Hal 9000

Bahaha! The worst is the one that dismounts a dewback right before we first meet Han.

Maz Kanata versus Salacious Crumb

Oh, please.

The original reviewers weren’t seeing the films after seeing the prequels, either. The prequel reviews had the halo effect in their favor.

The sooner we are able to ban IPs, the better.

What’s even being said here? That, in-universe, the OT era saw censorship and hushing of knowledge? Or that the era seems dumb to you as a viewer?

The “dark times” pushed free thought underground, and burned space books about the Jedi.
But it is the backdrop of one of the greatest set of films ever made.

Also, whether you mean to or not, and you probably do, you come across as baiting.

EDIT: This was the first thread I opened today. Yeah, you know what you’re doing.

Lord Haseo said:

if they have taken fan feedback into consideration

Hopefully not.

What, and do a butt ton of rotoscoping on ANH, ESB, TFA, and in perpetuity?

You can always carve out time to sit in front of a screen editing Star Wars for several hours.

Quick idea: After Rey rescues BB8 from the not-Jawa, change her line from, “He wants you for parts,” to, “He wants you for pot.”

Unrelated: If we are talking about the novelizations as books without respect to anything else, just them in isolation, I’d say ROTS was far better than TFA.
I like the broad story, but the whole PT was brought about with compounding bad decisions.

For me, my edits are the definitive PT. And the novelizations are sort of an expanded version, so I can still have all the extra and different stuff to consider, as a separate incarnation of the story. Sort of like the book vs. movie if relationship of the Space Odyssey series.

I think what some are getting at is that Luke as a macguffin feels tacked on compared to something like Spock in The Search For Spock. We get the map to get the ball rolling, but SKB takes over the show as the new macguffin halfway through the movie without being set up beforehand. It came across to me as somewhat arbitrary, and didn’t feel like an organic part of the story.
Not sure whether introducing it earlier would help, or tying it more closely into the Luke thread.
SKB is the thing that stuck in my craw the longest coming out of TFA.
Then again, I remember that the Search For Spock also had a tacked on, rehashed doomsday device, didn’t it.

Fascinating.

dahmage said:

Hal 9000 said:

Is it bad that the perceived racism enhances my enjoyment of TPM? I make a drinking game out of it.

not at all.

Oh, thank the heavens.

It’s too bad they apparently felt they couldn’t borrow the Sun Crusher wholesale from the old EU when making TFA, or we’d have been in for a more straightforward and less utterly implausible transhyperspace doomsday device.

Is it bad that the perceived racism enhances my enjoyment of TPM? I make a drinking game out of it.

Any story changes you have in mind?

SilverWook said:

I guess no one here went to the marathon leading up to TFA last December to see which versions were being run?

I did not want the last thing I saw before TFA to be Hayden’s ghost. I can endure sitting through the '97 SE if I have no other choice.

I’ve been told I have a Talmudic knowledge of Star Wars.

If anyone going to the Kansas City show wants to do a meet up at the event, let me know.
I’ll think about going, but I’m not sure.

If it won’t work to leave the “reveal” of Han being Kylo Ren’s father until the bridge scene, why not just simply remove Snoke’s relevatory line early in the film? There are plenty of clues throughout that we will understand, without the abrupt drop. Han says to Leia that he saw their son, etc.

Boss Nass is more offensive anyhow, am I right?

That would be too sensible. It really is supposed to be his real name.

Lord Haseo said:

Well technically she could have gone back to Jakku after everything but chooses to go to Luke to start her training. Also in STAR WARS Luke was pretty much forced to take his voyage after his Aunt and Uncle were killed seeing as how there was nothing for him.

And sarcasm is hard to gauge in 2016 m8. I just assume everyone is serious now.

She went to Ireland to find Luke after the moment where she accepted her call. Luke also refused his call in Ben’s hut, and was reluctant until his family was killed. They share the refusal and reluctant acceptance of the call.
Sarcasm around here can be tough, just felt the need to clarify.

I think he was clearly being sarcastic. I think his point was that she was thrust into the situation against her will, and that moment (sarcastically) might as well have been the saber pushing her forward yet again.
Seriously, though, that’s supposed to be the moment she accepts her calling. Prior to that she refused the call by wanting to stay on Jakku and fleeing Maz’s castle.

JEDIT: Maybe, just maybe, someday my phone will let me post without horrible typos of spelling or grammar. I’d kill for Tapatalk integration.

“You underestimate my STUPIDNESS.”

I think the lava duel is great. I was expecting the final lines to include, “There is something I should tell you…” backflips away “I have the high ground.”