That would be quite a feat.
No, he just seems like a Vader retread. I saw his talking plush doll at Costco, and he says, “I am immune to the light,” etc. Whatevvverrr. Generic eeeevil badass.
Meh. Time’ll tell. And he’s got big shoes to fill if he’s going to replace Vader. No, I’m just thinking about two characters that let me down: Jar Jar Binks and Boba Fett.
Binks gets built up as the First Computer Generated Character In A Movie… and we get slapstick comic relief.
Fett gets built up as the Ultimate Bounty Hunting Badass… gets a few lines, gets very little to do… and eventually gets slapsticked into a giant sand vagina.
Now we are building up Kylo Ren…
J.J. Abrams has demonstrably proven he can make an exciting scifi film (Star Trek 09, Super 8). The problem is if the script is bad the movie suffers (Star Trek Into Darkness). This will not be a problem as the guy who was responsible for penning the best film in the series is back co-writing the script with Abrams (who even by himself can put together a very good script). They also had the good sense to completely discard all of George Lucas’s ideas for the sequel trilogy, which to me shows that they’re not afraid to do something revolutionary.
Kylo Ren is (complete speculation) most likely going to be a descendant of one/more than one of the Big 3 and had a very good reason for straying to the dark- he will not be a Sith and will be a completely new type of bad guy. This could very well be where the rumored flashbacks come in.
Bottom line, I trust Abrams and Kasdan to not shit the bed here.
Nor is there a life-raft that would save its occupants from death when they drop a couple hundred feet from an airplane onto a rocky mountainside. Nor would Indy’s ordinary clothing protect him from hypothermia as he held onto a U-boat periscope for (at least!) several hours. 
IOW, I agree that the fridge was exactly the sort of cartoonish “Indy can survive anything” joke we saw in the earlier well-liked movies.
And yet people took note of this in large numbers.
The periscope is also from the fourth movie too, no? Not sure about the raft.
I didn’t like Star Trek, didn’t see Super 8. I would agree that he has a certain level of competence.
This is a movie truism! So why did he allow a bad script to go through? is the pertinent question.
Discarding Lucas at this point is precautionary, not revolutionary. 
“Luuuuke, I am your son!”
That would be horrible, anything like that.
As I said earlier, I don’t think this is going to be Phantom Menace Redux. I think that the story will be lacking. New heroes fighting the rump Empire with a new suuuper badasss just sounds tiresome.
No, from the first movie, when the sub catches them at sea and takes Marian and the Ark to the island for the film’s climax. The raft was from the second, when they use a rubber raft to effect a mid-air escape from a crashing plane.
I am educated, thanks.
Lost the invoice, we have. In the mail, the cheque is.
Well, it seemed important to ME, and made me think, “Lemme get this straight… Darth Sidious’ evil plan involves giving his enemies an army of free death slaves?”
And then in the last movie, we get Order 66, and it all made sense.
But I did wonder where Sidious got the money… talk about corrupt politicians!
There’s a nice piece of fanfiction called Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The life and times of a rounding error about corruption on the level that can only exist in a galaxy-spanning civilisation. The original host has been lost to the ravages of time, but fortunately that site has been archived:
Third trailer is up.
Yes…most of us are talking about it in the anticipation thread, not the anti-anticipation thread.
Trying to win hearts and minds. 