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#769246
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After the Sequel Trilogy Concludes... Then What?
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My guess is that they'll focus on the time in between the end of the original trilogy and the new sequels. Much like has already been done with the Clone Wars and Rebels series. The aftermath of Endor. The reorganization of the Empire into the First Order. Stuff like that. Derivative material that is easily skippable.

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#767960
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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DavidMerrick said:

 Well Hamill said he grew out a "contractually obligated" beard, which could be a joke but he was sporting one for all of filming. It doesn't make sense that he'd go full cyborg and lose everything that makes him identifiable as a character.

Provided Abrams' version of the Sith go by the master and apprentice rule, perhaps cyborg dude is the master.

 Right or wrong I'm going to stay with the Luke is the cyborg speculation and consider the beard an official misdirection. The next trailer could likely prove me completely off-base. :)

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#765965
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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lpd said:

Anyone considered a civil war within the Empire with a New Order taking control while a Sith led Empire still exists? It could be why we see the chaos in that shot where it looks like troopers are fighting troopers.

 I think we're seeing John Boyega's Stormtrooper character fleeing his situation in that TIE Fighter in that scene. For better or worse that scene may harken back to Episode I where young Anakin is learning how to pilot a starfighter on the fly.

I don't think we'll be seeing anything about fighting within the First Order/Empire other than that scene in these sequels. 

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#764255
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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grifter said:

Still a big "meh" for me, don't really feel anything with this trailer or the last one.

It kind of looks like SW but more like "i'm watching a Dark Forces 2 cutscene in HD" SW...

Am i the only one to feel like this?

 I definitely felt "meh"

The look of this sequel is so similar to the originals that I could have mistaken it for a reboot. Everything looks the same 30 years later in the Star Wars universe but with a CG sheen to it.

The only real difference is that the Empire stopped using TIE interceptors and inverted the colors of their old TIEs.

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#754330
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Nocturnaloner said:

Given the reactions to the rumors here, I wonder if there's any possible storyline that could be suggested that wouldn't get a bad reaction.

 I could only ever truly support a progression of the story. Not a retread. Sith in the shadows causing trouble is fine. I can imagine some bad guy always trying to use the dark side of the Force. Its the continued existence of the Empire which gets me.

I guess to make a sequel to the original movies you had to basically nullify Return of the Jedi, but its just a weak way to make a sequel happen. No creative new threat. We even saw TIE Fighters, not TIE Interceptors in the sneak peak trailer which to me was saying "Return of the Jedi didn't happen, folks!".

Oh well.

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#752893
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Info: Digital Release? Hasbro releasing &quot;digital release commemorative collection&quot; in May
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I've bought HD movies off itunes when they don't come to blu-ray, and if that would be the case here they would be very compressed. My biggest 1080p itunes movie is just 4.5GB in size when blu-ray can go up to 50GB.

Still don't think we're going to see a theatrical release anyway.

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#750650
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The PT's influence on today's movies
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How common were prequels before The Phantom Menace?

It seems ever since in movies and TV we've seen tons of prequels. Not much of it being very good.

Smallville. Gotham. Enterprise. The Hobbit Trilogy. The new X-Men movies. The Thing prequel. Oz the Great and Powerful. Prometheus. Even the Alien vs. Predator movies could be considered prequels to Alien.

Out of that list I did like X-Men Days of Future Past. Not much else.

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#744795
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Mace Windu was probably evil
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Leading up to the fight between Mace and Palpatine I doubt Mace realized just how skilled old Palpy was in the Dark Side and how close the Jedi were to losing everything.

It was only after Palps managed to kill several Jedi knights without breaking a sweat did Mace get the idea to kill him. I guess that took Mace over the edge from arrest to killing.

Mace wasn't evil. He, like the rest of the prequel Jedi, were just stupid.

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#744626
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When did you realize the Prequels sucked?
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I realized the prequels sucked as soon as the credits rolled in Phantom Menace.

