Questions about the Force Awakens? Spoilers Obviously

[The Wormhole]

Besides, in the real world parents of people who do horrible things have been known to hold out hope their child can be redeemed someday somehow. To an outside observer this may seem irrational or unrealistic, but as loving parents it stands to reason Han and Leia would hold out hope, no matter how faint.

In fact, that's what I like about Han's death scene. After a lifetime of being a hardened smuggler living among vile gangsters, shady bounty hunters, fighting to restore freedom to the galaxy and learning to shoot first and ask questions later no matter what the special editions try to tell us, Han shouldn't be an easy guy to catch with his guard down. So it stands to reason the only person he would lower his guard around is his estranged son who he is trying to reconcile with. Ren apparently knew this and played Han, thus becoming the only person who can truly swindle the master swindler.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

1. Why didn't Leia go see Luke with Rey and Chewie? She is desperate to find her brother, why didn't she go? She could have left the Resistance for a little while considering they just dealt a big blow to the FO.

In universe reason I just made up - maybe Luke didn't want to see anybody he knows. There was a reason why he was hiding, after all. We also don't know how Han's death affected her.

Out universe reason - the new movies are about new characters, not the old ones

or

Carrie Fisher didn't want to do any on location shooting.

2. Who are the Knights of Ren? and why is Kyle Ren their leader. Are they former Luke students or just non-force followers of Ren?

I got the impression they were all Force users, and probably students of Luke given he was the only one left to train them.

3. How did the First Order get enough resources to build Starkiller base? It took the Empire 20 years to build the first Death Star. Also, the Resistance did not seem to know or care at first about the base until it blew up those planets.

It could have been something the Empire was working on for decades, and was partially unfinished when the Emperor died.

4. Who was Max Von Sydow's character suppose to be? An old ally sure, but is it someone we have seen in the OT?

Former ruler of the plant Mongo.

Questions I have - why didn't Kylo Ren have yellow eyes, or any other physical indications that he was on the path to the dark side? Anakin took all of a day to get his cool yellow eyes!

 

[Ithekro]

4. Who was Max Von Sydow's character suppose to be? An old ally sure, but is it someone we have seen in the OT?

Former ruler of the plant Mongo.

heh.

As for Ren's eyes, he doesn't seem to have enough Dark Side power running through him yet to net yellow eyes. Anakin was letting it flow as he force choked and sliced his way thought the Separatist leadership. I get the feeling Ren just has not gotten his hand as dirty as his grandpa.

 

[Kor]

Palpatine didn't have yellow eyes for most of his appearances in the PT, and he was as deep into the Dark Side as you can get.

And Snoke referred to Kylo Ren as "Master of the Knights of Ren." I think that implies a leadership role within their circle.

Kor

 

[davejames]

The yellow eyes could just be a Sith or Sith apprentice thing. Kylo may be a dark side user, but according to JJ he's not an actual Sith like Vader or Maul.

Either that, or he still just had too much of his parents' "good side" in him in this movie.

 

[DWF]

Why was 3PO's arm red?
What happened to Corasant as the home planet for the Republic?
What happened on Jakku and when?
And if luke didn't want to be found why'd he leave a map to where he hid himself?

 

[The Wormhole]

What happened on Jakku and when?

If you're referring to all the wrecked Star Destroyers, AT-ATs and X-Wings, that's a reference to the Star Wars Battlefront video game.

 

[DWF]

What happened on Jakku and when?

If you're referring to all the wrecked Star Destroyers, AT-ATs and X-Wings, that's a reference to the Star Wars Battlefront video game.

The battle in the game was fought on Jakku? From what I saw there was very little desert terrain in the game footage I saw.

 

[The Wormhole]

What happened on Jakku and when?

If you're referring to all the wrecked Star Destroyers, AT-ATs and X-Wings, that's a reference to the Star Wars Battlefront video game.

The battle in the game was fought on Jakku? From what I saw there was very little desert terrain in the game footage I saw.

The Battle of Jakku

Okay, so in addition to being featured in the game, there's also featured in a novel too.

 

[Kor]

Next question: Where was Constable Zuvio?

