Star Wars, The Force Awakens -- *SPOILERS*

[ariich]

For sure, I was only commenting on her being a Skywalker rather than necessarily being Luke's. As you say, Blob, it could be a red herring, and honestly I've got so used to Steven Moffat's lies and red herrings with Sherlock and Doctor Who that nothing really surprises me anymore.

[bosk1]

Well, I'm predicting she is related to somebody.

...unless midicholorians!

[BlobVanDam]

For sure, I was only commenting on her being a Skywalker rather than necessarily being Luke's. As you say, Blob, it could be a red herring, and honestly I've got so used to Steven Moffat's lies and red herrings with Sherlock and Doctor Who that nothing really surprises me anymore.

And JJ Abrams has a bit of a reputation for it too, so I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing with that teaser. I'm sure they expected and wanted these exact conversations happening.

[Kotowboy]

You could make a plausible case for either one, given how many blanks were left for the time between ROTJ and TFA.

Blanks wouldn't account for Rey's inception

[Kotowboy]

Maybe She is Han's daughter but not Leias ?



  That's why they're estranged ?

[BlobVanDam]

You could make a plausible case for either one, given how many blanks were left for the time between ROTJ and TFA.

Blanks wouldn't account for Rey's inception

But the force!

Maybe midichlorian is just Star Wars speak for sperm count.

[Kotowboy]

But you only need one !



( even though every sperm is sacred  )

[BlobVanDam]

Did you really just make a Monty Python reference in a Star Wars thread? GET OUT!

[Kotowboy]

[King Postwhore]

Did you really just make a Monty Python reference in a Star Wars thread? GET OUT!

STAR WARS!! THE MUSICAL!!!

[hefdaddy42]

Did you really just make a Monty Python reference in a Star Wars thread? GET OUT!

Shall I go out with a...



silly walk?


(Boy, how funny would that be to see stormtroopers doing that)

[jingle.boy]

Actually that last part WAS spoken to Leia in Jedi. It's spoken about a minute later in the same conversation after Leia protests that Luke has a power she could never have or understand. Luke responds with that line in reply.

Here it is:

https://youtu.be/MDYX_PgorRY?t=83

The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. My sister has it. You have that power, too.

All of those lines were spoken by Luke in ROTJ... just not in this order.

[gmillerdrake]

You could make a plausible case for either one, given how many blanks were left for the time between ROTJ and TFA.

both are plausible. I'd think the Han/Leia scenario is more easily explained....trying to detail who Luke knocked up, when...seems like it'd 'take longer' and would be more involved.

[bosk1]

Perhaps, but is taking longer and being more involved a bad thing?  Maybe that hypothetical background is something that it important to the story going forward.

[gmillerdrake]

Perhaps, but is taking longer and being more involved a bad thing?  Maybe that hypothetical background is something that it important to the story going forward.

Not at ALL. I think it'd be cool actually. I'm just trying to imagine what the next movie would entail....maybe there could be a yoda-esk training section where Luke is training Rey and he sits her down to reveal her lineage and that he's her Dad? Maybe with some flashback scenes? Not that 'taking a long time' to tell the story is bad....just as long as it's important to the story (like you said) and that it is done well.







Going to see it for the third time tonight....in IMAX 3D......

[gmillerdrake]

Abram's on 'ripping off' the OT:

“I knew that, whatever we did, there would be a group of people — and I was just hoping and praying that it would be smaller than not — that would take issue with any number of things,” Abrams says in the latest episode of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast, admitting that everything about the project initially scared him. “But I knew we weren’t making the movie for any other reason than we believed that it could be something meaningful and special and entertaining and worthy of people’s time.”

And sure enough, he has a response to complaints that The Force Awakens leans too heavily on homages from the original trilogy. “I can understand that someone might say, ‘Oh, it’s a complete rip-off!’ ” he says, adding, “What was important for me was introducing brand new characters using relationships that were embracing the history that we know to tell a story that is new — to go backwards to go forwards.”



Nothing that hasn't been discussed here...just a tid bit...

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/j-j-abrams-responds-rip-off-criticism-star-200345779.html

[Lucien]

You could make a plausible case for either one, given how many blanks were left for the time between ROTJ and TFA.

Blanks wouldn't account for Rey's inception

But the force!

Maybe midichlorian is just Star Wars speak for sperm count.

That's more than a little creepy considering they did that midichlorian test or whatever with kid Anakin

[BlackInk]

maybe there could be a yoda-esk training section where Luke is training Rey and he sits her down to reveal her lineage and that he's her Dad?

I'm just picturing a yoda-esk training scene where Luke rides around on Rey's back while she's doing backflips and shit around the island.

[jammindude]

I just saw this portion of a recent review (Confused Matthew) that just absolutely hit *SPOT ON* why this movie completely succeeds where the PT's failed, and why it makes very little to no difference at all that they borrowed some story elements from the OT.    He nails it so perfectly, I just had to share it. 

Finn, who actually didn't have the name at the opening on a count of being a storm trooper. On a mission to capture and interrogate the likes of Poe, this Storm Trooper was ordered to kill an entire village of innocent people, and could not bring him self to do it. Even before he takes off his Storm Trooper helmet, we can tell what kind of man this is. Someone insecure, unsure of his orders, scared, and above all - a good man.
George Lucas couldn't make a single one of his characters in the Prequel films come across as even organic life, much less characters. The fact that these new writers and directors could characterize a storm trooper in the first few minutes of their film tells me that this new franchise is in good hands. 

[gmillerdrake]

Going to see it for the third time tonight....in IMAX 3D......
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I always forget just how awesome the IMAX experience is     that movie gets better each time I see it. I'm convinced Han and Leia both know who Rey is....just from the 'looks' they give concerning her and the moments that they give them....they know. and after that viewing i'm back on 'Lukes kid' side.

I appreciate Harrison Ford's effort in this movie more and more every time I see it. To be able to just call back to that character after 30+ years in the manner he did is impressive.

[BlackInk]

Just saw it for the fifth time. More awesome than ever before. I do think that will be my last time in theaters though.

[Kotowboy]

Two is enough for me.

[Lucien]

will probably see it a fourth time today

[TheOutlawXanadu]

I saw it for the third time today. Awesome movie. A little burned out on Star Wars at this point, but it's been a great few months.

[Kotowboy]

My fave scene is still the first Falcon chase. Especially that moment where it takes off then goes sideways and runs along the ground and hits a building.

It feels so real.

[gmillerdrake]

My fave scene is still the first Falcon chase. Especially that moment where it takes off then goes sideways and runs along the ground and hits a building.

It feels so real.

That entire segment is awesome. Love when they leave their posts then run into each other and can't contain the excitement. That's when you can hear Rey admit she has no idea what came over her to be able to pull off that type of pioloting.

[MetalJunkie]

[Kotowboy]

 

[gmillerdrake]

So.....it's Chewies fault RENs still alive. F'n pu$$y.....

[TioJorge]

Even more  ...

[BlobVanDam]

It's going to be a hard Life Day this year.

[lonestar]

This one pretty much won everything for me....

[Orbert]

Usually I don't much care for cartoonist's who clearly mimic another cartoonist's style, but this is really well done.

[BlobVanDam]

Usually I don't much care for cartoonist's who clearly mimic another cartoonist's style, but this is really well done.

I'm ok with it here since it's an obvious C&H parody in content as well as art style, but I agree with you in principle.

[Cyclopssss]

Anyone else on here LOVE the ´bar-scene´? Soon as that started I started grinning insanely, going ´yeaahhh´ the nostalgia was enormous. Not too fond about the song playing though....reggae?