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.

 

[Morrus]

Second viewing is even better.

The first was IMAX 3D and a visual spectacle. Second time I deliberately chose a regular 2D showing so I would be less distracted. I'm glad I did that.

I had some pacing reservations the first time. Second time they kinda vanished. Not sure why. Things weren't all the length I remembered them being.

 

[Umbran]

Or maybe raise your rear shields, fly out of blaster rifle range at normal(?) Speed & then plot a course.....

That'd be great, except they were in an enclosed space! There was a big cargo bay door in the way, and controls for the door are out with the people shooting and the monster eating.

 

[Raunalyn]

Rey and Finn and Poe were all home runs. I can't wait to see the adventures they go on. Rey is still a mystery. Everything within me says she must be Luke's daughter but if that is the case, they're going to really have to convince me (I almost wanted to think she was Han and Leia's daughter...but that simply would not make sense). If she's Luke's daughter 1) why wouldn't Leia feel it or Han consider it. She was left on Jakku as a young girl, but I'm sure old enough to remember the face of her parents. If it was Luke, why was she left behind to such a bad life? So even though Luke pops first to the mind, I don't think she's Luke's daughter. But all the same, I feel she has some connection to the Skywalkers.

Take a look at pictures of Daisy Ridley alongside Natalie Portman and tell me if you see a resemblance. That cannot be coincidental. I agree with you...I think she's Luke's kid.

 

[Morrus]

Take a look at pictures of Daisy Ridley alongside Natalie Portman and tell me if you see a resemblance. That cannot be coincidental. I agree with you...I think she's Luke's kid.

In which case Luke has turned to the dark side if he abandoned his infant child to scavenge on a desert planet.

How long ago did he disappear? She's about 20, I'd guess.

As for resemblance to Portman. I don't see it.

 

[Umbran]

Take a look at pictures of Daisy Ridley alongside Natalie Portman and tell me if you see a resemblance. That cannot be coincidental. I agree with you...I think she's Luke's kid.

Eh. Modern movie standards of beauty make some resemblance pretty likely. That being said, I will be unsurprised if we find out she's a Skywalker, but it will take some storytelling to make it work. Kylo Ren and Rey are too similar in age - she'd have to have been born well before Ben Solo turned, well before Luke went on walkabout.

So, why don't Leia and Han mention this when they're talking about the missing Luke? Han and Leia are not the sorts to ignore the fate of a niece!

 

[Raunalyn]

In which case Luke has turned to the dark side if he abandoned his infant child to scavenge on a desert planet.

How long ago did he disappear? She's about 20, I'd guess.

As for resemblance to Portman. I don't see it.

Not if he doesn't know. Which would, again, echo the original trilogy; Vader did not know about Luke until the second movie.

 

[Umbran]

Not if he doesn't know. Which would, again, echo the original trilogy; Vader did not know about Luke until the second movie.

It isn't a move to the dark side if he does it to protect her, either.

Let's say it is after the Battle of Endor, everything looks good. New Republic starts up. Luke sets up his academy. He finds a lady he likes, starts a relationship....

And then the First Order shows up, and starts taking potshots at him. He takes his academy on the road to avoid those potshots. But anyone with him is still a target. His daughter, maybe still too young, is left behind for her own safety (under the watchful eye of Lor San Tekka, played by Max Von Sydow, who stays close enough to make sure she's okay, far enough to not bring attention to her) while Luke takes the more advanced students on the road.

Luke would *totally* make sure that his daughter's guardian could find him, in case of dire need. Thus Tekka has the map (though this comes later)...

Note that this would separate Ben Solo from his parents, and put him under stress. Luke is busy with all his apprentices, and doesn't have enough time for Ben, who feels Luke, as his uncle, should give him special attention. A pouty teenage boy, effectively sent off to boarding school, told he's special but not getting special attention.... resentment builds... you see where this goes?

 

[darjr]

So what was the first time you saw the falcon? Mine was when they ran past it before the ship they were headed toward blew up. It was a fast blurry glimpse and at first I wasn't sure. Someone said it shows up earlier at a glance.

 

[Morrus]

So what was the first time you saw the falcon? Mine was when they ran past it before the ship they were headed to blew up. It was a fast blurry glimpse and at first I wasn't sure. Someone said it shows up earlier at a glance.

I looked out for it the second time and couldn't see it. I'm not sure they show it.

 

[darjr]

It is blurry and I was I could have imagined it.