Tyrphanax

When we invent a holodeck, we’ll do it.

TV’s Frink said:

Is anyone else a bit confused about the tech looking closer to TFA-era than OT-era? Or did I just misread that on my one rushed viewing of the trailer?

That was one of the complaints about the prequels (especially ROTS) which was that it didn’t look similar enough to the OT. Obviously for this one we have the Death Star, Walkers, TIEs and X-wings, etc., but it seemed like it might be treading too close to “newer tech” and not the used tech of the OT.

I dunno if I’m explaining this very well.

Nah, I agree and it’s been bugging me for ages.

Ever since the PT a lot of the feel of the design has been off. You can see it especially in costumes and creatures and just the general aesthetic of the universe. When you look at the costumes, a lot of the beats say “OT” but the feel is more PT to me. The droid looks far more PT than any contemporary droid we saw in the OT. The new ships (the U-Wing and Krennic’s Shuttle) have the “we tried to make this look like an OT ship” feel to them without actually feeling like OT ships. The guns all look like generic sci-fi guns that have been “Star Wars-ized”. They’re using too many new and custom things rather than repurposing real-life things to fit the universe, and it shows.

To me it feels like there’s definitely been more prequel influence than there has OT influence ever since Episode I, even when they go on and on about how they’re “going back to the early concepts” and “the feel of the original trilogy”. They are definitely trying to recapture the OT feel, and I appreciate it, but it’s never felt as genuine and natural as it did in the OT.

Won’t stop me from enjoying the movie, but it’s definitely something I’ve noticed and has been under my skin for awhile now.

Sweet, we’ll do an OT.com meetup on Tatooine and just wander the galaxy in search of great beer.

dahmage said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m sure Star Wars has some cool beers. I’d like to go on a Beer Tour of the Outer Rim.

i don’t know. most of the star wars beers are neither light nor dark. more of a blue. now if they were sours… :p

I would drink a blue beer. People lap up that green crap around St. Patrick’s Day so I imagine it can’t be much worse than that.

Think of all the crazy alien hops and grains!

Yeah, it’s just a case of it being something that’s so deeply ingrained into my psyche that it shocks me when people don’t know it.

I never feel like I’m chewing a nice oatmeal stout. I dunno if I’d call it a hot summer day beer, but I never really got the criticism that the darker beers were chewable.

I’m sure Star Wars has some cool beers. I’d like to go on a Beer Tour of the Outer Rim.

10/10 Album (I’m a shill, though)
5/10 Art

Shame he died so young, and so soon into his career taking off. The man was a master.

I had the pleasure of hearing his son Ravi play here in town a few years back, who himself is very talented.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this movie it’s that fucking NOBODY has any clue that the Bothan line is about the Second Death Star. Even people I’d count as nerds.

Holy crap. How do people not know?

FanFiltration said:

Haha, I remember getting Like Humans Do for free with Windows XP. Those were the days.

Oh man, there are few things as bad as a toothache. My condolences.

Also be careful, that kinda thinking is how religions start!

Ugh, I like stouts and porters and all those dark beers. There’s a reason they call them what they do.

TV’s Frink said:

I found pre-viz of that guy without a head.

allol

TV’s Frink said:

I’m pretty sure it’s the weight of the helmet that pushed his head down. Gravity is no one’s friend, least of all our cyborg friends.

That poor half guy.

TV’s Frink said:

ZkinandBonez said:

This guy is most likely just a background character, but I none-the-less noticed that he has no head.
I first thought it was just a combination of the camera angle and his stance, but the white thing on his shoulders, which I at first thought was a collar of some kind, actually rotates (kind of like R2’s dome-head) and it has antennaes sticking out of it. So I guess this guy’s a cyborg?
We’ve obviously had cyborgs in the movies with Vader, as well as Lobot, and perhaps some pther background characters that I can’t remember right now, but I’ve yet to see someone either in the movies or the EU (both of them) that was missing a head.

Or it’s just the camera angle and his stance. I was friends with a cyborg for a while and he stood with his head down all the time.

As a person who spends 80% of his time in some form of armored suit, he should have stood with his head held high. Being a cyborg is nothing to be ashamed of.

Maybe that flat bit with the little antennas is the top of a helmet?

Maybe he has a head, just no neck. A hunchback kinda fellow.

I just love seeing that stormtrooper there with the old-school T-21. I’m glad we’re seeing it again because all those cool guns disappeared once we got to Empire. Ugh. It’s almost too Star Warsy.

Looks like I might have been spot on about the change being different ages. Interesting!

Tobar said:

I just can’t get over this shot:

Wonderful, wonderful!

Yeah, that’s the one that sold it for me. God, look at that thing. It looks so… right.

Nah it’s definitely on purpose. They’re not gotta tease a trailer for weeks and then mess something up.

But there’s also no way it’s targeting the planet for destruction at that close range. It could honestly be that the superlaser isn’t so super yet and they’re using it more as a big piece of artillery than what it’s meant for.

Ugh I’m so excited for this movie.

Damn. Chicks are mad crafty yo.

Is that a sexy thing to do?

I haven’t taken a laptop apart in so long that I don’t even know if you can crack one open and get to the keyboard guts underneath anymore.

That’s a lot of effort though.

I’m sure ywhx will be along to tell you that you should have bought a Mac soon.

I read that as “Chrome-Hitler” pose and it broke my mind momentarily.

Pretty sure she’s just checking her deodorant though.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

Tyrphanax said:

I think my graphics card is dying.

It wasn’t! Yay!

Yay!

…

My laptop, for the second time in two months, is typing PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP no matter what I do. The last time I fixed it by…waiting? So I guess I’ll wait again?

Quit bangin’ on your P key so much!

Aside from that give it a good cleaning is about all I can advise.

Fuck I’m hungry…