Author Topic: Star Wars:The Rise Of Skywalker (Read 63533 times)

Scylla · « **on:** 04/12/2019 05:19 pm »

Fresh from Star Wars Celebration, the first trailer.
One word......Palpatine.

jstrotha0975 · « **Reply #1 on:** 04/12/2019 10:09 pm »

Quote from: Scylla on 04/12/2019 05:19 pm

Fresh from Star Wars Celebration, the first trailer.
One word......Palpatine.

Disney isn't getting a penny from me because of the last mess they made.

Kansan52 · « **Reply #2 on:** 04/12/2019 10:26 pm »

Disney hasn't disappointed me any worse than other producers. So I'll be there.

I remember one early George Lucas interview where he stated there was enough in his imagined story arc for over a hundred movies (memory says hundreds of movies) but he had settled on three trilogies. The will be the last movie of the last trilogy.

Star One · « **Reply #3 on:** 04/12/2019 10:34 pm »

Quote from: Kansan52 on 04/12/2019 10:26 pm

Disney hasn't disappointed me any worse than other producers. So I'll be there.

I remember one early George Lucas interview where he stated there was enough in his imagined story arc for over a hundred movies (memory says hundreds of movies) but he had settled on three trilogies. The will be the last movie of the last trilogy.

Apparently they are planning a lengthy hiatus after this film.

sanman · « **Reply #4 on:** 04/12/2019 10:41 pm »

Quote from: Scylla on 04/12/2019 05:19 pm

Fresh from Star Wars Celebration, the first trailer.
One word......Palpatine.

Okay, I hear Palpatine's evil laugh - but are they also implying a Biblical-style resurrection of Luke Skywalker?
Is that Mark Hamill doing the voiceover?

Kansan52 · « **Reply #5 on:** 04/12/2019 10:42 pm »

Quote from: Star One on 04/12/2019 10:34 pm

Apparently they are planning a lengthy hiatus after this film.

Conspiracy filter <ON>

All the better to sell us streaming versions!

Conspiracy filter <OFF>

rakaydos · « **Reply #6 on:** 04/13/2019 12:20 am »

Quote from: sanman on 04/12/2019 10:41 pm

Quote from: Scylla on 04/12/2019 05:19 pm
Fresh from Star Wars Celebration, the first trailer.
One word......Palpatine.

Okay, I hear Palpatine's evil laugh - but are they also implying a Biblical-style resurrection of Luke Skywalker?
Is that Mark Hamill doing the voiceover?

Wrong Skywalker. Palpatine wasnt the only one to die on endor.

Coastal Ron · « **Reply #7 on:** 04/13/2019 12:36 am »

Quote from: Kansan52 on 04/12/2019 10:26 pm

Disney hasn't disappointed me any worse than other producers. So I'll be there.

I remember one early George Lucas interview where he stated there was enough in his imagined story arc for over a hundred movies (memory says hundreds of movies) but he had settled on three trilogies.

Maybe so, but hasn't there been a hundred books in the Star Wars universe? Of course many of them are no longer canon...

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The will be the last movie of the last trilogy.

Disney didn't buy Star Wars to end the Star Wars saga. There will be another...

sanman · « **Reply #8 on:** 04/13/2019 02:05 am »

Quote from: rakaydos on 04/13/2019 12:20 am

Wrong Skywalker. Palpatine wasnt the only one to die on endor.

You mean AnakinSkywalker/DarthVader may get resurrected? Wow.

Well, technically we did get to see him as a force ghost at the end of RoJ. So he was already resurrected in way - just not corporeally.

This is beginning to sound like Star Trek III: Search for Spock.

So they're going to Endor? Does that mean we get to see the Ewoks again?

sanman · « **Reply #9 on:** 04/13/2019 04:40 am »

MacDiarmid can't die - he enjoys the stage too much:

Ben the Space Brit · « **Reply #10 on:** 04/13/2019 06:20 am »

So long as Lucasfilm can stop denigrating the established characters (making the OT characters die as has-been failures), tone down its sexism (making all male characters all either jerks, idiots, villains or combinations of all three) and try to eliminate racism (making minority characters exclusively comic relief like Finn and Rose are), I will at least check reviews from both sides of the aisle before making a choice. I might even be able to tolerate Mary Sue Palpatine (Rey).

Yes, I'm pretty sure that Rey is going to turn out to be Palpatine's great niece or something similar. Her connection with the Dark Side suggests that she has a major-league Sith in her recent history.

Nomadd · « **Reply #11 on:** 04/13/2019 09:11 am »

Let's just hope that it can uphold the high standards of Solo, which was liked by well over a hundred people worldwide. (Most of them cast and crew family members, but they count)

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It would be great if Disney left the politics out of it's movies. I don't need to be told how to live my life.