I did go see all of them in the theater in the hopes that they'd get better, but that never happened.

The thing is I only saw the prequels each once in the theater and never again. With the original trilogy I went multiple times to the theater and still watch them on home video.

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#742507
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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The Chewbacca action figure seems to have dispelled the early spoilers that Chewie would have a robotic arm in VII.

We've seen Tie Fighters, Stormtroopers, X-Wings, and now an obvious Darth Vader clone. I don't think watching these sequels will be particularly necessary since we've seen this all before.

The problems with the prequels wasn't that they gave us new material. It was that they gave us bad new material. It looks like the sequels are going to play it completely safe and offer nothing new.

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#738124
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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ray_afraid said:

I've ready comments mentioning 'chrome troopers' in the trailer. Can some one point out where they are? I just watched again and didn't see any, just the white uniform.

 The chrome stormtrooper was in the fan made trailer that was on Youtube a few days ago. There aren't any in the official trailer.

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#737875
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Harmy said:

I'm very, very disappointed :-(

I thought it looked like another fan-made trailer - it doesn't look cinematic at all - it all kind of looks like video game cut scenes :-(

Oh, and I f*cking hate that lighsaber - what is this? Game of Thrones?

 Honestly if it didn't show the new actors in costume I would have considered it another fake fan-made trailer like that one that came out the other day on Youtube. It looks just about the same.

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#732215
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Anyone else blase' about the New trilogy?
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I'm curious, but not excited. Nor do I actually hold out hope that the new sequels will be good.

I've seen three of Abrams's movies. I thought Star Trek 2009 and Super 8 were merely serviceable movies that covered well worn ground and offered me nothing new. Star Trek Into Darkness I actually despise. 

Despite that I think he can do much better than modern George Lucas would have with new Star Wars movies. What Abrams will produce will likely look and feel like very familiar, but at least it shouldn't travel down the path of the prequels.

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#729572
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Discussion: What was (Or still is) your single favourite Star Wars toy?
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That massive (but still small) Kenner die cast metal Star Destroyer.

My favorite ship design of the movies was the Star Destroyer and as a kid the only version I saw was the seven inch or so chunk of metal. Lost the little plastic Tantive IV it came with immediately, but I was totally okay with that.

As time has gone on I've lost that original ship as well. Now I just have my bigger plastic Collector Fleet version. Not so nostalgic for it however.

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#727983
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What's the story behind this deleted scene (Vader cuts Kenobi in half)?
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From what was shown in the movie I've always assumed Obi-Wan willed himself into the Force just before Vader got him.

As far as graphic violence goes the first Star Wars movie showed the results of Obi-Wan slicing off the arm of an alien and the charred skeletal remains of the elderly couple taking care of Luke. So I'm not thinking this was cut due to how graphic it was.

I'm guessing they didn't go for this because it looked too much like Vader killing Obi-Wan and not Obi-Wan willing himself into the Force. Not a big difference, but enough that Lucas felt it needed changing. Although Obi-Wan's cloak probably should have suffered some type of burns in the movie we saw.

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#725572
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Other than Jar Jar and midichlorians, what don't you want in episode 7?
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darklordoftech said:

I don't get:

1. How would a Sith be any less of a rehash than an Imperial? How is the ansence of the Sith "taking things in a new direction" if the absence of the Empire isn't? How is Star Wars about Jedi vs. Sith yet not about Rebels vs. Empire?

2. Why can't a Force-user call themselves an Imperial? You can have Imperials without the Empire.

 Both Sith and the Empire would be a rehash. I'd rather not see either in the sequels.

A Force user could call themselves an Imperial. They could call themselves an elephant if they wanted. Without an actual Empire backing them up they are just appropriating a lost cause. Like U.S. southerners who still wave Confederate flags. Utterly meaningless.

I also wouldn't want to see a repeat of the prequels where a Force user actually goes about building an Empire. We already know that makes for bad cinema.