References to the Prequel Trilogy?

[Set Harth]

Phasma was not always intended to be female.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Phasma was not always intended to be at all. The silver Stormtrooper armor started life as a concept sketch for Kylo-Ren. They decided obviously to go in a different direction but liked the idea enough to develop the captain.

 

[shapeshifter]

There were a few musical queues back to the PT.

They used the Force theme a few times and the ending was reminiscent to the one from Revenge Of The Sith but I don't otherwise recall a single theme from the prequels being used; Nor really all that many from the original trilogy either, for that matter.

They didn't use full themes, but there were a few recognizable bits that were only a few bars long that were from the prequels.

The choral SNOKE theme was used in RotS when Palpatine was telling Anakin about Plagueis. Hmmm...

 

[Lonemagpie]

Phasma was not always intended to be at all. The silver Stormtrooper armor started life as a concept sketch for Kylo-Ren. They decided obviously to go in a different direction but liked the idea enough to develop the captain.

Oddly enough, at that stage, Snoke was supposed to be female...

 

[RoJoHen]

Phasma was not always intended to be at all. The silver Stormtrooper armor started life as a concept sketch for Kylo-Ren. They decided obviously to go in a different direction but liked the idea enough to develop the captain.

You can't just get rid of a character like that. You'd miss out on so many toy sales!

 

[Kor]

^ They took Constable Zuvio out of the movie, but they are still selling an action figure of him anyway!

Kor

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I'd add some spoiler tags if I were you.

That being said, while I tend to agree, in a world where a parsec is a measure of time, I'm going to assume something through hyperspace can be seen in real time regardless of the speed of light.

The parsec reference was tongue-in-cheek here, but I guess it really is undeniable canon, now.

I recall reading that the beam can be seen with the naked eye wherever it goes through because it tears hyperspace up or something.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The planet explosions are harder to explain, though. Not only should those take years to reach them, but they shouldn't be so far apart if it's one system.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

The Visual Guide Book reveals that Hosnian Prime was only the temporary capital of the New Republic. That it rotates to different planets which are members of the New Republic after periods of time. Explaining that this helped many members of the Old Republic to return. Particularly ones which tired to leave during the Clone Wars. Coruscant was avoided to distance from all that history and its association with the Empire.

I am curious what this means for the sequels. Clearly the writers did not want to destroy Coruscant.

That means that Coruscant will be back in the next movies as the capitol, and that the rest of the races in the galaxy will get over what happened in the past vis-a-vis Coruscant and past associations with whatever bad happened, and just stay with it. Good to see this happening.

 

[Kor]

The planet explosions are harder to explain, though. Not only should those take years to reach them, but they shouldn't be so far apart if it's one system.

Hyperspace refractions.

Kor

 

[CommanderRaytas]

The planet explosions are harder to explain, though. Not only should those take years to reach them, but they shouldn't be so far apart if it's one system.

Hyperspace refractions.

Kor

What he said.

 

[Shazam!]

"At one point, Hayden Christensen would return as the Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker. He'd appear as himself to Rey and as Darth Vader to Kylo Ren, since Anakin is the first Jedi to embrace both the Light and the Dark Side"

I quite like that as an idea.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Force-Ghost Anakin about Kylo: "Wow, was I really this difficult in my day?"
Force-Ghost Obi-Wan: "Are you kidding? You were a trillion times worse."

If Anakin were to appear to his daughter's offspring and tell him "Son, I actually converted back to the Light Side, so stop that juvenile nonsense and go apologise to your mom", wouldn't that kind of kill the drama? I'm just wondering.

 

[Skywalker]

The planet explosions are harder to explain, though. Not only should those take years to reach them, but they shouldn't be so far apart if it's one system.

During the Resistance briefing when they planned their attack on the Starkiller, the pilot played by Greg Grunberg said that the base fired some kind of hyper-lightspeed beam, which I guess means they figured out a way to accelerate the beams past lightspeed, or into hyperspace itself.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Right, I'm OK with the beam, it's the explosion I'm more dubious about.

 

[Skywalker]

Oh! My bad, I thought you meant it should have taken years for the beam to reach the planets. Yeah, I agree with you on that one, it's really the only part of the movie that still bugs me.

 

[Shazam!]

Things millions of miles away visible in realtime is a bit of an Abrams' trope.

 

[mos6507]

I thought the children's voices relate to something that happened at the new academy.

I assumed it was the sound of all those childhoods being molested back in 1999.

Not molested, destroyed.

 

[Set Harth]

Molested and killed?

This deal is getting worse all the time!

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Right, I'm OK with the beam, it's the explosion I'm more dubious about.

The explosion came through because the hyperspace conduit was still open somewhat when the planets blew up?