Yeah, see? The jedi are nowhere NEAR innovative enough with their force powers.
“Shoe’s untied.”
“No it isn’t. I just…DAMMIT!”
Endless, ENDLESS opportunity for creative obnoxiousness.
There was a joke on Tumblr or somewhere about how unless Force users can block each others’ telekinetic attacks, then most lightsaber fights would basically be reduced to a really aggressive lightswitch rave.
Brilliant.
IIRC, there was a Jedi in the extended universe somewhere who made his lightsabre with the switch entirely enclosed, so it could only be activated using the Force.
And I still say that in Yoda’s lightsabre duel, he should have just stood there perfectly still and concentrating, while his sabre whipped around him like it was on amphetamines.
I was actually really hoping that’s what Palpatine would do. Going into AotC, we had seen a bunch of jedis fight with light sabres, but the two most powerful, on the side of light and dark, never had. Yoda fighting was, if a bit silly, at least reasonably awesome. That left only Palpatine… and his fight with the three jedi was one of the most underwhelming in the entire series. He should be super-fast, or super-strong, or super-SOMETHING, and instead it’s not remotely clear how he is able to so casually beat two jedi masters.
Ummm…probably wrong here, but…Force out of balance? Clouded? Dark Side crescendo?
“UN - LIMI - IT - TED… POWERRRRRR!!!”
OK, that may have been another of those things that flew by too fast for me to catch it.
But even then, Kylo’s not right there at their base; he’s out in the woods. So find this guy out in the woods somewhere, and get a spacecraft through the trees to him in time to lift off the planet before it goes kaboom. Maybe he’ll send up a Force-signal to make it easier to find him.
How long would it have taken Hitler to build up a following if the Germans had won WWI, is more the analogous question.
And the First Order didn’t have much time. One of the conversations about Finn’s iffy behavior as a storm trooper mentioned that he, like all the others, had been conditioned from birth. So you’ve got this mammoth army of storm troopers in their 20s, who were all taken from their mothers and conditioned to be storm troopers…5 years after Return of the Jedi?
Score one for the power of the Dark Side, I guess.
It isn’t explained in movie but I don’t think it is much of a fanwank to suggest that, in the aftermath of Jedi, that the Empire split into pieces and the First Order is the rump of Empire. Therefore, they didn’t start from scratch.
Yeah, there’s a reason they’re still using Star Destroyers, TIE fighters, and Stormtroopers. An organization that huge doesn’t die all at once.
In the Lego Star Wars games, two Force users could only levitate each other simultaneously. You had to co-operate to solve certain puzzles.
That or they just phoned in the entire movie. You’d think this franchise could at least afford a new plot.
The first ones were fun because of the campy steam punk background. Space ships that looked like WW-II battle ships. Armor and swords out of the middle ages. Giant elephant tanks. It was so stupid it was fun.
This has the same old stuff. Storm troopers still wearing armor that wouldn’t stop a raging butterfly attack from killing them. Same laser weapons with 20th century gun sites that still make the pew-pew sound. TIE fighters that for some reason sound like an angry monster from a 1950’s movie. At least the giant ball of death is now 200% bigger with new and improved death ray. Fortunately it still has a weak point that a janitor can exploit and anyone who ever shot a womp rat can destroy.
I’m guessing Harrison Ford only agreed to do this movie if they promised to write a script that releases him from future obligations.
Steam punk?
I don’t think you’re using that term right.
Eh, I can see how it kind of fits. It does have a lot of the style elements of steam punk, although in a sense it’s kind of reversed in concept.
I’m not good with time lines or reading long ass threads
Possible fathers possible? Anakin? Qui Gon?
And again that damn rolling thingy bugs the shit outta me!
Bring back JAR JAR! I love him!
:eek::rolleyes::dubious:
maybe not in the strictest of terms but they clearly used objects from a much earlier time period for their images.
The International Harvester speeder. The laser crossbow. The laser sword.
It was a systematic attempt at making everything retro on some level.
Mark Hamill says Luke might be gay. I guess having a crush on your sister could make anyone rethink things…
"In February, Abrams said it’s inevitable for a film in the franchise to include a gay character. "
Other than C-3PO?
He’s not gay. He’s just British.
Stuff can do two things!