That scene in empire where Luke tried to lift the x-wing out of the swamp with yodas reaction mirrors my reaction to 2012-2015 aggie football.

Half-baked theory:

What if this movie is, in some way, an echo of Luke's basic arc from A New Hope, but told through multiple viewpoints? So far we have:

- A (probably) Force-sensitive adolescent orphaned on a desert planet, who, by chance at some point in the first act, not only meets an important droid, but mets Han Salo and Chewbacca as well, boards the Millennium Falcon, and ultimately gets swept up in a grand adventure because of said droid and Han (just like Luke with R2 and Han in the first act of A New Hope).

- Darth Vader and his original mission essentially being "channeled"/resurrected via Kylo to thwart / attempt to turn our heroes.

- Poe, looking very Luke Skywalker-esque, leading an X-Wing attack on Starkiller base, an attack that is blatantly reminiscent of the initial attack on the Death Star, as seen in the latest TV spot.

For whatever reason, this doesn't feel like lazy writing. Instead, the instances above feel like blatant winks at something bigger and more intentional going on. If so, and if this is the Force somehow, for whatever reason, echoing Luke's story in a way, A) why? B) how does Finn's viewpoint reflect another aspect of Luke's arc, if not A New Hope in a broader sense?

How cool would it be if Luke is so in-tune with the Force that the Force itself is essentially causing his story to echo/repeat itself, with whatever resources and characters are at a hand, but all in service to "save" Luke from himself or the Dark Side? Not that any of these characters are puppets or anything like that, but it would definitely be a unique answer to the question J.J. originally set out to answer: Who, exactly, is Luke Skywalker?

I wonder if the destruction of the superweapon doesn't happen very early in the film, and much of what we've seen of Poe being captured/rescued isn't part of the fallout. One thing about Star Wars is that traditionally we open up in the middle of something already happening.

What if the opening crawl is about the Resistance launching a final assault against the Imperial remnant's superweapon, and it cuts right into the assault led by Poe?

I mention this because the superweapon thing doesn't feel like Kylo's jam. His purpose seems more personal. The Knights of Ren feel separate from the First Order, though we have seen that Kylo is a big part of that as well. But most of the time we see Kylo operating on his own, not flanked by FO troops.