^ The Force is strong with this one.
The force is strong with you. So what are your predictions for Ep. 8?
Lots of brother-sister incest.
Star wars. Not game of thrones…
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-wars-the-force-awakens-ultimate-faq-164511371.html
Just for my Eskimo brother. Apparently Disney/Lucasfilm has released a few official guides for the new universe.
This doesn’t necessarily answer all the questions, but it may get you a little farther down the road.
_ SPOILER ALERT _
Somebody on IMDB has correctly pointed out that Han and Finn see the light from the shot that Starkiller Base shot, and they see the planets being destroyed.
However, the Resistance is in a totally different solar system from the Republic. Han and Finn shouldn’t have been able to see anything at all, since the other solar system is light-years away.
Just FYI - I just learned that a parsec is 3.26 light years. So the Milennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less than 45.64 light years. Just thought you’d like to know.
The parsec thing, heh, that’s an old one. Funny that they owned it and used it again in Episode 7.
I’ll have to check out the other part when I see the movie again this weekend.
One thing that’s bothered me about Star Wars (and pretty much every other space movie) is when people are traveling at near light speed, their loved ones on whatever planet they left them on will be really old, and probably dead, by the time they get back.
Episode 8 Spoilers (and episode 7 too):
Okay, so my prediction wasn’t entirely accurate but I’m guessing that’s only becuase we ran out of time. So, my Ep. 8 prediction starts with the end of my last prediction. Luke comes back to start training new Jedis, including, of course, Rey, his daughter.
The goofy dude from Girls will turn to the light side (yes, everyone should know this will happen but I think it’ll happen sooner than expected). He won’t realize he’s related to Rey and he’ll put the moves on her. We’ll have some kissing cousin action as a tribute to Ep. 4 when Luke and Leia kiss before swinging across that thing. Then they’ll find out they’re related at the end of Ep. 8 and it’ll be super awkward.
And Chewie will yell something.
Sorry for ruining it for everyone.
^ And someone’s hand is going to be chopped as well.
^Well, obviously.
We’re the only two people working today apparently…We should spam AF with tons of new threads to fuck with everyone for taking time off. Plebs.
It seems that Star Wars is going in a new direction WRT dismemberment. Nary a member was dissed this time.
You never know. There was wanton slaughter and patricide this time. 5/6 of the previous episodes featured limb chopping.
^I’m trying to think which one didn’t have a hand chopped off.
Episode 4 - one of the guys in the Cantina had his arm cut off by OB1
5 - Vader cuts Luke’s hand off
6 - Luke cuts Vader’s hand off
1 - ??? Did nobody get dismembered here? Darth Maul got cut in half, if that counts.
2 - Dooku cuts Anakin’s hand off
3 - Anakin cuts Mace Windu’s hand off
That’s correct.
In addition (not counting battle droids):
5 - Luke cuts the Wampa’s arm off
2 - OB1 cuts Zam Wesell’s arm off
3 - Anakin cuts Dooku’s hands off, OB1 cuts Grevious’s extra hands off, OB1 cuts Anakin’s limbs off
I have no memory of this place. (Sorry. Wrong franchise.)
I get no reading. Are you sure?
#droidslivesmatter
I just found this comprehensive list:
http://www.starwars.com/news/every-limb-lost-in-the-star-wars-films
This.
I decided to wait and see the movie a week late to avoid the crowds and just got back. The movie was good. That said, there are three things that really bothered me:
-As eskimo said, why the need for a “Resistance”? Why not just pick up where things left off in E. VI with the Republic and its fleet (as noted in the new movie) battling the reminants of the Empire and giving it a run for its money. Then the First Order, being fairly radical and backed into a corner, uses its secret mega-deathstar to blow up the Hosnian system. Then voila, now what remains of the Republic can actually be called “the Resistance”. Not saying this is the best route, but it just seems the order of events could have been done better.
-How is it that Ray, with no training whatsoever, is able to defeat Kylo Ren in a lightsaber duel? No, just no, even if he was injured… This just doesn’t make any sense. Even Luke had SOME training before battling Vader the first time and he still clearly lost.
-Also, why only X-wings going out to battle this solar system destroyer? Comon, they’d throw everything they could at this thing. I’d of like to see a battlecruiser unleashing on the base’s weak spots after having the shields down. Just too similar to the destruction of the two deathstars. Gimme something new!
Well, that’s only true in a classic relativistic sense. If a craft is continuously accelerated toward light speed without a mechanism to warp or tunnel through the space-time substrate, then your observation would be exactly right. However, if a device such as an Alcubierre drive “tricks” the surrounding space-time into thinking that the craft is massless, then you could theoretically avoid the undesirable time dilation effects. This is basically what was going on with Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise. Other possibilities are using engines that can generate spontaneous Einstein-Rosen bridges, and entering the resultant wormhole at such an angle as to avoid frame-dragging effects which could inadvertently subject the space traveler to time travel consequences. So there are ways postulated by real physicists that you could travel near-light or FTL but not have everyone be dead when you get back to your starting point, and Hollywood has at times been fairly accurate in representing these tricks on-screen to achieve certain plot objectives.
Having said that, I never really got into Star Wars as much as other sci-fi, so I don’t know how the Millenium Falcon zips around the galaxy so fast or if it’s plausible with known physics.
I thought the movie was great. Daisy Ridley = HCB for sure.