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Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer
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That looks cool, but it makes me wonder how the blade holds that shape. The one we see in the teaser is simpler and reads as more plausible (based on what little we know about lightsabers in the films). The other designs people have made with beams crossing with bent or curved protrusions look ugly and busy to me.I think my problem with it are those side stubs, looks visually unappealing, if it was something like this:
It would look way better IMO
We only have one single shot of an unknown character pulling out some kind of weapon that looks different from existing sabers in the franchise in several ways. We know literally no context for it. We don't know who the character is, why he has the weapon, how he came to have it (Did he build it? Steal it?), or how he uses it in combat. Seems awfully silly and presumptuous to suggest "better" ways for it to be designed by knowing literally nothing about it except for what it looks like.
I don't think it was ever established, but comparing it to airplanes, a "closed" formation "feels" like it would work better.
Astral Dog
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Could Sidious come back some way?
as a force ghost maybe
I'm partial to the *dude just slapped it together somewhere in a cave hence the weird design/unstable flamey blade*.
Then I realize I've thought too much about it.
Maninthemirror
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I think my problem with it are those side stubs, looks visually unappealing, if it was something like this:
It would look way better IMO
but that is not functional, the way it is now is to have excessive energy output as hilts.
StopMakingSense
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Eh, if the Falcon can pull the maneuvering in the trailer in atmosphere with whatever propulsion technology exists in SW, then I don't think the wing positions matter for the x-wings.
All this McQuarrie art reminds me of how brilliant he was. Can you imagine where Star Wars would be without him? It would be like if John Williams hadn't composed the original film.
I wish his blue robed Obi-Wan concept had made it into the prequels. Maybe in their scavenging, the ST directors can pick it up.
I wish his blue robed Obi-Wan concept had made it into the prequels. Maybe in their scavenging, the ST directors can pick it up.
That's giving a scientific answer to something that should be magical. It's prequel vs original trilogy mindset. You won't get an answer like that. The hilt is like that because.
But the lightsaber isn't something magical, it's a real, physical object that has real (in the SW universe of course) science and logic behind it. The Force is something entirely different.
Poodlestrike
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I think my problem with it are those side stubs, looks visually unappealing, if it was something like this:
It would look way better IMO
The thing is, even though that does look badass, it also goes in an entirely different direction than the other sabre. That looks like some impossibly sweet Sith artifact (following the general "old Jedi/Sith stuff is better" rule), while the crossguardsaber looks vaguely slapdash, like it was built by someone with only a loose idea of how a lightsaber is supposed to work. Personally, I think that has more interesting story possibilities.
Not exactly. A non-force sensitive person can't use a lightsaber (like a jedi so to speak) and it's not from lack of training. There is magic / force behind using a lightsaber and that makes it a magical object. It can't be explained by science because it can be unexplained by magic.
Even if that is the right answer, don't act like you know something which you don't.
No, it's because the blade is massless and it's hard to handle. It requires the force to develop a new level of mastery over. Force helps the user protect themselves and weight the blade to have proper physical control over.
Poodlestrike
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Wait, I thought the reason non-Jedi didn't use lightsabers is because without force awareness they're just as likely to chop off their own limbs as their enemy's.
vagabondarts
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All this McQuarrie art reminds me of how brilliant he was. Can you imagine where Star Wars would be without him? It would be like if John Williams hadn't composed the original film.
I wish his blue robed Obi-Wan concept had made it into the prequels. Maybe in their scavenging, the ST directors can pick it up.
Didn't this become Bail Organa's outfit?
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Close but not quite
Lucas would go for what looks "cool", hopefully JJ has gone with what makes sense in the movie/universe. It's too early to say, it could be an early version of a lightsaber not yet perfected or many other possibilities.I think my problem with it are those side stubs, looks visually unappealing, if it was something like this:
It would look way better IMO
Er, I meant why it should keep them closed while it atmosphere. I was thinking default would be "closed" in all instances unless you're attacking in space.
Fair enough. I think this settles it.
Sauce?
SeventhSon
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And then he literally goes Star Wars Kid to the next scene.
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I watched the video after seeing that gif and as soon as the Millennium Falcon showed up, I stopped breathing. Too much laughing. Couldn't handle it.
Escape Goat
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Guise, George Lucas got ahold of the film. He's releasing his own version.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng
DrForester
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I think everyone went Star Wars Kid when they saw the Falcon.
And to take the point to it's ultimate conclusion they must be making an attack approach.
I completely forgot that Domhnall Gleeson was accounced for this! Do we know what role he's playing?
And I just watched an interview with John Boyega and it really made me confident that he's going to do an excellent job. He seems very likeable, very comfortable in the spotlight but still humble.
And I just watched an interview with John Boyega and it really made me confident that he's going to do an excellent job. He seems very likeable, very comfortable in the spotlight but still humble.
Initial reaction was bad. I don't like the lightsaber at all... at all.
After my second viewing of the trailer, I'm liking it again. After the initial shock of the unnecessary design of the new lightsaber (feels like a tribute to the unnecessary design of the Darth Maul lightsaber), I like it. I'm actually a little excited, not going to lie.The droid on the soccerball looking thing was weird tho.
seriously...
at all
After my second viewing of the trailer, I'm liking it again. After the initial shock of the unnecessary design of the new lightsaber (feels like a tribute to the unnecessary design of the Darth Maul lightsaber), I like it. I'm actually a little excited, not going to lie.The droid on the soccerball looking thing was weird tho.
Well I hope there is more than one new Jedi role. Maybe Boyega is just a stormtrooper, but I hope he defects and becomes trained.
For some reason Domhnall gives me that jedi feeling, but I could be entirely wrong. I'd love to see Daisy trained, not enough female jedi. I think he will be more prominent than Oscar Isaac which people keep mentioning as being the other third main lead, or what have you.
At any hand it would be a shame if the jedi were left off as a single master/student relationship like the sith became. Luke will probably train a few of them I'd imagine, or think.
edit: your link is fucked btw, it's to some neogaf thread.
I think Boyega will end up being a Jedi. And ueah, I get the feeling that Domhnall's going to be a Jedi too. Probably not a major character though. And Daisy absolutely needs to be a Jedi.
Oops! Guess I didn't hit "copy" and pasted one of my other tabs. This is what it should have been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm5ZHds8BQw
I think my problem with it are those side stubs, looks visually unappealing, if it was something like this:
It would look way better IMO
Okay now this I can support.
bwahahah brilliant
also, sorry but I disagree with those comparing the crossguard to Maul's. Maul's looks hella useful and completely badass, this looks as if they were trying to be different just for the sake of it
Doc Holliday
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Best part of the trailer for me...when Boyega shows up the timing and the framing is very spielberg. Looking forward to this big time.
We are going in a circle. And that design makes less sense than anything we have seen in the teaser.
ElectricKaibutsu
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At least the hilt would actually work as a hilt. Also, it looks less silly.
Poodlestrike
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What's wrong with the hilt on the original?
And I don't really think either of the designs looks "silly," per se. The original looks a bit cobbled together, and the proposed revision looks more fantasy/coherent, but neither of them strikes me as silly.
Davey Cakes
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As long as it's explained how the dang thing works, I'll be good.
Sure, as long as it isn't there just to 'look cool', I'm totes fine with it.
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