These are probably those same idiots that "boycotted" TFA because it had a female lead and claimed they "greatly" affected the final earnings.
There was absolutely no suspense in regard to whether they would succeed in blowing up sk base....At all.
No one gives a crap about Chewie, after losing Han after being by his side constantly, that's constantly, remember, for fifty years, but Rey? Talk about missing the point.
I really really feel with all his mystery box slight of hand that JJ is a true sophist, and I really really feel he does not, deep in his bones understand Star Wars at its core.
My opinion will never be fact, Im totally agreed there. I'm just saying he's not the fan he makes out to be.
Two things I knew by the age of seven.
1. Where you hold a lightsaber (and where the button that made it work is on said saber).
2. Flying through space ain't like dusting crops (i.e you can't go to hyperspace from inside a ship or come out of it within the atmosphere of a planet).
JJ didn't know either at what, 47? Silly things like that take me right out of the film for a minute or two.
Don't get me wrong the relationship between Rey and Kylo works really well I think and when she freaks him out is great, and seals the deal as one of my favorite film moments.
He must know who she is, and that works for me.
This is a thread about a film thats not made or even has a script yet.
Speculation over decisions made so far and therfore opinions on those decisions, are all we can possibly fill these pages with.
I think Filoni should be involved as he is a direct link to Georges opinions in a way Kennedy is not, and while i'm at it I would have liked Gareth Edwards to get a chance at a sequel film and theres only one left. He eats, sleeps and breathes Star Wars. I bet his actual dreams are about Star wars.
also I think my spellcheck isn't working, sorry
Still they both still bug me as they are things defined in maybe the first half hour of the very first film.
But to show what a hypocrite I can be all this talk has made me want to watch TFA, I'm watching it right now
I could hand my Graflex ANH saber replica to dozen Star Wars fans and they would have no clue how you turn it on. People on a Replica Prop Forum will, but not "fans". Same thing with how Hyperspace works. Even the films can't be consistent. Parsecs are a measure of distance, not time. The only things that are canonical facts within the film are what we see. Its never said if you can jump into an atmosphere, we just had never seen it done. The films are the sole arbiter of what is and what isn't reality in this galaxy far, far away. So with all due respect, and I mean that sincerely, I don't think those two point disqualifies JJ as a "fan".
While I agree with you in principle, the hyperspacing inside the shields of Starkiller base was just bad writing. I don't want to get into a discussion of whether the science of fictional movies is realistic or not. But I will ask, if it is a thing, how come it wasn't done before? I mean the lives of countless ewoks could have been saved if the rebel fleet had just hyperjumped inside the shields of DeathStar 2. It is a BS way of circumventing a problem. There were other options. You had a First Order defector in your midst, maybe Finn could have relayed some good insider information of some clever way of deactivating the shields or something. Maybe Hux was so full of hubris that they didn't design shields for the base. Almost anything would be better than what we got. I don't understand the writing concept of, let's put in an obstacle and then bypass it in the most nonchalant was possible. Better not to have the obstacle there in the first place.
While I agree with you in principle, the hyperspacing inside the shields of Starkiller base was just bad writing. I don't want to get into a discussion of whether the science of fictional movies is realistic or not. But I will ask, if it is a thing, how come it wasn't done before? I mean the lives of countless ewoks could have been saved if the rebel fleet had just hyperjumped inside the shields of DeathStar 2. It is a BS way of circumventing a problem. There were other options. You had a First Order defector in your midst, maybe Finn could have relayed some good insider information of some clever way of deactivating the shields or something. Maybe Hux was so full of hubris that they didn't design shields for the base. Almost anything would be better than what we got. I don't understand the writing concept of, let's put in an obstacle and then bypass it in the most nonchalant was possible. Better not to have the obstacle there in the first place.