Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD * — Page 20

Not trying to be bitchy but the countdown clock might as well point to Episode VIII. Rogue One will be with us more quickly than it seems and it would save Jay time.

If this particular set of new rumours pan out for the next instalment…then I have a bad feeling about this… (and note: there actually IS a ‘dead’ tree pictured in one of the new sets…)

Potential BIG SPOILERS ahoy, if true…so you have been warned -

www.aintitcool.com/node/75484

and also here - www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/star_wars/rumour-new-leaked-plot-details-for-star-wars-episode-viii-a142676

^ I’m not clicking on that but is there anything to these rumors? If they’re big enough I probably will read/hear about them in the next year so I want to know if there is any validity to them.

Lord Haseo said:

^ I’m not clicking on that but is there anything to these rumors? If they’re big enough I probably will read/hear about them in the next year so I want to know if there is any validity to them.

At the moment they’re just ‘rumours’. I kinda hope they stay that way and don’t become ‘facts’.

ImperialFighter said:

Lord Haseo said:

^ I’m not clicking on that but is there anything to these rumors? If they’re big enough I probably will read/hear about them in the next year so I want to know if there is any validity to them.

At the moment they’re just ‘rumours’. I kinda hope they stay that way and don’t become ‘facts’.

That bad huh?

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Without reading the article and reading just your initial post I don’t see anything wrong with a “Force Tree” the Force Surrounds everything and it would make sense that something like a tree would be surrounded with Force Energy more than other places. The idea reminds me of the cave on Degobah.

Well, Force trees are already canon. In one of the comics, Luke and Shara Bey had a mission to recover two twigs from a force tree in Coruscant that was destroyed during Palpatine’s remodelling ventures.

It’s canon that Luke kept one of those twigs, as well, so a force tree isn’t out of the question. That said, I wouldn’t expect them to do a Chosen one arc again.

flametitan said:
It’s canon that Luke kept one of those twigs, as well, so a force tree isn’t out of the question. That said, I wouldn’t expect them to do a Chosen one arc again.

Now I know at that portion of the rumor is false. There is absolutely, positively, no fucking way they’re doing that. Not when they have a far better way to account for Rey’s abilities in TFA.

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Smithers said:

I read many TFA rumours and watched many TFA Spoiler videos that fed me bullshit that I don’t believe any of this. It’s just click bait crap. Take this video for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xul_XYOZXyo

But that’s jut one example, I’ve read articles about how Luke went into exile because he felt too evil/powerful. It’s all bullshit, all of this will go away eventually but for now we have to deal with it.

As if I didn’t have another good reasons to avoid these videos until after the films are released…now I can go back and see how hilariously offbase the fanfictions were.

Those rumours read too much like bad fanfiction to be true.

*cue polemics of TFA being like bad fanfiction*

I don’t hate this force tree rumor, I would [obviously] just want it to be executed well. We don’t need Yoda explaining the events of the prequel trilogy to us. Rey doesn’t need to know that stuff. Keep the mythology of the force tree, that’s somewhat enriching to the mythology of the universe, but move on the previous films (prequels and originals, alike). The audience doesn’t need that stuff repeated to them, and the plot shouldn’t rely on having previous films explained to the new characters. Just my 2 cents.

Having now read the article I can say that shit sound so corny. If they’re going to go about explaining the origins of Dark Side and Light Side users they might as well use what was established in the EU.

I wouldn’t mind giving Hayden a chance to redeem himself after AOTC and ROTS. The only real problem with having him in would be that it most likely won’t feel organic. The only way it wouldn’t feel shoehorned in (for me) is if they have Anakin appear to Luke and Rey in the First Jedi Temple. Being a Light Side nexus it would make sense that Jedi could transcend the physical plane and interact with people far after their deaths.

My litmus test for rumors like this is whether or not they contain anything that couldn’t be arrived at with the info we already have. We’ve seen the tree, we’ve heard certain casting rumors that tie in with this, and the rest is just fanfic with those things as a jumping off point.

On Friday I’m leaving for a ten-day trip to Ireland with my Mom, Sister and Aunt. We’re going to be staying near several of the filming locations for Episode VIII, although I was quite disappointed to discover that the boat trips over to Skellig Michael are all booked up until the end of August (and this was a month ago). I guess that’s what happens when the highest grossing movie of all time that just came out six months ago and is also a Star Wars movie ends with a scene shot there. Oh well, visiting the Episode VIII locations a whole year-and-a-half before it hits theaters will feel less tourist-ey.

Dingle, where they recreated Skellig Michael, is on our itinerary, as is Cork where they wrapped in Ireland. I’m gonna try to save all of the spy photos of the set constructions on my phone so I can find the exact spots.

The one place I probably won’t get to visit is Donegal as it’s all the way up at the northern most point of the island and nowhere near where we’ll be staying.