That pose the clone’s making.
I can only imagine how incredibly awkward holding that for all eternity must be.
I don’t know if we knew this already, but the new Rogue One ships for X-wing show that the prongs on the U wing fold back to be… wings.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/2/go-rogue/
I just had a thought.
Is it just me, or does Luke contribute very little to the battle of Endor after he gets captured? Like, I can’t imagine the battle going too differently regardless of what happened between him, Vader, and the Emperor.
He’s important to the set up for the fight (I’d hardly see shuttle Tydirium getting through without him), yes, but the Death star II would have been destroyed after he got captured no matter what, it seems.
He made the Ewoks into allies, isn’t that enough?
Like I said, he was part of the setup for the fight, not so much the resolution.
His main contributions to the fight happened before the fight occurred, though distracting Vader is a nice bonus.
Yeah, the old EU tried to retcon this by saying the Emperor was using “battle meditation” to direct the Imperial fleet and once he died it all fell apart, but battle meditation has always felt like one of the dumbest concepts in the old EU.
I might have gotten used to the idea from the X-wing Miniatures game (Where Palpatine is a crew card that allows you to alter any one die you roll once per round), but I can see how that annoys people. And even if he was guiding them, I doubt he’d turn the tides entirely, the point totals of the two armies were far too large for Palp crew to be relevant.
I just had a thought.
Is it just me, or does Luke contribute very little to the battle of Endor after he gets captured? Like, I can’t imagine the battle going too differently regardless of what happened between him, Vader, and the Emperor.
He’s important to the set up for the fight (I’d hardly see shuttle Tydirium getting through without him), yes, but the Death star II would have been destroyed after he got captured no matter what, it seems.
They did hand-wave the recording with the implication that Bail had to have been paranoid over his own death to have hidden it away on another planet; Even Leia expected it to have been destroyed on Alderaan.
And yes, the Senate is actually that corrupt. A significant fraction of the Centrist’s elite are Empire Apologists, and the book ends with them putting a man to death because they were given a nice, quick excuse to do so, rather than actually reading through what Leia had discovered, even if the man in question was the man who did everything he could to make sure Leia’s message would be heard.
It’s not a perfect book, but they do at least try to explain things.
EDIT: I think I remember why it was in this one Governer’s holding. I believe it was implied he was supposed to have been taken the place as Leia’s Guardian if her parents died.
Like I said, I’m really curious how this plays into Episode VIII, if at all. Will the Resistance meet, ehem, resistance from other planets not wanting to support them because it’s led by “The children of the Sith”? Bloodlines also did a much better job of showing an ineffective Republic than the Prequels did, So I can reasonably see them supporting the First Order because they actually get stuff done (not to mention that Bloodline implied that the First Order held a good chunk of the Senate to begin with).
It’s complicated, and requires even more spoilers from bloodlines. So, Spoilers from that book.
What happened was that this Noble title for one planet passed with no heir, so by default it would be handed down to Leia. This planet, however, was known for it’s really, really long ceremonies, and it was a title that was pure formality. Leia, having no interest in it, handed it over to Lady Carise, a Centrist who was also of the “Elder Houses” (As the collection of nobility was called.)
Lady Carise, during the ceremony, looked through her inheritance. It contained a music box (It had a more specific name, but I don’t remember it off the top of my head) with a prerecorded message from Bail Organa himself, who wanted to be absolutely sure that Leia knew who her birth father was when she was old enough.
Lady Carise, wanting to destroy Leia’s attempt at being elected First Senator, and drive a nail into her budding friendship with Casterfo, showed this to him, and Casterfo proceded to show it to the entire Senate.
So I just had a thought of Speculation based on remembering Bloodlines. (Spoilers from Bloodlines follow, naturally)
Leia (And Luke’s) Parentage creates a bit of a scandal, one that effectively forces Leia out of politics. During this time, there’s speculation from the Senate as to what Luke’s going to do when/if he returns to the political forefront (Mostly in fear that in his recluse he becomes like Vader).
I wonder if this drama has blown over by now, or if it’ll have an impact on Luke’s ability to be involved in the future. I could see the First Order making great Propaganda out of it, at the very least.
There ya go.
Well that’s tidy, isn’t it? Flunk admitted WHSHS without wxyx even having to say “WYSHS.” You guys are like Shinji at full bio-sync with Eva-One.
Um, what? I get what you’re trying to reference, but what? Those aren’t even all that comparable.
The shot of Rey going down that hill with her theme accompanying it is unforgettable to me. I think we can all agree that that shot was incredible.
It was a great shot, but the over-analytical side of me is still wondering why she couldn’t bring her speeder up the hill, and instead decided to sled down the hill to her speeder.
Another idea would be if Jyn says it twice in the movie, the second time more earnest than the first.
I have no idea why they’d confuse us by doing this in the trailers if that were actually the case, but there’s a non zero chance.
Why would you do that, Legends canon? You even knew what you were getting into, seeing that you renamed him for Britain.
I could go for some Lava Berry Explosion right now.
I had those back in 2005 and they were shit.
I imagine it tasted a bit burnt?
I’m more referring to the idea of C-3PO cereal than it being in the movie.
Disney has Star Wars Oranges, if I recall, so I’d say both 80’s SW and today’s SW some silly merchandising at times.
Did that… Did that advertise C-3PO branded cereal?
People think Disney’s Star Wars Merchandising is extreme, and yet it has always been rather over the top.
Snow’s not well represented by only white, anyway. It seems white on the highlights, but as soon as you take it away from the light, it becomes very blue.
Hey Dr Dre !
Thank you for your comparison. Watching it, I was not sure that Despecialized colors were beter looking than Poita’s image (which is yet beautiful).
So I tried to adjust brightness, contrast and curves of your restult to obtain a kind of medium. I ended up with this : http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/181187.
And, with your very useful tool, I exported the model for the other shot and the result is : http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/181189.
By the way, these scans are wonderful ! Maybe some shots will be available for the next versions of Despecialized before the full release of the Trilogy “FTLFT” ? 😃
It might just be my monitor, but on the bottom left corners of those images, it looks like you’re starting to risk crushing the blacks. Might want to dial back the contrast a touch.
I will not kill you.
I like that droid. 😃
He means well.
I was half expecting The Bunny to be at the bottom of that when I scrolled down. 😉
I was concerned it was going to be as long an image as the rabbit, unsure how it would scale.
People are talking about it without linking it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY - a 2 minute trailer at the official Star Wars youtube channel
My god the CGI for the Imperial ships looks great. Even the TIE near the end looks like a model, almost.
Kind of neat, a stitched together image of the Endor Shuttle landing; pity it seems to be out of focus.
The new brand of TIE fighter looks like somebody just tore off one of the solar panels from the triple-winged cloaking TIEs in LucasArts’ Rebel Assault II.
It does kind of look like a Phantom, doesn’t it? Only differences are the aforementioned wing, and it uses a standard TIE cockpit rather than one that looks like it was ripped off the Falcon.
And the fact that we can actually see it.
I’m curious as to why Krennic gets his own class of shuttle. Are the Lambda class shuttles not good enough for him?
More about Jedha: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/08/star-wars-rogue-one-force-sacred-world-jedha-details