Star Wars Episode VIII: A New Thread

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I’m looking forward to the new one quite a bit. But I’m also of the unpopular opinion that all of the post-Lucas stuff is good. I definitely enjoy it more than the prequels (sorry Laz).

The only things I haven’t cared much for are how Solo became Han’s last name, how Starkiller base was only attacked by a couple squads of fighters, and the casino scene. But I can overlook the flaws since the original trilogy wasn’t without flaws and are some of my favorite movies ever.

As far as the pointing a capitol ship at other ships and engaging hyperspace? If it’s as simple as sending a few fighters out there, why didn’t they send the transports to do that and save the capitol ship? Seems like mass is necessary and the rebels/resistance have never had the resources to throw around like that. And if it is a mass thing like I think it is, the Death Stars would have taken more kamakazis than the rebels/resistance have ever had.
 
I am assuming the Death Star we are looking at is from ANH that you included the helpful gif of it being "fucking pulverized" which I have to say is just an assumption on your part. Sure it was a great big explosion but the fucking thing was the size of a small moon, to think that there were no large sections that survived the explosion and crashed into nearby planets is almost as silly as being angry enough not to watch the movie because of it.



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Such a large chunk of compromised structure would not survive atmospheric entry in anything less than a million pieces, much less impact the ground and not create a crater dozens of kilometers wide with little evidence aside from shrapnel.

Suspension of disbelief though yada yada, I don’t see why some garbage effects explosion in space would stop me from suspending my disbelief at this point.
 
I am assuming the Death Star we are looking at is from ANH that you included the helpful gif of it being "fucking pulverized" which I have to say is just an assumption on your part. Sure it was a great big explosion but the fucking thing was the size of a small moon, to think that there were no large sections that survived the explosion and crashed into nearby planets is almost as silly as being angry enough not to watch the movie because of it.

Yeah, if there's some kind of connection to Palpatine we should assume it's the Death Star from ROTJ.

Having said that, they both seemed like they were obliterated. And wouldn't that piece be way bigger than what we're seeing in that shot?
 
that's also obviously not the forest moon of endor, so how far could the chunks of that thing really have been blasted away? guessing this may be a new planet or moon in the endor system we've never seen.
 
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20th anniversary next week, fam.
 
That poster gave me chills when I was 11. I would see it at the theater and get both insanely hyped and also really scared by the idea of this little boy living in the shadow of that monster. I loved it
 
I remember being so excited to order the standard poster version from the official site, it’s still rolled up in the container, never got around to putting it up but it would look really nice in a frame.
 
They like democrats to the empire’s being Republicans amirite

The Jedi Council are def compromised and comfortable like centrist Dems. Qui-Gon is a Bernie surrogate, tear the whole thing down and let the impoverished share in the Force.

Joking aside, pretty sure Nute Gunray and Lott Dodd were named after Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott.
 
and i never once said that it always had to be a suicide mission like that guy seems to think. droid-piloted ships would do just as well, or even just large slugs fired out of a hyperspace cannon mounted on a capital ship.

basically my largest problem with that scene is that nobody seems to have even thought of the concept of a kinetic weapon at all in the star wars galaxy until several millenia after they developed practical FTL travel .
 
That scene never bothered me at all. Like, I don't understand why people get so worked up about it.

I just chalk it up to, under absolutely desperate circumstances, you might resort to something you'd never do otherwise.
 
if they had presented that as some sort of inspiration from a forgotten obsolete piece of technology (sort of like we might find current rifles and bullets obsolete if we invented laser rifles that have unlimited ammo), rather than a light bulb moment like the apple hitting isaac newton in the head, i would have had very little to complain about. all they would have had to do is have a character come across an old broken artillery piece somewhere for 5 seconds and take a brief moment to think about it.
 
That scene never bothered me at all. Like, I don't understand why people get so worked up about it.

I just chalk it up to, under absolutely desperate circumstances, you might resort to something you'd never do otherwise.
My problem is only that it's now an option all the time, but I doubt they'll ever use it again.
 
Fucking horses on a star destroyer DURING a space battle

Guess they needed something even more improbabler than the Death Star not getting obliterated.
 
i watched it multiple times to see if i could be like "it looks like they're actually on a dead star destroyer on the surface of a planet or it's disabled and floating in an atmosphere or something", but it doesn't seem that way from these trailer clips.

i kinda miss the days when i would never consider for a second not seeing every star wars movie in theatres as soon as i could.
 
Fucking horses on a star destroyer DURING a space battle

Guess they needed something even more improbabler than the Death Star not getting obliterated.

My main issue is that Johnson already did space horses last time (to great effect IMO).

Abrams can’t even stop himself from ripping off the most recent film.
 
I've seen the first two episodes, and apart from the spoiler at the end of the first, there's really nothing much to discuss, because nothing has really happened. Very slow start, but with like most serials (at least the good ones), hopefully it will pick up.
 
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