Why in the name of the Force would the Imperials build *yet another* stupid superweapon with an obvious flaw?
There are weaknesses everywhere--they had to hammer this one--a single proton torp wouldn't do.
You succinctly spoke to my biggest gripe with the movie. I felt in some ways it was a paint by the numbers star wars movie. Someone took a hard look at the formula for ANH and essentially updated it. Need a Darth Vader, ok we will add Kylo Ren, we need a Death Star lite weapon, It all felt very generic in some sense.
You have to do that--rather like any movie with the ALIEN has to have the facehugger. The big changes will come
^ Maz was well done. She reminded me of someone I know in real life. Has a similar name too.
Always wanted to see a TIE fighter up close. Why did it just sink and blow up though? Looked like it was being eaten by a giant sand slug or something.
Sandworm--the sleeper--I mean the Force has awakened. This movie even had three shoggoths.
Still, this is a
Star Wars film. Somehow, that's actually what surprised me.
I don't know why--but I was surprised at the opening scene of the words trailing out in back--every film has done that. I guess I've seen so many remakes and what not--that I was expecting something more sedate--with very brief cameos. JJ made this feel different from Trek--and best of all--he had his Bad Robot racing through the grass at the very end of the film.
Loved the new Star Destroyer.
SPOILERS!!!
As far as the main spoiler about a certain death. I saw that coming with the bridge. You knew that wasn't going to be good. Now Star Wars fans know what us trekkies felt back at the end of
STII: TWOK
But that hit harder--at the end of the film. No time for bagpipes here--although they did give us a Genesis moment with the Starkiller base turning into a replacement sun--despite the size disparity. The beloved character is now sunlight.
I don't think we'll see his ghost at the end of this trilogy. Lucus would just have the original cast go off into the sunset--sort of like how
ST The Undiscovered Country ended. I would have taken that, however.
More sad to me--they killed off E!'s
The Soup!
Is nothing sacred? Now this too? That's okay--now that Joel McHale is free, he'll be the new Jedi master---
Dunka Dubawl.
You were meant to believe (Snoke) was just that huge, until he was revealed to be a hologram.
In the very first moment you see his face he reminded me intensely of Gollum, ironically.
I would not be surprised if (Snoke's) actual size is no bigger than Yoda or a Hobbit, if not smaller.
( The name sounds like something from Harry Pothead, I know)
Maybe the name Snoke is a play on 'smoke & mirrors'.
Good call.
I have my own theory about all this:
Now for a
real spoiler. Here is where my force sensitivity may shine a bit--I've been wrong of course--thinking Vengeance would have been called Excelsior--but I wasn't too far off. I thought Matt Smith would lose his Tardis--and it did blow up--so I'm still near the target.
About a quote from another website:
"It occurs to me that- considering they supposedly tossed the Expanded Universe- TFA borrows heavily from it!"
Ben/Kylo instead of Jacen, looking like Revan yes...
But it is more than that.
POSSIBLE ADVANCED SPOILER------------
Remember the anchorites?
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Force_wielder
Here is what I am thinking.
Luke is Snoke.
He is also Skywalker.
Remember, his father was to bring
balance to the force.
Luke must do this now--
to train both Jedi AND Sith--to become like another
Father:
http://www.starwars.com/databank/father
But it backfires.
Evolutionary conflict must go on--to prepare for something worse?
I've often thought the Vong were like entities from the Far Realm in AD&D--atheists of a type.
"For all the evil the enemy do, they aren't dark, exactly—the enemy are entirely outside the Force."
―Jacen Solo (now Kylo)
We are seeing some of the EU in a different form.
Perhaps we go from The Hero with a Thousand Faces to JLB.
Here is what might be a horrible secret even the Jedi might hide.
The real hero in Star Wars wasn't Anakin, as Lucas wanted.
The real hero of Star Wars is the Emperor.
With this vast military Empire in place, the Star Wars Galaxy is at last ready to face the Vong--the real enemy of the Force.
---Luke had to step into Palpatine's role
after all.
*Shades of Borges'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Versions_of_Judas
This is why Luke lost himself--a truth so ugly as to drive a man to leave his friends.
Remember, Snope called Kylo home right as Luke was about to get company.
The Force has awakened
The Anchorites are about to be reborn.
*"God became a man completely, a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of being reprehensible - all the way to the abyss. In order to save us, He could have chosen any of the destinies which together weave the uncertain web of history; He could have been Alexander, or Pythagoras, or Rurik, or Jesus; He chose an infamous destiny: He was Judas."
---JLB
