I'm REAL late but having watched the movie with family lately...I'm curious about several tiny things (which are in dialogue and memory).
How did [the rebellion person who flew the TIE Fighter with Finn back to Jakku] get out? What I recall when he explained his survival was something...something...'I escaped at night' or something along those lines. How did he get back to his rebel buddies too, when the First Order was in orbit around Jakku? O_o
Also was there a timeskip at the ending when the rebels left victorious, because given the time between 'evacuate base' and 'planet explodes to reveal a nice sun', it seems pretty...fast, for the First Order to have evacuated important personnel. (and HOW?)
It is never explained. If all that wee explained, I feel the movie would be too much like the prequels (too much setting creation/backstory creation etc.) I think they purposefully left it up to the audience to make their own story of how Poe Dameron got out, and for the evcuation part, they had all of the time Kylo Ren and Finn and Rey were fighting to get everybody off, and it would be a simple task fo one ship to pick up Kylo Ren right before the planet collapsed.
But... backstory is kind of important. I mean the movie started off unbelievably slowly and they just stormed through everything after they got off Jakku. It was rather silly.
Jakku: BB-8 is important, map piece. Poe is important but has been captured, Finn is having second thoughts. Rey is important, scavenger, meets BB-8, somehow understands all the warbling, made to look good by not selling BB-8, also cool food thing. Finn saves Poe, crashes on Jakku, wanders through the desert, meets Rey, attacked by BB-8 claims rebel after BB-8 calls him out on the jacket. They got off Jakku in Millenium Falcon.
Post Jakku: Get boarded by Han and Chewie, attacked by bounty hunters oh what are these alien things hyperspace jump from inside space station, get to wherever they go after that, Rey is Jedi. Oh snap First Order have super weapon (THAT FINN NEVER MENTIONS) and blow up shit, attack planet kidnap Rey, Rey interrogated shown to be powerful, escapes while Han and Finn say they need to rescue her and blow up weapon. Find Rey, Han dies, Kylo gets shot, fights Finn (FINN SHOULD BE DEAD) fights Rey and
loses, blow up weapon. Map complete, lets go find Luke. Luke stares and stares and stares.
I was actually enjoying the slowness of it because it allowed you to get attache to the characters a wee bit, and then it was pretty much shitty action movie after that.