TFA Poster:
- No Luke
I feel that that was a good decision. Didn’t want to reveal a turning point of the movie.
It was common knowledge that the OT trio were reprising their roles. There was no reason to not have him on the cover
- Starkiller Base (not so much the visual but the reminder that Starkiller Base is actually in the film
Starkiller Base:
- The most overt rehash in TFA
I don’t really care about this.
In general I don’t care that TFA is a soft remake/reboot but at least a lot of the similarities it has with the OT are remixed or are made to be visual references. Starkiller Base to me seemed like a 3rd Death Star and that’s it.
EDIT:
ZkinandBonez said:
I more or less agree with everything except nr. 5. I’ve never understood why science should be that important. We are after all talking about a series that gave us this.
You have a point and funny thing is I don’t care about the Space Whales in Rebels. But Starkiller Base being able to do that would have been easier to swallow if it were in the OT or at least the stepping stones to such technology being in the OT
Frank also has a good point about the base on Starkiller being smaller than the actual “canon”. Also Starkiller is mostly just a planet with a few bases scattered on it, and a large trench housing the canon. All in all it has roughly the same amount of technology as the two Death Star’s had, only stretched out over a whole planet.
Also the abilities to move about the DS on foot, and Starkiller, is more or less a plot necessity, or at the very least a way to make the plot more “grounded” and interesting. Thrre’s plenty of Sci-fi ways of doing it, but it would have felt slow and boring, and not have had the dynamic action that SW is known for.
Makes sense. Also I remember there being elevators in Starkiller Base so that would make it easier to traverse.