UnforgivenTwin
Member
He's actually Mrs. Doubtfire.Snoke could be a random guy that had plastic surgery to hide the real Snoke. Shove in a few Mobey Dick references and you're done.
He's actually Mrs. Doubtfire.Snoke could be a random guy that had plastic surgery to hide the real Snoke. Shove in a few Mobey Dick references and you're done.
He's actually Mrs. Doubtfire.
I already further elaborated on my point in an edit above, but to re-iterate: "Playing Devil's Advocate" with no larger purpose behind it isn't really "playing Devil's Advocate" at al;, it's just prolonging shitty arguments. It's life-support for bad-faith discussion.
Look at Phaze's argument there and tell me what about it is deserving of the Devil's Advocating you're doing. Anyone who substitutes actual logic and support for liberal helpings of "LOL" and "LMFAO" isn't doing themselves any real favors, and I don't understand why someone as good at critical thought and self-expression would waste time "devil's advocating" for that without any real end point of worth waiting.
Look at Phaze's argument there and tell me what about it is deserving of the Devil's Advocating you're doing.
And the flaw in my argument is....what?
Cant wait to go to celebration, got tickets to the friday, i hope they show a quick teaserthough given its 18 months or so out from then id imagine not.
The avatar fits perfectly with your comment lol.Hyped as fuck
Kylo is gonna turn around within, like, the first act of Episode VIII. "Completing his training" means killing Leia, and he's not gonna do it. They make a big point in the script about Kylo feeling empty and shitty after the bridge sequence - and, on top of that, he KNOWS Snoke is using him.
Kylo is gonna turn around within, like, the first act of Episode VIII. "Completing his training" means killing Leia, and he's not gonna do it. They make a big point in the script about Kylo feeling empty and shitty after the bridge sequence - and, on top of that, he KNOWS Snoke is using him.
I see him more as buying into the sunk costs fallacy. He'll just keep doubling down. He's been doing it since he first turned, honestly. If he turns back to the light now, after killing his father, it will really have all been for nothing. I don't think he'll let that ride.
I bet his idea of "completing his training" and Snoke's end up being preeeetty different in Episode 8.
For maximum viewer catharsis I propose in 8 or 9 a Hulk/Loki beat down but Chewie/Kylo.
I've already told you.
Kylo is gonna turn around within, like, the first act of Episode VIII. "Completing his training" means killing Leia, and he's not gonna do it. They make a big point in the script about Kylo feeling empty and shitty after the bridge sequence - and, on top of that, he KNOWS Snoke is using him.
And you're basically just proving the point I was making earlier by posting up wikipedia links like that somehow kneecaps the argument I'm making about wasting your time unnecessarily by allowing for shitty arguments to draw prolonged breath.
You're arguing for the sake of arguing - ABOUT the sake of arguing, even.
In the script he does:Does Kylo know that? Didn't get that part. Might have missed it.
ON THE BRIDGE, Han moves closer, stern:
HAN
Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he'll crush you -- you know it's true.
Kylo hesitates. Somehow, he does know it.
KYLO REN
It's too late.
Tagline for Episode IX's poster: "Arms will be Ripped from Sockets"
In the script he does:
I think we already had one of those.
*exploitation movie voice over* He thought his training was finished, but what Kylo Ren didn't know was, "always *rip*. let *tear*. the wookie *blood spurt*. win *arm to the face*.".
Yup, was gunna post this.
I think he's known it for some time.
In the script he does:
Pss you're all fools, obviously Snoke is Decoy Octopus
We have to dispel with this fiction that JJ Abrams doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
any news on BDT's character?
Could he be a good guy or is it more likely a bad one?
Originally he said he was a villain but he's backpedaled a bit since.any news on BDT's character?
Could he be a good guy or is it more likely a bad one?
This is something they kinda started to touch on during the bridge sequence ("It's too late"). It'll be interesting to see Johnson and Trevorrow wrestle with that idea, and how Kylo deals with it. If he's wrong, what does that make him?I see him more as buying into the sunk costs fallacy. He'll just keep doubling down. He's been doing it since he first turned, honestly. If he turns back to the light now, after killing his father, it will really have all been for nothing. I don't think he'll let that ride.
I bet his idea of "completing his training" and Snoke's end up being preeeetty different in Episode 8.
Given that I think we're supposed to read Kylo as a character who's deluding himself after being deluded by others, that scene still came off to me as him being somewhat in denial, even if his father's warning causes his doubts to rise to the surface.
That's something they could play with much more deeply than what we got with Vader in the OT or even Anakin in the PT. Kinda makes me warm to the redemption idea a little more, now that I think about it.
This is something they kinda started to touch on during the bridge sequence ("It's too late"). It'll be interesting to see Johnson and Trevorrow wrestle with that idea, and how Kylo deals with it. If he's wrong, what does that make him?
