Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion (HERE THERE BE SPOILERS)

[JD]

They just released a new LEGO TFA game trailer focused on the new pre-TFA stories, which reveals that the game will have new dialogue from the TFA cast. I wonder if this actual dialogue recorded specifically for the game, or if they just used already recorded stuff that just didn't make it into the movie? It would be pretty cool if actually got Harrison Ford to record dialogue for a LEGO video game.

 

[B.J.]

Mark Hamill's a very accomplished voice actor, I bet his part sounds gr..... oh wait.

 

[JD]

I'm still amazed they never got Hamill to do new dialogue for Luke in any of the games.
I'm curious what the canonacity of the new stories will be? Obviously all of the jokey LEGOness will be non-canon, but that doesn't mean the basic stories couldn't have happened.

 

[Corran Horn]

I'm still amazed they never got Hamill to do new dialogue for Luke in any of the games.
I'm curious what the canonacity of the new stories will be? Obviously all of the jokey LEGOness will be non-canon, but that doesn't mean the basic stories couldn't have happened.

They didn't get him for JKII when he was already working with Raven for something else, which was funny.

 

[JD]

Star Wars.com has the full version of Jabba Flow, the song playing at Maz's Castle in TFA.
EDIT: And there's also a video of Abrams performing it live with Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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[fireproof78]

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[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this, so apologies if this is a repeat. I found it quite amusing.

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Kor

I have. I love HISHE videos.

 

[Mr Light]

Did anybody watch the "The Resistance Rises" Lego shorts that aired 5/4/16 on Disney XD? There were four five minute shorts. They were cute. They stared Han, Rey, Finn, and Maz showing what they did right before TFA started.

 

[cooleddie74]

No, I didn't. I don't have Disney XD as part of my cable package so I have to watch episodes of Rebels online. Maybe the new shorts are posted online.

 

[Ithekro]

I was looking over the more recent galactic maps put out for TFA and the slightly older maps that came out while TCW was on the air. I noticed something that could be disturbing (and I'm sure it was noticed before). Starkiller Base's Origin Point location....could Starkiller Base's planet have been Ilum?

That would be something Palpatine would do, turn the Jedi's source of lightsaber kyber crystals into his own superweapon. Though that would point to Starkiller Base having been an older Imperial project that just took longer than the Death Stars to build, and the Death Stars being something like a stop gap (How could a pair of small moon sized planet killers be considered stop gap messures?) Or the Death Stars being proof of potential before going all out with a superweapon that can fire at least halfway across the galaxy at multiple targets and can move on its own?

 

[Reverend]

^I'm sure there's more than one snow planet in the Unknown Regions. That aside, there's no indication that Starkiller base used kyber crystals. And if it did, it's probably worth noting that the beam is red, not blue or green (or purple?) like Iilum's crystal deposits. If I had to guess I'd say it's more likely that Iilum was strip-mined for the Death Star project fairly early on.

 

[Set Harth]

When they came up with the name "Ileenium system" for TFA, I wonder if they were thinking of Ilum.

 

[Reverend]

I doubt it. Aside from containing the same letters, the two planets have nothing significant in common. Knowing JJ it's probably some Beastie Boys reference.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Check this out ... There was an alternate opening to the movie. Confirmed by Mark Hammil

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-force-awakens-opening-sequence-lightsaber/

 

[Skywalker]

Thank goodness they changed their minds.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Thank goodness they changed their minds.

Indeed.

How on Earth would Luke's hand have gotten there anyway? Wasn't his hand cut off like 2 whole movies before this?

 

[Reverend]

Indeed.

How on Earth would Luke's hand have gotten there anyway? Wasn't his hand cut off like 2 whole movies before this?

If the rest of the movie proceeded as it ended up doing, then one might suppose that scene would have taken place long before the events of the rest of the movie. I can suppose a few scenarios that could end with that image.
Clearly someone recovered it at some point, perhaps even in the immediate aftermath of tESB. Since the civilians were all told to evacuate, probably a maintenance droid or an Imperial tech. No doubt there's an underground market for lightsabers and while leaving a severed hand attached would be macabre, but hardly beyond the pale for certain black market clientèle.
As for how it could end up falling from orbit; maybe the ship that was transporting it was attacked and destroyed?

It's still a bad idea and it's for the best that they dropped it.

 

[JD]

It seems weird to me that it would end up on Jakku of all places, and then not actually have anything to do with all of the stuff that happens on Jakku in the rest of the movie.

 

[Reverend]

It seems weird to me that it would end up on Jakku of all places, and then not actually have anything to do with all of the stuff that happens on Jakku in the rest of the movie.

You could also say that about the Falcon being there too. Hell, you could also say it about Maz being the one Solo decided to take them to. No doubt there were other alternatives. Either way, the implication seems to be that there's some serious "will of the force" hocus pocus afoot.

At least with the sabre there's a half-way plausible explanation for it falling to Jakku if it was aboard one of the Imperial ships that was destroyed in orbit. Before they all bolted for the unknown regions I can see some Moff or Admiral looting one or more of Palpatine's storehouses without actually knowing all of what's in there.

 

[Ithekro]

The lightsaber's tale will be told someday. It may be disappointing. It has spurts of use, then long periods of sitting in boxes.

After the beginning of the Clone Wars, this lightsaber was built by Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight, and used heavily for about three year in the Clone Wars. At the end of the Clone Wars, for a few days, it was the lightsaber of Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and slaughtered a whole lot of Jedi, younglings, and Seperatist leaders. It then fell on Mustafar when Vader loses three limbs to Obi-wan Kenobi.

The lightsaber was taken by Obi-wan Kenobi to sit for near two decades in a box on Tatooine. He may have modified it a bit in that time.

Obi-wan gives it to Luke Skywalker who used it for about three years as he learns about the Force. He than gets his hand cut off by the lightsaber's building (Darth Vader) on Bespin. We lose track of it at this point, only knowing that in three decades it will be in a box under Maz's care. It may have been modified in this time.

It is passed from Maz Kanata to Finn after briefly attracting the interest of its next owner. Finn uses it for a few days at best, striking down a few stormtroopers before getting it pulled form his hand my force on combat. It is then attempted to be picked up by Kylo Ren (nephew of Luke Skywalker and grandson of Anakin Skywalker), but it instead goes to the hand of Rey, who uses it to defeat Kylo Ren (after a bit). Rey than takes the lightsaber back to Luke Skywalker.....