Star Wars Rebels

I've got a bad feeling about this.

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What's your favorite episode of Rebels Recon?

Mine's the one for "Out of Darkness" simply for the question

https://youtu.be/s8_PCwya0do?t=4m17s

Who the fuck is Arden Lyn?

Patton Oswalt discussing his time being one of you and how he realized it's a shitty life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6jqXsCWhc

>>78355405

I mean you can read Leia's character that way but the film clearly focuses on Luke

Han clearly drops everything to help out both the Super Princess and the Destined Farmer Boy though

>>78355424
How the fuck did Disney not make him a background alien in TFA?

I mean, LOOK AT HIM.

luv u patton

>>78355413
a character from the 90s sw fighting game: masters of teras kasi

>>78355413
Fuck off back to /tv/ you casual.

>>78355476
Go be autistic somewhere else.

>>78355455
You're nice people.

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Soundtracks upload is at 71%. 194 tracks left.

By the way, there are three tracks that had trouble when initially uploading and were temporarily skipped, but won't upload until the others do because of how MEGA's uploading works. So if you've downloaded any of the soundtracks yet, make sure to check back when the upload is complete to grab them.

They're

07 - The Falcon from the Special Edition soundtrack for ESB

Star Wars And The Revenge of the Sith from the RotS soundtrack

1-30 Under Arrest from the Extended Edition RotS soundtrack

>>78355455
Literally just a character made for a fighting game? Not based on some EU shit?

>>78355502
More like she was made for the game then got inserted into EU shit. Though I rather like her story as an example of how strange some older Star Wars lore could get

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>>78355413
>NOT PLAYING MASTERS OF TERAS KASI
>THAT DOESN'T COMPUTE
>OH WAIT, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST

>poe/finn is literally the new bucky/steve

>>78355449
He's not wrong. What are you all accomplishing by shitting on movies on 4chan all day?

>>78355496
>from the Special Edition soundtrack for ESB
Correction, from TFA Soundtrack. Don't know why I mixed that up

>>78355531
I don't know, what are you accomplishing by defending shitty movies on 4chan all day?

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>>78355413
>being this new

Why do some people who hate Star Wars or have never seen Star Wars like to lord that fact over the fans? Is it to spite the vocal minority who acts like the entire franchise is sacrosanct? If that's the case, that seems petty. I've never seen The Sopranos but I don't act superior to those who have seen it and are fans of the show. There are a lot of popular movies that I don't care for, but I don't see myself as an iconoclast. Besides, in my experience, most SW fans are people who just like some aspect of the franchise, not the more obsessive lot that's easier to stereotype.

>>78355431
Fair's fair, now, Han didn't really have much going for him after his drug smuggling job fell through and all these bounty hunters wanted his balls in a carbonite slab. Hanging out with the Rebellion seemed as much for his safety as helping them.

>>78355405
I was going to leave a bitchy comment but then I noticed that user's username.

>>78355360
THOK VERSUS HOAR

Theory time here, anons. Will put spoilers on for the rare few who haven't seen it just yet.

Rey is Luke's daughter or his last surviving pupil. In either case, after Kylo killed his academy it's possible that Luke entrusted her to that fat guy on Jakku after using a jedi mindtrick to obscure her memories. He kinda just gave up after all and probably didn't trust that leaving her with someone like Han or Leia who are publicly known to be that safe. As far as we can tell she wasn't a slave or abused on Jakku and she would have needed to help to survive on that planet. That guy probably had orders to keep her out of trouble and couldn't show favoritism to her as he's the one who distributes food. Notice he tried to get the droid away from her peacefully, an astromech which is normally used by people who get up to trouble in some manner, and when his goons went for it they didn't try to hurt her. They tried to distract and disable her, and run away with bb-8. Then they make it off planet. In the Falcon. At this point Kylo is also interested in her and the force has a habit of "coincidences" when it comes to these kind of things. Also she is sent with just Chewie and r2 to find Luke. Leia might be needed to organize the war machine for the republic, but sending JUST her and the fuzzball and tincan plus the hug leia gave her? Something's up with that.

Which alien race wud u fug?

What did you think of Kylo Ren?
http://strawpoll.me/6334824

>>78355731
Twi'leks, this is hardly even a question. Not the males cause they're ugly as sin

>>78355496
Dat cover art looks comfy as fuck.

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>>78355840
Yeah I agree. It's the one we ended up voting for.

Here's the full group of variants. They'll all still be included(Variants 3 and 5 also have alternate logo versions) and can be substituted in using a program such as mp3tag

>>78355502
supposedly just an assassin versed in an alien martial art teras kasi.

later EU retconned her into an Emperor's Hand like Mara (and then later into one of the first fallen jedi who existed before the Sith).

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TFA > 4 > 5 > 1 > 6 > 3 > 2

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>tfw no robot arm kung-fu gf

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>>78355965
5>4>6>3=TFA>1>2

>>78355965
Is it even possible for one man to like pod racing this much?

>>78355965
>>78355978
objectively best ranking coming through
V>IV>VII>VI>III>II>I

>>78356015
How do you expect us to take you seriously when you don't post Sebulba with your rankings?

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>>78355988
Maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS0II4ZuCJg

Podracing movie when?

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>>78356027
V>IV>VII>VI>III>II>I
better?

>>78355701
That's what I thought initially, but now I'm more on board with the idea that Kylo was the one who left her on Jakku, and that her only relation to the Skywalkers is that he took her in for a time after finding her. My thinking is that he discovered her while he and some other Knights were on a mission or in a battle of some kind on that planet shown in her vision where they were surrounded by bodies. He couldn't bring himself to kill her for whatever reason, maybe because he could sense the Force in her, and took her in with the intention of teaching her, but for whatever reason gave up on it. Instead of killing her, he wiped her mind, erasing her memories and any notion of what the Force was or the fact that she could use it, and left her on Jakku with Unkar (who, in fact, was shown in the movie to be in contact with the First Order anyway).

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>all these plebs unironically ranking Empire above ANH

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>>78355780
Kylo is pretty much Anakin except done right

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>>78356083
>done right

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Master of the Knights of REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Luke probably trained some students individually before starting a full on Academy.

>>78356127
What if Ezra/Kanan or Ahsoka were there?

>>78356150

kanan and ahsoka don't make it out of rebels alive. ezra is one of the jedi in hiding.

Is force speed ever portrayed in the clone wars?

>>78356163
There's a certain ODD mood to Rebels now, isn't there? How exactly do all these people end up by TFA times?

Oh- oh god, is this how people who thought the prequels were too far off to care about felt? Is the OT prequels now?

Replace all of the uses of "Shrek" in the Shrek copypasta with "Darth Vader" and you basically have Kylo Ren.
>I was only 9 years old
>I loved Darth Vader so much, I had all his helmets and fashion sense

>>78356105
I'll give him this: Adam Driver is a really cool name

>>78356183

I don't see how that can be. In the old EU, there have been hidden Jedi and Inquisitors for decades. Some even outliving Luke Skywalker.

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Kylo's resemblance to Jacen is even uncanny.

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>>78356033
>Podracing movie when?
You know... I think it could work. I want this.

If only for more Podracer.

>>78356221
Darth Krayt huh

>>78356247

Don't forget Master Kruh'k.

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Not really.

They're totally two different characters.

>>78356232
>whiny emo cunts who get off on killing their relatives

nah they just resemble their grand-daddy.

>>78356105
>implying anon was wrong.

>>78356042
VII is not above any of the OT.

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>phasma will never rape you

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>>78355360
I still remember ARDEN LYN from that game being said.

I thought she was neat even if that game was pretty...underwhelming. Was neat to have a character that reached the Force through her martial arts training.

TFA was better than Fury Road

>>78355530
Finn will become a brainwashed Stormtrooper cyborg?

Leia begging Tarkin not to blow up Alderaan had more emotional weight than the First Order destroying that system because no one actually seemed to care. Immediately after it happened, no one seemed to think it was important, because they just moved on to what Rey was doing.

>>78356552
>TFA was better than Fury Road

But that's wrong.

>>78356591
Jurassic World > both

>>78356591
>But that's wrong.
Strop trolling.

You're probably an idiot that thinks it was odd Rey could do the stuff she was doing despite there being 6 films that laid the groundwork for it.

