That there’s no Grand Moff to be seen anywhere. Star Wars (1977) established that the Grand Moffs have “direct control of their territories.”
sunglassesatnite said:
Let’s waste valuable resources on finding one man when we have a solar-system destroying behemoth breathing down our necks.
My one big gripe with TFA is that it couldn’t make up its mind on what the mcguffin is. It kept abrubtly switching between the map to Luke and Starkiller Base. In contrast, the Death Star is consistently the mcguffin in Star Wars (1977).
Well that’s great and all, but I don’t want to have to read an EU book to understand a movie. Books are great to add to movies, but not to do part of the movie’s job in explaining what’s going on.
After all, Plinkett can’t read.
Would love something set in the Old Republic times or the pre-Republic times. The formation of the Jedi and Sith, the wars with the Sith and Mandos, etc.
Lord Haseo said:
And the destruction of the Republic Fleet. That’s going to play a big role in the rest of the ST. I’m glad that it’s gone but at the very least it’s going to impact things in the future.It just seemed to me that blowing up the new republic and the entire fleet (like they would all just happen to be parked at that planet anyway) was just an excuse to go back to the way the OT was: a small band of people fighting a powerful enemy. We’re basically where we were at after ANH.
I was also dissappointed that TFA backed VIII and IX into a corner in which we’ll never see the Republic fleet. I’d love to see the Republic fleet in action at some point.
Snoke came off as Palpatine with a new name. Did they have to have another character who’s scarred, uses a giant hologram, corrupts Skywalkers, has a gravelly voice, is mysterious, and rules a fascist regime?
Oh, this guy is just oh so warm, friendly, and inviting,
He also doesn’t look very much like something from Star Wars.
Just because of his lightsaber color?
Nobody complains about the fact that in the OT, the Imperial ships use green lasers and the Rebel ships use red lasers.
Is it just me or are both sides placing waaayyy too much importance on lightsaber colors?
Ditch the Starkiller Base superweapon. It wasn’t needed whatsoever. Instead make Starkiller Base a plain old military base that doesn’t get destroyed.
THIS. I feel the same exact way. The plot still works if you take out the damn superweapon as Kylo kidnaps Rey and they have to go rescue her. The only thing that doesn’t happen is the destruction of the utterly pointless Hosnian system. Just have one roundtable scene touching on the New Republic’s efforts to establish a permanent base, or just don’t blow up the New Republic at all, whatever.
No superweapon would make TFA much, much more enjoyable IMO. I thought it was great besides that.
Adding to this, the plot was about tuhe search for Luke, not Starkiller Base.
Normally I’m against color-coded lightsabers, but since Kylo was a Vader fanboy, I’m cool with his saber being the color as Vader’s.
Ditch the Starkiller Base superweapon. It wasn’t needed whatsoever. Instead make Starkiller Base a plain old military base that doesn’t get destroyed.
*sigh*
What’s wrong with that?
How did Kylo miraculously know to go to Jakku at the exact same time as Poe? I found that less believable than Anakin building 3PO.
“Discovering” the aliens who inspired ancient civilizations is very exciting. You wonder what Ra’s civilization was like.
Were they necessarily as malevolent/tyrannical as Ra was, or did he become like that only after taking a human host?
Good point. SG-1 made Ra the king of the Goa’uld, but for all we know from the film he was an exiled serial killer or power corrupted him over time.
Does SG-1 ever say that the Goa’uld were dying before Ra’s arrival on Earth?
I enjoyed the ancient Egyptian theme. “Discovering” the aliens who inspired ancient civilizations is very exciting. You wonder what Ra’s civilization was like. You also wonder if Ra inspired Egyptian mythology or impersonated it.
Let’s discuss it, Duracell.
TFA would be leagues better without the Starkiller Base superweapon. However, TFA was still excellent as is.
The Goa’uld will always be gray aliens to me, never snakes, and Jackson’s love interest will always be Shar’ia, never Shar’ae.
Misspelt namess aside, I salute you, brother.
Salutes you back
The Goa’uld will always be gray aliens to me, never snakes, and Jackson’s love interest will always be Shar’ia, never Shar’ae.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cto9_9qNHZ0 Some insight into the galactic map.
What did we know about Alderaan, except it was Leia’s home planet and they didn’t have any weapons before KABOOM!
Alderaan was at least involved in the plot as it was a main character’s home planet and Luke and Ben were on a mission to go there.
More importantly, the movie doesn’t pretend that we should care about Alderaan more than we actually do.
The Starkiller Base superweapon. I don’t know how they managed to screw it up so badly. It shows up out of thin air while Hux talks about it as if everyone knows what it is, destroys the capital of a government that we don’t have any reason to care about, and then gets destroyed. It feels like Starkiller was spliced in from another film.
Snoke better do something awesome in VIII or IX. I left TFA wondering what the point of his inclusion in the film was.
Wasn’t radioactive waste also proposed as the reason of the suit, at some point? I think I read something like that somewhere here.
Yes, that was in the second draft of ESB. That draft was written after the interview I mentioned but before the Lucas-Kasdan story conference where Lucas famously said that “anyone can use The Force.”
