Looks like he’s disabled all comments now.
Seems like quite a guy.
JEDTIT: And they’re back. Weird.
I had thought both times that this happens as the Falcon is in hyperspace, hence the blue streak across the sky. Granted that it’s a different planet, but I figured this was more JJ style fudging of time and space. And how would people in the galaxy even hear of Luke’s Crait actions unless the Resistance was broadcasting it Mr Universe style? I guess I just assumed they were playing out some imaginary scenario based on Luke’s legend, and not his real actions.
The full Last Jedi script is now online.
Huh, didn’t get that from two viewings. Guess I need a third?
The Radio Drama is so wonderfully earnest and cheesy (in a good way!), that I simply can’t find any fault in it at all.
I’m still torn between cutting the evacuation and leaving it in, but for the following idea all that would be gone.
Have the movie open with first couple of scenes with Rey and Luke on the island. Right after Luke says ‘It’s time for the Jedi to end’, cut to the kids on Canto Bight playing with their Luke doll, and the slave master ruining their fun. Cut before the magic broom. Perhaps have some shot establishing that they are caring for the animals, then begin the Canto Bight scenes as edited.
In this way, the Luke doll acts as the thematic visual link between the casino and the primary plot, and it more organically sets up the final shots of the movie.
Not my post, but - thoughts? https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/7nxyy0/spoilers_the_importance_of_poe_reys_interaction/?st=jc00bqeb&sh=1a8b0e07
I appreciate the idea behind this exchange, but it’s another instance where JJ dropped the ball in TFA. Poe is the one who rushes Finn from the Falcon while Rey watches, and they’re both standing in the group of people watching the map being reassembled. I assumed that they had met during these scenes. The meaningful encounter should have been with Rose.
Now you’ve made me put my fanfiction hat on.
So what if after the speeder run, Rose had said:
"This is how we win. Not by fighting what we hate…"
Then she loses consciousness.
Then during the final scene on the Falcon, she comes to and Finn rushes over to her, followed by Rey.
Finn: "Are you okay?"
Rose: "Of course."
Finn: "Oh, Rose, this is…"
Rey: "Rey."
Rose: "I know. You saved each other."
Finn and Rey exchange looks. Finn looks back to Rose.
Finn: "You were trying to tell me something, after the crash."
Rose: (waving away his prompt) "I thought I was dying."
Finn: (insistent) "You said that this was how we would win, not by fighting what we hate…"
Rose: (gazing at Finn) "…but by saving what we love."
She looks to Rey.
“You’re a lucky guy, Finn.”
Cutting through the misunderstanding, Finn kisses Rose with a moderate amount of passion.
Rey is extremely glad about it, and goes to hang out with Chewie and the Porgs.
I love what this has become.
Am I doing it right?
Kylo will become a sort of God King ruling over the galaxy who forcibly recruits and trains a vast number of Force Sensitive pupils to become the new Knights of Ren, and creates a new Senate to keep the peace. Rey must then defeat Kylo by turning these students against their teacher, where they oust him from power. The students are reunited with their families from across the galaxy where they become local guardians of peace and justice, while the new Senate becomes a democratic institution freed the influence of Sith tyrants or corrupt Jedi Orders.
Rey, following her dreams, becomes the lead chef of a popular galactic cooking show.
Finn writes a tell-all book about his time in the First Order, and is the principal of a school for deprogramming First Order soldiers.
Rose becomes a hard-hitting anti-corruption journalist and avid antique dealer.
Kylo and Hux run rival demolition and scrap metal companies which are both eventually bought out by Watto Inc.
Poe becomes a Holovid personality and talk show host as an expert on human-cyborg relations.
R2-D2 and C-3PO run a highly experimental and dangerous space-time travel agency which is shut down after Leia Organa disappears while visiting Alderaan circa 50 BBY.
BB-8 becomes a movie star and after a hundred years of fabulous stardom becomes president of the galaxy.
