Star Wars Spoilers Thread [Spoilers]

So here's my review: 100% a Star Wars film which belongs with the original trilogy.

It's a transitional film, but it does it well. The new generation is really good.

I think the major death was kinda signposted a bit. You knew it was coming long before it happened. I felt worse for Chewie, but he, Rey, and BB8 make a great team.

Is this the first Star Wars film where nobody gets their hand cut off?

Luke lives in Ireland, eh?

Question: WHY was there a map to Luke, and why was it split into two? I feel like I missed something. For that matter, why a map and not just some coordinates? Seems like a random puzzle set up for the sake of it.

 

[ccs]

Ah, man, c'mon! Star Wars isn't hard science fiction. It's Space Opera!

Isn't large, terrible weapons built into moving rogue planets that can suck dark energy from a star and send it through hyperspace to destroy an entire solar system the definition of Space Opera?

I think so!

Even Space Opera can go too far.

 

[Istbor]

It was visually interesting, but all in all it was not incredibly important to the story. At least so far as we know so far. Perhaps in the next film we will see the aftermath of a Republic without its head, and the turmoil that creates. No doubt leaving a huge power vacuum for the First Order.

 

[Water Bob]

Speaking of the hyperdrive, I wonder if the whole gravity well issue is no longer canon (which would through out a lot of Star Wars lore, including the Interdictor Cruiser). Or, I wonder if some technological advancement has been made in the last thirty years (since Return of the Jedi) to allow entry and exit of hyperspace closer to a gravity well. In the film, it seems like they are not as bothered by gravity wells as they used to be--especially with Han's trick to bypass the shield on Starkiller Base by going through it at light speed.

 

[Maxperson]

Speaking of the hyperdrive, I wonder if the whole gravity well issue is no longer canon (which would through out a lot of Star Wars lore, including the Interdictor Cruiser). Or, I wonder if some technological advancement has been made in the last thirty years (since Return of the Jedi) to allow entry and exit of hyperspace closer to a gravity well. In the film, it seems like they are not as bothered by gravity wells as they used to be--especially with Han's trick to bypass the shield on Starkiller Base by going through it at light speed.

Perhaps it requires gravity of a certain strength or higher to pull someone out of hyperspace.

 

[TheWriterFantastic™]

Perhaps it requires gravity of a certain strength or higher to pull someone out of hyperspace.

Gravity wells are still canon - they've been revealed as a prototype Imperial weapon on Star Wars Rebels - but the strength of such a weapon, gravitationally, might be somewhere between planetary and solar. How that works without screwing everything else up in the system is anyone's guess - but again, it's a space opera, not hard sci-fi. In the same galaxy that an all powerful Force permeates everything, perhaps a planet based space station can move the planet from system to system after draining stars and still maintain a semi-habitable atmosphere. Logic goes out the window, but I smile and nod, because "Star Wars."

 

[Water Bob]

Gravity wells are still canon - they've been revealed as a prototype Imperial weapon on Star Wars Rebels

Well, it could be a technological advancement then.

 

[Hussar]

Didn't they say that only the six movies are canon? That was Abram's thing wasn't it?

So, no, I don't think gravity wells would be a canon issue, since there was nothing about hyperspace being affected by gravity in the earlier movies. At least I don't remember anything. And, we do see the ships jumping pretty much into orbit around planets. And it's possible to come out of orbit pretty close (for a give value of pretty close) when Vader criticises the commander for bringing the ships out of hyperspace too far from the planet in Empire Strikes Back.

 

[TheWriterFantastic™]

Didn't they say that only the six movies are canon? That was Abram's thing wasn't it?

So, no, I don't think gravity wells would be a canon issue, since there was nothing about hyperspace being affected by gravity in the earlier movies. At least I don't remember anything. And, we do see the ships jumping pretty much into orbit around planets. And it's possible to come out of orbit pretty close (for a give value of pretty close) when Vader criticises the commander for bringing the ships out of hyperspace too far from the planet in Empire Strikes Back.

Actually, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that everything released prior to the acquisition, with the exception of the Saga films and the Clone Wars series (and intro film) was going to be ignored, but everything Disney released going forward would be considered canon (they've put together a storygroup to keep it all consistent), including the new comics, and Star Wars Rebels. Rebels ran a story with gravity wells, so it's canon.

 

[Maxperson]

Didn't they say that only the six movies are canon? That was Abram's thing wasn't it?

So, no, I don't think gravity wells would be a canon issue, since there was nothing about hyperspace being affected by gravity in the earlier movies. At least I don't remember anything. And, we do see the ships jumping pretty much into orbit around planets. And it's possible to come out of orbit pretty close (for a give value of pretty close) when Vader criticises the commander for bringing the ships out of hyperspace too far from the planet in Empire Strikes Back.

First, I'd have to watch them again, but I thought it was mentioned at some point in Episodes IV-VI. Second, I really think that force choking a commander to death exceeds simple criticism by juuuuuuuuuust a bit

 

[Water Bob]

LOL! I got an itch to watch some Star Trek lately, so I've revisited Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, and Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

On DS9's second episode, Odo is investigating a murder and looks at a screen in a room aboard a ship that is docked with the station. The cut to the screen was quick, so I decided to back it up and pause it.

It was kinda neat. It was an itinerary for the ship's passenger. There's an entry for each major event that the passenger experienced. They had a lifeboat drill. The passenger had a personal meeting with another character. There were a few other things.

The entry that logged the ship's previous port? It read: Departure from Alderaan.

LOL.