Spoiler Dicussion of The Last Jedi
December 20th, 2017 at 2:56:01 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
If Trek fans are Trekkies, what are we to call the new obsessive Star Wars fans? Warsies? :) Seriously, Rey agrees her parents were Jakku white trash. She was a young child when they abandoned her. She remembers them. BTW, How come a "nowhere" place like Jakku is so well-known? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
December 20th, 2017 at 3:14:20 PM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
I'm assuming it's because there was a big battle there based on the wreckage we see in TFA. A straight man will not go for kids. - AZDuffman |
January 1st, 2018 at 6:42:23 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | I saw it again today. It felt shorter It's been out three weeks, so I bet the one coworker in our department who likes Science Fiction will not have seen it yet. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
January 2nd, 2018 at 4:41:53 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I feel like the jump to hyperspace through the enemy ship was too contrived. If that really is so destructive it would seem like a much more utilized tactic. A whole bunch of little ships equipped with hyperdrive can take down anything. Of course you would need kamikaze pilots. That wouldn't be a problem though because Star Wars really appreciates and celebrates the hero or heroine selfless sacrifice. It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures. ( |
January 2nd, 2018 at 6:32:16 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
For the same reason Japan's Kamikaze tactics in WWII didn't work: because it doesn't work. Holdo's ship was the biggest capital ship the Resistance has. It took out the First Order's biggest ship, yes, but didn't destroy it. And she managed that much only because the enemy realized too late what she was doing. Any Resistance ship that approaches a Star Destroyer will be shot down before it can jump through her target. A few may make it, but in the meantime you'll lose plenty of ships and pilots for no purpose.
That's not a good thing. Here's a better question: In Episode IV, Tarkin and Vader let the Millennium Falcon escape the Death Star, knowing she'd lead them to the Hidden rebel Base (Hidden rebel Base is a trademark of LucasFilm and Disney). So why was hyperspace tracking all of a sudden a big deal? Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
January 2nd, 2018 at 6:49:17 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | Who killed Snoke? We know Ren switched the light-sabre on and penetrated him. But then the CGI Leader has time, and life enough, to glance down and see he is impaled. Next the light-sabre flies off, right into Rey's hand, in the process slicing the Snoke neatly in half. At this point we know the Supreme Computer Animation is dead. So Kylo impaled him, Rey sliced him. I say they both killed him. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:51:27 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | I think their level of technology is sufficient to have a hyperspace missile that does not require a pilot. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
January 2nd, 2018 at 7:56:07 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
Perhaps that will be the deadly weapon the First Order develops in between Eps 8 and 9. JJ Abrams is writing and directing 9, so we should expect it to mimic Return of the Jedi. A straight man will not go for kids. - AZDuffman |
January 2nd, 2018 at 8:18:36 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
My guess is we'll never again see a ship, missile or grenade going to hyperspace in an attempt to take out another ship. What I'd like to see is Snoke's force ghost seek revenge on Kylo Ren. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
January 2nd, 2018 at 9:23:26 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | according to this http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-starkiller-base-weapon-works-star-wars-2015-12 the starkiller base beam weapon transited hyperspace in some form.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |