not synthesizers, done the old fashioned way:).
I also loved that they did the special effects old school and used limited CGI, the explosions were real, and they used models and such, and when they showed the rally of the first order with the storm troopers, they were all people in costumes, not a bunch of CGI figures, and it showed.
The cutest scene in the movie was when BB8 and R2D2 meet…
I think the most powerful scene is when Daisy finds luke and holds out the lightsaber, and you see Luke’s face and body language. That maybe minute, minute and a half on the screen with no dialogue portrayed so much, Mark Hammil probably did the best acting job conveying the pain and anguish he is feeling and how torn he is.
I think this was a good setup for the next film, I suspect the images Daisy sees as Maz Kantata’s place are a preview of what is to come, and I suspect we are going to be diverging from the path you would expect. As long as the writing keeps pace, I think this one is probably going to match the original and won’t fall into the abyss that was the prequels (I personally think this one was probably the second best of the movies behind Empire).
And a piece of trivial I recently learned. I remember seeing an original poster for Episode VI, and it was titled “Revenge of the Jedi”, but was changed to return for the theatrical release. I had heard they did that because Lucas felt that Jedis would not seek revenge, but I heard recently it was more practical than that. At the time Episode VI was going to be released, Star Trek II was being released, and apparently its working title was “Revenge of Khan”. When Lucas heard that was going to be the title for Star Trek, he changed it to return; and the Star Trek people, when they heard the star wars movie was going to be called revenge, changed it to Wrath of Kahn.