Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Paul Farquhar]

The one I still remember is Luke having actual conversations on Tatooine with his friends before they left to join the Rebels. And I think there was a scene where he was using those binocular things of his to watch the battle between Leia's ship and the star destroyer chasing it

I believe these scenes were shot, before the decision was made to start with the droids POV. They are in the radio-play version.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm aware of that. I'm just saying that I would dearly like a resolution to Ahsoka's story as it pertains to the Daughter.

Like the fact that when we see Baylan standing on the outstretched arm of the Father's giant mountainside carving and then the camera pans back to reveal a carving of the Son on one side and the crumbled remains of a carving of the Daughter on the other side ... surely that's gotta mean something, right?!

Part of me likes to think that maybe the Daughter's carving crumbled when the Daughter gave up her life to save Ahsoka's.


Yes, it looks gorgeous, and it has some really nice moments. That final episode on its own is decent. But the whole thing could have been so much better!

Ever since the Mortis episodes, it feels like Filoni's been trying to build up to something big vis-a-vis Ahsoka and the Daughter and the light side of the Force. But this first season of Ahsoka's own show did nothing to further that feeling until right at the very end, when Ahsoka said she was right where she needed to be, which was followed by her seeing Morai ... which was right around the same moment that the carvings of the Mortis gods was revealed as well.

Does Ahsoka have the Daughter's spirit within her? Or is Morai a manifestation of the Daughter's spirit? Is Ahsoka a vessel to bring the Daughter to Peridea to stop Baylan from unleashing the Mother (or what/whoever is at that flashing beacon)?

I mean, yeah, I want to see Hera and Ezra go up against Thrawn and his legions of undead stormtroopers, but I also want Filoni to resolve the whole Mortis thing that he's been dancing around with Ahsoka for the past 13 years.

I don’t think there will ever be a resolution, just eternal build up.

 

[Rabulias]

Luke joins Blue Squadron. The Millennium Falcon has port and starboard turrets rather than dorsal and ventral.

They were port and starboard in the movie, too. What people don't understand is the Millennium Falcon lands on its starboard side.

 

[Rabulias]

I read the paperback version of the novelization in the summer of 1977, before I had a chance to see the movie. I remember there were differences, of course. The one I still remember is Luke having actual conversations on Tatooine with his friends before they left to join the Rebels. And I think there was a scene where he was using those binocular things of his to watch the battle between Leia's ship and the star destroyer chasing it. Or he could see the laser fire, but that was it? And nobody believed him.

I believe these scenes were shot, before the decision was made to start with the droids POV. They are in the radio-play version.

Yes, some of these scenes were shot. You can find some of them as deleted scenes () and there are production still photos around.

I don't remember mention of Sith in the book, but I do remember discussions with other people, and in sci-fi magazines, on what Darth meant and if "Dark Sith" was what it was short for.

A lot of the promotional material for Star Wars at the time referred to Darth Vader as the "Dark Lord of the Sith" without explaining what exactly that was. Much of Star Wars's evocative feel was the way these world-building details (like "the Clone Wars" or the "spice mines of Kessel") were just tossed out and left to the viewer (or reader's) imagination.

 

[MarkB]

They were port and starboard in the movie, too. What people don't understand is the Millennium Falcon lands on its starboard side.

I always loved the way that the gravity changes orientation as you climb up/down into the turrets so that as you emerge you're crawling horizontally along the ladder instead of climbing it, making it easier to get seated and oriented. It's a neat usage of artificial gravity generation that's hardly ever used elsewhere, either in Star Wars or other properties featuring such tech.

 

[amethal]

I read the paperback version of the novelization in the summer of 1977, before I had a chance to see the movie. I remember there were differences, of course. The one I still remember is Luke having actual conversations on Tatooine with his friends before they left to join the Rebels. And I think there was a scene where he was using those binocular things of his to watch the battle between Leia's ship and the star destroyer chasing it. Or he could see the laser fire, but that was it? And nobody believed him. I don't remember mention of Sith in the book, but I do remember discussions with other people, and in sci-fi magazines, on what Darth meant and if "Dark Sith" was what it was short for.

I don't have the book any more, but I seem to remember mention of the Sith in connection with Vader.

A friend of mine has it on ebook and he looked it up for me. The first time we meet Vader, he is described as a Dark Lord of the Sith. We aren't told anything about the Sith except they are scary.