I really want to start a thread that says "Greg Gunberg is the Porkins of Episode 7," but I'm not sure if that'll count as a spoiler.
JJ-isms in TFA [Possible spoilers]
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I really want to start a thread that says "Greg Gunberg is the Porkins of Episode 7," but I'm not sure if that'll count as a spoiler.
Does he survive the battle actually? I don't remember seeing him die so I guess he's better than Porkins.
He could totally be Rey's or even better Poe's love interest.
He's got that scruffy, chubby charm.
He could totally be Rey's or even better Poe's love interest.
He's got that scruffy, chubby charm.
I agree. In terms of the look/feel of the film, that first shot still doesn't really feel like it fits in with the rest to me.
The tv show Alias used 47 a lot. Orci and Kurtzman were writers on that Abrams show so 47 came from their Trekiness I'm guessing.
Two possibilities:
1. This is evidence of a history of political instability in the First Order, leading officers who are really too young for their roles filling the highest ranks of the F.O. fleet.
2. Given both the use of clone troopers by the late Republic under Palpatine, and Finn's reference to children raised to be F.O. Storm Troopers without being given names and Captain Phasma's references to re-education/indoctrination, General Hux's apparent biological age of early 30s may not match his actual chronological age.
A red flag in any military is when an individual is moved from being a janitor to a front line soldier. Another red flag - the military has only one capital ship and one base. It seems to me that the First Order put the majority of their emphasis on the base.
The First Order presumably does have other Star Destroyers, at the very least the cell phone commercials do feature a fleet of the new design Destroyers, though they're likely of questionable canonical value.
Finn's line about being on sanitation duty was rather odd. The Stormtroopers are meant to be an elite division of the Army, surely sanitation duty could be handled by ordinary Army or Navy personnel?
Finn's line about being on sanitation duty was rather odd. The Stormtroopers are meant to be an elite division of the Army, surely sanitation duty could be handled by ordinary Army or Navy personnel?
Apparently JJ has a thing for treasure boxes. Like the one Maas had in the basement.
The box Mass had in her basement that Luke's lightsaber was in looked a lot like the chest that Obi-Won takes it out of in his Tatooine residence.
Without knowing what the outside source materials say about how the lightsaber got from the bottom of Cloud City into Maas's hands, I'm guessing somehow it was reunited with Obi-Won's chest (or I'm guessing Anakin's/Vader's other personal belongings) from wherever that stuff went from when Obi-Won left Tatooine and never returned. (I'd guess at some point Luke went there and got some stuff once he had a chance to.)
That actually doesn't make that much sense. They were apparently trained from birth to be Storm Troopers. During that time, he worked in the sanitation department? I guess they were short-staffed for such a large enterprise, but still.
I saw some similarities with Abramstrek.
The Falcon's jump from Hyperspace directly into the atmosphere.
The superweapon ignoring any kind of limits for speed of light, and people on a distant planet being able to see the result instantly (just like Spock saw the destruction of Vulcan).
In Abramsworld, characters learn skills instantly. Kirk went from cadet to captain immediately, and Rey and Finn show lots of super skills without prior training.
The Falcon's jump from Hyperspace directly into the atmosphere.
The superweapon ignoring any kind of limits for speed of light, and people on a distant planet being able to see the result instantly (just like Spock saw the destruction of Vulcan).
In Abramsworld, characters learn skills instantly. Kirk went from cadet to captain immediately, and Rey and Finn show lots of super skills without prior training.
Same cinematographer (Dan Mindel). You can spot his stuff a mile away.
Who knows what trooper training gave him? The other trooper seemed to have no trouble knocking Finn on his ass with a melee weapon. Rey, well... shes a special bloodline. ^_~
Rey seemed to take her skills of initiative and staff training and put them to use in her fight with Kylo Ren.
Finn put his friendship/romance(?) with Rey as well as his own initiative and stormtrooper training into his lightsaber skills. He's not a Jedi, as we see from his moves against Kylo Ren...but he cares for Rey and his other newfound friends.
Kirk jumped from cadet to Captain, but we're never told why he was able to do so when there are many other people on that ship who could have taken command...and who were Commander rank on their way to the Captain rank.
Basically, while we understand the whys and hows with Rey and Finn based on what we're told and what we see...(i.e. good characterization and writing) we are not told the whys and hows with Kirk; we are told not shown with Kirk.
Everyone wants Finn and Rey together, I thought Finn and Poe had more chemistry.
Actually most people here have said that they're happy that the movie didn't push a romantic angle. So I'm not sure where you get that from.
The movie did a good job showing how and why the characters bonded and why they're important to each other as friends.
I agree about that, I was talking about people on the boards here pushing Rey and Finn to be together. Their friendship is one off the most refreshing aspect of the story.