Star Wars 7 shit talk

Maybe Gungans are naturally selected for luckiness like that girl in Ringworld.

one of the recent comics implied that Palpatine had orders that went into effect if he were to die

one of the first tasks was the razing of the planet Naboo

COINCIDENCE?

The Sheevening, as I believe it was called.

There is a lot of room for speculation about what the hell the Emperor was up to by the Return of the Jedi era. Vader was pretty much done with his killing of all jedi, with the exception of that Skywalker pet project, and the Imperial military was just building a second Death Star? He seemed like a dude who would have more than one iron in the fire, so what else was he out doing before he checked on Vader? Presumably not just reading diplomatic updates.

Fantasy Deathstar leagues

There is a lot of room for speculation about what the hell the Emperor was up to by the Return of the Jedi era. Vader was pretty much done with his killing of all jedi, with the exception of that Skywalker pet project, and the Imperial military was just building a second Death Star? He seemed like a dude who would have more than one iron in the fire, so what else was he out doing before he checked on Vader? Presumably not just reading diplomatic updates.

according to Wikis he was writing textbooks

I just discovered that there were three year gaps between the prequels - in my mind they were all produced together and released yearly.

He seemed like a dude who would have more than one iron in the fire, so what else was he out doing before he checked on Vader? Presumably not just reading diplomatic updates.

He's doing a whole bunch of nothing between the prequels and A New Hope; and presumably more of the same in between, albeit with extra tactical concerns after Yavin. Gradually losing his mind, to the extent that he was eventually blown up by his own apprentice after a pathetic failed attempt to turn a relative child, full of hubris, blah blah blah. Classic Nero villainy. His answer to the disaster in A New Hope is to order the acceleration of Death Star #2 (presumably it was already in the works, I mean why only build one) like that solves your real problem. The strategic naval trap he sets up sucks, he still doesn't have any better kung fu that he did when he nearly got killed by Mace Windu, and he's completely unable to prevent his own death via Force 101 maneuvers that are clearly part of the repertoire of every other Jedi in the series.

Guy jerked off for three decades and some change. His uselessness is even more of an argument for Jar Jar Supreme.

between the prequels and A New Hope = between the prequels and ROTJ

man what was I thinking!

if the book about him and his master (I READ IT, I ADMIT IT) has any truth to it, he was probably doing really boring-ass political manipulation while hoarding jedi and sith artifacts

the recent comics include Lando stealing a ship that ends up being Palpatine's private Sith stash cruiser, and a post-ROTJ one has Luke raiding an Imperial research facility that is studying two tree fragments, apparently all that's left of the tree that was in the middle of the Jedi temple

consolidating and holding on to power sounds boring as fuck when most resistance is crushed

God, I had no idea so much discussion centered around whether Palpatine threw the fight with Mace Windu.

So in the Sunday NY Times there was a bunch of stuff about this movie/franchise/oh the significance of it all for Gen X and millennials, and apparently there's a villains' ship in TFA called THE FINALIZER. Sounds like a badass kitchen cleaner.

also, Kylo Ren belongs to the Knights of Ren

http://images1.nick.com/nicktoons-assets/shows/images/ren-stimpy/characters/character_ren.jpg?height=363&width=332&quality=0.75

so this thing's out in a little over a month! came round fast.

Half a month over a month, yeah.

space racist???

spacist

Asian trailer hotness

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

wow, I like how crazy and out of control the lightsabers look, like they are crackling with flame and electricity

Haha, was just coming to post that. That shot of the three TIE fighters backlit by the sun is, by itself, better than the entire prequel trilogy.

this could probably be a great film if they limited it to lightsabers and space ships flying around, and cut out any characters or dialogue

i am getting a little psyched

Yeah each preview makes it look a little cooler....

TIE fighters at sunset got me interested too. Good grief...

We're suckers.

I wish to hell I could stop clicking on these things.

why, they're cool! everybody relax, this is gonna be cool! and suck a little too probably. whatever!!

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DfEBTzmB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1507041736147986246.gif

goddamit
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DfEBTzmB--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1507041736147986246.gif

That shot of the three TIE fighters backlit by the sun is, by itself, better than the entire prequel trilogy.

why, they're cool! everybody relax, this is gonna be cool! and suck a little too probably. whatever!!

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 6, 2015 10:33 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because I'd like to be surprised but I have no self-control.

For the impatient among us we could probably convince that terminally ill dude who got a screening to spoil the movie for us.

If BB-8 isn't Force-levitated at some point I riot.

That tie fighter shot is straight out of another Lucas-related project with Harrison Ford:

http://s10.postimg.org/3le14pll5/images_q_tbn_ANd9_Gc_Q9_Bgk9qo_Huxa_HVmij9_NSUCQ_c_S1kl.jpg

If BB-8 isn't Force-levitated at some point I riot

Gotta get him into an Xwing _some_how

Still, twenny bucks says he gets levitated during Daisy Ridley's Jedi training in EP VIII.

It's like poetry, y'know; it rhymes.

bb-8 looks so slow running from the explosions PICK THE LITTLE DOOD UP

That is a great shot. TIE fighters seldom look actually threatening.

boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh

well it would be cool if in these movies luke skywalker was crazy, bald, weighed 350 pounds, and quoted TS Eliot

a pile of ... little youngling arms

the womp rats... the womp rats...

I love the smell of Death Stars in the morning.

never get out of the x-wing!

boy you guys are really easily excited by obvious Apocalypse Now refs eh

boy you are really easily excited by trolling star wars fans eh

lol like why are you guys geeking out in a star wars thread ffs

lol tyler

I've been trying to figure out what bothers me about Daisy Ridley with her hair up and it's that she looks like an 11 year old boy

Target audience, tbf.

Sorry, next time I will write, "That shot of the TIE fighters backlit by the sun, which is clearly lifted from Apocalypse Now, a fact which is definitely very relevant to the content of this sentence, is better than the entire prequel trilogy." Value added at no extra cost to you.

I think the hair-up thing both connects with Leia(hair buns) and also sorta/maybe functional for the desert environment.

Both her and Luke are first seen in white wrappings with goggles stomping round in the sand(cut footage in Luke's case, along with the Gilligan hat).

I enjoy this RLM bit here as they just half-cluelessly speculate based on trailer footage, and bring in enough knowledge of how the original trilogy worked, how JJ Abrams tends to do things, and what early 21st-C Hollywood producers tend to work. They treat the proceedings with the seriousness it deserves, naturally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oifhpT0HZ7Q

Very cool.

From the looks of it I bet Luke dies in this one. That's why Leia is so sad.