Why do you all want to kill Quinn? The man was loyal to his employer and diligent enough to set up a trap that could have worked. With his former employer dead he is now a reliable asset, and as opposed to your apprentices, he is under no obligation to try and murder you again under Sith-traditions.

Regarding Rey's improbable technical and jediish expertise. I remember River Tam in Serenity beating up a bar all by her lonesome self, later jumping only armed with a summer dress into a pile of crazed berserkers and emerging on a pile of corpses dualwielding a sword and an axe. Later she expertedly piloted the serenity. Oh and she reads minds too.And she doesn't even have the Force as an excuse. Rey has a long way to go before she becomes that ******. For an action hero she is rather subdued, when it comes to improbable feats. Other people shield-sled into an orc-army and go to town on them or kill oliphants with bow and arrow. My personal solution to this is to assume that all action heroes are unknowing reality warpers and that mundane limitations are mere guidelines to them.

There was however Electric Judgment, so the good guys wouldn't miss out on the fun of electrocuting people.

I believe in legends continuity, whenever the Sith order was eradicated, some force ghost would simply hang out a few hundred years until another Jedi was bored with light side and thought 'Ooooh, unlimited powah. Sweet.', and would seek it out. Then they had a new Sith order.

Depending on the width of the contained plasma beam it could have a bit of air resistance. If the beams are as thick as they seem this could be considerable with the high speed swings a la Yoda.

On the plus side: Saresh is not prone to choking subordinates for failing her and never rants publicly about 'absolute power'.

Not the point I was trying to make. I meant that many people hate it when you do in the wizard, because when they identify with their heroes, they like to have them connected with something mystical and greater than all the mundane forces. To have them - metaphorically - on a mission from god. If you reduce the force to some mundane phenomenon, like gravity or electromagnetic forces, it takes away this mystical justification. 'We are on a mission from gravity' or 'We follow the will of electromagnetism'' or 'Thermodynamics is with us.' simply doesn't have that oomph.

I tend to pity her a bit. If I had to spy on my own intelligence service to find out what they are up to, I could become a bit grumpy too.

That would be a bit anvilicious, I think.

I think Kylo is more the squishy wizard type than a scrapper like Rey. Very good at magic like freezing blaster bolts and mind-reading, but years out of practice when it comes to hit anything but consoles with his glowing stick. Add to that the open wound, that stabbing dad likely wasn't as liberating and satifying as he had hoped, which messed with his concentration, and that he didn't what to kill Rey, but followed the good old dark-side tradition of 'Take your place at my side...', and his performance becomes plausible. Why a squishy wizard would opt to go into a melee with scrappers instead of force-pushing them around a while, and why he thought doing the dark-side shtick before his opponents are properly subdued, is one of those mysteries.

It threatens to take away the mystical awe, I think. Once you start counting midichlorians and develop some pseudo-scientific theories about how the force works, someone will start working on appliances to use it. Next you know everyone runs around with handheld force-projectors, and then what would be special about the jedi and their special connection to the divine, for the religiously inclined? I mean, imagine there was a god, and we would not only confirm its existence, but work out its properties and working principles too. Wouldn't we at leas try to work out how to use it as an energy source and find other productive uses for it?

Ooooooh. If Valky offers to make my consular the ruler of the galaxy I want him to be able to do a Galadriel. "And now at last it comes. You offer me your power. In place of your dark and jealous child you would set up a Jedi. And I shall not be dark, but bright and beautiful as the stars. Fair and impartial as gravity and the Force itself. Dreadful and tantalizing as the unknown regions. Stronger than the pull of the galactic black hole. All shall venerate me and despair.” The Barsen'thor paused for a moment and smiled, then he continued. "I reject your offer, dead emperor. " he said. "Sentience grows when sentients make their own decisions, not when immortal demi-gods control them. And if keeping you contained until we can both become one with the force, is the only way to stop you from rising again, then this is what I will do."

But to come back to Koth. I actually find him kind of cute.

It is pure propaganda. Just because the empire makes use of its right of free speech and free wars of aggression to promote inequality, slavery and oppression, they are somehow portrayed as the bad guys and can be killed in greater numbers. It is this darned democratic agenda again.

Fictional people's love life is a weird reason to be offended about. Oh yes. Goran Beviin and Medrith Vasur. Both manly mandos. And in the new canon, I am quite sure Sinjir Rath Velus will find a match too. And I am really hoping for Poe and Finn.