Re: Solo release thread (spoilers)
Posted: 2018-06-09 08:30pm
Thoughts on the new ships and walkers
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As far as I know we have no idea what that double-hulled TIE that led the squadron chasing them into the Maw was supposed to be. That's what I'm most interested in, of the new things we saw.
Please tell me you're joking.
TIE/rb is the official name but it's been officially known unofficially as the TIE Brute
The name is not too badPhoenixKnig wrote: ↑2018-06-11 11:27amTIE/rb is the official name but it's been officially known unofficially as the TIE Brute
You need to watch more Kirosawa movies.KraytKing wrote: ↑2018-05-29 11:25pm The lightsaber duel being short was the best part: it ended sooner. Their faces move too much. The voice acting is terrible, along with the dialogue. Why did Maul let them talk for so long? He should have attacked while they were talking, to get the drop on an old man. Why did the droid have a rocket engine? How did a lightsaber put out a fire? And for God's sake, why do they spend so much time staring at each other? It's worse than Luke at the end of TFA.
I could go on, but I think you get the picture.
Maybe the Imperial Navy works on similar ideology like the French Foreign Legion?FaxModem1 wrote: ↑2018-06-23 12:05am Also, it's interesting to note that unlike our world, any vagrant on the street can just walk up to an Imperial Military Recruiting station and get into their Flight school, lickity split. No prior college needed, no family connections, no introduction letter, or knowing of any highly qualified politicians. Seems a bit too egalitarian for a system like the Empire. This means that if any bum can keep their head down long enough, Joe Q Public could become an officer if they survive long enough. Of course, Han also realistically washes out and becomes a basic army trooper, designed to carry a gun and die.
TIE fighters are fucking cheap. As much as it will distress some of us here to hear that old canard that's always been the authorial intent; it's not like trusting a pilot with a multi-million dollar modern plane.FaxModem1 wrote: ↑2018-06-23 12:05amAlso, it's interesting to note that unlike our world, any vagrant on the street can just walk up to an Imperial Military Recruiting station and get into their Flight school, lickity split. No prior college needed, no family connections, no introduction letter, or knowing of any highly qualified politicians. Seems a bit too egalitarian for a system like the Empire. This means that if any bum can keep their head down long enough, Joe Q Public could become an officer if they survive long enough. Of course, Han also realistically washes out and becomes a basic army trooper, designed to carry a gun and die.
I know I'm a little late here, but it's not the absolute cost of the plane but how many there are. When you have huge fleets you'll put anyone that passes the basic training into combat on expensive hardware if people are more limited than production. We use highly trained officer pilots now because there are so few planes we can be highly selective. In WWII there were plenty of non commissioned fighter pilots and such - as long as you passed the aptitude tests, get into your Mig-3 or whatever that rolled unpainted off the line and go. Planes were still relatively expensive, but it didn't matter.NecronLord wrote: ↑2018-06-23 04:56pm TIE fighters are fucking cheap. As much as it will distress some of us here to hear that old canard that's always been the authorial intent; it's not like trusting a pilot with a multi-million dollar modern plane.
Of course, we knew this from the original film where Luke wants to go to the Imperial Academy and no one talks of cost or education.
Two things:The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2018-07-04 11:28pm So this film was never going to be a mega-hit, and frankly, I think Disney overreacted by pulling the plug on the Star Wars spin-offs. Ultimately, I wonder if this is a case of unrealistic expectations. After all, its not as though Solo completely bombed. I feel like they expect every Star Wars film to be a billion-dollar mega-hit or else its a failure, and if so, that's not realistic. We had the same thing after TLJ- people acting like the film was a disaster because its numbers were lower than TFA, even though every second film in a Star Wars trilogy has had substantially lower numbers than the first.
So: Disney, not every Star Wars film is going to get TFA's numbers. Suck it up, and stop changing course wildly. Because right now, the biggest problem with this franchise, in my opinion, is that it feels like there's no clear direction coming from the top.
The poor reception of Solo may have doomed this, but its an interesting possibility.In Solo, the biggest plot twist of the movie happens, unsurprisingly, at the very end. It turns out that Qi'ra (Emilia Clarke) has been working for Darth Maul's crime ring, which audiences hadn't really thought possible considering that the villain died in Episode I: Phantom Menace. With such a shocking ending, it seems almost certain that Qi'ra will be in more Star Wars movies. The fact that Clarke has a contract for additional films only makes predictions of a future movie starring Qi'ra and Darth Maul even more likely to come true.
Its no surprise if you've watched The Clone Wars/Rebels, but see what I mean about this movie not being aimed at casual fans or the general public? No shit it had lower audience numbers.The ending of Solo might lead people to conclude that the next Star Wars movie will be about Darth Maul, which makes sense since we all have questions about how exactly the former Sith Lord survived being severed in half by Obi-Wan's lightsaber. As such, the next Star Wars standalone movie could very well hav a focus on Qi'ra, especially if the theory that she's Rey's (Daisy Ridley) mom is actually true.
Because a woman being a good fighter is extraordinarily rare. Seriously, this is really thin- only marginally better than "maybe Finn is Lando's/Mace Windu's son, 'cause, you know, there can only be two black families in Star Wars".The debates over Rey's parentage have been going on since the mysterious scrapper first appeared in The Force Awakens. Basically, every female character from Star Wars history has come up as a potential mother-figure, from General Leia (Carrie Fisher) to Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones). The evidence that Qi'ra is actually Rey's mother, though, is pretty strong, since the two characters seem to have many similar qualities including their grittiness and independence - not to mention expert fighting skills.
As I understand it:The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2018-07-05 05:03pm Which just reinforces my view that the fundamental problem with the Disney era of Star Wars is not on the creative end, but on the executive end.
What's baffling is that Disney handled the MCU much better than this. Is it just different people overseeing the two franchises, and for some reason the MCU got all the competent execs?