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>>78356609
>Jurassic World > anything

>>78356609
Definitely not and I'm actually really worried for the third film, getting the director of JW seems like a shitty idea based solely on the success of JW which really more of a momentous occasion that had people going to check out JW than the merit of the film itself. (Similar to TFA but not the same)

>>78356610
>Strop trolling.

I'm not.

>>78356610
>You're probably an idiot that thinks it was odd Rey could do the stuff she was doing despite there being 6 films that laid the groundwork for it.

What are you even talking about? Just leave.

>>78356610
THIS, for the love God THIS

What did you drooling slack-jawed retards think they were going to do to show the force was in balance again? Just have Luke go

>Mmm, the Force is balanced now. I feel it, so balanced. So very balanced and low in calories now.

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>>78356591
>that one idiot came into every thread for weeks saying "look at this scene! there's no way this movie will be bad!"
>come to this scene in the movie
>IT'S FUCKING NOTHING OF CONSEQUENCE

Why is /swr/ so fucking stupid?

>>78356048
It never confirmed that. All he said was he wanted that droid.

>>78356625
>Being too stupid to pay attention to Star Wars of all things

Wow.

>>78356631
>>78356610
Go back to /tv/ with this shit.

>>78356631
>but also high in cholesterol
>it should really get out more often and do some cardio

>>78356649
Are you honestly saying facts about Star Ward don't belong in this Star Wars thread?

>Prophecy was fulfilled and balance restored
>Sith shrine died and can no longer attack lightsiders across the galaxy

>>78356591
Blowing up Alderaan meant nothing either. Leia didn't give a shit after it happened. It was just an easy way to show how evil the bad guys were and what their weapon could do.

>>78356675
I think the average fan (most people here to be honest) are clueless about those facts though so they don't understand why Rey is so powerful.

>>78356640
The Starkiller weapon felt so tacked on. Characters want to destroy it on principle but even then none of them have any real story investment. It really felt like they just needed something for the Resistance to do.

>>78356591

No one was there to care. Did you expect the Resistance to start moping when the laser was aimed at them?

>>78356676
>Blowing up Alderaan meant nothing either

It meant a lot more than blowing up five planets with the BiggerDeath Star, and that sucks.

>>78356684
>>78356675
>>78356610
>>78356631
There are some really stupid people here tonight.

>>78356676
We didn't get a chance to see how she reacted, it was probably hours until we saw her again.

>>78356698
Just you.

fuck off, take any discussion about fury road or any other movie not star wars to /tv/.

>>78356624
Trevorrow has a nice style. Fitting with "Star Wars".

>>78356708
Plus the scene prior was enough.

Her begging for her planet, saying that they're peaceful and can't fight anyone, and her gazing at it before deciding to tell Tarkin what he wants to know. Lets us know that this is important to her.

And then there's the fact that they mention it later and that it was actually the place the heroes were traveling to.

We never got anything like that in TFA.

>>78356676
It was, and it serves as a demonstration of why they're fighting, but it also serves to derail their trip since the place Ben, Luke and friends have been trying to get to (and the entire reason they hired Han to begin with) has just been destroyed. In TFA, the Hosnian System has no actual story importance. We hear that the Republic capital was destroyed but not only does that mean nothing personally to any of the characters, we're not even given enough context to care about it on a larger scale.

On top of that, the fight against the Death Star is crucial not only because it's a dangerous weapon, but because it's come to find them and now failing to destroy it also means that Leia and the rebels are going to be destroyed. Starkiller Base doesn't get that kind of tension, even the story stops paying much attention to it as a threat and focuses more on Kylo and his interactions with the heroes. Poe's attack on the base becomes kind of an afterthought rather than something fundamentally important to the story.

>>78356726
You saw Fury Road, right?

>>78356748

yes, it has nothing to do with star wars. if you want to compare the films go to /tv/ not a general for star wars

>>78356760
>yes

And it's really good, right?

>>78356748
It was great, but not THAT good.

Immortan Joe was a scrub.

>>78356741
>On top of that, the fight against the Death Star is crucial not only because it's a dangerous weapon, but because it's come to find them and now failing to destroy it also means that Leia and the rebels are going to be destroyed.
Technically this is the case in TFA too, since Starkiller Base was targeting D'Qar, but it's not treated with the same urgency as the Death Star targeting Yavin 4. The fact that you forgot it was even targeting D'Qar is kind of telling of how poorly Starkiller Base's menace was conveyed.

>>78356774

but not better than tfa.

>>78356741
>>78356781
Yeah, it's a much bigger threat on paper but they don't do a good job of selling it. They really should've just stuck to the quest for Luke as the big thing everyone's fighting over instead of forgetting it halfway into the movie so everyone can lazily deal with Ultra Death Star Deluxe X.

>>78356784
You're not funny.

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>>78356780
We'll see George at the Oscars.

>>78356741
Kinda true, its lacking slow dread moments. Maybe they should have had it manage to fire and they fail to stop it but beam has to adjust itself toward the planet due to the damage they inflicted and you see some capital ships in orbit get vaporized or something. And as it nears the surface you see Leia have a moment of peace as she seems to accept death or so as it grazes the planet and you think that maybe Leia just got killed too. After Han dying you could genuinely feel it might happen.

Then bam Poe finally takes it out and everyone is saved.

>>78356784
Agreed.

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I hope Ezra gets at least gets referenced in the movies somehow

>>78356886
Why? Just out of interest. He doesn't seem that important. If anything, I was thinking Hera/Ahsoka in Rogue One, they're more significant.

>>78356033
HE ALWAYS WINS

>>78356232
that character was drawn to resemble Han, and Adam Driver was cast for the same reason.

>>78356902
Because he's a padawan/jedi the same age as Luke that yoda knew about and should still be around

>>78356902
>A Jedi
>not important
>In a galaxy with only 4 other jedi

>>78356956
He's just a kid. Before ANH, he isn't doing much (that we know of so far) its Hera/Ahsoka doing all the important stuff.

>>78356945
He may be dead before ANH even happens. And if they do confirm him alive, it takes any tension out of Rebels because we'll know he has the "I can't die because I am confirmed to show up in the future" plot armor that half the cast of TCW had.

I'd rather, if he DOES survive post-ANH, that they keep it secret for a while.

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REMINDER

Actors aren't the necessarily the same age as their characters. Daisy Ridley is 23 and Rey is born "Approximately 11 years after the Battle of Endor[2]"

Gwendoline Christie is 38 and Phasma could be 40 potentially or so.

Rey has an Imperial accent somehow...Phasma could be her mother.

Luke did fall in love with an Imperial in the old EU and have a kid with them...

Probably won't be, but she fits as a candidate.

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>>78357094
>Luke did fall in love with an Imperial in the old EU and have a kid with them...

>yfw nothing about the current timeline rules out bringing back Mara Jade and the events of the Thrawn Trilogy

>>78357094
how the fuck does she do anything with those metal fingers?

>>78357130
They just keep her around to look pretty

It's their version of sexism

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>>78357107
>>78357130

I thought both of these things at work.

>>78357107
>Phasma is just Maras alias in next movie
>she's a black woman under that armor

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Saw Episode 7 yesterday and have been thinking about it since.I think I don't really like it. It's not a good movie, and I'm afraid I'm going to be one of the only people I know that will think so. SPOILERS AHEAD, for any who are reading.

The writing was a clusterfuck to say the least.
Finn had a better story arc than the main character Rey, who doesn't even HAVE and arc in the movie. My brother and I figured that this is mostly because she doesn't have any real motive or mission statement in the movie to define her character, like Luke did after his family was murdered in a New Hope.
A big, BIG, problem that really rustled me was that no one ever so much as looked sad or bothered by the destruction of those 4-5 planets. Was one of them Coruscant? We were shown a city planet as one of them and if Coruscant is gone then I may get legit pissed off.
Rey's ability with the force is another sticking point that I can't get over. People are already calling her a Jedi, and they need to be slapped in their gormless, plebeian faces. Luke wasn't a Jedi until RotJ. Hell, he didn't even use his lightsaber or the force all that much until then either, and he was a prodigy wunderkid. Rey is just better than him I guess.
I want more Phasma. I need more Phasma. The fact they hyped her up as some kind of person who would do something in the movie really made me mad when she literally does nothing and is thrown into the garbage. She doesn't even fire her gun. I want my chrome plated, space cape wearing, stormtrooper den mother God Dammit.
Maz. Christ what the fuck was the story group thinking letting this happen. She's 1000 years old (making her older than Yoda), is apparently an acquired taste on par with fucking WATER, and the biggest fucking hand wave I've ever seen (so big in fact I can only assume the movie was attempting to use the Jedi Mind Trick on the audience), she has Anakin's Lightsaber. THE ONE THAT FELL INTO THE CLOUDY DEPTHS OF BESBIN.
THAT THING
IS GONE.
>cont.

