Rey Palpatine
Kylo and Rey are the most powerful force users ever, but they can only truly wield their power when working together.
Luke no longer sees himself as a Jedi.
Kylo Ren still sees himself as a Jedi.
Snoke is just an old rich senator but he’s got way more personality in this movie. He’s very theatrical.
Star Forge
Kylo finds Rey and Luke by reaching out to Rey in the Force.
Poe goes extremist
The Resistance holds their stronghold at Crait until Hux decides to take the battle to the salt flats.
Luke wields a red lightsaber, but isn’t evil. It’s his father’s.
Kylo Ren’s lightsaber is actually purple and you will see it change.
Kylo lost control of his power and accidentally destroyed the new Jedi Temple. Just like his mother and father, Luke sent him away.
Rey accidentally killed her own parents in a similar fashion.
“Let the past die” is said to Leia on her deathbed. The full line is “It’s ok to let the past die”
Finn goes from wanting to run away and leave the fight to being named the leader of the Resistance at the end of the movie.
Poe is the one who nominates him.
Finn wins the fight with Phasma but spares her. Several Stormtroopers witness this and defect on the spot.
The Resistance survives Crait by listening to Rose about following the crystal foxes into the caverns below the planet.
Rose is secretly Force Sensitive and it is all but stated that she is Luke’s daughter.
BB8 is the one who makes Poe see the error of his ways.
Chewbacca names his Porg but the running in joke is that Rey, Luke, and Leia never translate it for the audience.
Ben turns on Snoke when Snoke asks him to kill Rey.
The ancient Jedi believed that each Jedi was only one half of their potential and that the force had selected another user to be their other half and they devoted their lives to finding each other.
Hux supplants Snoke as the leader of the First Order after having arranged Snoke’s escape pod to destruct.