Once again, you manage to verbalize my thoughts on pretty much everything. There are a few things up there that I hadn't thought about (like climbing, and the Refusing the Call thing, and I had no theories on Snoke). But I agree with those things now that you've said them.
Instead of Star Killer can we call it the Deadlier Star? Deathlier Star.
Who is Captain Phasma? Was that Brienne the Beauty?
So yeah, overall I liked it and aside from wishing they came up with a different weapon, was okay with it being a homage. I like homages.
Can you tell me what the point of the Resistance was, though? Why can't the New Republic just send their ships out, what is the purpose of having an autonomous military group that . . . supports the established government? I don't get it. Are they like Halliburton or something?
I still am confused by the Resistance & First Order. Maybe the Resistance is like a branch of the Republic military? What planet was that that got blown up anyhow?
YES that was the Maid of the Emerald Isles.
You mean like "whip lightsaber" or something?
I kinda think she might go double bladed, to fit with her staff fighting. Or a "naginata"?
No no, when I said weapon I meant the Deathlier Star. Like, last time it was a station the size of a moon that could blow up a planet! Now it's a station the size of a . . . planet . . . and it sucks up a STAR to blow up SEVERAL planets!! I dunno, that's not innovative, that's just . . . bigger.
I've been speculating about the First Order and how they got the starkiller base - their fleet seems pretty inconsequential compared to the emprire's - and the ruins everywhere of the ancient space war - and their holding down the scavengers makes me feel like - they didn't so much inherit the empire but are co-opting it's remains - and that the starkiller base is from some other place/time - a gift of the Snoke character. Like - the empire was only a little bit a proxy of the light/dark side conflict - it really was a big deal and the light/dark was almost overshadowed by it. This time the light/dark seems more significant and the political factions seem more like a veneer overtop that
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I think that's possibly right on about Snoke. It's not old mothballed ships pounding the Republic, which is what I would have imagined. Then again, the whole grabbing kids to raise 'em into a caste system thing shows they've been around for at least 30 years; maybe the message we're supposed to be getting is more of "efficiency of brutality" that moved into the power vacuum? I mean that's it, right? You knock over your least favorite dictator & then the next folks who run in are twice as bad.
While I appreciated the joke, I would have been disappointed if Luke went back to Tattooine. First, shut up about that planet, why does every movie go there. Two, Tattooine blows, & like Luke says, there's nothing for him there now. Three, too much ripping of the first movie. I was pretty happy to see that he was on a water world. Plus, Ged.
I have always agreed with that reading, but I still don't like that reading, I just wish the prequels were better.
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Instead of Star Killer can we call it the Deadlier Star? Deathlier Star.
Who is Captain Phasma? Was that Brienne the Beauty?
So yeah, overall I liked it and aside from wishing they came up with a different weapon, was okay with it being a homage. I like homages.
Can you tell me what the point of the Resistance was, though? Why can't the New Republic just send their ships out, what is the purpose of having an autonomous military group that . . . supports the established government? I don't get it. Are they like Halliburton or something?
(I have more to say but I'm at work.)
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YES that was the Maid of the Emerald Isles.
You mean like "whip lightsaber" or something?
I kinda think she might go double bladed, to fit with her staff fighting. Or a "naginata"?
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While I appreciated the joke, I would have been disappointed if Luke went back to Tattooine. First, shut up about that planet, why does every movie go there. Two, Tattooine blows, & like Luke says, there's nothing for him there now. Three, too much ripping of the first movie. I was pretty happy to see that he was on a water world. Plus, Ged.
I have always agreed with that reading, but I still don't like that reading, I just wish the prequels were better.
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