Twitter/ Internet Buzz for The Last Jedi

Holocrons aren't "alive", though - at least not beyond having a Force imprint placed upon them, like what happened with the Presence (which they seriously need to get back to, because I feel like we got blueballed on that plot thread and oh goodness I'm rambling).

"Biblio-Hexacript" would probably be a better bit of technobabble to describe a Holocron, whereas "Bio-Hexacrypt" sounds like they're trying to use a device to solve some secretive genetic code or something - at least to me. Snoke was weighing out his options with a clone army, after all...

 

I think you've cracked the case!

 

Ugh, just... No. With all due respect, I disagree.

There are a kajillion different ways that they could take Finn's story than "MUH FAMILY", and I'd much, much rather they go with them instead. Finn doesn't seem to be all that concerned with family so much as his own survival pre-character development, and after his character development, his goal becomes to defend the people that he cares about and to stop the First Order. The only time his family is ever mentioned is in passing when he resigns himself to the fact that he'll never meet whomever they were, and that in the long run it isn't important to him - and that's a side note to the part of the conversation that's actually relevant, which is his status as a former Stormtrooper ashamed of the life he led. If it's not important to him, then it shouldn't be important to the audience, especially when there are more interesting places for the character to go. The entire point of Finn was to take many of the defining characteristics of how an "everyman" archetype would play out in the Star Wars setting and progressively shed them as the character becomes more of a hero - to show that anyone could accomplish great things with the right amount of bravery, skill, and luck. So as such, family is unimportant because he's meant to start off as a kind of blank state.

Rey is where an entire family narrative actually does belong. Before we even hear a single word from her, we can see that loneliness is a defining trait in her life. When she does speak, one of the first things that she mentions is that she's waiting for her family and that she doesn't know a whole lot about her own past, and this is something that is hammered in over the course of the greater part of the film. She wants to go back to Jakku immediately after escaping the First Order because she's deluded herself into thinking that her family is going to pick her up after over a decade of leaving her there. When Maz actually confronts her with the truth - that whomever left her there will never come back to Jakku - her response is to quite literally refuse the call to adventure and run off like a pouting toddler. And when she's confronted by Kylo Ren, he tells her that she thinks of Han Solo as the father she never had - a sign that she's internally recognizing that the people she's going to think of as family are indeed those who are in her future, not in her past. But the mystery of who her original family actually was is left unresolved, and while she's come to terms with the fact that she got dumped in a junkyard planet, this mystery is still important to Rey. Finn's equivalent mystery was not treated with remotely the same kind of gravity, and that's why it isn't going to take up much more screentime, if any.

Anyhoo... I really get the feeling that this whole "Bio Hexacrypt" thing is going to be a throwaway line that John Boyega kept f*cking up the delivery on for whatever reason, and the crew are teasing his struggle with the artwork. Ought to make for some interesting outtakes.

 

It's real, from a shareholders meeting.

 

My guess is that this stuff is an excerpt from the first trailer - again, that should be hitting in a little over a month at Celebration Orlando with the way that things are looking.