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They're still focusing on mining nostalgia for the original trilogy rather than giving us any indication what they might be doing that's new and original beyond having a round droid. As such I am still suspicious that this will basically be Star Wars: Into Darkness. But at least the actual craft looks good.
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Samwise
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They're still focusing on mining nostalgia for the original trilogy rather than giving us any indication what they might be doing that's new and original beyond having a round droid. As such I am still suspicious that this will basically be Star Wars: Into Darkness. But at least the actual craft looks good.
I want Star Wars, if i wanted new and original i would go watch something new and original not something from the 70s. Each of the original Star Wars movies introduced some sort of memorable thing that hadn't been seen before -- new characters, new ideas, new parts of the universe, even just new memorable pieces of dialogue. Jedi was the worst of the three, and it was still the one that introduced Jabba and the Emperor, two extremely enduring characters. That's what I mean by "new and original". The prequels generally failed at that; the best part of the prequels was pretty much seeing the same old characters again, or at least hollow imitations of them. The "new" stuff in the prequels was generally garbage. The Star Trek reboots were better but still mostly just stuck to recycling old shit -- oh look, it's Nimoy back as old Spock. Oh look, it's KHAAAAAAAN. Oh look, it's Kirk with a green girl. Etc. So my question for episode 7 is whether it's going to be at least as good a sequel to Jedi as Jedi was to Empire. Which is a very fucking low bar to clear. The trailers so far are basically 70% recycled shit, rather than teasing the exciting new stuff I should be looking forward to. This makes me suspicious that they don't have any exciting new stuff. But I could be wrong! |
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Lakov_Sanite
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That poster looks like it's really setting up Rey for the heel turn or possibly grey jedi.
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Khaldun
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Han looks like he's woken up in the middle of the night and is about to yell at the kids to get off his fucking lawn.
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Mac
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Star Wars: Gran Tourino
If the ending is the same, this would be the better title. |
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Surlyboi
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Finn needs to not hold that lightsaber like it's a fucking baseball bat.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Posting the image so I don't have to keep going back a page, then opening another tab:
What the hell is the girl holding? It appears to have a shoulder-strap like it's supposed to be a gun, but it's taller than she is?
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Khaldun
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I'm thinking it's like a space quarterstaff or something of that sort.
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Surlyboi
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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CmdrSlack
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Vibrostaff. I see what you did there.
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Poster is ok, but Ford looks like he was photoshopped into it during a Something Awful contest as a joke. He looks really out of place on there for some reason.
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HaemishM
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I think that reason is 50 decades worth of age.
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I think that reason is 50 decades worth of age.
I think you have yourself a 'can't miss' book title there.  |
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She looks mightly pissed off. Easy, girl!
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MournelitheCalix
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Vibrostaff. I see what you did there.
Looks like some sort of light-saber staff-blade to me. |
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Evildrider
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It's obviously a Force Pike and does Str+2D damage.
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jgsugden
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I'm pretty sure it uses a lot of D batteries.
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My first thought on the staff was this:  |
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Lantyssa
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I thought it was a Tusken rifle, not a staff.
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Khaldun
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So said the Tusken women.
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DraconianOne
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I thought it was a Tusken rifle, not a staff.
It is a staff but what's interesting is that the design of the ends is very similar to the design of Darth Maul's lightsaber. I don't think that's meant to indicate that it is a lightstaff or whatever.  |
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And while we're at it, just because:   |
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In honor of the fanrage that Finn may be Jedi: It is clear now. Obviously Finn (played by Boyega), being the illegitimate smuggler son of Solo and estranged nubian wife Sana, STOLE the lightsaber and brainwashed Rey (Daisy Ridley) with his manly, dangerous space-thuggish ways. This sets off an emperial galactic police chase, blasters blazing... wherein Finn of course dies in a hail of blasterfire when the stormtroopers mistaken his holopad's powercell for the hilt of the saber and a glint of Tatooine sunlight for it being extended. "Commander. We were just protecting ourselves from this obviously dangerous, armed Jedi."
Meanwhile, at the super-star-destroyer watercooler: "Yah, we all knew there's no way that dark one could be a Jedi. Ahahahah! Stupid liberebel scum." |
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Merusk
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Really? There's fanrage over that? I've been avoiding forums/ sites for months because I don't want shit spoiled. Finding out Finn was from the D23 poster was big enough for me to just stop looking. Man, fuck those guys if they're really raging over it. Oh noes, our main Jedi isn't white.  |
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Surlyboi
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Can we stop a second to talk about just how hot Daisy Ridley is?
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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sickrubik
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Nerds complain about everything and anything.
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Cyrrex
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Can we stop a second to talk about just how hot Daisy Ridley is?
So it's not just me then. I have been wondering forever why nobody has said anything. I thinking she is blazing hot, and the dirty Tatooine outfit isn't hurting things. |
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DraconianOne
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Really? There's fanrage over that? I've been avoiding forums/ sites for months because I don't want shit spoiled. Finding out Finn was from the D23 poster was big enough for me to just stop looking.
His name's not really Finn, it's John Harrison. |
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eldaec
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Can we stop a second to talk about just how hot Daisy Ridley is?
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Really? There's fanrage over that? I've been avoiding forums/ sites for months because I don't want shit spoiled. Finding out Finn was from the D23 poster was big enough for me to just stop looking. Man, fuck those guys if they're really raging over it. Oh noes, our main Jedi isn't white. Dunno about fanrage, but more tongue-in-cheek commentary about police shooting black men and then shrugging it off. |
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eldaec
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What irritation I've seen has been about the "spoiler" that Main Character becomes a jedi after at some point being at least dressed as a stormtrooper and in all probability helping Serious Female Supporting Character escape from a thing. In a Star Wars film. By JJ Abrams.
Which if you think about it for more than 30 seconds, is possibly even more daft than complaining that he is black.
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Nerds complain about everything and anything.
As evidenced ad nauseum here at f13! I think it's quite possible that as a resourceful smuggler type he may don a stormtrooper outfit and also pick up a laser sword if he finds himself without a blaster facing some robed poof with a laser sword in the woods. |
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