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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 7689951" data-attributes="member: 31754">I didn't have time to read the whole thread, but a couple things stuck out to me.Why does everyone assume the star is completely consumed by the Starkiller base? They only say that the star, "goes dark", not that it is destroyed. I see it as one of two things happening. Either the star's total output is being drained while the main weapon is fired, then released back to the star, where it re-ignites, or all nuclear activity is stopped and the star collapses into a <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=neutron%20star" target="_blank">neutron star</a>. The mass of the star would still be there.Honestly if it only temporarily drained the star then they would never need to move the base at all, just pull some power from the star, fire and let the star re-ignite. Rinse and repeat.Another thing I notice is everyone talking about the similarities between The Force Awakens and previous movies, but ignore the differences. Sure Rey is an orphan, but she grew up alone "on the streets" as it were. Luke had a loving family and a relatively normal childhood (for Star Wars at least). He hung out with his friends and worked on his speeder (a.k.a. car) and did pretty much what most teenage boys do. Rey clawed and scraped to survive and relied on no one but herself. Those seem like two very different stories to me.The rescue from the enemy? Luke and Co infiltrate an Imperial base and bust out the princess in A New Hope. In TFA Finn the Stormtrooper defects from the First Order and grabs a pilot prisoner to help him escape. Again, quite a different story.I loved the new villains. I didn't even know that Snoke was Andy Serkis till I checked out IMDB after I saw the movie. I never got a Gollum vibe, nor did anyone I talked to till I checked this thread. People have already talked about how Kylo Ren is half trained vs. Darth Vader's complete mastery, so I won't go into that.I think Chewbacca really came into his own in this movie. Before he was just there and he fired his bowcaster a few times, but it was nothing special. This time he seemed like a really powerful fighter. His bowcaster was shown to be as powerful as the lore says it is supposed to be. When Han Solo was killed he howls and immediately fires on Kylo Ren, a person that he must have known since he was a baby. Then he blasts his way out like a badass and completes the mission by blowing the charges. He then gets the Falcon and rescues Rey and Finn. He finally felt like a real character and a hero in his own right.Wow, so much to talk about with this movie. I guess that's enough for now. I loved it. Not perfect, but it was really good. It was not the movie we needed, but the movie we wanted. Which was the movie we needed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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