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joefavs said:

bromeo said:

Two questions:

1. The lava planet where Vader’s castle resides… did it say Mustafar at any point?

2. Any idea who Vader’s hooded receptionist was? Someone from the EU?

1.) It didn’t say so in the movie, but I believe it’s confirmed in one of the reference books that came out with the movie. The visual dictionary and/or The Art of Rogue One, I think.

2.) I think he’s supposed to be one of the Emperor’s buddies with the goofy hats from ROTJ.

Well, it’s almost certainly the planet where Vader and Kenobi dueled. In current SW canon, that’s Mustafar. In other SW universes, however…

bromeo said:

Two questions:

1. The lava planet where Vader’s castle resides… did it say Mustafar at any point?

2. Any idea who Vader’s hooded receptionist was? Someone from the EU?

1. No.

2. No idea. Interesting question!

I thought it was obvious.

Well, it’s more than a nod. The film was made to be compliant with multiple SW canons, after all.

At least, if you don’t care about little things like the hair or eye color of recast roles.

Alderaan said:

Tarkin was completely unnecessary and a real blemish on the film. Leia could have been done with a hologram, but honestly I didn’t mind her at all.

So completely unnecessary, in fact, that they inserted a CGI Peter Cushing Tarkin over Guy Henry playing Tarkin on set. They did simply recast the role – and then decided the film needed a blemish or two.

I’d rather you didn’t, they might give me gout.

Thanks for the pointer to the sizzle reel. Around 1:06 in it you can see Guy Henry on set as Tarkin - in full costume, no less:

He’s the dark-haired guy, second to the right, in the large group of officers milling about at left.

Are you sure that dark shadow’s not just the outer edge of the door or something?

Personally, I’m much more interested in the weird cloth-looking … thing … on the left. Though that might also be the outer edge of the door. Or something.

So as far as the CGI Tarkin and Leia go – the Rogue One team actually did recast those roles, and not with nobodies: they had English stage actor Guy Henry as Tarkin and Norwegian actress Ingvild Deila (seen in Avengers 2) as Leia. It’s just they then poured CGI all over them to resemble Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher circa 1976.

I’m certain an alternate cut of Rogue One exists which uses the original performances by these actors. It’s just currently in the Disney vault, along with the R-rated animated Willow trilogy and other things hidden in the time capsule created by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

“Did you ever hear of The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? … It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend.”
– Palpatine, Revenge of the Sith

What if the breath that kindl’d those grim fires
Awak’d should blow them into sevenfold rage
And plunge us in the flames? or from above
Should intermitted vengeance arm again
His red right hand to plague us?
– Milton, Paradise Lost, II.170-174

“From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!”
– Anakin Skywalker, Revenge of the Sith

Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least
Divided Empire with Heaven’s King I hold
By thee, and more then half perhaps will reign.
– Milton, Paradise Lost, IV.110-112

If only GL could write dialogue anywhere near as impressive as Milton’s. Or even hired someone who could.

Why is the X-Wing transparent?

JawsTDS said:

DominicCobb said:

JawsTDS said:
And to top it off, it was missing the hallmark wipes / dissolves from the original saga.

This is, however, untrue.

I should’ve clarified. There are wipes / dissolves, but they’re of a much different type (i.e smoke dissolve from Finalizer to Jakku). It’s nice to see a new twist on that aspect, but you know… fans are never happy.

Personally, I thought the wipes in TFA were much less distracting than the PowerPoint slide transitions in ROTS.

I think modern movies in general make too many rapid cuts in quick succession, rather than letting the camera stay in one place or move around as needed. Quick cuts from shot to shot seem to have become a crutch to hold audiences’ attention in place of good writing or acting.

Star Wars: Episode IX: Forcey Forces of Forciness

I’d say Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but this is a SW forum.

What’s LoE, precious?

In honor of Orson Welles, I humbly suggest renaming the Gonk droid the “Bang From Outside” droid.

^ A well-rendered likeness of Chewbacca’s long lost brother, Wolfgang Sebastian Chewbach.

I’m surprised that one of the various SEs hasn’t changed it so Luke wears his poncho more often on Tatooine. And while we’re at it, why not get rid of that awful jacket he wears during the medal ceremony?

ZkinandBonez said:

Tobar said:

I feel I can’t allow this thread to continue until it’s been pointed out that The Star Wars Holiday Special originally aired around Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your time. This thread may now continue as scheduled.

Huh, really? I always assumed it was a Christmas TV special. People generally treat it as one anyway.

You see, once upon a time, Thanksgiving was treated as an actual holiday by the American mass media. Now it’s just “that time between Halloween and Christmas.”

SilverWook said:

Not the first time someone has asked George embarrassing questions about Wookiee anatomy. Of course, George opened that can of worms describing Wookiee females as having multiple breasts. 😉

In this regard GL was just cribbing from John Schoenherr.

SilverWook said:

And I can’t see Kylo hiring Magic Stick Man in the first place. 😉

You mean Cheroot, the super high stoner “spiritual warrior”?

flametitan said:

For designs I grew to like, I must say the cross-guard sabre seemed dangerously impractical at first, but I grew to enjoy it more after they actually made use of the fact that it can hurt, and that people who actually study longsword pointed out that with proper technique, the odds of hitting yourself with the crossguard is practically nill.

Agreed. It works surprisingly well as a saber design.

ZkinandBonez said:

I’d say that the lightwhip was one of the weirdest and most impractical lightsaber designs that ever existed in any canon (if it even counts).

I could see something like that making more sense if it behaved somewhat different physically from a lightsaber, ie, a plasma-whip which deals immense damage but doesn’t cut through metal like butter.

Years before, Ja-Ja had been brought to Bonny as a humble Ibo slave. He was tall and handsome and proved a genius at trading. After most of the slaves were liberated, he led one faction of them in a revolt against George Pepple, the King of Bonny. He was beaten by the leader of a rival faction of ex- slaves and fled with his people to the safety of a neighbouring creek, Opobo. He was finished — so it appeared. Within a few years he emerged as the king of the biggest black trading empire on the coast. He sold 8,000 tons of palm oil a year to the white traders at Opobo and he imposed a ruthless monopoly on the black producers in the oil-palm forest inland. Anyone attempting to touch this monopoly, black or white, ended with their canoes smashed and their bodies floating in the creek.

– Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa, 1990, p. 192

We know that Jar Jar crashed at least one of Boss Nass’s canoes, excuse me, “heyblibbers”. And as Darths & Droids tells us, he’s also a genius.