Trailer seems pretty benign. What about it suggests intrusion on your politics, much lest telling you how to live your life? Unless you are are overly-sensitive and see boogie-men threatening you at every glance? Or maybe you just feel the need to vent? In any case, take it to twitter; your knee-jerk crap adds no value and is not welcome here.

You're kidding right? They should have named the Last Jedi the Last Social Justice Warrior.

Can we not have this kind of political nonsense on here. Thanks.

Kinda hard to do when you're discussing movies full of political nonsense.

mme · « **Reply #12 on:** 04/13/2019 10:01 am »

Quote from: Nomadd on 04/13/2019 09:11 am

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You're kidding right? They should have named the Last Jedi the Last Social Justice Warrior.
Can we not have this kind of political nonsense on here. Thanks.
Kinda hard to do when you're discussing movies full of political nonsense.

Et tu, Brute?

b0objunior · « **Reply #13 on:** 04/13/2019 11:12 am »

This tread right now

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #14 on:** 04/13/2019 12:10 pm »

It's a frakking fantasy movie, not a documentary. Give it a rest with the political sobbing.

This was ignored, so now you've all lost your posts.

laszlo · « **Reply #15 on:** 04/13/2019 12:12 pm »

OK, my pet peeve about the trailer is a little bit different. It's that hunk of the Deathstar sitting out in the bay (or whatever). When you have a mountain-sized piece of metal hit a planet at orbital speeds you have an extinction event, not a piece of wreckage perched in an otherwise-unharmed coast. There should have been a crater hundreds of miles across. The impactor should have been vaporized and spread out as a fine dust over the scorched surface of the planet, even if it was made of unobtainium. LEO (low Endorrian orbit) should be a debris-filled death zone over a nearly lifeless planet.

The dead Imperial destroyers in the desert in the last movie were marginal enough, but at least there could be a possibility of a dying crew/control system guiding a vaguely lifting body shape to a mostly non-destructive landing. Never mind the politics and social activism (if any) - put the science back into science fiction!

tonya · « **Reply #16 on:** 04/13/2019 12:45 pm »

Quote from: laszlo on 04/13/2019 12:12 pm

OK, my pet peeve about the trailer is a little bit different. It's that hunk of the Deathstar sitting out in the bay (or whatever). When you have a mountain-sized piece of metal hit a planet at orbital speeds you have an extinction event, not a piece of wreckage perched in an otherwise-unharmed coast. There should have been a crater hundreds of miles across. The impactor should have been vaporized and spread out as a fine dust over the scorched surface of the planet, even if it was made of unobtainium. LEO (low Endorrian orbit) should be a debris-filled death zone over a nearly lifeless planet.

The dead Imperial destroyers in the desert in the last movie were marginal enough, but at least there could be a possibility of a dying crew/control system guiding a vaguely lifting body shape to a mostly non-destructive landing. Never mind the politics and social activism (if any) - put the science back into science fiction!

Low Endorrian Orbit, but at the same time maintaining a stable fixed point above the shield generator on the surface. There are people who have written books trying to explain Star Wars physics, and they have my sympathies!

MATTBLAK · « **Reply #17 on:** 04/13/2019 12:50 pm »

It was portrayed as being in pretty low orbit above Endor. And; it was a huge structure with artificial gravity. Collapsing artificial gravity fields might have caused a decelerative, cushioning effect on a structure that was designed - lest we forget - to withstand the heat and stresses of gigawatts to the 12th power (sic) output.

Also; when that thing exploded - how was that hemisphere of Endor not irradiated?! Never mind - as someone just said; this is a fantasy. Just go with it...

nacnud · « **Reply #18 on:** 04/13/2019 01:06 pm »

Quote from: laszlo on 04/13/2019 12:12 pm

When you have a mountain-sized piece of metal hit a planet at orbital speeds you have an extinction event, not a piece of wreckage perched in an otherwise-unharmed coast.

I guess it wasn't in orbit then, just in space with something else keeping it up, sky hooks maybe or buttered cat arrays?

laszlo · « **Reply #19 on:** 04/13/2019 01:09 pm »

Quote from: MATTBLAK on 04/13/2019 12:50 pm

...And; it was a huge structure with artificial gravity...

Do you suppose it did? Or, since it was planetoid-sized, was it just the natural gravity of a large object? I've often wondered about whether it raised tides as it approached watery planets. Also if Doc Smith's free planets used as projectiles disrupted the stability of planetary systems even when they missed. Guess I need to get a life.