Star Wars 7 shit talk

Moff Mons

Grand Moff Diver.

this is the thread where I admit I have been watching Star Wars Rebels (the animated thing) and, while not really written as well as some of the Clone Wars episodes, had a pretty decent payoff

Yeah, Rebels started off slow, then pulled an Agents of SHIELD and went out strong for the season. Seems like the animation got better towards the end of the season, too.

(spoilers) bringing back the best original character from the Clone Wars show was a good move

Star Wars creator George Lucas surprised employees at New York’s Midtown Comics in Times Square when he stopped by the store to pick up some new comics.

“He came in and was browsing the store, looking at the Star Wars stuff,” a Midtown employee told Page Six. “He was only in for about 15 minutes, his driver was waiting outside. Fans were pretty excited to see him and he signed a comic book. He was saying he hadn’t read any of the new Star Wars comics.”

Lucas apparently plans to change that, as he left the store with copies of Marvel’s new Star Wars, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia series, as well as some vintage Heavy Metal. You have to wonder what Lucas thinks of the new stories.

http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/03/george-lucas-at-midtown-126821.jpg

lol, i think i know that guy on the left
lucas lost a lotta weight! to get up that steep times square midtown comics stairway, he would kinda have had to.

The first issue of the new "Star Wars" is actually really fun.

all of the comics so far are pretty decent imo!

I haven't seen any of them yet, mostly because I don't have quick and regular access to a comic shop at the moment. It also seems like Marvel has just completely disappeared from any chain stores, like all of the local Barnes & Nobles are just DC only. Did they scale back on their distribution or was there something else I missed?

I just get mine via the Marvel app, so not sure what's going on with their hard copy distro. But yeah, all three titles are good!

Leia a badass imo

cool, thanks.

Star Wars: Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones, directed by Gareth Edwards, written by Chris Weitz announced today: http://www.starwars.com/news/rogue-one-is-the-first-star-wars-stand-alone-film-rian-johnson-to-write-and-direct-star-wars-episode-viii

It's a crazy day for announcements. Wow! God, I hope they're better lit than Godzilla.

Monsters was unmitigated crap and I didn't see Godzilla, so I am less than optimistic. Still, "Rogue" is an X-wing pilot call sign in the SW universe, so if we get like Star Wars Top Gun I will watch the hell out of it.

I really liked Monsters, but it's literally impossible to see Godzilla so of course you didn't.

all 3 Marvel titles so far are HELLA fun. amping up my excitement for the film coming later this year in a big way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=89&v=PN_CP4SuoTU

this is pretty rad

Yeah that's pretty impressive. Could do without the rawwwk guitar score personally but that's a minor quibble. These guys should be hired to do a SW series in this style.

Speaking of which -- I watched an episode of Star Wars Rebels with my little nephew last week (he's a fan) and I was surprised at how often it got the tone of the original films down.
Definitely entertaining.

The guitar actual is central to it being 80s anime redux, much like the extreme zooms in & out of eyes or the million missile massacre

actual guitar, rather

Holy shit that makes me want to play TIE Fighter so bad

For real accuracy those star destroyers would have been turned 90 degrees to align the full array of their turbolasers on those Rebel ships

Also I don't remember capital ships having ion cannons but I guess why not, I don't think any of the normal TIE starfighters do and you need to capture the brass =)

SW I-VI being release as HD digital-only, available as a collection or individually: http://www.starwars.com/news/the-star-wars-digital-movie-collection-coming-april-10

Still no original versions. Basically just the Blu-Ray set from a few years back.

Unfortunately yeah. I keep hearing things in the rumor mill that Disney wants to release the unspecialized originals, but there are a lot of roadblocks.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCutsh4WYAA5IBB.jpg

I guess I don't have anything better to do this evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UY64GfyovE

the slickness! putting TIDAL to shame this.

BB8 was pretty cool tbh

yeah totes.

wonder if Lucas is watching.

worth it

*goosebumps*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

if i'd known they were gonna be that prompt I might not have bothered lol

The huge crashed spaceships in the desert are properly cool.

i was into it until the crystal skull flashback at the end

the Shia cameo was a surprise yeah

harrison ford so old

ford showing up was straight the teaser equiv of an edm drop

i hope han has become an intergalactic antiquities procurer in his later years, that doesn't seem too far a transition from space pirate. short, round robot is already confirmed.

crashed star destroyers and melted vader helmet are the right kind of callbacks, imo, and actually well-designed and cool looking. like this could end up being not very good but at least it looks like fucking star wars and not just in an imitative way. it's pretty clear they let good people (designers etc.) push good ideas forward, and that already puts this just leagues ahead of the "george lucas vetoes and intimidates anybody with anything good on their sketchpad" feel of the prequels.

he says the force is strong in his family w/o talking about his mitochondrial midichlorians so this thing is already in the black if you ask me

I like the look of Lord Chrometrooper at 1:19.

yeah i love the relatively tactile quality it has compared to the prequels, there's a straight-outta-childhood sense memory i get that's thrilling despite myself, but seeing harrison's modern, vaguely spaced-out mug just killed the magic - "oh right, this could be one of those horrible THE GANG'S ALL BACK" movies

"my father HAS it"?

was chewie wearing mascara?

though speaking of shia it's a credit to the nu-cast that i never was like "get those little shits away from my toys!" before ford's howdy-do