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J.J. Abrams was apparently FLOORED by how good the Episode VIII script is: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ding-the-star-wars-chair-before-episode-viii/
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Well I hope it's good.
I just wonder in what direction they're going to develop it. In terms of plot development in VII everything seems so front-loaded so it feels like the story has already passed the TESB mark and VIII would be like the ROTJ of the trilogy.
Well I hope it's good.
I just wonder in what direction they're going to develop it. In terms of plot development in VII everything seems so front-loaded so it feels like the story has already passed the TESB mark and VIII would be like the ROTJ of the trilogy.
So anyone actually watched Rian Johson's movies ('Looper', 'Brother Bloom', 'Brick'?) I haven't. Any of them good?
Reckon he'll do justice to the next movie?
io9 said:Supreme Leader Snoke is a whacking great mystery throughout The Force Awakens. Who is he? Where did he come from? Is he a Sith? Is he really that big, or is he holocommunicating with some major compensation issues?
The novelization doesn’t answer all of those questions, but it gives some insight into Snoke by revealing that he’s been working behind the scenes for quite some time, even during the Original Trilogy. In one of their several hologram chit chats, Snoke reveals to Kylo Ren that he actually had apprentices before the fallen Solo. But Ben shows the most promise, because he didn’t begin his training as an adept of the Dark Side, but was corrupted and fell from the light, something Snoke hadn’t experienced before:
It is far more than that. It is where you are from. What you are made of. The Dark Side—and the Light. The finest sculptor cannot fashion a masterpiece from poor materials. He must have something pure, something strong, something unbreakable, with which to work.
Snoke then recalls to Kylo that he saw the Empire “rise, and then fall”, and even that he knew that Darth Vader was Luke’s father (which is probably something Luke didn’t go touting publicly after Endor). This is something that he may have learned while seducing Ben to the dark side, admittedly, but in the book it’s implied that it was something he already knew at the time, anyway. The book really emphasizes that Snoke was a major presence throughout the events of the previous films, though, more than the film did—and that he has a vested interest in the Skywalker family lineage.
I think it's mostly the sort of enigmatic badass role that he plays in capturing Han Solo, the "no disintegrations" warning that Vader gives him, and the fact that his armor is really cool that makes him as cool as he was – which is why the Prequel Trilogy giving him more backstory diminished that rather than improved upon it, because it explained away the mystery that gave his character a lot of its appeal.
Well I hope it's good.
I just wonder in what direction they're going to develop it. In terms of plot development in VII everything seems so front-loaded so it feels like the story has already passed the TESB mark and VIII would be like the ROTJ of the trilogy.
I'm curious what you mean by that. Care to elaborate in more spoilery detail?
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The only real "complaint" I have about Kylo Ren is that I find him completely non-threatening due to his reveal, but that's my bias as a fairly judgemental person on looks. I looked at him and thought "wow who is this spotty 17 year old with dodgy hair" and it wasn't until after the movie I kind of realised they were doing Anakin hair XD
A side note but...
You reckon Darth Plagueis might find a way to bring back Solo just to toy with Rey and Finn? We know that he has the power to bring people back form the dead.
A side note but...
You reckon Darth Plagueis might find a way to bring back Solo just to toy with Rey and Finn? We know that he has the power to bring people back form the dead.
He could prevent people from dying as well as create life, but not reanimation as far as I know.
Plus, being as Han got the Galaxy's most metal Viking funeral of all time, because his body plummeted into the abyss of a planetary base that collapsed into a new Star… I would say that that is an emphatic "no" and Han is really, properly dead.
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So, regarding Snoke.
There's apparently a theory that he might be Darth Plagueis?
The music from Episode III when Palpatine talks about him and Snoke's theme from Episode VII are very similar...
Holy Christ, I didn't think of that! Good going there, Tets, I'm beginning to lean towards that possibility. However, if that does turn out to be true, then...
how could he have possibly survived his death at the hands of Palpatine?
I'dthe scarring on his face, and that utterly enormous gash going down the center of his skull have something to do with how he managed to appear dead. i.e. he didn't ACTUALLY teach Palpatine everything he knew.
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- Two years ago or so, MovieBob predicted that Han Solo would be killed off in this new trilogy so I Always had that idea in the back of my mind. Add to that, facebook spoiled me about Han Solo's death a few days before I saw the movie, so when Han Solo did finally die I felt nothing. I still feel nothing. Perhaps if there had been flashbacks or something of tender father-son moments between Han Solo and Ben Solo would I have cared, but as it stands the drama was too rushed. The little I *do* feel is that I feel sorry for Chewbacca. Moreso than I feel sorry for Leia, because I picture that Chewbacca and Han Solo had a much longer history.
- I was worried that we wouldn't see Rey using a lightsaber in this or the later Movies. When the moment came and she held the lightsaber I thought "PLEASE DON'T COCKBLOCK THIS PLEASE DON'T COCKBLOCK THIS" and then when she activated the saber I was all "FUCK YEAH!!!!!!". It feels appropriate and refreshing to have a main female lead as the main Jedi or Jedi-to-be.