I don’t believe “Organa” was ever mentioned in a film until Bail Organa showed up in the prequels.

I still don't know why they felt like they needed to kill Ackbar instead of him just not being there (e.g. already escaped and went someplace else).  His involvement in the ST was minor and his death wasn't really emotionally impactful.  I'm not sure if its part of the whole plan to refresh Star Wars and eliminate any OT characters still left.

I was lucky enough to get Jaina Solo off Amazon the other day for retail, and it arrived yesterday

Wow!  I check daily and just today it was at $45.

Anybody know if this figure is going to be in a future assortment as well.  I'm worried this is a one and done where the wave around Christmas just evaporates.

Anybody know Mark Hamill's interest in continuing as Luke in the ST?  I know Harrison Ford wasn't really interested and more or less asked to get killed off.  Just curious if Hamill felt the same way or if that was just the way the story went.

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So where do you think Episode IX will pick up?

I'd actually love to see a big time jump too. Something akin to the jump between TPM and AOTC. I'd like to see a number of call backs to Episode I, if we're really rounding this out. Letting Leia pass between films I think is the only option. Rey could restart a nascent Jedi order, training new warriors (or just an apprentice - Finn?), but maybe not being so good at it given her own tutelage to this point. That would give Luke a place in the story, guiding her here or there. Unless he's just trolling Kylo. Which would be great.

This is a great question!

In some ways I actually really didn't like the fact that TLJ picked up minutes after TFA ended.  I don't think stories need to be told in real time, and leaving space between movies allows for a viewer to believe that other personal growth has happened or other things have been put in to place.  Without revealing too many spoilers I was a bit annoyed that the FO seemed so powerful in TLJ but in TFA seemed to be more of a less powerful fringe group with a superweapon.

I'd love to see some years put in place between 8 and 9 so the Rebellion can be magically built back up, Leia can die in some logical unseen way, Rey can get stronger in her force abilities / build a Jedi academy, etc.

#1 - One bomber and one capital ship can pretty much wipe out the entire FO fleet.  Why wouldn't the Rebels do this all the time to even the odds?  In ANH the Tantiv IV can't outrun a Star Destroyer, but in this one the Imperials can't muster the thrust to catch a single ship?  Or send a swarm of ties after it?  One of the support ships can't jump ahead and cut it off? 

#3 -  The imperials have hyperspace tracking now...because its convenient!  A line of dialogue could have easily fixed this, or they could have had a spy in the rebellion allowing them to track movements which would have made a lot more sense. 

Even though I've come to terms with my initial frustration with the movie, these are the two parts that still bug me the most.

This kind of upsets all the normal pre-existing Star Wars space battle logic.  A single ship shouldn't be able to hyperspace through another ship and destroy it.  If this were the case then they should do this all the time with kamikazes or remote controls.  Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.

Hyperspace escapes have also been a standard plot device that now seems to be gone, and to Justin's point, for no good reason.  All they needed was a tracking device implanted (as done in the Falcon on a couple different occasions) or a spy, or maybe even use an existing theme where there is a gravity well projector on a capital ship that pulls them out of hyperspace.

And I completely agree.  Why couldn't the FO star destroyers hyperspace all around the rebel fleet and cut them off even if their standard thrusters aren't as fast.

It seems these are all goofy plot devices that could have been thought through a bit better.

I too watched it for a second time this weekend.  My first viewing left me disappointed, but I enjoyed the second viewing much, much more.  I don't know if I went in the second time with re-calibrated expectations or was just in a better mood.

As I said, I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around, but am still bugged by the Canto Bight / DJ / Finn/Rose side adventure, as well as the slow-mo space chase.  I can live with the slo-mo space chase as a really weak plot device, but the whole Canto Bight stuff was completely unnecessary.  That part should have been edited out and more time should have been spent elsewhere - Rey/Luke interaction, or Rey/Kylo interaction, or maybe even just a shorter movie. 

I didn't catch a whole lot more the second time around, other than looking for the Jedi texts on the Falcon and paying closer attention to the Yoda/Luke dialog.