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Post #895330

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Delicieuxz
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The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
9-Jan-2016, 8:13 PM

TV’s Frink said:

Delicieuxz said:

TavorX said:

I may not agree with most of your points, I found it interesting that you recognize it as a homage. I’ve seen/read comments of TFA being a homage is a good thing rather than a bad thing. I’m just saying I’m surprised you didn’t call it a ripoff or a ANH clone.

When people say homage as a good thing, they might mean the tones, the dialog, the visual designs… and in those things, creating a continuity with the original trilogy is a great thing.

But the homage which I think makes TFA an inequal SW film is so many of its setups, like Han and Chewie still being smugglers

Not still, but again. Han went back to “what he knew” when things fell apart.

a force-wielding villain who wears a voice-shifting mask and black suit

He idolizes Vader. Makes perfect sense.

It makes sense in that a weak, and I would say lame write-off explanation was given to accomplish the film maker’s desire of having specifically a new Vader in the film.

What happened to the character at the end of TFA wasn’t shown, and it may be that he’ll be all mechanized in the next film, just like Vader.