DrDre Said:
Luke was the Yin to his father’s Yang. In the OT his character was set up to have most if not all of his father’s flaws, but unlike his father he was to make the right choices. His destiny was to pass on what he had learned, to surpass his elders, to become a legend.
And he has. We don’t see the kids at the end of TLJ playing with an Obi-wan or Yoda doll, do we? And he certainly passed on the most important lessons he has learned. He has passed on the knowledge of what the Force truly is, divorced from its Jedi distortions, and he has passed on the knowledge of his failures, which is the theme of the film.
Photorealistic CGI faces are hard. Photorealistic CGI performances are ten times harder, even with really good motion capture. An example from Blade Runner 2049: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV34mT5m0bM
In the side-by-side comparisons, the digital double looks nigh indistinguishable from the original, but translating that into an entirely new performance leaves a lot to be desired. Look at the eyes - human eyes constantly shift and refocus in a dance of micromovements, and you can see the model shifting its eyes in a way that mimics how humans scan another human’s face, but it is still too slow and obvious. Similarly, there is a lack of coordination between the muscles of the face, and that same smooth animated feel. In reality, the muscles of the face are constantly twitching in close coordination to betray the extremely subtle emotions that may not even register to our conscious minds.
All of these problems were apparent in Tarkin and Leia from Rogue One.
From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”Open and shut case.
Actually I think there have been far clearer violations, but they’re numerous enough everything else is just gravy.
I’m sure there are, I was just using this one example.
One argument that I hear against Luke is that his failure led to the First Order, but that’s clearly not true. Snoke had already turned Ben while Luke was still training him, so clearly the First Order was well-established long before Luke’s mistake. All Luke did was to accelerate Ben’s defection. In fact, if he had waited to confront Ben, the situation could have been worse because of Ben’s additional training.
From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”
From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”
Open and shut case.
What the heck is a binary load lifter?
Robotic forklift?
Robot Chicken did it first.
I’d be interested in this as well.
Now this is good 😉
Yeah, people need to remember that these are just fantasy movies in space and enjoy them without feeling the need to explain every nitpick and fix every continuity error and improve every shoddy, unconvincing effect. I mean, who spends years of their life doing that?!
😉
And we complained about Han robbing the cradle. Sheesh.
And their donors have basically said that the Republicans had better give them their tax cuts or face re-election without their help.
Or just further distort Kylo’s voice so that you can’t understand anything he says.
I like this.
JEDIT: Probably better for TLRJ since he doesn’t have the helmet on long.
Spoiler Warning for Frink
Didn’t this basically happen in the original TLJ anyway?
The coins are dumb too. I’ll have to watch the scene again but I’d like to remove that bit if possible, which would also allow the removal of the dumb CGI alien that feeds the coins into him in the first place. I liked most of the humor in TLJ but that bit didn’t work for me.
you wouldn’t have the sound of coins jangling inside of him later, which I found really funny.
Same.
I assume that BB-8 is mostly storage space based on this scene.
My preferred Episode 9 would be Chewie dying with the Falcon, Finn dying, Hux trying to overthrow Kylo, Luke haunting Kylo, and I have no idea what they should do with Rey.
Overall, I’m not super excited since TLJ tied up so many plot threads.
The thing is, it seems like Rey’s arc is over to me. She seems to be in the same place Luke was at the end of ROTJ.
This is why I’m hopeful for 9, since Rian turned ROTJ into the end of the middle chapter of the saga, complete with a philosophical quandary. How can a person become a Jedi and return hope to the galaxy while also knowing that the Jedi as a religious institution must end? Either she becomes a Jedi and goes against Luke’s wishes (and perhaps dooms the galaxy in the process), or she goes her own way and fails to inspire hope (for the galaxy is still in love with the Jedi).
As long as this trilogy continues to be a meta-commentary on Star Wars fandom itself, I’ll be satisfied.
My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.
This…except for the part about how my parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.
It’s like we’re identical twins, separated at birth.