Han certainly wasn’t the age of a “kid” in any of the OT. Carie Fisher was in fact young, but her character seemed at least late 20s in ANH.
Sure. Some people are going to dig it. I certainly don’t and think it pisses on the OT. Ev’ybody’s mileage gonna vary.
Meh, without the mystery or evil charisma, he’s a Dearth Vader at best.
Maybe if you’d watch the fucking movie, you would not need to shit on it so much. As you didn’t, at least according to your OP, you’re just commenting from under a bridge. Movie was not perfect, but it was a damn sight better than the prequels, and even Return of the Jedi.
Sure, I don’t need for them to have *succeeded *in fixing their son 3 years before the movie started. That would be kind of dull, really. I would like to see some evidence that they *tried *- or even that they care. Honestly, neither the script nor the acting particularly sold me on the idea that Han or Leia were devastated by their son’s betrayal of all they ever stood for. Irked, yes. Aggravated, certainly. But they treated each other like a couple who had amicably split when they realised they were too different to be together - a fine and mature way to handle the whole “princess and pirate” relationship in itself, but a bad way to handle a “family torn apart by tragedy” story.
Han’s finding Ren is a merely a huge, *huge *co-incidence - he just happens to stumble across the Millenium Falcon out of all the ships in all the quadrants of all the galaxy at precisely the same time the son he isn’t actively hunting down happens to be looking for it. "This isn’t how I imagined this day going when I woke up this morning". Imagine if *instead *it was all part of a plan cooked up by him and Leia to bring Ren out of the embrace of the death cult that’s been hiding them from him. That’s why Leia sent one dashing pilot - good enough to get the McGuffin, but weak enough by himself to get Ren to chase him. That’s why Han “just happened” to be off-world - to lend a hand if things went awry. Leia sets up the strategy, Han improvises on the ground (so to speak). Together, they engineer the confrontation with Ren that they desperately hope will bring him back to the Light. Tragically, they fail. But they fail while caring enough to try, so it means something.
I had a similar reaction during the orbital POV shots of the Starkiller: how the hell did the First Order build that? This is a truly mind-boggling megastructure, and is way, way beyond a Death Star. If the First Order is able to construct something like this, then for all intents and purposes they have virtually unlimited resources. They don’t need to conquer anyone; why bother to attack the Republic?
I thought it would have been interesting if the First Order had stumbled onto something built by a vanished civilization (like Niven’s Ringworld, or the terraforming machine in Total Recall) and weaponized it.
Of course I realize the writers probably didn’t think about any of this stuff; they were just taking the original Death Star concept TO THE EXTREME!!!
Naturally hollow planets are not out of the realm of possibility in the Star Wars universe - look at Naboo.
This, exactly, and don’t forget the driods.
The original death star was supposed to also have nearly half million personel. How could they bring in enough supplies to feed all of them?
As to its destruction there is a book called "Death Star which claims Luke had inside help from dissidents including former resident from Alderan.
Don’t accuse anyone of trolling unless you’re in the Pit.
Quite a title, what’s the rest of it?
Darn quotation marks. The book is “Death Star”.
And dont forget the funny “Death Star Cantina” by Eddie Lizard.
I just figured that was Death Star after being translated into Japanese and then back into English.