>>78357265

The lightsaber fell somewhere into cloud city. Luke fell into a hole that ended up outside but there isn't really a reason the lightsaber would have too.

I wonder how long before Leeland Chee starts having to deal with people running up to him and asking him to explain away technical shit from TFA, like how Starkiller Base worked.

"Well you see although Starkiller Base absorbed the energy of the local star the planet didn't later collapse into a star the size of a planet, that was a, er, plasma sphere held together by residual magnetic forces from the world. Also the Base fires a hyperspace based weapon and the beam radiates light that also travels at hyperspace speeds but it's still visible as regular light...somehow. And the reason people could see that solar system explode from light years away is it created a localized hyperspace effect that let everyone see the explosion in real time regardless of distance due to, uhm, well..."

And at this point he grabs the cup of hot coffee from Pablo Hidalgo's hands, throws it in the face of the questioner, and runs.

>>78357265
Legit points mate, you're not alone.

>>78355580
>2015
>Master of Teräs Käsi
>has a literal Teräs Käsi

>>78357265
>The writing was a clusterfuck to say the least.
I disagree, it was quite charming, and definitely captured the spirit of classic Star Wars.

>Finn had a better story arc than the main character Rey, who doesn't even HAVE and arc in the movie.
You are sadly right here, and the worst thing is that Finn's story arc was still clunky. He has been raised as if in a cult since a child to believe he is a savior of the Galaxy, but seems A-OK ditching his family and killing them instead. There is literally nothing to suggest the FO had taught him wrong About the Resistance. There's no way he should have been so happy and trusting and willing to help them. He should have had more drama and turmoil about his place in the Galaxy, rather than just accepting things as they went along.

>A big, BIG, problem that really rustled me was that no one ever so much as looked sad or bothered by the destruction of those 4-5 planets.
This was one of the worst parts of the movie for sure. Awful explanation. No, that wasn't Coruscant, but I don't think anywhere in the movie is it ever specified. I think the future Aftermath books will go into detail about why the Senate moved from Coruscant (which doesn't make sense in the first place)

I completely agree, the whole planet destruction thing was just so poorly done, I wonder why they bothered.

>>78357379
>Rey's ability with the force is another sticking point that I can't get over.
I agree. Luke took at least months to perform a mind trick, possibly over a year. Rey did it on her third attempt after previously believing the Jedi to be legends.

>I want more Phasma. I need more Phasma.
JJ says next movie. AKA "we put her in this one because we knew she was going to sell a shitton of merch and we wanted to jump on that ASAP"

>Maz. Christ what the fuck was the story group thinking letting this happen.
I wanted to like her, but I agree, she was so awkward. "Muh eyes, I see your eyes durr"

>Anakin's Lightsaber.
Ok to be fair, it just hit the floor of the large room, it didn't fall out into the Gas Giant (that we know of) HOWEVER, this still presents a problem; Why didn't Luke go and get it instead of building his own Lightsaber between V and VI? Why did he wait until after VI to decide "hey, maybe my old Lightsaber isn't lost after all!"

Overall I agree with you. There was quite a few things that bugged me outside of the fact that the plot is the most rehashed one in the franchise so far. (And people thought VI was guilty of rehashing, doesn't even come close to VII)

Still enjoyed it overall though, but I dunno', maybe when the hype dies down...

>>78357265
>She's 1000 years old (making her older than Yoda)
Why does that matter? Yoda isn't the oldest thing in the galaxy and the movie never tried to claim he was.

>>78356083
...How?

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>>78357265
Starkiller base was dumb. That's really all there is to it. No one is intimidated by it, it has no real gravitas within the movie, and quite frankly it's shittier than the Death Star in every way. (Death Star > Planet, charges shot in 10-30 seconds. Starkiller > 5 Planets, charges shot in 15 min - hour, it's a bit unclear, but maybe I am not remembering things right)
Poe da best.
Most of Finn's comic relief lines were cringy, but not the worst I've ever seen.
It was not shot like a Star Wars movie, which is a minor gripe, but it took me out of the movie a bit.
Kylo Ren stopped a blaster bolt with the force and didn't really focus on it while he had a conversation. I have a bug bug up my ass about this.
This movie's ending fucking sucks. There isn't any other way to say it. Episode 8 should have been following the map and finding Luke. It would have given Rey's team of friends to do, even though they don't really come off as a team of friends like the OT cast did. Instead we get a really bad panning helicopter shot and Luke and Rey gazing at eachother in silence for 30 seconds while the audience hoots and hollers. Feels bad to be quite frank.

There's some other stuff I could talk about, but it's mostly small things that don't seem to bother most people, but if I had to add one more thing to the list it's probably how everyone is going to love this movie, and any criticism is going to be shouted down under a chorus of "IT'S BETTER THAN LUCAS RAPING US WITH THE PREQUELS, ISN'T IT ANON?!" or "REY IS FIRST FEMALE JEDI IF YOU NO LIKE UR A SEXIST CONTRARIAN THAT JUST DOESN'T LIKE ANYTHING"

Feels bad man. Feels real bad.

>>78357424
>Starkiller base was dumb.
On the contrary, I love the idea, but the execution was awful. It should have been introduced in 8, and been the final boss for 9.

>Poe da best.
He was pretty fun, what we saw of him anyway.

>It was not shot like a Star Wars movie, which is a minor gripe, but it took me out of the movie a bit.
I actually thought it mostly looked fine. Except for the last scene, and that last shot. You know the one I am talking about. HO-LY SHIT that looked awful.

>Kylo Ren stopped a blaster bolt with the force
I'm always open to see new Force Powers (as long as they dont dump too many on us at once), so I rather liked Kylo's ability to freeze things.

If I had to add my own personal gripe, its the whole "Luke leaves like a bitch, but leaves a map" thing. I am still trying to comprehend why anybody would do this, let alone fucking Luke Skywalker. This is the same motherfucker that stood in front of Sheev and said "Soon I'll be dead, and you with me", and now you're telling me he had all his students murdered, and he ran away into hiding?! What?! But he left a map just because?!?!

Oh and R2 turning on conveniently at the end was cringeworthy.

>>78357383
>I agree. Luke took at least months to perform a mind trick, possibly over a year. Rey did it on her third attempt after previously believing the Jedi to be legends.
I disagree with this one. It's no more crazy than Luke being taught to connect with the Force with the blast shield on the helmet down and then later connecting with the Force after turning off his targeting computer. Kylo Ren invaded her mind with the Force and she found that she could push it both ways. Then with nothing to lose she managed, after several attempts, to make a connection on her own. She didn't master it and it wasn't a true technique, it was more of a raw use of the Force, untrained and untested, but she managed to make it work. Afterward she didn't rely on it because it wasn't like she actually unlocked the Mind Trick.

The Force has always worked like that even for untrained. Sudden bouts of precognition, visions, reflexes. An effect like the Mind Trick is really impressive but certainly not beyond reason, especially for someone strong in the Force. Similar that moment when fighting Kylo Ren where instead of giving in to despair she manages to find her spiritual center within the Force and uses it as a momentary power up. Very possible, especially given Kylo Ren was already wounded as he was, but it mostly shows her potential. She still needs training and learning control over her newfound abilities.

>JJ says next movie.
I don't doubt she'll show up but JJ isn't working on the next film. Neither is Kasdan. They were specifically doing a one-and-done. Rian Johnson is heading up VIII and IX.

Speaking of Phasma, wouldn't it be cool if we got a comic that starts with her capture. We could see her survive being thrown into the Trash Compactor, and how she escaped Starkiller Base.

