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I edited a post twice to clarify some sentences and fix typos in the ‘Episode IX Spoiler Thread’, in General Star Wars Discussion, and both of the times I clicked on ‘save’, an error ocurred and I was redirected to an error page. Still, the edit in the post came through perfectly. Is this a bug?

Edit: test.
Edit 2: yep, it happened again during the test. This is the message I get:

¯_(ツ)_/¯
What can you do? These things happen.

and at the tab it says “D’oh!”.

Edit 3: test on May 14th - this tine from cellular phone using Safari instead of Chrome on PC.

Very interesting way to look at it.

It’s similar to how I interpret the disturbance in the force from TESB. I see it as when Luke, after 3 or so years of doing as best as he could with the minimal instruction he’d been given, finally achieved a massive checkpoint when he was in the cave. That being that he, when in a situation of extreme danger, concentrated and focused, and ‘calmly’ used the force, which is absolutely a trait of the light side of the force and something that Ben tried to teach him, and that Yoda emphasizes.

Back to the ST, I can see the boy from Canto Bight supporting a direct opposing argument to the one I made. But the one you’re making is hard to argue against due to simply being something very hard to demonstrate on screen without losing focus of a film. Still, the question should be, do you think that this ‘pent up force potential’ is still around, or that it is now all concentrated on Rey and she’s the sole hero? I think that’s essentially what would show if she’s Rey Random in one way or in another, or even not at all, like DrDre and Anchorhead argued.

DominicCobb said:

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

You said she won the cosmic lottery. Lotteries are random. That means she was randomly chosen. That’s what that word means. And whether she was “chosen” or not is completely debatable.

Touché, but considering how virtuous, and perfect she is, I take back the cosmic lotery statement, and maintain she was chosen to be the hero:

“Darkness rises, and light to meet it.”

She is thus her destiny to be the defender of the light, not by choice.

That’s still your interpretation. It was someone’s destiny to defend the light. She made the choice to be that someone.

Hello! Do you think that the “awakening” Snoke felt in TFA happened in more than one person? Rey states in TLJ “something inside me has always been there, and now it has awake”. My interpretation is therefore that the force chose her, in a somewhat similar way it chose Anakin in the PT.

Maybe what you say is true, that the awakening happened in more people, “someone’s destiny to defend the light”, but it’s harder to support that claim than it is to support the claim that she was chosen. There’s been no evidence that the awakening of the light to match the dark happened in other people. Even Snoke in TLJ identified said awakening as her.

Anyway, food for thought.

Hey man, I LOVED some of the stuff you did on your bunker redux version! Do you think you’ll be re-rotoscoping the blaster bolts from the fan film segments? They’re the only thing that doesn’t look like belongs in RotJ. I was very surprised to see that the cinematography actually matches the original film pretty well.

And do you plan on doing a version with the original structure of the third act? That is, get inside the bunker -> get caught -> battle -> win the battle -> blow up the shield generator

I think crank calling can be compared to ringing a doorbell and running away, so it isn’t an ungraspable joke to people in other eras I don’t think. But the joke, which did not make me laugh by the way, took me completely out of the movie. Not only due to its phrasing and execution, which looks and sounds like it came out of a superhero movie, but because it makes Hux look very stupid, and since I’m not sympathetic towards him or like him at this point for any reason, weakens his character in my opinion.

It also felt like it was something that TV shows like SNL would do, which just didn’t feel Star Warsy in the least. Most of the dialogue doesn’t - feels like something any director in the post-The Avengers era would try to write to be funny. The problem here is the execution. With different dialogue and a different way for lines to be delivered and the scene executed, it could work very well, like Han answering the imperial in Star Wars saying that everything’s fine works.

Not comparable to “who talks first?” but I think that it could be comparable to “Got a boyfriend? Cute boyfriend?”

Humor in Rogue One works very well though.