Re Finn: is it possible his Force-sensitivity is part of why he quit? I get the impression that the First Order troopers were indoctrinated fairly heavily, and yet the first time he sees people getting killed he bails with admirable conviction.(1) I'm guessing the murder of a village might not produce a truly large-scale disturbance in the Force, but I'm wondering if it was enough to help him go.
(I still grin a little over "No-one looked at mgs the way you did." She looked at you like she was gonna beat your ass with a stick, and she did.)
Love the two sides, light/dark, shooter/protector division, mind. === (1)"Alright, then, I'll GO to Hell!"
Have they come out and said he is Force sensitive? I mean, you don't have to be one to use a lightsaber. You're just almost certainly going to suck at using it.
Nope, but they have come out and said that he went from heavily trained stormtrooper with no prior indications of questionable behaviour to bravely breaking out an enemy prisoner the first time he was in combat and saw the Empire killing people. That seemed kind of unusual to me. :)
The, uh, "secret" of her identity isn't exactly a deep secret, though.
At least Luke specifically ISN'T looking for her - they're not hiding Darth Vader's son from Darth Vader by putting him on Darth Vader's home planet, with Darth Vader's only surviving relatives, this time.
Also awesome: Han Solo shoots many people in this movie. As far as I can tell, *not one of them* has shot at him first when he fires. When there's a firefight, Han starts it. But at no time does the fight start with Han *returning* fire.
Put another way: Han Shoots First.
(At least, as far as I remember. I wasn't watching specifically for that until partway through.)
'My theory: I don't know who his parents or grandparents are, but his great-grandfather is one Master Mace Windu, Samuel L Jackson's character from the bad movies.'
I'm going to give the absurdities and massive plot holes around the star-sucking planet gun a pass because symbolically (and somewhat actually) ABRAMS BLEW UP THE THE PREQUELS
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Ah, I stand corrected. I didn't know the NR had a different capital.
I think felt like the prequels, however-- the new capital looked like something from Episode 2, down to the goofy costumes, videogame-grade lighting and of course obvious green screen shots. It was so different from the cinematography of the rest of the film that it felt pasted in from a different movie.
It was great fun, and the bits that annoyed me were basically the same bits that annoyed you, and I can happily handwave them for the purposes of enjoying the good bits.
I just wish he'd remember *basic things*, like *there is a Star Destroyer chasing you* and *you've only been going for 3 minutes, without jumping to lightspeed* and *if the trash hauler and two other ships can home in on you because you're emitting heavily, and catch you because you're moving slowly/not moving, then SO SHOULD THE FUCKING STAR DESTROYER*.
You know how you fix that? The Falcon jumps to lightspeed (escaping the pursuing TIE fighters) and time passes. Unspecific time. Unspecific time later (a SCENE WIPE! Classic Star Wars!) they drop OUT of hyperspace because of the flooding-the-ship-with-poison-gas problem. BOOM. PROBLEM SOLVED. Disney will give you the budget for the effects, trust me.
(The script even has Finn and JakeRey convinced it's the Star Destroyer that caught them. Without bothering to explain how the Star Destroyer could possibly have NOT caught them.)
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(I still grin a little over "No-one looked at mgs the way you did." She looked at you like she was gonna beat your ass with a stick, and she did.)
Love the two sides, light/dark, shooter/protector division, mind.
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(1)"Alright, then, I'll GO to Hell!"
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And I think it works better for the story if he's sensitive, so that's my story and I'm sticking to it until and unless Disney contradicts me.
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At least Luke specifically ISN'T looking for her - they're not hiding Darth Vader's son from Darth Vader by putting him on Darth Vader's home planet, with Darth Vader's only surviving relatives, this time.
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Put another way: Han Shoots First.
(At least, as far as I remember. I wasn't watching specifically for that until partway through.)
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FUCK YES I dear so hope for this.
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It wasn't Coruscant that blew up, it was the New Republic seat which is in a different system / planet.
I loved that actual physical sets, rather than 8000 green screen shots. It made the movie feel 100x more real to me, and added weight.
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I think felt like the prequels, however-- the new capital looked like something from Episode 2, down to the goofy costumes, videogame-grade lighting and of course obvious green screen shots. It was so different from the cinematography of the rest of the film that it felt pasted in from a different movie.
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(And Abrams not understanding distance.)
It was great fun, and the bits that annoyed me were basically the same bits that annoyed you, and I can happily handwave them for the purposes of enjoying the good bits.
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You know how you fix that? The Falcon jumps to lightspeed (escaping the pursuing TIE fighters) and time passes. Unspecific time. Unspecific time later (a SCENE WIPE! Classic Star Wars!) they drop OUT of hyperspace because of the flooding-the-ship-with-poison-gas problem. BOOM. PROBLEM SOLVED. Disney will give you the budget for the effects, trust me.
(The script even has Finn and JakeRey convinced it's the Star Destroyer that caught them. Without bothering to explain how the Star Destroyer could possibly have NOT caught them.)
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