Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[arch101]

By the way, a question I've always had about TESB musical soundtrack, is the bell sound right around the time Vader knocks down Luke and tells him he is beaten part of the musical soundtrack or is it just a sound effect? Either way, I've always liked that, too. It reverberates with a tone, so it does sound like a bell.

That bell sound is a sound effect of the two mens lightsabers hitting the railing. I always with Kirshner had given us a closer shot of that moment because it's the only time in the duel when Luke and Vader are actually physically touching as they push on each other.

 

[cooleddie74]

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Force Has a Delicious Breakfast
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[CorporalCaptain]

What you guys call the Force Theme was just called Ben Kenobi's Theme back in the day.

I can remember the Force Theme being called the Force Theme when I was a kid back in the '70s. So, If it was ever called Ben Kenobi's theme, it wasn't for very long.

Ben Kenobi's theme is what the liner notes on the original two-LP soundtrack release called it, as you can see here (that's page 2 of this article). John Williams describes how, at Lucas's request, he replaced Luke's theme with Ben's theme for the binary subset scene on the notes for Side 4: Track 1, that I'd recounted upthread.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Vader's final assault on Luke in TESB works really well without any music, and the music turning back on when Luke's gets his hand sliced off. That's all really effective, and I've always liked the music of Luke out on the ledge.

That's Williams at his best, without having his work hacked to pieces by last-minute editing and/or incomplete sequences that are left to be scored using tracked music. Without hyperbole, that's one of my biggest criticisms of the PT: How Lucas' and Burtt's editing kept Williams from creating a truly cohesive three-part score.

One of the things I am most looking forward to from TFA is the score - particularly because it seems like Abrams' production process will give Williams ample opportunity to flex his (compositional) muscles.

 

[cooleddie74]

The soundtrack to Empire is one of my favorite if not my absolute favorite of the Star Wars soundtracks. Williams was at his peak for the franchise in that film, and while the later movies have amazing and highly-emotional moments that stir my soul the Episode V soundtrack just stands above all the rest for the sheer number of tracks that have become not only iconic and resonate with fans young and old but also have tremendous power to them.

Even "Yoda's Theme," which is one of John's softer compositions for the franchise, wields an emotional power that few soundtrack pieces in Hollywood history have carried. It's hard to listen to that track and not feel something very special deep down inside. It's the kind of track that makes you glad you're a fan of both Star Wars and music.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

So it's official.. that ice planet where the First Order gathers is the Starkiller base and its the weapon. Just wondering how they move it different systems..

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

 

[Mage]

So it's official.. that ice planet where the First Order gathers is the Starkiller base and its the weapon. Just wondering how they move it different systems..

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

That's been online for a while now I think. And as for how they move it.... It's Star Wars, I'm not gonna wonder about the physics behind it. I'm just gonna sit there and think 'damn, they turned a planet into a weapon.'.

 

[BillJ]

So it's official.. that ice planet where the First Order gathers is the Starkiller base and its the weapon. Just wondering how they move it different systems..

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

They probably don't move it. Probably send the payload through hyperspace.

 

[Mr Light]

In the Old EU, there was an ancient superweapon called Centerpoint Station that sat in orbit of Corellia and could fire a gravity weapon anywhere in the galaxy. It was a construct the size of a moon but it couldn't move.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

That's probably how it's going to be destroyed, maybe the resistance makes it fire on it's own star. Just speculation though.

 

[Richard Baker]

In the Old EU, there was an ancient superweapon called Centerpoint Station that sat in orbit of Corellia and could fire a gravity weapon anywhere in the galaxy. It was a construct the size of a moon but it couldn't move.

There was also the 'Galaxy Gun'...

Having a Death Star the size of a small moon be upped to a planet is in keeping of the bigger/better/more philosophy JJ has shown before.
Have no idea how it fires on other star systems from it's own orbit, but I bet it will be visually spectacular.

 

[cooleddie74]

They probably don't move it. Probably send the payload through hyperspace.

A high-velocity warhead or energy burst targeted across hyperspace could accomplish that, if the First Order has found a way to accelerate something of that size past the light barrier. That way Starkiller Base can remain stationary at all times and still launch attacks across interstellar distances.

 

[Corran Horn]

planet-based sun-crusher. ok.

 

[JD]

I think they must have updated the entry somewhere along the line. I read through all of the databank entries for TFA a month or two ago, and I don't remember reading that description of Starkiller base.

 

[DWF]

Early rumors had the First Order channelling the power of the Starkiller though a ship, the Resistance was supposed to have a super weapon called the Sledgehammer said to able to smash it's way though any ship. There was some speculation pages ago that one weapon would take out the other.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Force Has a Delicious Breakfast
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[cooleddie74]

Oh, you don't need to go all the way to Tijuana to get that from a burrito, good or bad.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

Maybe the Starkiller's power comes from the planet core or something.


Maybe it's a weird kind of core like Naboo's.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Force Has a Delicious Breakfast
Star Wars Episode IX: Revenge of the Pancakes

Would the action figures sell like hotcakes?

 

[Richard Baker]

They probably don't move it. Probably send the payload through hyperspace.

A high-velocity warhead or energy burst targeted across hyperspace could accomplish that, if the First Order has found a way to accelerate something of that size past the light barrier. That way Starkiller Base can remain stationary at all times and still launch attacks across interstellar distances.

Could you use an Interdictor as a defense?