Do you think they didn’t have underpants in the Middle Ages?
No probs, Rick. It is indeed a topic from a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Called that one, although I gave him a generous 18 inches. The giant hologram smacks way too much of overcompensating. He may not actually end up being miniature, but I think at least “small in stature” is almost a sure bet.
And why do the Imperial Stormtroopers wear that stupid plastic body armor (that apparently doesn’t do anything)? The officers do have a Nazi-era look about them…those black uniforms look a bit like the ones worn by the Waffen SS.
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I like the early suggestion that he’s gigantically larger and this is just a miniature of him.
It was all just chastity belts.
Re the high ground
That was an appeal to anakins pride and vanity…“don’t try it”
Just saw TFA again tonight and, despite the warmed-over destroy-the-superweapon final act, enjoyed it all over again. Rey is great - spunky, cute and capable - and really is the core character of the movie.
I noticed the music a little more the second time around. A similar theme plays when we first see Rey, scavenging from the crashed Star Destroyer on Jakku, and then again when the Millennium Falcon arrives at Luke’s island at the end.
Got chills when Han thought back to what he’d done with Luke and his friends 30 years earlier and said, “It’s all true - all of it.”
Favorite lines - Finn (or was it Rey?): “Isn’t that impossible?” Han: “I never ask that until after I’ve done it.”
A funny touch: scavengers run towards the crashed TIE fighter on Jakku, during the dogfight with the Millennium Falcon, almost as soon as it’s stopped tumbling.
I could clearly hear Obi-Wan’s “Rey!” (taken, I’ve read, from Alec Guinness saying “afraid” in one of the original trilogy) in her flashback after she touched Luke’s lightsaber. And the fat hand and the voice of the person dragging young Rey away as a ship rose into the sky was, I think, the alien who paid her for her scavenged parts and from whom she stole the Millennium Falcon.
Captain Phasma really is lame. At least they had the same actress do her startled “Ooof!” as Chewie tackles her.
I noticed that Leia comes right up and gives Rey a hug at the Resistance base, with no introduction and no words. There’s a connection there. The next time we see them together, Rey is about to leave to find Luke. I’m sure there’s a missing scene or two there (either for the DVD extras, or in the next movie), and I suspect it will be Leia acknowledging that Rey is her long-lost niece, Luke’s daughter.
Speaking of which… R2-D2 reactivates due to, it appears, no particular external stimulus. Could it be that he was running a low-level scan all this time, and “woke up” when either Luke’s lightsaber or child (scanning for Skywalker DNA?) came within range - that is, Rey arrived at the Resistance base?
I hadn’t noticed, the first time, Luke’s robot hand when he removes his hood at the end. Tonight I did. Nice touch.
I read a theory today that Rey isn’t a Skywalker at all, but rather, is Obi-Wan’s granddaughter. I like that idea a whole hell of a lot more than any of the heroes from the last trilogy abandoning their child on a wasteland like Jakku, without even so much as a foster family to look after her. If Rey’s the kid of either Luke or Leia, it’s going to be really hard to sell that without killing most of the affection we have for those characters.
I think R2 was “powered down” so he could devote all his processing power to calculating where Luke might be. He powers back up after seeing the map, and using that to complete his calculations.
I thought he was in a robot coma, and no one knew why.
I know, I know it’s serious.
He got better.
There were times when I could have murdered him, but you know, I’d hate anything to happen to him.
He just lost the will to function.
Why is the assumption in some circles that Rey’s lightsaber is Anakins old one? That makes no sense. Why would she hand that to Luke? Wouldn’t Luke say…“Uhhhh I have a lightsaber right here. Thanks.”
I have seen speculation that the 1000 year old bartender lady is Snoke.
It’s not an assumption. They explicitly say, in the film, that the lightsaber used to be Luke’s, and his father’s before him.
And the point of her bringing it to Luke isn’t because she thinks he’s lost it, and needs it back. It’s to demonstrate that she’s worthy of being trained to be a Jedi. She’s not giving it to him, she’s showing it to him. It’s her Golden Ticket to being a space wizard.
Plus, you know, it was his first light saber. Maybe he wants it back for sentimental reasons, or in case he wants to color coordinate with a different outfit.
I had a good time watching this movie. Hollywood being obsessed with shoving diversity down our throat is annoying but other than that I thought it was solid. Han solo should have had a better ending but it’s not like could come up with anything better.
And Carrie fisher is absolutely horrendous. She needs to stop smoking five packs a day. I appreciate keeping the original cast but holy shit is she not fit for a billion dollar movie. Do a cgi affect like they did with arnold with the terminator series.