General Hux is my new favorite character. Love his speech before activating the Death Star.
General Hux is my new favorite character. Love his speech before activating the Death Star.
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
Something was going on between han and rey in the Falcon cockpit. I got the feeling she reminded him of Ben before he fell to the Dark Side. That might be a clue to her parentage.
RENs age is a puzzle to me. He looks about twenty, but that would seem to make him far too young to have han and Leia's as parents and to have trained with Luke and then turned on him.
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
More than any of the generals of the Empire could with Vader, it seems that Hux can verbally go toe-to-toe with Kylo.
The black-and-red flags, the formation of the assembled crowd of Stormtroopers, the trenchcoats at that Death Star scene, all invoked a very Third Reich feel, very powerful
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Meanwhile, Phasma was a bit of a let down in the end.
The first person shot when her troops stormed the facility should have been her. Finn might have stolen a tie fighter and deserted, but at least he never sold out every single soldier under his command just to save his own skin!
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
By the way, was that Kenneth Colley (Admiral Piett) making a cameo as an Imperial officer on the hanger flight control deck as Finn and Poe escaped?
If ten years of recording The Young and the Restless for my mother have taught me anything, it's that characters in serial dramas are always happily in love...until they're not
“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.” - the 4th Doctor
So what's the personal conclusions on Rey? Me, I'm firmly on the side saying she's Luke's daughter. At least, it wouldn't make sense to me why, if she were Han and Leia's as well, that Ben would be sent to train with Luke but Rey sent away in isolation. So there has to be a significant difference between the two which I think precludes them being siblings. So I'm going with cousins. I think she'll be revealed as Rey Skywalker very early in Episode VIII with perhaps even a mystery developed about the identity of her mother.
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"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Pretty much, given Leia's reaction to being apart from Ren and Han it'd seem pretty out of character to have abandoned her other child and cut off all contact with her, it feels like it'd fit much better with Luke trying to disappear with bad people after him(and a new big bad wanting force sensitives). Plus her reaction Luke/Anakin's lightsaber, and it seems to fit your story archetypes better.
*pours a 40oz* for
Best scene in the movie were to Storm troopers on patrol when Ben was going nuts and were like "nope"
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Knowing that Luke's attempt to restart the Jedi Academy ended in tragedy, having read Shattered Empire, and assuming that Luke tried to start the Academy on Yavin IV, I'm betting Poe's parents were killed by Kylo, perhaps one or two even being apprentices themselves, and thus in future movies will give Poe a more personal stake in the war with the dark side.
"They can be a great people Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you. My only son." - Jor-El
Very enjoyable film. Really amazing stuff.
It was basically a love letter to the old films, which I liked quite a bit.
The jokes were funny and the characters rich.
Renn is an interesting character. Torn between the Dark Side and the Light Side. He was a bit whiny but it was understandable. He obviously wanted to be as evil as his granddad but he had a conscious and it was eating him alive inside. My bet is that, after killing his father, Renn will be much darker in the next film. He will believe himself fully bathed in the essence of the Dark Side.
Both Rey and Finn were incredibly surprising. Both really turned out to be something special. I am in love with their characters and ready to see where their adventures take them next.
BB-8 was adorkable.
Han's death was very interesting. He died trying to turn his son back to the light. I think most people, had you asked before seeing the film, would have said Han would go down like an action hero. I quite like how his death made him seem so... Helpless. Because, honestly, he WAS helpless. His death was all the more dramatic for how tortured and sad it was.
Leader Snoke was interesting. Is he really a giant or was he just acting like the Wizard of Oz with the Holo-emitters ?
Phasma was a complete waste of a great actress. I am really hoping Disney has more planned for her than being the butt end of a joke.
Poe was also disappointing. I wanted to see more of him. The actor was top notch but his role was far more minor than I believed it would have been. His character arc will obviously be expanded in future movies. Given how is parents settled on Yavin and, as another poster said, I am pretty confident that Luke would establish his academy there. Renn most likely butchered Poe's parents, which will really add a lot of drama to the next movie or two.
I both loved and hated the new Starkiller. It looked awesome and has a cool concept but... It shoots lasers through hyperspace... Eh, I didn't like that part.
The movie takes place 30+ years after A New Hope. Ren is likely in his early twenties, which means he was born a short time after Endor. heck, he may have even been conceived on Endor for all we know.
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I really enjoyed it! The best part of the film is the new characters. Rey, Poe, Finn, Kylo Ren, BB-8... They were all fantastic!
I laughed out loud when Finn gave BB-8 "thumbs up" and BB-8 returned it's own version of "thumbs up"!
Kylo Ren's voice is bad ass!
I liked that Han went out trying to be save his son, being vulnerable.
The overall story could have been stronger, but I had a fun time watching! Going to see it again Sunday!
I actually liked the little bait-and-switch they did there. It opens with Poe and the village being attacked by the First Order, then FN-etc bails Poe out and for a while it looks like we'll be focusing on both of them... only for Poe to get swallowed up and Finn really asserting himself throughout the rest of the movie after he meets Rey.
That was a great bit. I thought the humour was great throughout the whole movie. Perfect balance between darker scenes and lighter stuff, not so serious or downright grimdark as some of the things that went down in Clones or Sith.
Take my dreams, childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze, please just be there for me