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>>78357388
Kinda ruin's Yoda's mystique as the embodiment of the Wise Old Wizard trope when there's someone older and potentially wiser than him that was always hanging around with a almost famous reputation.

I know Yoda doesn't (and shouldn't) corner the market on the trope, but he was something special in the previous films. Someone abnormally long lived. But now there's two races that live for a long time, and they don't use it well in the movie. Yoda looks, sounds, and acts old. Maz acts like a spry 50 year old grannie that's still in good shape. I can believe Yoda is 900 years old. I can't believe Maz is 1000.
I don't know if that helps get my feelings across, but that's what I got.

>>78356232
Because he's a blatant rip-off. That wouldn't be bad if they hadn't fucking insisted he was Donut Steel and got all the books and comics I was reading cancelled because they said they "didn't want to be constrained".

Fuck me, I don't even like Jacen Solo and I have to suffer because they wanted to use him? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

>>78357450
I'm not really sure Luke left the map as much as what he was looking for, the very first Jedi Temple, was known to the Empire. They even said that the First Order knew most of the map from Imperial records except for (somehow) that missing bit that was on Jakku,. Something for some reason only on one of the crashed ships? Good a guess as any.

As for Artoo, well, it's telling that he reactivates when Rey shows up on the same planet. Was he waiting for her? No clue, but there's certainly more than a little destiny at play. The Force works in mysterious ways.

>>78357474
Maz isn't Yoda, she's Ben Kenobi because Han Solo wasn't enough to fill that role for Rey and nudge her down the Jedi path.

Rey should've had flaws desu.

>>78357490
She wanted to fuck off and go home. She had to be forced into the plot by Kylo Ren twice.

I guess she's like her Uncle Luke then.

>>78357490
She did. She was as much in over her head as Finn was. They both coped and rose to the occasion. The fact that she's a "grill" somehow makes people angry.

>>78357487
>I'm not really sure Luke left the map as much as what he was looking for, the very first Jedi Temple
Oh, I see. If it was just a map to the Temple, that would be much more believable and understandable. I don't think that was explained well enough in the movie at all though. I remember one line about an old Jedi Temple I think. I'll have to watch the movie again.

>The Force works in mysterious ways.
I don't like it, but i'll accept it. There's a billion coincidences in Star Wars required for everything to work, so I guess I can turn a blind eye to R2 waking up like that.

>>78357511
Difference is, didn't Luke always wanna' join the Rebellion? He just got pulled into things way sooner than expected, and he made plenty of mistakes. Rey was just waiting for "muh parents", got pulled into things, and accepted it while still performing exceptionally well for someone who just found out she has the force.

>>78357511
She didn't even have the benefit of an Uncle Owen holding her back.

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>>78357450
I suppose what made me unhappy with the stopping a blaster bolt with the force thing is that it is such a One Use Power. It's never used again, and I doubt it ever will be. And when you have a character that can do things like this, you usually get people who say "Why doesn't he do it again, or all the time? Apparently there's not much effort in keeping it up, so why not?"
He could have easily just blocked it with his lightsaber and then force gripped Poe. I just...it's so gimmicky I can't let it go.

>>78357471
I wouldn't mind that. Not one bit. as long as it is done half way decently.

>>78357450
>On the contrary, I love the idea, but the execution was awful. It should have been introduced in 8, and been the final boss for 9.

It shouldn't have been introduced at all. We now have a Death Star, a Bigger Death Star, and a BIGGER BIGGER Death Star. The only next logical step is a BIGGER BIGGER BIGGER DEAT STAR! It's ludicrous even for this space opera.

>>78357488
>Maz isn't Yoda
Yeah, she's just another short 900+ year old mentor.

>>78357265
>>78357424
I agree with everything else you've mentioned, especially your thoughts about how the film was shot.

It was not shot like a Star Wars movie. It was not edited like a Star Wars movie. It was not paced well like any good movie should. The search for Luke takes up like half of the movie while that plot point comes to a screeching halt to deal with the new dearth star that shouldn't exist, that does not get picked up again until the last 5 minutes of the film, with little dialogue attached with a horrific sweeping camera angle.

It's not good, anons. It's not.

>>78357487
It was confirmed in an interview that Artoo reacted to BB-8 coming up to him, and the following discussion about the map, not Rey.

>>78355409

Give me a timestamp anon

>>78357551
4:17

>>78357557
thanks anon

>>78357549
I wouldn't call her a mentor though. She was more of a kick in the ass because they couldn't figure out a way for Rey to find a lightsaber, then they added that part about her running away from her destiny so we wouldn't notice their contrived plot.

>>78357535
I didn't mind Artoo waking up like he did. Han showing up that early, however, did, even (and maybe especially) with how they tried to wave away as totally not a coincidence. They've never been able to track ships like that without a homing beacon installed. I mean really? The Falcon, a ship used for smuggling, is that easy for everybody to track anywhere in the galaxy? Bullshit.

Comparatively Artoo was easy to accept, though frankly I'd much rather if he'd been hanging with Luke all that time. They could have done the whole map thing after dealing with Starkiller Base. It would have been an easy matter setting that aside given the threat.

Anybody else got a "Wizard of Oz" vibe from Snoke?

I'm thinking he isn't that big at all, because they're gonna' want a climactic Lightsaber fight, and I don't think JJ is ok with a CGI "final boss" of the trilogy.

>>78357550
That doesn't make any sense. BB was already bumping uglies with R2 which is why Threepio volunteered the plot information that R2 was in low power mode. At the end of the movie it was R2 suddenly waking up that brought the map discussion back since he had the rest of the map except for the small piece of the puzzle form Jakku.

>>78357583
>The Falcon, a ship used for smuggling, is that easy for everybody to track anywhere in the galaxy?

Han actually made a joke about it.

It's like Abramas knew everything that was wrong with the film but just stuck with it and added some self-depreciation, e.g. w/r/t the death start.

The film style seems really similar to Jurassic World

>>78357596
The movie had a lot of weird self-aware moments the bit where Han was nodding his head and pissing Finn off.

>>78356083
This scene would've been funnier if it didn't made a close up of the stormtroopers

>>78357578
>She was more of a kick in the ass
She was a plot device, and her in-universe reasons is living long enough to see what evil is in the galaxy, and knowing that the light side of the force is the only way to defeat it.

She even says "I'm not a Jedi, but I know the Force", and starts spouting sage like wisdom we has an audience have all heard before.
Kind of like Yoda.

I'm really not trying to bait here.

>>78357593
Someone link the interview, I don't have it.

>>78357610
I didn't say you were, it's just that Luke is Yoda. Maz's only job was to compliment Han as her initial mentor and get the plot rolling. I doubt we'll ever see her again.

>>78357107
>>yfw nothing about the current timeline rules out bringing back Mara Jade and the events of the Thrawn Trilogy

Nothing except her being in that grave Luke was standing by at the end

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>>78357511
>>78357524
It's mostly that Luke said he wanted to be a Jedi and fight for the Rebellion, so you had a clear understanding of his motives, and could know or relate to the struggles he faced to accomplish these goals.

Reys goals are not nearly as well defined. At first it was getting BB8 back to the republic, which she felt obligated to do because she was friends with BB8.
Next was coming to gripes with her parents not coming back, which she doesn't handle well, but it is sort of dropped once the empire arrives.
Next is she has to find Luke to become a Jedi. I may have missed something here, but I can't for the life of me remember why she feels she needs to do this. Did Leia ask her to? Was it because of the force visions? Did Han encourage her to? I can't remember.

Also, most of the problems with her stem from her being a Mary Sue, a summary of the condition in pic related.

I know most people's reaction to this claim is going to be met with skepticism or outright contempt, but it's true.

Hell, whenever she's not on screen, everyone is asking "Where's Rey?"

>>78355780
You know I'm glad to see the movie is well liked on /co/ and all discussions about it are actual discussions and not just shit posting, /tv/ is an actual shitshow with the endless amount of threads complaining about Rey and Finn

Why when I type in Admiral Ackbar the Wook's defaults me to a fucking EU ship named after him?

