trimboNZ said:
Do you think we’re likely to see more weaponized hyperdrives in canon now?
A great concept . . . that unfortunately seems out of place in the SW universe. If such a thing can be done, why don’t warships have hyperdrive missiles?
oojason said:
‘Finn vs. Phasma presented by VIZIO | Star Wars: The Last Jedi’… (and the set too)
I like Phasma; she’s been woefully underutilized. Too bad she’s getting the heave-ho in my reedit, cuz l’m ditching the entire Star Destroyer infiltration subplot.
Possessed said:
Yeah I don’t think it was too subtle for our puny little brains to handle or anything like that, it was just in bad taste.
Never meant to imply anyone’s brains here are “puny” - in fact, they’re the opposite. (Believe me, I don’t spend time on forums where the discussion lacks intelligence.) I just think my original intent was obscured by a poor use of satire, and if someone else had done it, I likely wouldn’t have taken it positively, either.
To All Here:
I formally apologize for my ill-conceived joke - and thank-you to the moderators for unbanning me. The idea was to illustrate how some Interwebber could take even SilverWook’s own words and, due to the stupidity of taking those words out of context, use them to launch such a rumor. I figured you guys would pick up on my facetiousness, but it was an overly subtle miscommunication that obviously backfired. Again, I apologize.
Thank you.
SilverWook said:
. . . . I fully expect RJ to be accused of indirectly causing Carrie Fisher’s death if this keeps up. 😕Holy crap, do you suppose it’s possible that he did???
If that’s a joke, I’m not laughing.
hk47awesome said:
I do think they missed an opportunity at showcasing a new dynamic. . . . I would have much preferred the new dynamic of the New Republic battling a small faction known as the First Order that still believes in the ideals of the Empire. . . . Technically, in canon, it’s been thirty some odd years but TFA is literally the first film after ROTJ, in the main saga, and so the fact that we go from “we did it!” to “welp, it was nice while it lasted” just like that is disappointing.
And:
LordPlagueis said:
The lack of political context irked me at first. Eventually, I realized the relationship between the Republic and the Resistance is at least roughly analogous to the relationship between the French Resistance and Free France in World War II.
You guys are circling the central point of the framing that I wish had been done with these sequels: an analogy with the rise of Hitler and the Nazis between WW1 and WW2.
I mean, good grief and bantha poodu, the parallels that could be drawn throughout a sequel trilogy!!!
I’m also considering a new TFA-TLJ amalgamated crawl that actually sketches these parallels, with the opening scene on Jakku being all about an Imperial hunt for Force-users.
In response to the barely believable suggestion that the Millennium Falcon is . . . {taking a deep breath} . . . “ugly”:
SilverWook said:
. . . . I fully expect RJ to be accused of indirectly causing Carrie Fisher’s death if this keeps up. 😕
Holy crap, do you suppose it’s possible that he did???
Valheru_84 said:
. . . I don’t view Lucas in a such a harsh light anymore as I come to understand him
I’m on the same page. I more feel sorry for the guy, actually. I mean, he did make some terrible moves with the PT, but it occurs to me that the bones of a good story are there, if only the scripts had been tweaked a bit, a couple different casting choices, and most importantly a different director(s).
Valheru_84 said:
You have to ask yourself - why would Mark actually be happy about killing of the past, his past and a character he has been the active custodian of for 40 years and had to think of it as “Jake Skywalker” in order to play the part?
Um, this just popped into my head: what if a radical TLJ reedit had “Luke” actually be Luke’s previously unknown twin brother? Such a thing could easily explain his hiding-out and reluctance to train anyone. I know at first blush it sounds crazy, but . . . .
darthrush said:
If you have a music only track doesn’t that mean you can do an inversion method to eliminate all music in the channels? I thought I heard something about that a while back.
I’ve been lately seeing a number of Youtube vids in which people have stripped various film scenes of their music. I haven’t a clue how they did it.
To give them an identity. ^And ^cuz ^it’s ^ugly.
Only one response is appropriate:
http://larkable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ford-not-in-Star-Wars-Episode-7-cast.jpg
(I don’t know how to put up pix here.)
DominicCobb said:
What you think I’m saying is not what I’m saying at all.
Or, you could have said, “This is not going to go the way you think.”
rodneyfaile said:
Last Jedi blu ray purchases will outnumber petition signers.
True, but for some of us purchasers - me included - it’ll be for the purpose of attempting to fix at least a portion of what Disney’s done wrong. 😃
DominicCobb said:
100k confirmed butthurt fanboys.
Hmm, I could be wrong, but are you (and some others) using the term fanboy correctly? Isn’t a fanboy someone who consumes whatever the producer of [insert product name here] produces, just because it bears that franchise name, regardless of quality? If that’s the case, then wouldn’t an actual fanboy be infatuated with every single SW film that’s been made . . . ?
suspiciouscoffee said:
I’m about to watch TLJ again because there’s a free screening here, and I can’t wait to see just how much it still owns. Later, nerds!
Free screening? Sure, it’s worth free, I suppose.
Dat_SW_Guy said:
Just now they leaked The Last Jedi’s Blu-Ray on torrent sites. Just like how they leaked TFA in advance. So, what now?
Why would that alter your own course of action?
lovelikewinter said:
I think the youtube critics are the same people who click on the “hot singles in your area” ads…
Or they’re just ordinary Star Wars fans who were very disappointed with TLJ (their numbers are legion), and love discussing/debating it, as well as the future of the franchise.
😒
Myself, I can’t figure out for the life of me why the writers and directors aren’t mining the wealth of ideas in the now-defunct EU. Even if it’s no longer canon, many of the concepts were fantastic and deserve to be used in film.
😞
But . . . but . . . why would you want to exorcise the MF from these films???
NeverarGreat said:
The Falcon is stitched into the ST’s DNA. No amount of rotoscoping can change that, since almost every scene with the Falcon relies on it being that particular vessel of nostalgia.
The Falcon should be in almost every scene, as far as I’m concerned. 😊
DominicCobb said:
A video from a channel called “Geeks and Gamers” is not terribly inviting (which is to say nothing about the video’s title).
Not sure of the relevance. The guy has some good commentary on TLJ and the current state of affairs at Lucasfilm.
oojason said:
Couldn’t make it past 25 seconds mate
😮
Why not?
ChainsawAsh said:
it’s very well done, but it’s not perfect and there are some obvious awkward moments. (Still better and more seamless than the cantina in ANH:R:SD, though.)
More awkward than a Muppet’s mouth not matching the character’s words? 😉
Really enjoying this guy’s rants lately:
Geeks and Gamers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSWaeCipSBE
{Shrug} Well, to each their own. Me, all I’m after is visual believability. Muppet-mouth ain’t it. (Mind you, Yoda became a bore soon after Luke found out who he is.)
Sir Ridley said:
The puppet is pretty great otherwise, but the mouth is so important for his appearance. It looks like he lost his teeth.
Hence my argument that a muppet should be used for Yoda, but with CGI mouth movements. In fact, I see no reason the same approach couldn’t be taken with a host of characters that are either animatronics or actors with prosthetics. The Nemoidians are examples of the latter, and while they were lame characters anyway, because of the writing, at the very least they would have looked better if their mouths had been animated.