No DS 4.0. I think it's an inspired decision to pick up 8 immediately at the end of 7 as it ended on a true cliff hanger, literally and figuritavley. I would have been hugely disappointed to not see how that encounter plays out or have it mentioned as an aside or flashback.
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No DS 4.0. I think it's an inspired decision to pick up 8 immediately at the end of 7 as it ended on a true cliff hanger, literally and figuritavley. I would have been hugely disappointed to not see how that encounter plays out or have it mentioned as an aside or flashback.
you know the whole time before 7 came out i figured the next super weapon was going to be a death star laser canon on a super star destroyer or something like that. technology always gets smaller.
when starkiller base was shown for the first time in the poster that was when i got a little worried. i love TFA, but i can honestly say i hated starkiller base... such a wicked name to use only for it to be a 3rd DS... i wish it didn't exist.. i know theres a lot of hate of abrams and TFA but i loved it. minus SKB
i can agree with you on that, but still kennedy why not a new kind of weapon?! something different. a super weapon attached to a ship, which this ship is guarded by tons of star destroyers. and in order to defeat it you would need to attack it, we would have a lot of dog fights in space, you know the war in the stars, we could call it "star wars" lol but no... throw a laser inside a giant planet. i still can't see how a laser that big wouldn't split the planet in half, or shoot the laser canon istelfs out the back of the planet lol.. oh man.. could be worse, snoke could have had a 100" ghostbusters rip off logo as his apprentice lol
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i think 7 was used to setup the rest of the story. i think 8 will be used to answer some of the questions left over from 7. i wouldn't be surprised if we see a 3-5 year time gap between the end of episode 8 and the beginning of 9
KrangPrime
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As much as I think the movie could have been better, I can't disagree with this.
for some reason, I can buy JJ saying he is a huge star wars nerd. Yet I can't buy feig saying he's a geek at heart ;o)..
There could have been worse people put in charge of episode 7.
Now we just have to see how episode 8 fairs.
JD
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Am I the only that thinks too much has been read into VIII starting right at the end of TFA? I just don't feel they're being literal. While I do think we'll be picking up with Rey and Luke (and judging by leaks, probably right where TFA ended), I suspect there will probably be something that precedes it... something in space.
I'm sure time did pass between the destruction of Starkiller Base and Rey's arrival at Ahch-To, so there is probably some First Order story to tell (although I suspect it will be brief).
I'm sure time did pass between the destruction of Starkiller Base and Rey's arrival at Ahch-To, so there is probably some First Order story to tell (although I suspect it will be brief).
That's one thing that bugged me (and my 12yo nephew said it first) that in TFA they say that some kind of toxin can be used on the Stormtroopers (when Rey and Finn are on the Falcon) when the filters should block that. So apparently the filters are useless.
As for JJ and SW, I'm going to give them a small chance that TFA was just there to get the Prequel haters back on board and that they will actually try to do a good story this time.
astroboy
Master Member
Or here's an idea...what about a story without a superweapon? As questionable as they were, the prequels didn't have a macguffin OR a superweapon. They were more operatic in approach.
Episode 7 could have easily avoided the GodLaser.
They could have taken an Indiana Jones approach. The third act could have been about the heroes breaking into the ruins of the Jedi Temple (on the first order-controlled corruscant.) to find the whereabouts of Luke. Perhaps there was a Jedi device that would help them read the map, or Holocron. The exact same character beats could have taken place without the use of a 3rd deathstar
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JLeezy23
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What I hope is, like how they introduced the crossguard sabers in Rebels to connect to the current episodes, that EPVIII includes some troopers inspired by R1. I know its supposed to distance itself from the main Episodes, but its still the Empire/First Order. Have an extreme elite group of badaases to be a threat instead of a superweapon. Then use a continuation of the R1 helmets but advance them to "the present" (VIII) It'd be cool to see the Knights of Ren but still ride in a trooper entourage that is in par with their skills. Jedi trained elite troops, so basically Anakin+Clone Troopers from EPIII.
JD
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What exactly is smoke then?
JD
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No. Just like smoke isn't the same depending on what might be producing it.
JLeezy23
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I'd say standard issue has basic filters, there's so many regular troopers that they're expendable if it came down to it. Then they have advanced helmets for specialized troops. They mass produced standard with the most basic needs in a war, then they add more greeblies and features to the specific troops, like TIE Pilots, etc.
"Filtering out smoke" I take to mean particulates, rather than bioreactive chemicals. I still think it's cheap in the extreme on the First Order's part to not have a filter that does both. We do now, and they're tens of thousands of years ahead of us in the Star Wars universe. That's what I always took the aerators on the classic Stormtrooper helmet to be -- detachable microfilters that do in half an inch by half an inch what our big clunky cannister filters do, that can also be detached for an external air hookup (pilot, vacuum operations, etc.).
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