Star Wars Lives!

[aequitas-et-veritas]

A Daaaark Sith babe

[ABWorsham4]

What do you all think of Star Wars Rebels?

[lexgreat]

no pay-tv, no SWR. Clone Wars didnt thrill me, doubt Rebels will, but lets see. Any good so far?

[ABWorsham4]

I have enjoyed the series, sad with no working Jedi Order.

[lexgreat]

do they feature Palpatine and Vader, in any way?

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Not really. It plays 14 years after “Revenge of the Sith” and 5 years before “a new Hope”.
There is a man called Inquisitor and has a funny double blade Lightsaber.
He Looks older then Vader and is some sort of an Sith. It looks like he is tolerated by the Empire and the Emporer since he is allowed to give orders to Imperials.
Ezra is Force sensitive and a youngling who is getting trained by an other Force sensitive man called Kanan Jarrus.

[lexgreat]

Thx. Without the Emperor, hm……hopefully over the course of the series

[frimmel]

Haven’t really got to see any of “Rebels” but I’ve been enjoying the “Lost Episodes” of the Clone Wars series now that I’ve got them on blu-ray.

My thing with Rebels is that it seems so very much “by the numbers” from the announcement stuff I followed. Not so much that it would be “bad” but that there wouldn’t be a lot of “there” there. I came across it in the guide but I didn’t get that station in my cable package and never went back to look for it.

[ABWorsham4]

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

[frimmel]

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

[ABWorsham4]

@frimmel:

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

I like oppo rancisis.

If I was going to choose four Jedi to arrest the Dark Lord of the Sith Sidious, Master Plo would have been one.

[amanntai]

@ABWorsham:

@frimmel:

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

I like oppo rancisis.

If I was going to choose four Jedi to arrest the Dark Lord of the Sith Sidious, Master Plo would have been one.

I would choose Shaak Ti.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Teaser Trailer #2.

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

[LHoffman]

@aequitas:

Teaser Trailer #2.

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

Some of it looks cool. I still have mostly the same complaints about it as the other one.

• Many action shots are not in keeping with Star Wars traditional camera angles. (Close following in front of the characters when they are running. Cameras doing loops and rolls with the ships, etc…) There seems to be some shaky cam too.

• A couple of the new generation of Star Wars actors are, to me, too young and polished looking for Star Wars. I know that there were a lot of young actors in previous films, but they did not seem so modern and manufactured to me as these ones do (except Hayden Christensen). From the brief trailers alone they just seem like they are over-acting the parts. I know it isn’t much to go off, but that is my opinion. John Boyega seems to be furiously panting and bewildered in every shot.

• The fan service at the end is a little much, but it is Star Wars… the franchise with probably the most fanboys/girls worldwide, so I really can’t expect anything different. The real blatant stuff just comes off as kinda shallow.

• The apparent heavy use of CGI does not help this movie fit in any better with the original trilogy. That was a big issue with Ep. 1 - 3 also, but here, with the original cast and storyline continued it will be more jarring. George Lucas’ “used future” is still present in the surface look, but it lacks the visceral and penetrating impact that we had in the original trilogy in large part, I believe, to the over-use of CGI where traditional models could be used (or at least combined with CGI). I guess this is just something that the industry is getting away from now. The only directors I know of who do it anymore are Peter Jackson and Christopher Nolan. And even Jackson seems to have left it behind in The Hobbit films. This is too bad… it makes the story and the films feel less real to me. Less authentic.

• And I hate that soccer ball droid. It seems more like a cute gimmick for comedic relief. Every time I see it all I can think of is WALL-E. At least R2-D2 was functional and didn’t look like a child’s toy.

It may seem like I just hate on the movie, but these are honest complaints. I am interested to see what happens.

For the record I think this upcoming Star Wars film has waaaayyyyy more potential and is something I am very interested in:

Star Wars: Rogue One (Dec. 2016) http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/19/star-wars-celebration-rogue-one-footage-and-premise-revealed

[frimmel]

I was watching the trailer for the first time and they get to that long shot of the Falcon being chased by a TIE and I went, “Cue Firefly style crash zoom onto Falcon. TIE crashes. Wow did that just copy and paste that from Return of the Jedi?”

Nothing in it about the story, there will be modern film-making trope shakey-cam (see lightsaber passing scene and the sequence mentioned above.) CGI shot of mass of Stormtroopers like in the hated prequels. No STARS. Everything is in atmosphere.

My fears for this film were not allayed.

Anybody else in the “Han shoots first within ten minutes of the start of this movie” camp? They’ll start if off right away with that which motivates the CGI scenes we’ve seen of the Falcon getting chased. Everybody will be so jazzed they’re not in a Speical Edition or prequel (despite the huge dose of CGI they’ve just witnessed but spent the last 16 years bitching about) it won’t matter what’s in the rest of the movie.

The lightsaber crossguard is still dumb.

I also think the not-Tatooine desert planet being called Jakku is JJ thumbing his nose at fans again because it was going to be Tatooine.

[LHoffman]

@frimmel:

I was watching the trailer for the first time and they get to that long shot of the Falcon being chased by a TIE and I went, “Cue Firefly style crash zoom onto Falcon. TIE crashes. Wow did that just copy and paste that from Return of the Jedi?”

I thought the same thing. It is both an unimaginitive re-creation and another blatant show of fan service.

@frimmel:

The lightsaber crossguard is still dumb.

At this point it is just escalation that will not stop. It started with Darth Maul in Ep. 1 having a double bladed lightsaber… which was legitimately cool, useful and seemingly plausible. Thankfully Lucas didn’t take that further in creating new and different lightsabers. But I fear that is what we have happening now. There is a perceived need to up the ante and deliver something novel and never before seen… but for what purpose? To keep people’s interest? To be creative? To wow the audience with something ever more outrageous? You start to ruin the legacy and the future when you tamper with something simple that works.

@frimmel:

I also think the not-Tatooine desert planet being called Jakku is JJ thumbing his nose at fans again because it was going to be Tatooine.

I never considered that, but seems plausible. Although, I don’t know why he would feel the need to do so considering that anyone would have assumed that a desert planet in the trailers or in pictures from a set would be Tatooine. I don’t know why he would feel slighted about that speculation. He would have to expect it.

But again, copying the desert planet theme comes off as both hearkening back and retreading old ground because it worked before. If he would have just said it was Tatooine that would not be an issue.

[frimmel]

All I heard when I learned the name of totally not Tatooine (which I learned via the Battlefront info) was “Frak You.” Jakku/Frak You.

Spoilers?

So Jakku where they meet a force sensitive, spunky, and sassy farm girl longing to leave her boring moisture farm life for adventures amongst the stars. She spends her free time exploring the crashed SD and finds the copies of the long lost plans needed to put an end to the resurrected Empire’s long lost secret weapon. Han and Chewie on a mission themselves to find these plans are led to a cantina in the planet’s “wretched hive of scum and villainy” city where after learning the location Han must shoot first in self-defense because the contact intended to kill them all along.

He then heads off to collect the plans and gets rescued by our spunky heroine who wants the “walking carpet” to get our of her way so she do it better than the “old fossil.” But his handiwork has drawn attention and the bad guys show up and they have to fly into the engine cowling of a crashed space craft in order for the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy to outrun a TIE fighter.

[Gargantua]

I wouldn’t find her moisture farm so boring.

[General Veers]

I think you nailed it Frimmel, the trailer looks like a remake of A New Hope.

[LHoffman]

@Gargantua:

I wouldn’t find her moisture farm so boring.

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