There’s an exchange in the actual film after they escape that’s something like:
Finn: “How did you do that?!”
Rey: “I don’t know! I’ve flown a few ships in atmosphere before, but I’ve never left the planet!”I’m sure that’s not close to verbatim but it’s definitely the gist. It’s a line I couldn’t make out until my second or third viewing because Rey and Finn are talking at the same time very fast. I took the “few ships” she refers to to mean other junkers Unkar Plutt owns, doing odd jobs for extra rations. She says the Falcon hasn’t flown in years, but I’m sure Plutt had other freighters of similar classes. I’m seeing it again on Saturday with my family, I’ll try to remember it word for word.
Considering this forum is called original trilogy, I think a rebrand is needed as most folk in here consistently defend non-original trilogy films Tfa is just another bad spin off…my second viewing really brought this home… #originaltrilogyand anyoldshitewithstarwarsinthetitle.com
You’re assuming an awful lot of authority about the state of the forum for someone who registered less than a month ago.
I joined thinking this forum was dedicated to fans of ‘just’ the original trilogy? It seems that I was very, very wrong. Loads of TFA blinkers on in here, must have seen a different film to me as it’s just as bad as the prequels if not worse as it’s not even had the involvement of the ORIGINAL creator. On reflection TPM is a better film as it had a better score and was paced better and that says a lot.
Nope. The forum was founded by fans petitioning for Lucasfilm to release the original, unaltered, theatrical versions of the original trilogy at a time when only the Special Editions were available. Lucasfilm eventually conceded, but only by including low quality, non-anamorphic laserdisc rips as DVD extras.
Fan projects like Harmy’s Despecialized Editions have rendered the petition unnecessary these days, but the community lives on.
And even if the forum HAD been created by people who ONLY like the original trilogy, it was created before TFA was even written, so deciding not to like it before we’d even seen it would be kinda dumb 😃