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Star Wars |OT| I have a very good feeling about this...
- Thread starter WadiumArcadium
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What you mean what lightsaber. The green one damn it, the only one that is actually Luke's saber!
He better pull out his green one when Rey tries to give him Bananakin's saber and ask her what she's talking about since he has his saber.
Also, anybody think that Rey is going to end up getting some light staff thing at the end of all this? She seems to like staves more as a weapon.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Luke shouldn't use a lightsaber at all, so the more I continue to not see it in art/toys/etc. the better.
A passing reference is fine, but I don't need to see 65-year-old Hamill trying his best sword twirling. Luke should be the most powerful Force user ever - he's the son of the Chosen One and he's spent years in solitude researching the Force. He should be far beyond relying on weapons, just as Yoda and Palpatine should have been. Especially since we already know he is for some reason against the continuance of the Jedi Order. What's a more powerful way of rejecting the teachings of the Jedi than rejecting the very weapon that has become their symbol?
As far as Rey goes, I think something like the Jedi Temple Guard lightsaber pikes from Clone Wars would be really bad-ass, but I think she's going to keep the Skywalker Saber, unless Rian does something really ballsy and destroys it at the end of VIII.
A passing reference is fine, but I don't need to see 65-year-old Hamill trying his best sword twirling. Luke should be the most powerful Force user ever - he's the son of the Chosen One and he's spent years in solitude researching the Force. He should be far beyond relying on weapons, just as Yoda and Palpatine should have been. Especially since we already know he is for some reason against the continuance of the Jedi Order. What's a more powerful way of rejecting the teachings of the Jedi than rejecting the very weapon that has become their symbol?
As far as Rey goes, I think something like the Jedi Temple Guard lightsaber pikes from Clone Wars would be really bad-ass, but I think she's going to keep the Skywalker Saber, unless Rian does something really ballsy and destroys it at the end of VIII.
CloudyTuba
Member
I think she will likely end up keeping Anakin's saber. Luke will refuse it maybe.
Or maybe just to fuck with people he'll take back the family lightsaber and give her the green machine (naw).
I would be pleasantly surprised if she ended up with a nontraditional lightsaber. Only if they don't make a big deal about it, though. Don't turn it into a gimmick (even though it totally is), just let it be a fact. Not like that fucking helicopter shit in rebels.
Yellow saber please.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Sorry, who is Luke again? I think Lucasfilm's marketing is having some kind of effect on me.
Doesn't look like anything to me.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Oh fuck, the 9th? That's a week sooner than I expected.
Of course, it's Mark, sooooo...
Maybe continue expecting the 16th? lol
Of course, it's Mark, sooooo...
Maybe continue expecting the 16th? lol
Haloid1177
Banned
They could just be announcing the trailer premiere date that night for the 16th.
VonGreckler
Member
Mark is just having a bit of a goof with us.
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/910099304068505600
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/910099304068505600
WadiumArcadium
Member
With Mark the answer is usually everyone.
CloudyTuba
Member
Everything thinks Skywalker or Joker when they remember Mark's acting career.
His true calling was always the Trickster.
FriendlyGoat
Member
With the way they set up kyber as a presence in the films via Rogue One, wouldn't be surprised if they dive into that aspect a bit. In my dreams I would have Kylo lose his saber and steal Anakin/Rey's (and corrupt it, imagine him forcepulling it and corrupting it on the spot) and let her come back with her own thing.
The Aphra #15 cover is slick af
That's pretty damn cool. Love the colors
KoruptData
Member
I watch me some Star Wars videos on YT from time to time so I get other channels on my homepage that I might want to check out. One video, titled something like Snokes identity leaked. I roll my eyes but want to see what it says and it basically said.......
That Snoke was an ancient Sith from the Old Republic and he was entombed and reanimated Mummy style in the outer regions. This is the way that they will introduce the mainstream audience to the Old Republic and be able to do movies after the Skywalker saga is over. I don't believe shit but the thought of them making Old Republic movies with huge Sith vs Jedi battles would be amazing.
She's the best thing about the comics so I'm fine with that. It helps that we don't know how her story ends.
Speaking as someone who doesn't read the comics, I have absolutely no familiarity with her, so I'll take your word for it.
