Star Wars: Episode VII: The Nerd Rage Awakens

[cooleddie74]

I'll say this much: Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull aren't all that much different from one another in quality, but the earlier film does have both Short Round and the Club Obi-Wan sequence in Shanghai, and it offered some good music and amazing choreography.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I was totally into Temple of Doom, right up until the life raft made its big entrance.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'd just like to remind everyone that the Ewoks threw a helluva party after the Rebel Alliance won the day. They likely served lots of food to all the attending Rebels, if you catch my drift.

Aren't you a little gristly for a Stormtrooper?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6vAuS0KNs

 

[CorporalCaptain]

God, I miss "Yub Nub."

 

[Locutus of Bored]

God, I miss "Yub Nub."

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN62wqBdbxA[/yt]

 

[JD]

I honestly hadn't really thought about that until I first saw people talking about it on here a few months ago. Kind of messed up really.
ETA: By "that" I meant the whole Ewoks eating Stormtroopers thing.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNoEbGJsprI[/yt]

 

[JD]

It always amazes me how things people seem to hate get more attention on the internet than things they actually like.

Did anybody come up with real languages for any of the Star Wars aliens, like they have for Game of Thrones (ok these are languages for fantasy cultures now aliens, but you know what I mean) and Defiance? Or did they just put together a bunch of random sounds and then decide they meant what ever the script said they meant?

 

[Ithekro]

Considering the creature we see in the Ewok Adventures TV movie, the Ewoks were setting traps for things larger than humans that ate meat. Most humans wouldn't be baited into a trap like that, just Chewie. As to eating Solo and the others, he's directly offended their new god, they must be sacrified in the old ways.

The Imperial prisoners would be taken to the fleet as is standard in most wars. Prisoner exchanges, information, or sending keeping until they can be returned to their families in the war's aftermath.

The dead? Well there is a grey area. Does the Alliance send their bodies back to their familes, or just their ID tags and let the Ewoks eat like kings for a week? Or do they know how to salt meats or make things like Trooper Jerky?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Considering the creature we see in the Ewok Adventures TV movie, the Ewoks were setting traps for things larger than humans that ate meat. Most humans wouldn't be baited into a trap like that, just Chewie. As to eating Solo and the others, he's directly offended their new god, they must be sacrified in the old ways.

The Imperial prisoners would be taken to the fleet as is standard in most wars. Prisoner exchanges, information, or sending keeping until they can be returned to their families in the war's aftermath.

The dead? Well there is a grey area. Does the Alliance send their bodies back to their familes, or just their ID tags and let the Ewoks eat like kings for a week? Or do they know how to salt meats or make things like Trooper Jerky?

There may be just a slight bit of tongue-in-cheek in my post, and I don't mean Stormtooper tongue inside the cheek of a feasting Ewok.

It's just food for thought, like those Stormtroopers were food for the Ewoks.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Did anybody come up with real languages for any of the Star Wars aliens, like they have for Game of Thrones (ok these are languages for fantasy cultures now aliens, but you know what I mean) and Defiance? Or did they just put together a bunch of random sounds and then decide they meant what ever the script said they meant?

They used mostly obscure real life languages that were later altered in post-production iirc. Droid languages however were random sounds.

 

[davejames]

I'll say this much: Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull aren't all that much different from one another in quality, but the earlier film does have both Short Round and the Club Obi-Wan sequence in Shanghai, and it offered some good music and amazing choreography.

... and great action and funny banter and practical effects and memorable villains and a badass Indy...

So in other words, all the good stuff Crystal Skull was totally and completely lacking.

 

[cooleddie74]

Eh. I'm still not that big a fan of the movie and never have been, but it has its very good moments. The practical, on-set effects, opticals and miniatures do give the film a more hands-on and raw feel.

 

[fireproof78]

No doubt the Ewoks were made a helluva lot cuter and cuddlier than they should have been, but I still think they provided for a much better underdog against the Empire than the big and fearsome Wookies.

Well if it helps the whole eating people who were cooked alive thing probably detracts from the cute and cuddly thing.

Also makes you wonder what happened to the captured Imperial troops

Does it go something like this?

 

[Ithekro]

One of the book The Essential Guide to Warfare has an interview set a few decades later with one of the surviving Stormtroopers from Endor. He calls recalls a lot of harsh things, but probabaly also embellishes a bit. The funny part of who is doing he interview. Cindel Towani, who had been the little girl of the two Ewoks TV movies, set before the Battle of Endor as seen in Return of the Jedi. She knew the Ewoks all to well having lived with them for months.

 

[JD]

The description for the First Order Stormtrooper action figure has been leaked with a little bit of information about the beginning of the First Order. It's not really anything that most people probably haven't been assuming, but it is a nice bit of confirmation.

 

[Hound of UIster]

So basically

Spoiler: ...

the shattered remnants of the Imperial Military. The Empire lost

.

 

[Mr Light]

Hunh. That's very surprising to me.

 

[FPAlpha]

Yeah that tends to happen when you take out the Top Two leaders of a regime + an immense battlestation and one of their giant command battleships (on top of who knows how many other capital ships) all in one batttle.

The EU went into great detail about the events post Endor but essentially it boilded down to aspiring Moffs and military leaders becoming Warlords in a bid to become the next Emperor thus starting an internal war all the while the Rebellion gaining more power each day by whole systems changing sides bit by bit.

It'll be nice to see where the Empire/First Order really stands once we see the movie.. we sure have seen the aftermath of some pretty big battles in the trailers including the Falcon flying into the internal structure of yet another Super Stardestroyer that crashed on a desert planet.

 

[Ithekro]

There is a logic to the Empire falling. The question becomes, what filled in the void? We have a First Order and a Resistance. The First Order seems like it would be in control for there to be a resistance to it. However, they might not be the only factions in the Galaxy. The notes on the Battle of Jakku mention the New Republic fighting the remains of the Empire just a year or so after Endor. Did the New Republic survive? Is it still a faction in the Galaxy? Did it fail? Are there many Imperial factions across the Galaxy along with Republic factions and independent worlds that are just tired of the ongoing civil war?