Star Wars: The Force Awakens — The Verge's deep-dive roundtable discussion

Note: Major Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers are in this video.

It’s been a long and mysterious road on the way to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but with the movie now out in theaters it’s time to react. And respond. And reveal. And just generally dig down into the nitty gritty about what J.J. Abrams and his band of collaborators did with Episode VII.

In this roundtable, our very own Tom Connors, Ross Miller, Loren Grush, Sean O’Kane, and Kwame Opam leave no spoiler unturned as they hash out Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo Ren, and those other three characters from those other three movies you probably watched at some point. What does it all mean? Where will things go from here? Why did Abrams [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]?

And more importantly, what ever happened to BBs 1 though 7?