Speaking of which
When do we get to read your TLJ script? Surely you've got it lying around since you were in the running for director.
I know better than to leak that stuff on the internet.
Cross-Section
Member
Variety low-key dropped that the TLJ world premiere is December 8th.
There's some speculation out there that they're doing it early for awards-consideration reasons.
There's some speculation out there that they're doing it early for awards-consideration reasons.
You make it sound like a bad thing
As long as there was a HOLD ON TOA HAK'S MAGNIFICENT FACE
That's all I wanted to know really
WadiumArcadium
Member
BrokenFiction
Member
In Ron We Trust
But Winter is coming.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Narrator: "It didn't."
Bravo. I needed a genuine laugh. Thanks.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Honestly it's not exactly unheard of for that to happen. For the directors to turn out something that didn't match expectations, but not realize it until very late in the game. What's different here is the sheer magnitude of the effort and resources at play to correct it.
At most another studio would pull a Suicide Squad and fire out a bunch of different edits and try to find *some* semblance of a cohesive/passable final product, and/or lean a little more heavily on reshoots than normal, call it a day, and hope for the best. Lucasfilm is much more invested in the quality, and know they *can* sink unprecedented resources into righting the ship to the exact course they wanted, because it's Star Wars and it's always going to be worth the effort. I'm sure other studios would *love* to be able to do this and know the end result will be profitable. WB is actually coming kind of close with Justice League, because the reaction to BvS burned them and they know Justice League should be huge.
At most another studio would pull a Suicide Squad and fire out a bunch of different edits and try to find *some* semblance of a cohesive/passable final product, and/or lean a little more heavily on reshoots than normal, call it a day, and hope for the best. Lucasfilm is much more invested in the quality, and know they *can* sink unprecedented resources into righting the ship to the exact course they wanted, because it's Star Wars and it's always going to be worth the effort. I'm sure other studios would *love* to be able to do this and know the end result will be profitable. WB is actually coming kind of close with Justice League, because the reaction to BvS burned them and they know Justice League should be huge.
Hopefully, someone finally stood up and said that a Boba Fett movie is a really stupid idea.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
What's stupid about it though?
That's my personal goal in life.
WadiumArcadium
Member
I wouldn't like to compare that to how much I've paid monthly since 2015.
You could make a discord channel for it. Might be a cool idea.
There is a site called rabb.it. you can stream, and there is a live chat
Bunch of comics came out today. The SW Annual was alright, nothing special. Good ending to the Poe arc and now they can finally wrap it up by finding Lor. Phasma #2 Congo he's to have beautiful art and it's funny how it is openly paralleling the book. SW Adventures #2 was ok, but the thing that stuck out to me most was the backup Wild Space strip which had a fun story about Evaan Verlaine during the evacuation of Yavin.
The problem is that it doesn't make sense. Evaan left with the Alderaanian survivors at the end of the Leia comic to find a new home and Leia returned to evacuation-in-progress Yavin alone. Here, Evaan is back in uniform hijacking a Star Destroyer to prevent it from blowing up the temple (that plot point in Lost Stars about a SD never having been hijacked has already been shot to hell about three or four times by now). So unless she immediately turned back around and told the Alderaanians "I know you literally just elected me leader and we just set out to find a new home but I'll brb" then it doesn't match up. Since the Wild Space stories are in-universe yarns though I'll just chalk it up to being a legend about the Rebellion that Emil heard.
Also finally got to read The Heist and am reading The Darkness. I was really surprised when Cylo factored into the plot!
The problem is that it doesn't make sense. Evaan left with the Alderaanian survivors at the end of the Leia comic to find a new home and Leia returned to evacuation-in-progress Yavin alone. Here, Evaan is back in uniform hijacking a Star Destroyer to prevent it from blowing up the temple (that plot point in Lost Stars about a SD never having been hijacked has already been shot to hell about three or four times by now). So unless she immediately turned back around and told the Alderaanians "I know you literally just elected me leader and we just set out to find a new home but I'll brb" then it doesn't match up. Since the Wild Space stories are in-universe yarns though I'll just chalk it up to being a legend about the Rebellion that Emil heard.
Also finally got to read The Heist and am reading The Darkness. I was really surprised when Cylo factored into the plot!