Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Pre-release) (Spoilers)
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I read that he has final cut approval. That doesn't mean it's done yet but that when it is, it will be his preferred one.
Wow, some great potential spoilers here! I have thought this for a while. Rey and Kylo both trained as kids at Luke's Academy. Rey was an orphan, Kylo Han and Leia's son. Rey was Luke's favorite, Kylo resented him and her. Love the motivation!
http://furiousfanboys.com/2015/10/r...rs-from-the-novelization/#0WgQxieoO7M6wVm1.99
http://furiousfanboys.com/2015/10/r...rs-from-the-novelization/#0WgQxieoO7M6wVm1.99
The other story is that it is named after the guy that made the studio model. Bill George.
Personally I prefer the Blade Wing over the Bill Wing... personal choice I suppose!
I like Blade Wing too. :cool
Laspector
Master Member
I've never really cared for the whole concept of these terms--X-wing, Y-wing, B-wing, etc. In ANH none of them were referred to by these names. I can understand it being the slang term for the ships that people in that universe use, but I never really thought of them as official terminology for the designation of the ships. I always kind of just figured those names were really tagged onto them by the model builders--"Hey go get me that ship!" "Which one?" "The x-wing one!"...and then those names stuck.
But then , of course in ESB dude actually says "Ship approaching, x-wing class" and well, there goes my theory.......
Why aren't TIE fighters called H-wings? Darth Vader's TIE could be parenthesis-wings...
But then , of course in ESB dude actually says "Ship approaching, x-wing class" and well, there goes my theory.......
Why aren't TIE fighters called H-wings? Darth Vader's TIE could be parenthesis-wings...
Well, the model makers called it the TIE Fighter because it resembled a bow tie...
As for the "X-Wing class" thing, I presume there are more craft than the Incom T-65 that have splitting S-foils. The EU gave us late-model Z-95s that had that feature. We now have the T-70 in TFA that is also called an X-Wing... I can see a sort of pilots' jargon coming into play -- calling the splitting S-foil craft "X-Wings", and, after, coming to call the Koenseyr BTL series craft "Y-Wings" by extension. Then when the A- and B-Wings came along, they picked up those nicknames, too. Silly military traditions and all that.
--Jonah
As for the "X-Wing class" thing, I presume there are more craft than the Incom T-65 that have splitting S-foils. The EU gave us late-model Z-95s that had that feature. We now have the T-70 in TFA that is also called an X-Wing... I can see a sort of pilots' jargon coming into play -- calling the splitting S-foil craft "X-Wings", and, after, coming to call the Koenseyr BTL series craft "Y-Wings" by extension. Then when the A- and B-Wings came along, they picked up those nicknames, too. Silly military traditions and all that.
--Jonah
Reelo
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The problem (in-universe) is that the X-Wing does not resemble the letter Xesh, nor does the Y-Wing resemble the letter Yirt.
Same for Aurek and Besh and the A- and B-Wing.
division 6
Master Member
That's because that alphabet wasn't invented till the sequels.
RotJ IIRC.
RotJ IIRC.
Reelo
Sr Member
Yes I know that. But that's a non-argument in-universe.
If you go back and watch the ORIGINAL Star Wars film, during the scene with Ben turning off the tractor beam, on the controls it actually says "TRACTOR BEAM" in english... but when they did the special editions, they changed that to the Star Wars Alaphabet. I was kinda disappointed but understood where it was coming from.
Reelo
Sr Member
I know that as well. There are some other instances, such as the medical gear on the interrogator droid, the saber/flashtubes (not really readable of course)
Anyway, the only explanation is that *our* Alphabet is known in the GFFA and widespread enough to warrant the naming of ships using the names of its letters. But then, why the universal prevalence of Aurebesh?
Right. And why the names of the droids, as well. I like the explanation that Basic tends to be rendered in the alphabet (or, rather, in the aurebesh) of an ancient and widespread culture that has since vanished. But since so many races know it, it's a common symbology; and meanwhile, what gets rendered as "English" for filmmaking purposes is the human-centric alphabet that originated in the Core Worlds, and tends to be prevalent only among humans, though nonhumans sometimes use it for marketing to human worlds. Incom, Industrial Autonaton, and Cybot Galactica have always bden shown in the EU as human companies, so that works. And it makes sense, then, that it'd be the norm in Palpatine's human-centric Empire.
I'd rather that were still the explanation than George going in and slapping aurebesh on everything from ESB on -- although I'm fine with it being Luke's preferred symbology, as he grew up out on the rim where it'd be more likely used than the "High Galactic" alphabet.
--Jonah
I'd rather that were still the explanation than George going in and slapping aurebesh on everything from ESB on -- although I'm fine with it being Luke's preferred symbology, as he grew up out on the rim where it'd be more likely used than the "High Galactic" alphabet.
--Jonah
Riceball
Master Member
Arubesh on everything would have worked had the graphic designer who came up with Arubesh, his/her supervisor, and ultimately George had bothered making the letters A, B, X, and Y look like their Roman counterparts because of the Rebel fighter designations. It's obvious, though, that George, didn't think that one through when he ultimately signed off on the designs.
Go back one page and read my post at the bottom that contained done great potential and new character news before all this B-wing crap!
Remember that chick lounging on the big alien dude from the BTS video and Vanity Fair shoot? Yeah, well she's getting her own book!
http://makingstarwars.net/2015/10/s...force-awakens-the-perfect-weapon-early-cover/
http://makingstarwars.net/2015/10/s...force-awakens-the-perfect-weapon-early-cover/
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