Poe Dameron Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Some of the new planets were exciting but the extent to which CGI was used made them feel sterile. Mission accomplished for Kamino then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 They could enhance a practical location to make something unique, it doesn't have to be fully real or fully cgi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I hate how filmmakers can't seem to get this right anymore. Bespin looks like they actually filmed in a city in the clouds. But tell a filmmaker to do something like that now and the location comes off looking like a fake cartoon mishmash. So this guy has a lot of answers based on "multiple screenings of the film and hours spent pouring over the freshly released canonical material." I gotta say it really does help make some things a little bit more understandable, such as how the governments are set up and why. And Church of the Force anyone? https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-ultimate-faq-164511371.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I found Jakku so interesting because of all the wreckage. That was a really cool idea and I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Just saw a theory that Finn is gay and we could see a romance with Poe. That would be groundbreaking and awesome. When I finally see this a second time next week I'll look for their body language with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 I'm sure Nanci has already written it. THEY ARE JACKET BROS 4 LYFE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 One of my big gripes was how the lightsaber, as someone else here posted, developed a consciousness. It's just a tool, a weapon that gets used and abused and once it stops serving its purpose its owner just gets a new one. But I was thinking, the last time we saw this particular lightsaber it still had Luke's hand attached to it. Whatever happened to it after falling from Cloud City and how it made its way to Maz Katana, the hand being sliced off with it might explain why this lightsaber has now become "one with the Force." I may just be grasping at straws, but I hope something like this is explained in the subsequent films to show why Luke's lightsaber all of a sudden seems to be something they picked up at Diagon Alley.It would make no sense for Luke's hand to (somehow) become a conduit for the Force, when 6 films stressed that weapons had nothing to do with accessing or understanding it. It just seems like yet another convenient invention to give Rey a reason to be. Take the source for this film--ANH--If we assume the will of the Force was responsible for R2 just so happening to end up for sale to Owen..who just so happened to have a backstory with the man R2 sought, then from a writing point of view, it should have been easy to create a series of events that draws Rey in, without adding "New! Extra Special Features" to the lightsaber where none existed before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Just saw a theory that Finn is gay and we could see a romance with Poe. That would be groundbreaking and awesome. When I finally see this a second time next week I'll look for their body language with each other.Not happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 I don't think the lightsaber itself is magical so much as it is a symbol to Rey. Luke: What's in there?Yoda: Only what you take with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryn Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Jakku just needed to be dotted with oases surrounding its settlements to differentiate it from Tatooine. The Finn-Poe romance makes no sense since Finn spends most of the movie chasing Rey. His search for Poe ended when he kept the jacket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 The parallel is how Luke chased Leia ANH even though that romance was never gonna happen. Yet another repeated theme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I have NOT written that...yet. But I totally ship it hard. Oscar said he was playing it as a romance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 If anything, I think Poe is gay and Finn is bi, because he's definitely into Rey. I'm not sure if Rey is into him, though. It's definitely be different if this trilogy's love triangle ends up being Rey/Finn vs Finn/Poe, instead of making Rey the center of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Exactly which is why I love it and it goes along with the "same but different" vibe if this new trilogy. Finn being exloring all his options makes sense because he never got the normal childhood and teenagehood in which to explore and define his sexuality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I agree with Justus it's not going to happen. It's wrong, but it would damage the viewing figures and the merchandise sales. I'd be cool taking my eldest to see the movie but I couldn't be explaining it to my youngest. I just don't feel like Star Wars is the right medium for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I don't think we'll see it onscreen because people are stupid and can't handle that--yet--but I really hope they at least let Poe be canonically gay/bi. With all the backlash Aftermath got for having a gay protagonist, it's time we have one onscreen. (I will also accept Sabine from Rebels being gay.) Yes, I'm getting social justice in my Star Wars, deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevil Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 You can have your female protagonist and like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Men can't be friends with other men without SOMEONE wanting it to be romantic. This is why a lot of boys and men find it hard to connect with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Men can't be friends with other men without SOMEONE wanting it to be romantic. This is why a lot of boys and men find it hard to connect with each other. QFT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I'd be cool taking my eldest to see the movie but I couldn't be explaining it to my youngest. It's so much in mainstream media these days. So much. Would explaining actually be necessary at this point? Honest question Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Depending on the age of the kid, everything requires explaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I imagine more than one father had an uncomfortable conversation with his son about Patricide. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Ray Kenobi Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I don't really get the Jakku / Tatooine thing either. Both are essentially the same place, and there's no narrative reason for it not to have been Tatooine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Because then people would be screaming "small galaxy". Star Wars really can't win, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 It didn't bother me that much, but there are different type of desert terrains than giant rolling dunes they could have used. Eh, hindsight 20/20 and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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