Yes: the soundtrack to Empire bested the first.
I want to say they played her theme (actually “Han Solo and the Princess”) when she and Han meet again midway through the movie, and they definitely played it again when she and Rey hug after Han’s death (nice touch, BTW, showing us the traditional post-battle victory celebration juxtaposed with others grieving those lost in the battle)
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Of course, the “hole” in the armor is something that almost anybody in the galaxy could take advantage of since apparently every ship larger than a toaster has hyperdrive. (And humans have the ability to manually time coming out of it to within a few miles (inside the shields but not inside the planet)).
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To clarify, we’re not talking about the forcefield (and forcefields have always been of spotty effectiveness in the SW series, so this is nothing new), but the actual physical protection of the Thermal Oscillator, which was able to shrug off multiple direct hits from proton torpedoes launched by Poe’s X-Wings as well as the explosive charges set off inside by Han and Chewie. It was only after the latter physically blew a hole through the wall of the thing that Poe was able to exploit it by flying inside of the building and shooting up everything inside before flying back out of the hole.
I’d love to take credit, but can likewise only salute whoever came up with it.
Smapti’s response is good, but I’ll add that even in EMPIRE when he knows he’s a dad looking to recruit his kid for rule-the-galaxy-as-father-and-son hijinks, he still seems casually unbeatable in personal combat: if you have Force powers, (a) you’ll get warned over and over that you’re not ready to beat him before (b) he inevitably uses his lightsaber to disarm you by lopping off your hand; and if you don’t have Force powers, he’ll parry shot after shot after shot from your blaster without even bothering to use his lightsaber, before he disarms you without bothering to use his lightsaber.
He’s still the implacable adversary who finds your lack of faith disturbing; it’s just that Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are both Admiral Motti.
Kylo Ren is less Darth Vader, and more – well, Admiral Motti.
I actually laughed out loud at this line (although I think I was the only person in the theater who did). It struck me as a massive fuck-you to all the people who have complained about the “12 parsecs” line in the last 38+ years. I don’t condone the misuse of the term,* but it was still funny.
*I’m aware that one of the Star Wars books contains a reasonable explanation of the parsec thing—something about Han taking a shortcut through a dangerous black hole cluster. However, I don’t believe for a moment that Lucas was thinking of that when he wrote the line.
I saw the movie and enjoyed it. Like most, I think they reused WAAAAY too much of Episode IV. I guess you could say I found Disney’s lack of faith in an original story … disturbing.
Still it was basically an exciting film and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But if they have another Death Star or Death Star-like weapon as the Big Bad in the next movie, I don’t think I’m gonna bother with watching it in the theater. It’s gotten to be kind of a bore.
I saw it in a small Vermont town’s theater two days after Christmas, and it was PACKED. I may have had the last ticket sold, and there were plenty in line behind me. A ski town, most of the skiing washed out, pouring down rain, what else were people going to do?
OK–I enjoyed it, but more proof that John Williams never met a theme he wouldn’t plagiarize: was listening to the soundtrack on Spotify, and thought “Rey’s Theme” had a certain familiarity to it. Check out Alan Menken’s Beauty and the Beast Prologue. :rolleyes:
But we don’t hear about any such prophecy, right? I don’t disagree with you but it would have been nice to hear about the prophecy and maybe Rey showing signs of fulfilling it.
But wouldn’t Chewie be the obvious person (or…thing) to hug? She doesn’t know Rey nor does she know that Rey has feelings for Han. jsgoddess already mentioned it, but it seemed like the writers forgot that Rey and Leia didn’t know each other.
Maybe. But wouldn’t it make sense to send at least one person directly connected to the Resistance, like Poe? We’re told how important Luke is but then the Resistance doesn’t send any escorts. If Leia did have some sort of premonition that Rey was the right one to go there should have been an explanation. Otherwise it’s inexplicable.
I will defend the movie here. Finn makes it clear that it’s the First Order that he hates and the reason he’s fleeing. He says that he won’t kill for them. His actions largely feel consistent.
Oh, and I totally expected Rey to reply, “May the Force be with you, Aunt Leia.”
I’ve seen two assumptions about the upcoming movies stated as a matter of faith–and you may find my lack of faith disturbing, but I will be surprised if either or especially both of them are correct.
One is that Disney has now exorcised the demons of the prequels and will no longer rely on playing it safe by rehashing what has come before. The other is that Kylo Ren has gotten all of his annoying emo good-guy impulses out of his system, and will emerge as an all-out, terrifying and implacable adversary.
A much better bet, it seems to me, is that we will see Kylo making entreaties to his cousin Rey that they should join forces to defeat Snope and rule the galaxy. Rey will be all like “I’ll never join you!” and then in the third movie, Kylo and Snope will be on the verge of killing Rey when Kylo has a change of heart and attacks Snope, perhaps killing him by sending him cascading down into an endless pit, his lightning hands flailing around helplessly.
How dare you not mention translucent Luke Skywalker nodding approvingly at the end.
BB-8’s origin story.
Heh…
That in itself was plagiarised from Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals.
No we do not hear of such a prophecy. But if one exists then no IMHO at least it would not be better to have that revealed explicitly at this point. Its existence (if it does exist) is a plot point to be revealed in the next installment. If my read is right they are borrowing heavily from Harry Potter as well as the original Star Wars. Which of course was derivative itself.
Chewie does not strike me as a hugger, or who one would want a hug of mutual consolation with. To my read Rey was telling Leia with her expression what had happened and how she felt about it and a mutual hug was the appropriate next thing to thing to do. For Leia’s comfort and to communicate that Leia does not hold Rey to blame.
I, too, was underwhelmed by the soundtrack.
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Don’t Chewie and Leia hug when they first meet on Maz’s planet?
:smack: You are of course correct. Sorry!
This is hilarious: