half a moon
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R2d2,c3po, leia's role could be sustained
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[SPOILERS] Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Thread #2) - One Thumb Up
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Nah Leia and C3PO will survive because there is no justice in the world.
So just watched again last night and did some research because I once again noticed something regarding the Rey being a Kenobi theory. This is all in the duel with Kylo:
As Bobby has also said before, a Kenobi kid was once on the table. With all the other stuff I noticed so far I really think there is a good chance she's a Kenobi descendent if she's related to anyone.
- When Rey gets the lightsaber the force theme (binary sunset) plays. Now this is of course an iconic theme but it has never been used in a lightsaber battle apart from battles with Obi-Wan in it.
- For example when Obi-Wan is fighting Darth Maul and uses the force to get Qui-Gon's saber it's the force theme that plays.
- More interestingly and what is another direct parallel to Obi-Wan is during the fight with Kylo and Rey starts 'meditating', it draws directly from the image of Obi-Wan 'meditating' and becoming more powerful than Vader in ANH when he strucks him (here the first notes of the Force theme once again play).
- After that moment Rey becomes literally more powerful than Kylo and manages to overpower him.
- Furthermore an interesting bit on the Star Wars wiki regarding the force theme:
As Bobby has also said before, a Kenobi kid was once on the table. With all the other stuff I noticed so far I really think there is a good chance she's a Kenobi descendent if she's related to anyone.
Killer Queen
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So,when are those Rey body pillows coming out?...My uh...friend wants one, yeah.
Monocle
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R2 will, by allying with Kylo Ren and wiping out all of our favs.
Oh hey, i get to spoiler tag stuff.
I'd recommend just reading it since it's what, 60-70 pages for the Rey part, but if you really want:
She's a complete loner, ignoring anyone and everyone, and a known troublemaker. Everyone knows to stay away from her, since she knows how to fight and isn't about people at the very least.
All her time is spent either salvaging or on a flight sim she recovered.
All her time is spent either salvaging or on a flight sim she recovered.
The main arc of the book is that she finds a semi-intact spaceship, and and spends months in hunger to repair it instead of asking for help.
When she fucks up and somebody notices that she's building something, and is warned about that by a caring soul, she starts to get paranoid about the lady that warned her.
They then find her ship, and propose to help fixing for a share. Complete panic ensues, and she only agrees because she thinks she'd get a knife in her back if she didn't.
The two guys that find her repeat over and over that they should get off the planet with the ship, but Rey wants to sell it to the guy-who-hands-over-portions, who'll no doubt massively undercut it, if not straight up kill and take. They explain that to her, but she doesn't care
At some point, after it has been made a big point of how dangerous the night is on Jakku, she panics at midnight and goes to check on the hidden ship, risking massive frostbite and getting eaten by worm-things. The ship is fine, nobody's there to steal it.
After they finish fixing it, and do a victory lap and landing at the city, and she refueses to get off the planet, again.. and goes telling the portion guy that she wants to sell the ship, the guys that helped her fix it, who are on board, yell "Sorry!" and take off.
A big point is made that she's not even angry. People suck anyway.
Bobby Roberts
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What
Psychoward
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if Boba can survive the Sarlacc pit he can survive this. Han vs. Boba round 2 in Ep 8, believe.
Someone will answer those questions I'm sure, but I just wanted to say the vast majority of them have nothing to do with seeing the previous entries.
But Luke is the protagonist of the first 3 films and Darth Vader was his and Leia's dad.
It definitely fills in some gaps here and there, like the name of the old man that gives Poe the map for example. Can be overly descriptive of minutiae at times. I'm enjoying it though.
Scarecrow
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When the movie started, Poe reminded me a lot of Lone Star from Spaceballs. I was pleasantly surprised they killed him off so early. I thought he would've become way too annoying.
But they didn't kill him. That's some War of the Worlds resurrection right there.
Luckily, he wasn't as irritating as I thought he'd be.
But they didn't kill him. That's some War of the Worlds resurrection right there.
Luckily, he wasn't as irritating as I thought he'd be.
half a moon
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Plinkett or riot. No interest in hitb
Speedy Blue Dude
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Okay. Should I watch the movies in the order they were released, or should I watch them in Canonlogical order?
Monocle
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I can't wait for this.
Raitosaito
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People like to connect invisible dots. Or maybe it's all true.
Psychoward
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True, but we probably won't get a Plinkett review until after the DVD comes out.
Rey had the staff way before that scene where she is pilfering the star destroyer. There is no way Snoke is Plagueis.
MYbe it's one of those weird Anakin style force pregnancies guided by Obi-Wan.
Han comes from a long line of people that have survived falling into a star.
Having a girl beat a dude in a fight is "bad storytelling"
Jesus
Anyway, can't wait to see this again when I can afford it. Most psyched to watch the lightsaber battles and see if they make me tense again, like they didn't in the prequels
That's interesting, because apparently it's Obi-Wan Kenobi's voice that calls out to her in one of her visions. Either Kenobi is guiding her, or she's somehow from Kenobi's lineage instead of Luke's.
YesNOnoNOYes
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Monocle
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Definitely release order. The prequels will give you the wrong first impression and probably diminish the effect of the original trilogy.
That sounds pretty good. Will give it a read.
Raitosaito
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It's hard to do a plinkett one without all the footage.
Release order. Ignore anyone who suggests an order involving the word "Machete".
LookAtMeGo
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I just want a Plinkett review dammit!
fuck machete, show some backbone and consumer fortitude
However you want
1-6 or 4-6,1-3 work differently with the reveals and surprises, but both orders work.
Any other overly complex order BS
Psychoward
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For sure. All this talk of Rey being OP while Ren is stopping blasters mid air, getting shot in the stomach by a weapon sending storm troopers into orbit all movie and still has enough in him to fight her to a draw after somehow catching up to them in the woods.
If he can control his temper and commit already, game fuckin over, man.
Bobby Roberts
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Oh yeah, not sure if it was mentioned in the last thread, but I'll mention it in this one:
They did call in James Arnold Taylor to do his Ben Kenobi voice, speaking the word "Rey" in that vision. But he didn't make the final cut, because the line was then dubbed again by Ewan McGregor.
So they specifically went out of their way to have Obi-Wan say her name for this movie.
They did call in James Arnold Taylor to do his Ben Kenobi voice, speaking the word "Rey" in that vision. But he didn't make the final cut, because the line was then dubbed again by Ewan McGregor.
So they specifically went out of their way to have Obi-Wan say her name for this movie.
Of course she has. Lana del Rey's father came from the future.
I'm not proud of that.
half a moon
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Release order. Learning about Luke, Han, and Leia are more important to this movie than Anakin
You should watch the original trilogy.
FlashbladeGAF
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Plus, Fin is the cause of him being out of his usual comfort zone.
Because of Fin they lost the pilot, they lost the droid, He found and brought Rey into the fight which brought Han his father back into the fight (which Han was trying to run away from) and the resistance is on their doorstep about to blowup their base.
If Fin had just been a good stormtrooper, kylo may not have had to kill his dad that day.
Kylo isn't going to just choke him.
He's going to make him suffer.
Order of release.
Prequels aren't needed. But the OT is.
It's written decently.
I probably wouldn't have cared much if i hadn't already watched the movie, though.
Still have to get through the Poe and Finn sections.
Sure, sexist, when everyone complaining about Rey is double-complaining about Finn holding up to Kylo anyway.
Do you think this gives Ewan a chance at having a movie?
I mean they went out of their way to get him despite having JAT or the option of ripping Guiness dialogue
He has that Vader obsession as well and just saw Finn spark up grandpappy's very own lightsaber.
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