From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer

Rian Johnson’s new Star Wars film needs to resolve the many mysteries of The Force Awakens – starting with why Rey is so precocious in the ways of the Jedi

The more time that goes by since JJ Abrams’ The Force Awakens in 2015, the more it looks like the saga’s curate’s egg. Sure, Disney’s debut instalment brought the series back to its space-romp roots and successfully introduced a new generation of characters, while delivering just the right dose of warm and fluffy nostalgia for the original trilogy. But it also failed as a piece of original film-making, and featured plot holes so gargantuan that Jabba the Hutt could have fit through them. Moreover, it left fans with far more questions than answers; Abrams was seemingly unaware that Lost-style cliffhangers are far more irritating when one’s audience is forced to wait two years, rather than a week, to find out what happens in the next episode.

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