It should be the other way around. Default to his personal article and the small text box above it asking if you mean the ship.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Admiral_Ackbar

>>78357613
Anon wasn't contradicting what you said, merely that it didn't make sense. I think C-3PO said something about Artoo compiling the rest of the map explaining his "low power mode" but wasn't sure he'd ever wake up.

>>78357642
>Next is she has to find Luke to become a Jedi. I may have missed something here, but I can't for the life of me remember why she feels she needs to do this. Did Leia ask her to? Was it because of the force visions? Did Han encourage her to? I can't remember.

She decides she really should be a Jedi after Kylo Ren fucks up Finn. They never really explain it.

>>78357645
The Wook is a mess right now, everything looks messy and all over the place. They still link most pages to the legends article instead of the canon one.

>>78357645
Wook is notoriously messy and wiki searches are shit anyway.

You're right though.

>>78357642
Luke was looking forward, Rey, as Maz said, is stuck to the past. Destiny, and Han and Maz, try to give her a kick in the pants to make her move on and find her own future and path, but she resists. It's Kylo Ren that finally manages to convince her she has a destiny beyond simply waiting for her family to find her.

I prefer that the movie simply showed her moving on to something else, accepting the saber and bringing it to Luke, rather than being so explicit into making her state her sudden change of mind.

>>78357642
All of Rey's goals that you listed are part of the problems with the films pacing I mentioned here >>78357549.

Whatever you think about the quality of the plot, it's layout that is presented in the film is poor.

>>78357685
>being so explicit into making her state her sudden change of mind
I don't disagree this is the reason, but I do disagree it being explicit.

She beats Kylo, gets medical attention for Finn, then goes to find Luke. And before you say that all of that can be discerned from the speechless stare-down Luke and Rey have, all they really do is look at each other. I would agree if that sequence was shorter and didn't have the awful rotating helicopter shot, but it's a 2 minute long scene and the emotions aren't exactly clear.

Again, we know what the development is going to be, and I'm not saying there should have been dialogue in that scene, but god it was awful.

>>78357685
A declaration of intent is sometimes necessary, especially in a space opera which is all about bellowing out your emotions.
And really, that's kinda what she needed. For her entire life she was letting herself be ruled by her fear of moving on, she needed a scene where she tells her friends what she is going to do now, possibly just because she needs to hear herself say it.

It would help solidify her character, and give the viewers something to look forward to in the future. But as it stands, I have no idea whether she's going to stay with Luke or just deliver a message.

I liked how Hux and Kylo Ren clearly don't like each other and fight for Snoke's favor. Tarkin technically outranked Vader, but he still respected him, while Hux can't stand this whiny fanboy

>>78357742
>A declaration of intent is sometimes necessary
A declaration of intent doesn't have to be spoken. They weren't even subtle with it and you sure as hell don't miss her intent, so what's the problem? Do you really need everything redundantly spelled out for you?

>>78357642
I'll reiterate again that no one complained about Anakin being unnaturally good at everything, but now suddenly we're complaining about Rey just because we don't know what she becomes?

Should we have released 10, 11, and 12 first so that you'd know what she becomes so that then we could go back and no one would care that she's good at things in 7, 8, and 9?

>>78357379
the movie tells you what system the planets where in and the dictionary book tells you what those planets where

So when they went to take down Starkiller Base's shields why did the group taking down the shield consist solely of Han, Chewie, and Finn? When they took down the Death Star II's shields they brought a whole commando team with them on the shuttle.

>>78357801
>weren't even subtle with it and you sure as hell don't miss her intent
We know she was resisting the path placed before the entire movie up until this point. At the end of the film, I don't know if she's was just an errand girl returning Luke's saber or going to train as a Jedi.

>>78357830
*resisting the path place before her

So, has anyone tried to 'Backstroke Against The West' the names of TFA characters?

So far I have Kylo Benevolence (or Humane)

Been getting into the new canon stuff (only read the Thrawn trilogy from the old EU, years ago), read a bunch of the novels back around Force Friday and now the movie has spurred me into reading more.

I like that writers can usually just get on with the story rather than getting bogged down in worldbuilding, but I also have to make sure to have my ipad nearby when I inevitably have to look up some species or ship, which kind of takes you out of it. No idea how people coped with this shit back in the 90s, reference books?

In Before the Awakening's Finn story, the ' Narquois' get mentioned, and I could find nothing on the Wook or elsewhere, are they a new species or something? If so, weird that they wouldn't give any description of them.

Does anyone else kind of like when expanded materials get a bit weird by incorporating mundane real world stuff into this space fantasy universe? Finished Moving Target the other day, and there's a point where they go to a water planet and Leia and her gang dress up in beachwear consisting of floral shirts, shorts and sunglasses.

>>78357818
Pretty sure it was just them. They may not have had the resources for a commando team, or Han didn't want anyone else to come with because they might end up as bugs on the windshield if they mistimed the hyperspace exit.

>>78357786n
>Tarkin technically outranked Vader

This is something I love about ANH, everything feels like a small part of a much bigger world and story, and this gets undercut if you watch the movies chronologically and spend three movies putting Anakin in the suit.

>>78357830
>We know she was resisting the path placed before the entire movie up until this point.
Actually she stopped resisting the moment she saw the First Order TIEs heading towards Maz's place. This is when she realizes that running away meant leaving others in danger and she rushes back to help. This was already foreshadowed when she was offered a hefty sum for BB-8, almost took it, but then turned it down. Rey, when tested, chooses doing the right thing and helping others.

>>78357851
They literally made shit up as they went back then, but yes there were reference books.

>Kylo Ren doesn't even offer to buy the map from Rey
man, even Vader paid people

>>78357851
>Does anyone else kind of like when expanded materials get a bit weird by incorporating mundane real world stuff into this space fantasy universe? Finished Moving Target the other day, and there's a point where they go to a water planet and Leia and her gang dress up in beachwear consisting of floral shirts, shorts and sunglasses.
Possibly my favorite part of the book. I love how Nien is routinely heading to bars.

Moving Target was comfy in every sense of the word. Never expected it to be like that at all.

>tfw no conehead waifu

>>78357881
You think Imperial credits grow on trees?

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>>78357851
There were reference books.
Since I skipped most of the EU in between Thrawn and New Jedi Order, I pretty much got the majority of my EU knowledge from this one book here as a kid.

>>78357881
You think Snoke actually gives Kylo Ren an allowance? Ha! Dude is in massive debt just from all the walls he's jacked up during his tantrums.

>>78357892
>tfw I owned all of those books
>tfw Lucasfilm made them worthless

>>78357889
You think Imperial Credits are worth anything after thirty years? Maybe to collectors...

>>78357909
I'd be willing to bet that the First Order still uses them, but obviously they only have value in their own system.

>>78357879
>>78357892
Cool, I had the OT Visual Dictionary and Incredible Cross-Sections books as a kid which is where I learned about stuff like Obi-Wan and Anakin's duel on Mustafar prior to the prequels releasing, but I never knew anything about the EU as a kid outside of a copy of The Yavin Vassilika my parents got me one Christmas (which I never really read at the time since it was missing the characters I knew from the OT bar Han and Chewie, from what I remember).

>>78357904
I still have mine.
Truly suffering.

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Sheev appears in Kylo Ren's dreams. What does he say to Kylo? What would Kylo ask him?

>>78357883
>>tfw no conehead waifu

>iktf

Had no idea Cerans could be attractive, given that Ki-Adi-Mundi was my only frame of reference.

>>78357424
>"IT'S BETTER THAN LUCAS RAPING US WITH THE PREQUELS, ISN'T IT ANON?!"

Well,,,that's the point where all the opinions differ but only in appearance.

I mean, I think pretty much everyone agrees with the flaws of the movie (some people will justify certain points some people will be mad for things that are not bother too much). Departing from this point (the movie is flawed) there is two main lines of thought.

1."Is not as good as the original"
2."Is not as bad as the prequels"

So...actually then again I think everyone agrees the movie has its flaws. Now is juts a matter if you see the glass half empty or half full.

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>>78357944
*Cereans

Forgot the pic, too.

>>78357954
That's wrong. I think TFA is on par with the OT and certainly better than ROTJ. People seem to forget that every Star Wars movie has flaws and weaknesses and TFA's only major flaw is Starkiller Base. Everything else is pretty much nitpicking.

