captainbleh Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 That was nice, but I did have an "oh look, it's Harriet Walter" moment (she's a well known TV actor in the UK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Heh. I had a "Oh look, she must be somebody because people are reacting!" moment, but had no idea who she was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Darth Hunter 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." Â 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 It wasn't the lightsaber itself, it was the Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 Saw it again. Much less bothered by Han finding the Falcon, it did seem as they they had an eye out for it... and despite never having flown it, Rey was pretty familiar with it... and it was on Jakku with her... Mainly, I'm still hung up on how Starkiller fires more than once if it drains their sun of power. I said this out loud and my ten year old told me that "obviously it's a binary system, duh" Beyond that, it was just as fun. I was able to process more input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Mainly, I'm still hung up on how Starkiller fires more than once if it drains their sun of power.Same. If it outright kills the star, did they move the entire planet to a new system after firing off those 5 blasts? Seems like a ton of work! If it just temporarily dims a star by sucking up plasma, why don't they call it Stardimmer Base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 It seems kind of pointless to me. If you are going to kill the star to shoot the planets, aren't all the planets going to die anyways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Choc Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Who cares! It made for good visual storytelling as it slowly got darker while Rey, Finn and Ren were all fighting in the forest. Also, I coulda gone for a "happy coincidence" that somehow got the Falcon into the prequels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 It seems kind of pointless to me. If you are going to kill the star to shoot the planets, aren't all the planets going to die anyways? Except they are shooting other systems... which makes no sense given that on Maz's planet they could see it in the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Yeah; I wondered that too... Do we even know names for any planet besides jakku? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Most stars do have companions. No surprise that they could get at least two shots off with Starkiller. Â My wife saw TFA, and after years of hating Star Wars (when she gave it any thought at all) has decided it was enjoyable! That's the kind of success Disney is probably looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I bothered Pablo Hidlago about it on Twitter so he explained how Starkiller Base worked. Apparently SK had already drained one sun of its power and moved on to the next system, it's star still intact, before firing on the Hosnian System. (That's why the one map has it listed as "Starkiller Base origin point".)  Yeah, it's really dumb, but I don't come to Star Wars for the physics. As for the planets:JakkuStarkiller BaseTakodona (Maz's planet)Hosnian Prime (Republic capital, destroyed)D'Qar (Resistance base) The planet Luke is on hasn't been named and isn't a planet we've seen before. (Another question posed to Pablo. I'm so glad he came back to Twitter.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Dameron Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015  I bothered Pablo Hidlago about it on Twitter so he explained how Starkiller Base worked. Apparently SK had already drained one sun of its power and moved on to the next system, it's star still intact, before firing on the Hosnian System. (That's why the one map has it listed as "Starkiller Base origin point".)  They built a hyperdrive to move an entire planet? Eh, whatever, I'm done trying to figure that thing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 its not a planet its a transformer duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANA-kin Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Is it just me, or are these new worlds underwhelming? Jakku might as well be NOT tatooine sand planet. Star killer might as well be NOT Hoth snow planet. I don't even remember what Maz's planet looked like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Maz's planet and the resistance base planet might as well have been the same. But I guess there's only so much you can do terrain-wise. I don't want cgi landscapes again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Dameron Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015  Is it just me, or are these new worlds underwhelming? Not just you. Outside of the wreckage on Jakku, they seemed oddly disinterested in giving us interesting new locations. Well, I suppose the Nazi rally on Starkiller Base was technically new to Star Wars. Though, obviously, that's been done before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pong Messiah Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I felt no sense of underwhelmsion. I liked that they were very terrestrial, organic, sometimes ancient, and felt it was a very deliberate and effective aesthetic choice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I also liked that they were all new planets. People say TFA is too much of an ANH rehash, while praising TPM for at least being different. TPM, where they found Anakin on TATOOINE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavonis Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Obviously Anakin had to be found on Tatooine, just to setup why Luke was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Well the only difference between Tatooine and Jakku is in name only. I'm all for new planets in the series, but Jakku isn't a new planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 It's a new planet that mimics an old one. I'd rather have that than go to Tatooine, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 To be honest I just don't see the difference, I think Lucas and Abhrams have been as unoriginal as each other in that regard by just re-hashing the same planet over and over, they just approached their lack of originality differently. Not sure why they couldn't have given us something a bit different visually. But as said earlier, not keen to go back to CGI landscapes either, so its not a major complaint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poe Dameron Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015  It's a new planet that mimics an old one. I'd rather have that than go to Tatooine, again. I'm not sure what the difference is.  But as said earlier, not keen to go back to CGI landscapes either, so its not a major complaint. I consider the world building one of the strengths of the Prequels. They really were an opportunity to have some fun creating locations. Even if you're not a huge fan of CGI, there's a happy medium here between simple repeated landscapes and all green screens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Wader Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I agree in part - but I think they started to take it a bit far in terms of the CGI from Episode II onwards. Some of the new planets were exciting but the extent to which CGI was used made them feel sterile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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