Kor

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Why was 3PO's arm red?

Good question. I figured he lost the arm somehow, and the only replacement they had on hand was red. Seems to fit in with the way things work in Star Wars, but it was odd how they pointed it out, never explained it, and had his arm gold again by the end of the film.

On the other hand, maybe he was turning to the dark side, and evil droids are all red. I want to see that movie!

 

[davejames]

In the Visual Dictionary they mention another droid sacrificing himself in some way to save 3PO, and I guess the arm came from that droid. And apparently there's going to be an upcoming comic that details the entire story (because of course there just has to be an entire epic story behind it. Lol).

 

[Orac]

His silver leg in the original film wasn't explained either.

 

[DWF]

Why was 3PO's arm red?

Good question. I figured he lost the arm somehow, and the only replacement they had on hand was red. Seems to fit in with the way things work in Star Wars, but it was odd how they pointed it out, never explained it, and had his arm gold again by the end of the film.

On the other hand, maybe he was turning to the dark side, and evil droids are all red. I want to see that movie!

I thought he was warned about beating a Wookie.

 

[Unicron]

Maybe somebody pissed C-3PO off somehow and he killed them with that arm?

 

[Enterprise1701]

I believe ancillary materials have said that members of the Knights of Ren take on the surname "Ren". Looks to me like they're the Sith rebranded with no stupid rule of two (although I'm not sure if that's still a canon thing with the Legends EU dumped) so that all dark side acolytes (functional successors to the inquisitors in Rebels) are proper "Sith knights", so to speak.

 

[The Wormhole]

I believe ancillary materials have said that members of the Knights of Ren take on the surname "Ren". Looks to me like they're the Sith rebranded with no stupid rule of two (although I'm not sure if that's still a canon thing with the Legends EU dumped) so that all dark side acolytes (functional successors to the inquisitors in Rebels) are proper "Sith knights", so to speak.

Yes, the Rule of Two is still canon. It is spoken of in Phantom Menace when Yoda and Mace are discussing the Sith. "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice." Not to mention, Darth Bane, the guy who instituted the Rule is still canon, he was featured in Clone Wars.

 

[Skywalker]

Maybe somebody pissed C-3PO off somehow and he killed them with that arm?

Maybe he inadvertently beat Chewie in a game of holochess.

 

[DarKush]

I believe ancillary materials have said that members of the Knights of Ren take on the surname "Ren". Looks to me like they're the Sith rebranded with no stupid rule of two (although I'm not sure if that's still a canon thing with the Legends EU dumped) so that all dark side acolytes (functional successors to the inquisitors in Rebels) are proper "Sith knights", so to speak.

The Wormhole already answered the question about if the Rule of Two was canonical. I wanted to address the idea that it's 'stupid'. I don't think it's stupid. It forced the Sith to use guile, and various other means to beat their enemies instead of brute force. I thought the Darth Bane novel trilogy (which unfortunately is now non-canon) explained this pretty well from what I recall. And if there are just two Sith instead of multiple Sith the weaker can't team up to take down the stronger. It's just going to be two very strong Sith. I thought the non-canon EU did a neat job showing how the ancient Sith were legion until Darth Bane realized that force wasn't going to bring down the Republic. So he created and/or instituted the Rule of Two. And he had the Republic turn on itself.

Even in the ROTS novelization Yoda comes to realize that the Sith had evolved while the Jedi had not.

It's interesting that the Legacy comic and also briefly touched on in the novel series Legacy of the Force (both now non-canon) you had new Sith emerge who rejected the Rule of Two. And you had a Lost Tribe of Sith (from the Fate of the Jedi novels), descendants of ancient, pre-Bane times, who also were not adherents to the Rule of Two.

As for the new movies if they do reject the Rule of Two I'm okay with it. I like it, but I'm okay with them doing something different as well. Plus it would allow for more Sith and I can't argue with that.

 

[Tosk]

but it was odd how they pointed it out, never explained it, and had his arm gold again by the end of the film.

3PO mentions that he really should get around to having it replaced. Then he does, off-screen. Do we really need a scene devoted to him having the work done?