>>78357801
I obviously did miss her intent, which is why I don't understand her motives. Daisy Ridley's expressions and actions didn't help explain anything. Again, it may have been good for her character as one of those "I need to hear myself say it" type things.

>>78357811
Anakin DID have the help of the OT hyping up his skills. In the prequels he's called the chosen one and everyone is saying he's unnaturally powerful. Sheev is gets moist just thinking about him.

Rey is just good at everything. Even the force, which as stated before, she could use better than Luke could in Empire Strikes Back, with out training or even knowing anything about it.

It's possible the counter mind-rape she used on Kylo taught her things, but we as the audience can only guess why she can suddenly do these things she didn't even know she could do.

Yes the force helps you build things and makes good pilots, but that's been shown as more of an intuition and reflexes thing. Rey was flying the Falcon like she'd done so her entire life.

I think most people, especially the deep basement dwelling nerds like me, feel there wasn't any effort in her actions. There was nothing she did that did not work in the immediate. The Mind Trick is the prime example. It should not have been that easy for her to do, and in fact, I can't believe she even knew it was a thing she could do.
That should have been a sign of growth saved for the second movie. In this movie, it doesn't work, in the next, after she's trained a little, it does. Basic character growth right?
Problem is that they don't hold off on any of her successes. All her hurdles are leapt by the end of this movie. There is no growth.

>>78357954
I suppose that's a nice way of looking at it: we all agree the movie has problems but it's all a question of whether or not you can just be happy they're better than what we've had for the last 15 years.

>>78357921
First Order uses HuxBux™. This is firmly established in NuCanon.

>>78357642
>she has to find Luke to become a Jedi

But she has to find Luke because finding Luke was the goal all along and the Resistance might as well send the one force sensitive person they have around who has his lightsaber while Leia is busy running the organization.

>>78357926
I basically spent the 90s begging my mom for any and all Star Wars or Star Trek reference material.

I have owned all three text editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, The Star Trek Chronology, the TNG and DS9 Companions, two complete sets of Enterprise-D blueprints, and an original print of the Star Fleet Technical Manual, plus both the TNG and DS9 tech manuals. Plus various third-party sourcebooks. I never owned Captain's Logs or Captain's Chair.

I was the human equivalent of Memory Alpha and Wookieepedia for a time.

>>78357970
>I obviously did miss her intent, which is why I don't understand her motives. Daisy Ridley's expressions and actions didn't help explain anything. Again, it may have been good for her character as one of those "I need to hear myself say it" type things.

Do you have similar problems with Finn switching from wanting to hide to suddenly running back and obsessively trying to chase Rey down? Or do we give him a pass because he's a guy and she makes his boy bits feel funny?

>>78357968
>better than Return of the Jedi

You Ewok-hating fucks need to let go of that shit. Anger clouds your judgment, leads to the dark side.

>>78357954
>"Is not as good as the original"

What the fuck are you talking about? Everyone is praising TFA for being just as good as the OT right now, except for butthurt nerds who hate it for being a "rehash". Yeah, it might be safe and unoriginal, but it's still a really good movie that feels like Star Wars.

>>78357979
I hate how poorly established the Resistance is. Leia isn't in the government helping the Republic, no, she's just still being a rebel thirty years later. Only apparently they've been dicking around and completely failing to stop the First Order despite it only taking, what, five years to topple the Emperor?

I can only assume that since the fall of Luke's new Jedi Order and her son being corrupted that it became personal.

>>78358004
I love the ewoks as more than most of you but it's still not a good ending to the series.

I also think TFA is at least on par with RotJ

>>78357979
She has to find Luke because Luke's the only person who can save the day. Which means either Rey takes a back seat in her own movie or Luke dies.

They could just have her return without him and make the Resistance inexplicably ready to turn everything over to her. They already did when they gave her the keys to the Falcon so who knows.

>>78357988
No, oddly enough, I don't.
Mostly because I was focusing on how strange it was that Finn didn't retain any of his stormtrooper mannerisms. And I find it curious that he didn't have to overcome a lifetime of First Order propaganda. Honestly, him having a boner for Rey because she's the first nice girl he's met is pretty simple.
I just can't read Rey's mind as well as you can apparently, so, oh well I guess. My loss? I don't know.

>>78358004
Ewoks aren't the only problem with ROTJ. Han and Leia are unimportant side characters that don't do anything in the movie, the second act is really dragging and the cinematography is lazy at times. TFA is just a better movie overall, even if you ignore the ewoks.

>>78356708
The NPR radio drama has a scene where Leia breaks the fuck down.

Also there is a really detailed scene of Vader torturing Leia

>>78357941
>What does he say to Kylo?

"You remind me a lot of the man who became Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker..."

>What would Kylo ask him?

"You really mean that?"

"Yes, like him you're a whiny little cunt"

>>78357968
Certainly not it's only flaw. A much bigger flaw is their failure to establish the state of the galaxy thirty years later. This, you think, would be crucial given it's thirty years after Endor and they are STILL in the middle of a fucking war. We're not even sure how badly the Republic is hurt. Sure the First Order blew up an entire solar system, their new senate, and a fleet but ships can be rebuilt and it turns, new senators can be elected, and it turns out the Republic was in the habit of switching capitals anyway. This is especially true since Aftermath has Mon Mothma deciding to stand down most of their military anyway and train defense forces on individual worlds so the sum total of military might the Republic could call upon was actually pretty diffuse.

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>>78358027
OH SHIT I REMEMBER THAT OTHER THING THAT MADE ME MAD

WHY THE EVER LIVING LIFE DAY FUCK IS CHEWIE NOT THE CAPTAIN OF THE MILLENNIUM FALCON?!

IT WAS HIS FRIEND THAT DIED GOD DAMMIT!

GALJNFGNALGAOIRJAGMAGNALGA

>>78358029
What stormtrooper mannerisms did Finn ever have? When we first saw him he was stumbling around the battlefield freaking out. He never fit in from the start.

>>78358012
It makes enough sense why the New Republic only reluctantly supports the Resistance really.

It makes me wonder what all they were doing for all those years since the First Order was more or less at an uneasy peace with the New Republic until they finished their space-ICBM in secret

>>78356741
Starkiller base is only in there because he was at a "Dinner for Five" episode with Ford, years ago where they are talking about how Han was supposed to die in the assault on the Shield Generator in RotJ. So Abrams recreated that scene to kill him off.

>>78358024
Luke becomes a Jedi, redeems Vader, the Emperor is dead. A epic space-battle rages in the stars. Han and Leia finally get together and there's a huge luau at the end with Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Sebastian Shaw.

And honestly, even if it sillier, the original end song is better than the mailed in piece Lucas tacked on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBrLHMCTDAA

>>78358063
That's part of my issues with him. He worked in Sanitation before hand, but should have received the same regimented training that every other stormtrooper had gotten.
Like, it would have been nice to see him stand at attention when in the presence of officers, or people who he thought were officers, or going full on /k/ when handed a blaster and starts listing off features and judging it.

I don't know something to denote his upbringing.

>>78357996
Need one only with the helmet part, its so fun how delusional she is.

>>78358060
The same reason Leia treats her warmly when she returns: they wrote her as Jaina and forgot to tell anyone - even the characters.

>>78358074
I don't think the Republic was reluctant at all. They were just using them as political distance to fight a proxy war and try to slow down/reverse the gains of the First Order without having to go total war themselves. Their fleet seems to be the one thing that was holding the First Order back from attacking the Republic directly, while the Resistance was seen by the Republic as their best weapon against the First Order.

The First Order, of course, falls back on super weapons because why not, it's always worked before right? No? Oh well, surely when they rebuild Starkiller Base it won't blow up. Nope, not at all.

>>78358102
It does seem odd that Finn wasn't detected earlier, especially given the First Order apparently keeps track of their underlings. Statistically speaking though it's entirely possible that someone could get through their ranks and then break down on his first assignment. Especially since the only reason the First Order has would have an offense tracking program is because similar things have happened in the past. We're just following along with one specific trooper who broke ranks after seeing what the First Order is all about.

>>78358135
>highly vital mission
>send a rookie

Inspired.

>>78358161
Why not? It's a standard burn down the village scenario, otherwise known as a day ending in Y for the First Order.

