Mark's beard is back and he flew out to Europe.

Totally-not-in-this-movie.
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I think it would be funny as hell if he just faded back in at the start of the movie and was alive and well.
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P.S. I hate Rian Johnson and hope they fire him from ever getting near another Star Wars film. Even as an audience member.
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That's possible but doesn't match up with Rey's force capabilities/potential in terms of lineage/bloodline.
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I'm out and done so I won't shit-talk the brand. What's the point?

I will admit to some curiosity in how you rebound from what Round head Rian did in TLJ. Just from the perspective of burning established cannon to the ground and having to take over from that. How do you pull that off?...
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Easy. Pretend it didn’t happen.

Have Luke return and “fade in”
Have Snoke jump into a new clone body and proclaim himself Palpatine’s clone
Have Rey be the leader of the Force kids or Luke be her father
Have the resistance from the outer rim finally show up
Etc., etc., etc.

Whatever they do will be a lame band-aid necessitated by Rian Johnson’s terrible movie.
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McDiarmid as Palps without the force lightning scarring would be cool to see, tbqh.
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I'm not throwing stones I'm honestly asking. I know a ton of people who say "I want back in I just want Kennedy out and a return to what was before TLJ."

And I always ask "Ok, HOW would you do it?"

If it is pulled off that team deserves every award out there because they start off backed all the way into a corner. It'd be nearly impossible to back-track now...
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Well, it is JJ Abrams, so we should all go ahead and get used to the idea of a third act redepmtion plot point ripoff.

I have no idea where they are going to go with this now, but I am assuming that they will make Ren into a near godlike Sith lord now- like Vader and the Emperor combined. This seems somewhat obvious to me when you consider everything that has been done so far. Vader's saber becomes Ren's weird-ass saber; Deathstar becomes Deathplanet; The Executor becomes The Supremacy. Super Shredder from TMNT2 would fit right into this movie and not seem out of place.

Obviously, Rey (of light in the darkness) wins against all odds; probably with the help of every force ghost ever... this includes all the murdered Jedi Younglings. Oh, and count on some kind of furry midget things or an entire Wookie planet.

The universe is broken, and they need to go backwards about 3000 years in time to give us some new untouched stories. 15 years or so from now they can redo the prequels.
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"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, farm boy. Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't" - Han Solo


With this quote and the name Millennium Falcon a writer should be able to concoct a story arc that dictates time travel if you want to keep Rey and the connection of the original storyline to jump start the franchise for a course correct.

Though as stated before I'd rather have a clean reboot.
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I probably won't be watching this in the theaters if at all.
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IMO......

• Luke is dead. Can't fix that. He can be there as a force ghost, but that's it.
• Snoke is dead. Can't fix that, either. Move on. Kylo is the big bad in Ep. 9.
• Rey's parentage: This one's easy to fix. Kylo told her her parents are no one because he knew that would hurt her. It's not true.
• Not sure how they deal with Carrie Fisher's death, but I'mma be right pissed off if they kill her of screen. She should have died in TLJ instead of her Superman spacewalk.

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I just don't see then making any major changes that would erase #8. I think the Star Wars goose has been cooked.
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I've got it. Episode 8 was a force vision. Episode 9 picks up with Luke blinking and Rey handing him his lightsaber.
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Or Rey wakes up on the Millennium Falcon and finds Luke taking a shower, then realizes it was all a bad dream. :-)
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