Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD * — Page 48

Lord Haseo said:

Alderaan said:
The nonsense with him and Leia and their “son” was just a waste of time.

I’m going to regret asking this but why did you put quotes around the word “son”?

He’s only their son because they said so. Otherwise, there is no history between them. The writing was lazy and there is so much **** going on, so much meaningless **** crammed into the movie, that no relationships were formed. We were just told things, like hey, this bad kid is their son. And hey, Finn and Poe are supposed to be friends. What, they didn’t really spend time together in the movie? Well that’s ok, we’ll just go back and edit in a shot of Poe from his X-wing, blasting a bad guy who was threatening Finn, and then have Finn look up at the sky and thank him, as if the two can see each other, so you’ll more readily make the connection and believe these two guys are pals.

The whole movie was filled with junk like that. Lazy writing. No real time or energy devoted to properly establish or progress relationships, except maybe for Rey/Han and Rey/Finn. Hell, even Leia didn’t have time to mourn with Chewie, because so much **** was crammed into the movie. I mean, we just had to have all those scenes with Captain Phasma, right?

Here we go again.

Tlj spoiler… It’s going to be another terrible film.

Have you seen it? If not then get that shit the fuck out of my face man.

Lord Haseo said:

Have you seen it? If not then get that shit the fuck out of my face man.

I’ve seen what has lead into it…that is enough to predict the inevitability of what will occur. Man…

IP55 said:

Lord Haseo said:

Have you seen it? If not then get that shit the fuck out of my face man.

I’ve seen what has lead into it…that is enough to predict the inevitability of what will occur. Man…

If you think the film is going to suck that’s fine but you’re saying it’s going to suck as if it’s an absolute certainty and that’s a different matter.

IP55 said:

Tlj spoiler… It’s going to be another terrible film.

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TV’s Frink said:

IP55 said:

Tlj spoiler… It’s going to be another terrible film.

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oojason said:

Disney chief addresses Carrie Fisher’s death as it pertains to ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’:-

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/disney-ceo-bob-iger-teases-15-years-star/story?id=46333671

Good. No idea what they’ll do for IX, but I’m glad that VIII will be intact.

Tobar said:

The Carrie stuff is non-news. We’ve known she finished all of her shooting for VIII before she passed.

Now that bit about the Han Solo movie…very interesting.

There were concerns that VIII could be modified to deal with her absence in IX. Though we’ve known that they won’t CGI her for some time now, it was not clear if the plot would be modified, or if scenes from VIII could get moved to IX. It’s not non-news.

Maybe the character was always supposed to die in VIII anyway. That would really be ideal.

joefavs said:

Maybe the character was always supposed to die in VIII anyway. That would really be ideal.

Yep. I think it was confirmed she would be in IX prior to Carrie’s death but no one knows exactly how she could be used.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/last-jedi-to-include-gorilla-walkers/

Bigger walkers, and First Order having the upper hand confirmed!

So now (finally, unless this rumor isn’t true, which probably is) there’s no more ground to say that the ST won’t replicate or mimic (if you find the word too bold) the political background of the OT.

So the nazis that fled to Argentina as a fringe group, somehow managed to gather resources they didn’t even have in Germany…

Mithrandir said:

Bigger walkers, and First Order having the upper hand confirmed!

So now (finally, unless this rumor isn’t true, which probably is) there’s no more ground to say that the ST won’t replicate or mimic (if you find the word too bold) the political background of the OT.

So the nazis that fled to Argentina as a fringe group, somehow managed to gather resources they didn’t even have in Germany…

Yeah, if this is true, I’m not digging it. I already thought the First Order was too much like the Empire when realistically it should be a shell of it’s former self. The word’s become a bit of a meme around here, but I really hope this isn’t a ESB “rehash.”

Who knows, though. Maybe I’ve gotten the wrong impression, and Rian Johnson pulls off something great. I think he could do it.

Jeebus said:

Mithrandir said:

Bigger walkers, and First Order having the upper hand confirmed!

So now (finally, unless this rumor isn’t true, which probably is) there’s no more ground to say that the ST won’t replicate or mimic (if you find the word too bold) the political background of the OT.

So the nazis that fled to Argentina as a fringe group, somehow managed to gather resources they didn’t even have in Germany…

Yeah, if this is true, I’m not digging it. I already thought the First Order was too much like the Empire when realistically it should be a shell of it’s former self.

Not with the right funding they shouldn’t. The First Order is actively trying to succeed where The Empire failed so it makes sense they would upgrade certain things. The problem is that there was already an AT-AT thing in TFA so I don’t really like it on that basis. I would prefer some completely new technological monstrosity.

The problem is that it’s so vague and undefined. Whole systems could be funding them for all we know but it’s brushed without explanation. Who is doing what, and how, needs to be fleshed out.

Lord Haseo said:

Jeebus said:

Mithrandir said:

Bigger walkers, and First Order having the upper hand confirmed!

So now (finally, unless this rumor isn’t true, which probably is) there’s no more ground to say that the ST won’t replicate or mimic (if you find the word too bold) the political background of the OT.

So the nazis that fled to Argentina as a fringe group, somehow managed to gather resources they didn’t even have in Germany…

Yeah, if this is true, I’m not digging it. I already thought the First Order was too much like the Empire when realistically it should be a shell of it’s former self.

Not with the right funding they shouldn’t.

Perhaps. But why would they waste those funds on making the Stormtrooper armor more visually pleasing to look at, why waste it on another Death Star when the first two didn’t work? I feel like that’s just an excuse for the First Order being aesthetically lazy. And it’s not that I’m against in-universe excuses for out-of-universe problems, but the excuses can only go so far.