>>78358135

in the film it says that he kept his head down and nodded at the propaganda.

>>78358161
>>highly vital mission

>shoot random villagers while a guy with a red lightsaber does all the real work
>highly vital mission

Son, let me tell you about Stormtroopers...

>>78358102
That would've been pretty cool.

>>78358193
That they're supposed crack elite of the Imperial military and they're working with the personal agent of their supreme overlord, chasing down information that could drastically change the shift of power in the galaxy?

I mean, he even had his Shiny Pidgey to oversee and back him up. Maybe that's the day they don't pick to take the class on a field trip?

>>78358102
He gave offhand advice on how to handle First Order equipment. He also showed a firm belief at Maz's that the First Order was unstoppable. Possibly just his knowledge of Starkiller Base but also potentially indicative that despite his wanting to leave them he still believes all their lines about how powerful and unstoppable they are. Basically that he still believes their propaganda about their strengths and power but still doesn't want anything to do with them.

Wasn't Finn in the 1% of the troopers?

Another thing that bothered me was the exclusive use of X-Wings, if you're going to bomb the place bring the Y wings

>>78358237
No, he was getting his ass handed to him by Trey-Tor

>>78358274
Anon, they are on a budget. Didn't you notice how the Resistance can only afford one hidden base?

>>78358274
>using Clone Wars vintage snubfighters against modern TIEs
Because the Y-wings were so effective on the Death Star run, right?

>>78358106

>this delusional eu fag

>>78358228
Obviously the First Order believes in throwing their rawer Stormtroopers into the deep end, sink or swim time. The very fact that you're hammering in about them sending in the "personal agent of their supreme overlord" makes your complaining about one rookie all the sillier. They weren't basing success on Finn. Blame Kylo Ren for noticing that a Stormtrooper was acting out of sorts and not intervening. Or Phasma for noticing the same thing later and also failing to act on it.

It wasn't the rookie part that was the problem, it was the way he turned against them and got caught up in events that lead to them losing their base. Most rookies who fuck up likely just end up in coffins, nobody plans for the rookie with a super awesome heroic destiny to whoop their asses.

>>78356640
>giant beam that uses the energy of the stars
>pretty much the fucking size of its core
>somehow doesn't destroy the atmosphere of the planet and kills everyone outside when used

>>78356886
He and his friends, quits this whole rebel/empire bullshit altogether and goes off on adventure at the very edge of the known galaxy.

That's why Luke is the only Jedi left after Yoda beefs it.

>>78358350
>somehow doesn't destroy the atmosphere of the planet and kills everyone outside when used
That would be a pretty bad design flaw if it did that. That's the kind of thing you'd think the engineers would have considered and oh wait I guess they did.

If you want to bitch at anything might as well join >>78357340 and while we're at it why not add them being able to see in the forest fight despite the sun having already been devoured and the fact that the sun was suddenly gone didn't cause horrific gravitational effects throughout the solar system and fuck up the ships and entire planet.

>>78358340
>The very fact that you're hammering in about them sending in the "personal agent of their supreme overlord" makes your complaining about one rookie all the sillier. They weren't basing success on Finn.

It was a stupid scene to reinforce the idea the First Order is bad and that Finn is unambiguously a good guy. There's a million different ways for him to meet Rey, but they chose this scene.

>>78358390
He didn't meet Rey then, he met her late while drinking from a trough and then tried to help her against bullies only to suddenly get bullied by her.

>>78358379
>baww stop bitching about things that don't make sense
Starkiller Base would've made better sense if it was just a bunch of Death Stars welded together to form a super Death Star.

>>78358424
>bawww stop bitching about me bitching
Well this will never end.

>>78358318
Yeah, because the parallels and reactions the characters have to her don't make it fucking obvious.

You'd have to be fucking blind to not see it, even without a cursory knowledge of the EU. Kylo Ren drops everything the moment he meets her and forgets all about the map. He clearly knows her, Han and Leia have an instant rapport with her, and she inherits the Millenium Falcon for reasons.

>>78357996
That bread looked delicious

>>78357988

Felt that it was less attraction as much as desperate to keep the only people who've treated him as a person. Remember he was willing to jump into a flaming tie wreck to pull Poe out as well instead of running away the moment he woke up.

I thought it was a stubble way of how dehumanizing First order training is, right down to having no names, and the deep fear that you're dead if you don't stop running if you leave.

>>78358029

Most former stormtroopers in EU were like that though, a sign of how well the indoctrination took was how easy it was dropped. Tycho, especially Kyle Katarn who you'd have to guess was a former imp officer. Only exceptions I can think of baron sontirr fel and Madine who still act like Imps.

>>78358782

*subtle. Fuck you autocorrect

>>78358004
Come on anon. The Endor forest scenes drag on forever, and Empire's troops being defeated by rocks, logs and ropes is fucking stupid and anticlimatic.

Anyone got that Kylo Ren 'I'm the nicest guy you'll meet, but I'm also a twisted fucking psychopath' image?

>>78358900
The action's in the throne room though.

>>78358920
The throne room scenes are good enough to basically redeem the second half of RotJ, but that doesn't mean the forest scenes aren't still terrible.

>>78358900
>>78358935
I liked them personally. Especially the speeder bike chase.

>>78358955
That one is alright. It's not all terrible. Just everything from the moment Leia meets Wicket.

>>78358981
Well, I liked it myself, though I agree they could have done some more shaking and flesh eating.

>>78357475
Then they call the character Jacen Solo and there's no big reveal because the fans have already read all the books

>>78358998
I just wish the Ewoks had been slightly more advanced. Their slapstick routine against the Empire is silly even for Star Wars.

I also didn't care for the whole C3PO thing.

>>78358935
I don't think they were.

The speeder chase alone was great and Han and Leia's scenes were fantastic. Especially this scene where their dialogue is a mirror of ESB.

https://youtu.be/bKEqHDIc4v0?t=15m5s

>>78359015
What, like when people already guessed that when they announced the cast?

>>78359025
Fair enough, personally I liked the C-3PO stuff, it's the one time he's dragged out from being butler and comic relief and suddenly has great power for a change.

>>78359063
Difference is that guesses aren't confirmation

>>78359076
Power at least over the other characters that is.

>>78359081
Just because I can't see bullshit doesn't mean I can't smell it.

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Best boy.

Best droid.

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Best bros.

So were people honestly surprised by Rey being the main character? I thought the trailers made it pretty obvious she was, but apparently I'm in the minority here.

>>78359240
No. But then again, I'm not an idiot.

>>78359240
I remember arguing with cucks on here a few weeks prior to the release about how Finns wasn't gonna be the main character and how he wouldn't be force sensitive (still to be disproven I guess). People just called me a racist, top kek.

>>78359185
Yeah but it could be cowshit, not bullshit since you didn't see a bull shit it out.

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Best fight.

Seriously, it was better than the Kylo/Rey fight. Why is that?

>>78359344
no force involved

>>78359344
>Why is that?
No force bullshit, no twirly bullshit, those sabers had some goddamn weight to them, and we had a decent explanation for the crossguard blades.

>>78359386
We had a decent explanation when we got the guide.

>>78359361
This, it was just some normal guy holding his own against a force user, instead of daughter and granddaughter of the forces Jesuses picking on her cousin who lucked out.

>>78359344
Finn was a better character that was against tall odds, but showed courage enough (making up for his past cowardice) to confront the evil he once served.

>>78359015
>>78359063
>>78359081
>>78359185
And you know what? Why does there even need to be a twist anyway? How is a character fighting and killing her own brother not compelling enough for anyone?

>>78359386
>those sabers had some goddamn weight to them

Which was the problem. Lightsabers shouldn't have that kind of weight. The hilt shouldn't be more than what, 6-8 pounds? And the blades are weightless.

>>78359486
so they're heavier than the average claymore?

>>78359386
Kylo Ren literally spins and twirls like he's wielding a greatsword, while Finn flails around as if there's no weight at all.

The only thing I can think of is that he's a showboating faggot who forgot THAT THE WORLD IS LITERALLY ENDING.

>>78359423
> How is a character fighting and killing her own brother not compelling enough for anyone?

Ask anyone who read Legacy of the Force.