For my money, I just don't think Star Wars is cynical enough to totally condemn this character. Someone who is loved, someone who has been abused and manipulated, someone who is proven to still possess a modicum of decency - and then for the series to say, "There is no hope for this character"? I don't see it happening. Redemption is in the DNA of Star Wars. It goes back to Han Solo, even Ben and Yoda, and finally Luke and Vader.
Kylo will have his redemption, but it'll be messy, and it ends with him dying.
This is something they kinda started to touch on during the bridge sequence ("It's too late"). It'll be interesting to see Johnson and Trevorrow wrestle with that idea, and how Kylo deals with it. If he's wrong, what does that make him?
For my money, I just don't think Star Wars is cynical enough to totally condemn this character. Someone who is loved, someone who has been abused and manipulated, someone who is proven to still possess a modicum of decency - and then for the series to say, "There is no hope for this character"? I don't see it happening. Redemption is in the DNA of Star Wars. It goes back to Han Solo, even Ben and Yoda, and finally Luke and Vader.
Kylo will have his redemption, but it'll be messy, and it ends with him dying.
I'm still trying to understand what the benefits are of staying away from the title of Sith.
I don't think Snoke is Plageuis but yeah, JJ's answer may have been meaningless. For one, he'll lie to keep truths covered. I honestly would too if I were trying to keep secrets. For two, he could've said no so that fewer people would ask him again or speculate it. Third, he's not going to answer it either way. And you're right, Plageuis is not in the movie so he didn't lie. The question wasn't asking if Snoke were Plagueis, so his response was genuine. The only thing that gives me pause is that he hesitated for like ten seconds to say anything, but it was likely him thinking it over, whether to crush that speculation or not.
...I still don't think Snoke is Plagueis though. I think if he were, we'd have found out about it already. There's no reason to keep that under wraps once the film hits, honestly. Knowing or not knowing that Snoke is Plagueis going into the next two movies... I don't see why it'd be something to hide until VIII or IX. Most people wouldn't even really give a fuck. Kylo being Han and Leia's son is something that general audiences immediately understand. If there's some huge zinger that Snoke is actually... DARTH PLAGUEIS THE WISE, theaters full of casuals will be like, uh, okay.
I
My money's on the writers wanting the freedom to develop the factions at play in a way that doesn't have the expectations of old EU fans hanging over it. The best way to do that is a clean break - create new factions with new names instead of using the old ones. Same thing for the First Order/Resistance.
I see him more as buying into the sunk costs fallacy. He'll just keep doubling down. He's been doing it since he first turned, honestly. If he turns back to the light now, after killing his father, it will really have all been for nothing. I don't think he'll let that ride.
I bet his idea of "completing his training" and Snoke's end up being preeeetty different in Episode 8.
John Williams is confirmed for this?
Definitely could be. The difference though is The First Order couldn't really assume the title of Galactic Empire because of the messy way that went down...splinter factions, not actually an empire, etc. The Sith mantle is wide open for the taking.
I wonder, though, how a series like a Star Wars - one that has this streak all over its DNA, as you say - would deal with a character who ultimately disappoints those who were hoping for his redemption.
To some extent we get a glimpse of this kind of idea with the PT, where Obi-Wan is forced to confront Anakin after pleading with him to stop what he's doing, lest he move on to even more horrific acts. And Obi-Wan's cynicism about Anakin persists even to ROTJ. But that story already had a known endpoint, and it ended with Anakin's redemption.
What if Kylo, who already knows redemption from the dark side is possible (based on Vader's example) and even grapples with the decision to turn his back on it within TFA ("the call to the light," his confrontation with his father), actually never makes that choice?
My money's on the writers wanting the freedom to develop the factions at play in a way that doesn't have the expectations of old EU fans hanging over it. The best way to do that is a clean break - create new factions with new names instead of using the old ones. Same thing for the First Order/Resistance.
JJ's denial was meaningless, true. But Kasdan was genuinely confused by the question, so there's your answer.
This. Money on some awful things happening to him.
And he absolutely needs to stay the course. He slaughtered Jedi in training. He was the instrument in destroying the work that Luke had done. He was party to the destruction of the better part of a solar system (though I'm not sure about how he felt about that, I got the feeling that he didn't want it to happen). He killed his father in cold blood.
I have real fears about him pulling a Vader at the end and getting what he wants, after murdering some other characters, but I don't want it to happen. He's aware of what he's doing, he's conscious that he's the bad guy. I kinda hope he gets it badly.
A key to letting Obi-Wan be cynical about Anakin in the PT, is that his character still had hope in Luke, making Obi-Wan seem less cynical in a way. So even in this situation, it is an exception that proves the point that Star Wars has very little room for cynical characters that are without hope.
We might not get a redemption from Kylo Ren like we did for Anakin, but he's not going to be the embodiment of evil like Sidious was.