That's everything from the trailers now we've seen isn't it. Completely uncharted waters lay beyond..
Not quite. There's still purge troopers and a blaster fight to come.
Are you kidding? An obsessive compulsive like that would practice at least twice a day.
I know Offee is a more likely candidate for something like that, but they seem to be building Reva up as Vader's apprentice -- Ahsoka's dark counterpart, if you will.
From what I can tell, Reva is a character created specifically for this story. Barris is a character that seems to have been deliberately ringfenced for the last decade or so, precisely because Dave has a story in mind for her. It's doubtful that of those two, Reva is the one (if any) he chooses to utilise as Ahsoka's opposite number.
Aiki. Short for aikido, or aikijujitsu. The two are essentially the same thing- aikijitsu is the original form of the art, much harder with a lot more strikes. The latter is the softer, more stylized modern version (Aikikai) that Ueshiba Morihei developed after WWII. There are a couple other schools of Aikido deriving from aikikai- the one I trained in years ago was Yoshinkan, which is more the style as Ueshiba taught it before WWII. It's a little harder, and was taught by one of Ueshiba's former live in students (uchi-deshi), Gozo Shioda. It's also the style taught to the Tokyo Metro Police.
I've seen plenty of expert analysis of the sword fighting over the years (some of it even by actual experts) but I've never seen just a pure unarmed martial arts take on some of the fights from someone that knows what they're talking about. Granted there isn't much to go on (mostly Ahsoka, oddly enough) but there does appear to be a somewhat thought out style. Lots of simple direct punches and kicks, but also some throws, roundhouses and whatever that helicoptering legs thing Ahsoka did in the walkabout arc. I guess there's also Qi'ra's couple of fights that's meant to be Teräs Käsi. Can't remember it having a disenable style though.
I'm watching it a second time and I'm realizing the one thing that is desperately missing. The Imperial March.
Absent? Certainly. Missing? I'd say not. That's a theme you save for when it really calls for it. The danger with leitmotifs is in overusing them whenever a character makes an entrance, they loose their punch. Indeed if you listen carefully to how John Williams scored the movies, you can hear how he used them thematically as often as literally.
Care to guess when the force theme is first heard in ANH? It's not Binary Sunsets scene, it's when we first get a glimpse of Leia as she's giving R2 the plans, right before her own theme plays for the first time. Because at that point, it was supposed to be Ben's theme, and this is a message for him.
Speaking of Leia's theme, I don't think we've heard that yet either, or indeed Luke's theme. So I rather appreciate how restrained the score is being about it so far. I'm sure there will be moments ahead when those scenes do pop up, but I suspect it'll be save for maximum effect, one way or the other.
Yeah, very briefly and low key in the
Krennic/Vader meeting. For the most part though, the Empire itself is represented by a new theme derived from the 'Stormtroopers/Death Star' theme from ANH. It's also partially quoted right at the tail end of Vader's corridor fight sequence too, but it's left deliberately hanging because the chase is still on.