The twins were shit characters anyway, Jacen in particular, so be glad the movie left them wallow in the ocean of stale piss that the rest of the EU was tossed into.

>>78359344
This fight was amazing for the disarming alone. I don't get why we've never seen this in any other lightsaber fight before.

>>78359486
The OT lightsabers were heavy too. You could argue that the ST fights are like a mix between OT and PT styles.

PT: fast and weightless
OT: slow and heavy
ST: fast and heavy

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Has anyone here read this? It's a short story and is two bucks on Kindle - I got it last night and read it in about 20 minutes. It's breddy gud, it's a horror story set in Maz Kanata's castle.

>>78359778
Are those the Minions?

>>78359214
Am I the only one who interpreted the droid's little torch as a middle finger?

>>78359871
Well now I look at it, I can see what you mean.

>>78357904
Isn't the weapons and technology part still canon technically? Everything is still the same.

>>78356582
You know...
>may need cybernetics to correct damage done to his back by Ben
>Phasma gonna be hunting him. Might catch him and brainwash him again
It's more likely than you may think...

>>78358036
>Han and Leia are unimportant side characters that don't do anything in the movie

Guess nobody deactivated the Death Star shields, then.

>>78359076
>it's the one time he's dragged out from being butler and comic relief and suddenly has great power for a change.
It's comic relief in a different way though.

>>78359666
Except they didn't. They took my cake and ate it in front of me.

>>78359344
I thought the entire fight as great though. On my second watch, I noticed how through the whole fight at the beginning before she does her Force thing, Rey is effectively trying to just stab and run away from Ren the entire time

>>78359939
Nobody important.

>>78359871
Redditfags do yes

>>78359956
In this one movie, I'm more interested in Ben than I ever was in Jacen

>>78359944
True, but I still find it refreshing to see him on top of everyone for a change, it switches the dynamic.

>>78359234
>That lip bite
Poe is going to tap that

>>78359999
Witnessed.

>>78359999
Nice digits

>>78359344
I liked it too, but for some reason i preferred the Rey/Kylo duel, it reminded me a lot of samurai movies for some reason

>>78357644
You don't go to /tv/ to discuss movies. Ever

>>78357642
>Hell, whenever she's not on screen, everyone is asking "Where's Rey?"
The reason for that joke is when people ask about the character whenever and at random times. The only times "Where's Rey" occurs are 1) involving Finn or 2) in a situation where they all could get killed like the Stormtroopers attack on Maz's castle

>>78357450
I was more under the impression that the first order was looking for the first jedi temple which is where the map led, and Luke was there guarding it.

>>78356232
They're both clearly based on Pre-Vader Anakin. I feel Kylo pulls it off better.

The main thing that sets Kylo apart from them is that he is gifted but unconfident instead of overconfident.

>>78360048
m8 pls, after TFA was released in America /tv/ became super comfy

>>78360113
>/tv/ became super comfy
Nope

>>78360085
Also, Kylo's a fuckup and knows he's a fuckup

>>78358060
Because Chewie is the copilot, and contrary to dismissal of him as a side character, he loved Han. As honorable as Wookies are, I could totally see him not wanting to claim Captain because that's Han's place. Not his. Did it bother you when He let Lando Captain instead of him at the end of Empire?

>>78360113
IMMEDIATLEY after

its a complete shitshow now

>>78359778
I read it. It was okay. Just like TFA.

>>78360085
It's also pretty interesting that Kylo is just at the beginning of his arc. He is the anti-Luke. Let's see how much he'll have changed in Episode VIII.

>>78359668
Yeah, because that's a trick that doesn't ACTUALLY WORK against trained swordsmen.

>>78359419
Finn was too quippy too jokey. I know they're probably terrified to be close to the prequels but he needed to be stiffer and less personable. He's so programmed since childhood to be a soldier he doesn't even have a name. He should have learned to loosen up and be jokey not crack wise off the bat

>>78359705
They were only 'heavy' in ANH, by ESB they were going as fast as they could (since if they overdid it, their prop blades broke really easily).

>>78359344
stop trying to turn this into a mary sue argument. Kylo takes on two scrappy opponents with a large wound and he suffers for it.

>>78360355
>I know they're probably terrified to be close to the prequels but he needed to be stiffer and less personable.
Are you trying to say the prequels weren't full of quips?

Do you already forget the Anakin and Obi Wan banter?

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Rotten Tomatoes score comparison

>>78360269
No, Chewie was on a commando mission with his best pal Han.
But now Han's dead, and I would think he would bequeath his favorite ship to his closest friend.

>>78360355
His personality was something I found interesting. In the TFA novelization there's a bit where he just goes up to a stormtrooper and is all like 'hey bro when you off duty' and the guy responds chilly before realizing how off he is.

Can you imagine how off-duty FO troopers must be? TR8-R was probably a megabro.

>>78360382
I'm a prequelfag but lets be honest they weren't very good quips

>>78360355
> He's so programmed since childhood to be a soldier he doesn't even have a name. He should have learned to loosen up and be jokey not crack wise off the bat

I think the implication is his programming never worked. There's bound to be mistakes and errors in any process.

>>78360355
>Prequels
>Not being quipy and jokey
Brah

>>78360364
ROTJ had weight during the Luke/Vader fight though

>>78360355
he was just like Han in ANH: like 2 lines that werent hammy/a joke

he was great, a lying turncoat coward who mans up

>>78360411
I dunno, Obi-Wan at least always had good ones

>Anakin: We came to rescue you, Master.
>Obi-Wan: (Chained to a pole about to get attacked by giant animals) Good job.

>>78360384
That's an exact perfect ranking of how I would stack up the Star Wars movies too

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>>78360384
>Attack of the Clones: 66%

critics confirmed for tards

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This twitter account is too real

>>78359234
I seriously expected some fierce making out.

>>78360452
I hate people.
There is no redemption for the human race.

>>78360452
That's just great, I hope the inevitable Robot Chicken Special has him talking like Darth Vader.
>I'm bringing it back!

>>78360471
I can see you know how to write for it!

>>78360390
If Han were just another associate, sure. There is emotional investment in their relationship though. Personally, I thought it was sad as fuck when he had to jump in the Captains seat to pick up Rey and Finn, but it is totally organic for Chewie to need time to grieve in my book. Besides, just because he isn't in the Captain's seat doesn't mean he isn't respected as the unofficial authority on the Falcon. Chewie probably knows that cockpit inside and out, and most likely could pilot it from either seat. That doesn't change the fact that the copilot seat is where he is most comfortable. Besides, he can bark orders to Rey from the co pilot seat just as easily as as could from the pilot seat, so who is to say that just by being the senior onboard he doesn't make the copilot seat the captain seat. You're free to be bothered by things in general. That's just REALLY nitpicky in my book.

>>78355965
6>5=7>4>3>1>2

>>78360416
Not really. The footwork wasn't particularly fancy but the swinging was fast.

>>78360433
That was the exception, not the rule though. Most of the "humor" feels just awkward and cringey, especially the elevator scenes.

Anyone else think that the alien reggae band didn't work?

>hipsters putting RotS over ROTJ or TFA to seem sophisticated

>>78360517
I liked the throat singing though.

>>78360520
If someone wants to think the OT as a whole is better than TFA, I wouldn't mind letting them. I think ROTJ and TFA are about equal myself.

However just because ROTS is the least bad prequel doesn't really make it good or likable at all.

jabbas song > first cantina > takodana > second cantina > yub nub

i only know yub nubs name

>>78360517
I disagree. It dwasn't as memorable as the Mos Eisley band, but the universe would seem smaller if they'd play the same music in every cantina in the galaxy.

>>78360520
what you gonna do about it, huh?
5=4>7>3>6>1>2

>>78360572
>jabbas song
You're not talking about Jedi Rocks are you? Because we're going to have to fight

>>78360517
loved it, but that scene was way too fast for me, needed more star wars inmersion

>>78360579
My problem was that it was very clearly a reggae band.

>>78360599
no, the og one

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>>78359234
>yfw you remember the anon who said Poe telling Finn to keep his jacket is like Chad giving his letterman jacket to his gf

>>78360572
you forgot this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpecPKuUYnE

>>78360636
Wow, it really is a 50s diner.

It sounds like a Genesis track.