StarDestroyer.Net BBS

This was actually something I wondered. Would being brainwashed and indoctrinated from birth make one more resistant to suggestions that go against ones indoctrination? Or would it indicate a weakness from a lack of personally developed conviction? The ANH trooper was just a guy doing a job, probab...

And frankly, if there was a moment where the Force pulls it out of its ass, I would say it happened in this movie with Chirrut having none of the bolts hitting him. I think this is a reference to Artoo and Threepio being unharmed in crossfire while crossing a corridor on the Tantive IV in ANH, sort...

As I recall, Rey's main flaw was wanting to return to Jakku. Her parents promised to return and she wants to be there. Honest question: did they really? Or was that an assumption on her part? It's been a while. (And, of course, if they did, we have yet to learn if they were lying or are even still ...

We did show some of the more negative side of Luke. He can come across as a slightly whiny, and someone that really needed older figures like Han and Obi-Wan to guide and help him from time to time. Whereas Han really didn't teach Rey about anything in particular in Ep 7. Neither did Leia, Finn or ...

I'll put my Rogue One comments in the main Rogue One thread a little bit later (and may end up repeating a little here). I haven't seen any consistent backlash that makes sense to me. "I fell asleep"? Really? Is that the new hipster complaint about movies? "Yeah, that movie was so lam...

biostem wrote:I just hope they don't go with the "use the force to create life" angle, which is implied to be Anakin's origin...

They seem to be deliberately avoiding things that people didn't like about the prequels, so I don't think they'll go there. There's no need, either.

Most likely? Luke's daughter. They imply it pretty strongly. In particular, the implication that the lightsaber has been handed down through a particular lineage and is now rightfully hers. (Yes, there's wiggle room and I'm reading a little into it. It felt more like they were trying to imply it wit...

He also happily taughts the Clones having pushed on their offensive during the invasion of Geonosis. Obviously, given the role of the Jedi in the Clone Wars, they do NOT strictly use the force for *just* "knowledge and events". It also seems that certain force abilities, namely force chok...

while no longer canon, the Medstar dualogy explained that Jedi being limited to just their Lightsabers is in fact intentional to limit their options to end a situation violently. Basically since a Jedi is limited to his/her saber and force powers they'll be less likely to just blast everyone and ca...

I don't actually see Vader fight back in ROTJ when Luke goes all rage on him. My interpretation of that scene is that Vader is as much defeated by facing and cowering before Luke's near dark side rage rather than anything else, and its that power that Luke then conciously decides to shun that gives...

I don't think we ever see Luke hold his own, but rather we see Vader either play with Luke or sort of just give into Luke's rage. Luke was holding his own in RotJ. Vader wasn't obviously toying with him the way he was at the start of the fight on Bespin. Unless you want to speculate? Whatever Luke'...

True. At first they talk about "double front", as protection from the trench guns up ahead. Presumably, when Vader's squadron got behind them they shunted all available deflector power to the rear instead. "Stabilize your rear deflectors." Sounds like they evened them out (or, a...

In The Empire Strikes Back , Luke is in no way a match for Vader. Vader's entire purpose in that film was to try and capture Luke, ideally undamaged. If Vader wanted Luke dead, Luke would have been dead within a few seconds of their first meeting. Only when Luke managed to get in a strike on Vader'...

Scratch the part on Obi-Wan defeating Maul using the Dark Side, though. He had an advantage for a bit but it wasn't how he won. i misremembered (and the edit window seems to have passed).

Note, it doesn't matter whether she manage to beat Ren. She can use telekinesis instantly when it took Luke a while to master learn the very basic of what the force could do. Luke instantly started blocking bolts perfectly from a training droid as soon as he was blindfolded. (Precognition-augmented...

As for the Starkiller base shield thing... yeah, it's definitely a weaker point of the movie. We basically just have to handwave it away as some kind of move that was only possible with the specific type of shields used at starkiller base. Again, the same idea (jumping out of Hyperspace in an atmos...

Is it a failing or is it deliberate? If it's deliberate, was it a bad decision? The political situation as of TESB was even more nebulous than it was in ANH. Did it detract from that movie as well? The situation in TESB isn't that different from ANH, so it doesn't matter that much. Things have chan...

The Romulan Republic wrote:When they're escaping from Ren's ship, Finn tells Poe they need to leave the system, or something to that effect (don't remember the exact wording). Doesn't this strongly imply that in the new trilogy, Ties now have hyperdrives?

Or at least that the two-seater model they had did.

I'll reiterate what I said earlier in this thread: I think there's more to Luke's "exile" than him simply being in hiding, or even looking for information. Kylo said he heard the call of the light. That sounds strange, as everything we've heard so far is that you "fall" to the Da...

Han and Lando were both made generals before the Battle of Endor, without explanation. What's wrong with Leia being a general in TFA?

Kill him, a voice inside her head said. It was amorphous, unidentifiable, raw. Pure vengeful emotion. So easy, she told herself. So quick.

She recoiled from it. From the dark side.

Hmm. From the Dark Side itself, or from a user of the Dark Side, i.e., Snoke, trying to turn her?

I know some of the PT scenes were filmed with models instead of sets for interior scenes. I wonder how much this led to the feeling of sparse interiors, with the lack of clutter that set decorators like to add to make the place feel more real. it also means there's less real objects during filming f...

I should actually throw my review into this thread. I liked it. Its deficiencies are basically all things that already happened in the OT: Starkiller Base wasn't any lamer than the DS2; wonky system relationships were in ESB (and Abram's Star Trek, which was practically a Star Wars movie in a Star T...

This is the movie review, it stands and falls on what is in it alone. I am not critiquing the overall character of Rey within the sum total of the canon (though much of applies), I am critiquing the movie TFA with the character of Rey in it. As a one-shot movie, sure. Keep in mind, however, that th...

Every Rebel who didn't die on the Death Star run was surprised they pulled it off. I imagine the Imperials would have been equally surprised had they been alive to realize what happened. All of those people were not boot newbies. You can be really good and still have the odds staked against you, it...