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2015/10/19 01:36:25
Subject: Re:[io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Plot twist. Maybe it belongs to the Resistance!
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I think that's likely given the side of the poster it appears on.
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2015/10/19 01:50:49
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
I think that's likely given the side of the poster it appears on.
That side of the poster also has stormtroopers and star destroyers on it, so I don't think that actually means anything. The Deathball of Doom MkIII is just on that side because Kylo Ren's head is on the other...
Interesting to note the complete absence of Luke from the poster. Would seem to back up the early rumours that this movie is essentially 'The Search for Luke', with Hamill not actually having a big part in the movie.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It's a damned sexy poster, though.
I am a trifle disappointed if it does turn out to be just 'Let's destroy the Death Star again'... but I think I can live with it.
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2015/10/19 01:58:49
Subject: Re:[io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
Maybe at least it'll take them a few movies to destroy it
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
The Planet Killer was a large, spherical superweapon designed to destroy the planet it was detonated upon. In 22 BBY, during the Clone Wars, the Planet Killer's designer attempted to sell the superweapon to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Count Dooku, the leader of the Separatist movement, arranged for the Planet Killer to be tested on a planet home to a number of living organisms. However, unbeknownst to the Separatists, Jedi Master Mace Windu disabled the Planet Killer before it could be activated, and Dooku, considering the Planet Killer to have failed its test, had the superweapon's designer taken prisoner.
So, maybe an old tech rediscovered in the Empire's archives and found to actually be able to work like intended?
It would make it an easier weapon to deploy for a army who needs to remain mobile.
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2015/10/19 03:15:27
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
I will say that as time has gone on Star Wars posters have had more and more stuff on them.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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2015/10/19 06:48:35
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
has various teasers -- 6 or so ? -- for the new trailer, which supposedly drops later today.
all very quick.
.. but damn even the sound FX get ya going
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2015/10/19 08:37:00
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
So the Empire build something the size of a moon to blow up planets... Now the First Order build something the size of a planet (in fact, it looks to have an atmosphere. Bet it is a planet) to blow up suns, because they're EVEN MORE EVIL!
I completely approve. Rebels, you're going to need a bigger boat...
2015/10/19 09:08:06
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Nah, Crusher isn't even in the canon. /rubsitin. Well, at least not yet ... They've managed to take a lot of stuff that was never canon and make it so, though (most of it from the old Role playing game that provided the "writer's bible" for the EU). Coruscant, Sienar fleet systems, a few other things.
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2015/10/19 11:35:01
Subject: Re:[io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Am I he only one who see's Death Star III and thinks I AM UNICRON! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT MY DESTINY!
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2015/10/19 11:48:19
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Nah, Crusher isn't even in the canon. /rubsitin. Well, at least not yet ... They've managed to take a lot of stuff that was never canon and make it so, though (most of it from the old Role playing game that provided the "writer's bible" for the EU). Coruscant, Sienar fleet systems, a few other things.
Also lots of stuff from the film scripts that was never explicitly stated on screen. Basically, if it it appeared on a screen, it is canon and has a couple paragraphs about it already even if it was a very minor person/thing. All the way from random X-Wing pilot #9 to who made that particular blaster pistol that appeared for all of ten seconds.
Breotan wrote: A fan has redone the poster to give it even greater glory.
Spoiler:
meesa have a bad feelin' bout dis
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2015/10/19 20:02:58
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
As much as I hate Jar-jar, thats not a bad photoshop edit. There some skills there.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
"It's true. All of it. The Dark Side. The Jedi. They're real."
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2015/10/20 02:43:24
Subject: Re:[io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
d-usa wrote: "When the Internet sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending posters that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing strawmen. They're bringing spam. They're trolls. And some, I assume, are good people."
2015/10/20 02:47:37
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Wow, people in this universe forget things very quickly.
Hopefully they can explain why over 60 years or so people keep forgetting these things.
Had the prequels made the Jedi out to be elusive and more monk like then it could be plausible. But instead it makes out the jedi are common and nothing special so it doesn't make much sense for continuity.
Awesome trailer without sound. Look forward to seeing it without sound.
2015/10/20 02:48:01
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
When luke puts his hand on R2D2 it looks like the same place where the Storm Troopers plus red saber crusader are assaulting. I will assume that that assault is a hunt for Luke which drives Luke out of hiding and then will have an impact on the story or something.
2015/10/20 02:58:08
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Swastakowey wrote: Wow, people in this universe forget things very quickly.
Hopefully they can explain why over 60 years or so people keep forgetting these things.
Had the prequels made the Jedi out to be elusive and more monk like then it could be plausible. But instead it makes out the jedi are common and nothing special so it doesn't make much sense for continuity.
60 years should be more than enough time for a totalitarian regime to rewrite the history books the way they want them. Particularly in a galaxy where communication between planets is patchy unless you have a lot of money, and so to many the Jedi were never going to have been more than a story anyway... It's entirely believable that on some backwater world, a generation could have grown up in that time who have only heard of the Jedi and the Rebellion as legends at best.
2015/10/20 02:58:22
Subject: [io9] Let's Dissect the Crap Out of This New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shot
Swastakowey wrote: Wow, people in this universe forget things very quickly.
Not so much forget things as much as jump back to how things were before the EU (where the Force and the peoples who used it were little known or mythical figures that people often doubted were real). It's an angle Lucas started playing up before handing the franchise over to Disney.
Hopefully they can explain why over 60 years or so people keep forgetting these things.
Because they weren't very well known in the first place.
Had the prequels made the Jedi out to be elusive and more monk like then it could be plausible. But instead it makes out the jedi are common and nothing special so it doesn't make much sense for continuity.
I'd say that's more the side effect of bad story telling. Realistically, who were the Jedi hanging out with? Senators and Clones? It's not like they were average everyday figures in a universe that mysteriously seems to lack mass media
