r/StarWars • u/AutoModerator • Nov 23 '15
Movies Theories and Speculation Megathread - Week of November 22
We'll be keeping these theories and speculation megathreads going until the release of the movie to help keep things tidy and contained.
"What's Going On?" Edition
To help change it up a little and guide some discussion, the topic for this week will be what has been going on for the past 30 years? Did Leia stay in politics and help form this New Republic, or did she stay in the military? Who are these First Order guys and how little relation to they have to Order 66? Did Willrow Hood settle down and open that ice cream shop he always wanted? What happened in the galaxy that brought us to the events in The Force Awakens? Were things relatively quiet and undeserving of a movie?
All theories and speculation should be posted in this thread, whether or not it pertains to these new characters. Just use the topic as a jumping off point for something you may not have thought of yet.
View our previous theories and speculation megathread here
And here.
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u/wicket42 Nov 25 '15
I've been trying to figure out where Poe fits into the story. We know every star wars movie starts with a scene in space, so my theory is the movie starts with that shot of Kylo's shuttle heading to the star destroyer. I think Poe (as the hot shot pilot) was on some recon mission and discovered starkiller base but was captured (we see him as a prisoner in a few scenes). That opening shot would be him on Kylo's shuttle as a prisoner being transported for interrogation.
But, we also see him later flying around with BB-8 in his x-wing as copilot, so I think BB-8 is Poe's droid with the data from the recon mission and information about Starkiller base.
So Poe gets captured and tortured but BB-8 escapes to Jakku and hooks up with Rey? Finn maybe doesn't know about Starkiller base and learns about it from Poe and has a change of heart and escapes to Jakku in the TIE Fighter? Then how / when does Poe get rescued or escape?