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Movie: Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Even the younglings?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:11 PM on December 31, 2015

You guys all know about QT-KT, right?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:38 PM on January 1, 2016

Sneaky offscreen hyperspace jumps like the Deathstar would seem the most likely explanation, except isn't Finn able to provide its coordinates with sufficient accuracy that the rebels can hyperspace jump to its surface? Which would mean it doesn't move?

(Also, boy does Abrams love that jump-directly-to-the-planet trick, something that seems to render spaceships slightly unnecessary in spaceship movies. )
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:31 AM on January 3, 2016

Star Wars does have a lot of those.

FOR NOW.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:42 AM on January 3, 2016

Selfie - the kiddo gives it 10 out of 10 for Star awareness.

I liked it a lot second time around as well, even if Starkiller base is still stupid.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:25 PM on January 3, 2016

According to the kiddo the best characters are:
1) Rey
2) Finn
3) Slug/squid thing that almost eats Han Solo.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:54 PM on January 3, 2016

Also she got tired on the walk home and I had to keep her going by getting her to imagine what inspirational thing Poe Dameron would say.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:57 PM on January 3, 2016

Oh dear.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:43 PM on January 4, 2016

It occurred to me second time round Kylo Ren's crossbar and sword fighting style and those little twirling flourishes seem to really play up the whole "knight" thing.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:28 PM on January 4, 2016

I think the kiddo was 6 or 7 when we watched StR Wars first? Seemed to work for her, had it was more of a special occasion thing than "here kid, here's a new video to watch as naseum" - we've always liked sitting down and watching a more complex movie with her once in a while rather than just plonking her in front of things.

Empire we had a bit of a wait before though, because that gets dark. And it's notable that though we watched Jedi a bunch of times Empire… [more]
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:48 PM on January 4, 2016

Revenge of the Sith, IIRC.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:51 PM on January 4, 2016

C'mon, it's a call back (forwards?) to Episode IV. It's not like "How wude!" or something.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:58 PM on January 4, 2016

Lando is super fun in Rebels.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:04 PM on January 4, 2016

Whatever deathsticks got rebranded as.

They're toasted!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:06 PM on January 4, 2016

Wow.

Double-fuck Jar Jar Binks then.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 5:15 PM on January 4, 2016

Melted Vader Helmet would make a good traditional style monopoly piece.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:38 AM on January 5, 2016

SHOUTING.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:40 AM on January 5, 2016

Rey is right there front and center in all of the trailers, it doesn't really take that much to figure out she's a central character.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:02 AM on January 5, 2016

This is reminding me I should dig out the Star Wars branded Face Off I have somewhere for the kids.

"Are they a Gungan?"
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:19 AM on January 5, 2016

This would literally be the one incidence of that in all of aStar Wars - blockading spaceships are always directly overhead.

(See the general thing of space being about 5 miles wide)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:24 PM on January 5, 2016

I have come to think of Starkiller as the Star Wars equivalent of the V3 supergun.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:49 PM on January 5, 2016

Maybe she could have a big jar of eyes.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:44 PM on January 5, 2016

Well, the kid liked it, but she's 9.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 5:50 PM on January 5, 2016

Jizz!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:15 AM on January 6, 2016

I think they may be shying away from an in depth analysis of space politics as subject material, for some reason.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:52 AM on January 6, 2016

Eh, the crawl tells you everything you need to know for the movie. Stuff you don't need to know for the movie (like concerns raised by tie-ins to other movies) can happily sit elsewhere.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:09 PM on January 6, 2016

Geek male identity has been reduced to Kylo Ren thrashing a computer with his sword - this needs to change
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:14 PM on January 6, 2016

John Boyega is the breakout star of this set of Getty stock photos
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:13 AM on January 8, 2016

Jar Jar is a giant midichlorian?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:54 PM on January 8, 2016

Inform the troops, the art books have arrived.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:16 PM on January 8, 2016

Said bad guys always trying to kill him doesn't really say good things about how good he is at that. At least Lando scored a city and a cape.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:58 PM on January 11, 2016

That's like being the most famous spy!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:28 PM on January 11, 2016

I believe it's a relatively new one, yes.

Lego still doing better than everyone else.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:10 AM on January 12, 2016

The Rey Star Wars toys you asked for are finally on their way
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:26 AM on January 12, 2016

This explains the preference for Parsecs over lightyears.

(Note that if bounded by lightspeed the Kessel Run would take 40+ years to complete)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:51 AM on January 13, 2016

Space isn't real.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:43 PM on January 13, 2016

It is not necessarily a deal-killer if FTL requires some of the qualities of time travel, since that's another commonly accepted SF trope anyway.

Oh god no. No timetravel, implications of FTL be damned.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:25 PM on January 13, 2016

And that's one, maybe two perfectly fine movies, but they can keep it out of Wars.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:49 PM on January 13, 2016

This is like the third or fourth time we've strayed into Monty Python, which is odd.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:02 PM on January 15, 2016

Yeah, that's probably it.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:52 PM on January 15, 2016

"Terror Galaxy"
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:29 PM on January 16, 2016

A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Sphere That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:45 PM on January 16, 2016

Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base - SNL

Obviously Canon. Also supports the theory that Kylo Ren is Adam Driver from Girls later in life.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:04 AM on January 17, 2016

As I understand it Navy types mainly get annoyed about carrier construction as it gets done in favor of other ship types that just aren't very effective anymore. The relatively poor records of anti-planet spheres probably makes some other comparison more apt.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:31 PM on January 18, 2016

Possibly this is a critical that could be lowered at the original trilogy but it's a little hard to imagine the First Order actually administering their territory day-to-day.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:42 PM on January 18, 2016

It's pretty much the standard currency of those DK books.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:01 PM on January 18, 2016

You Missed Your Chance to Adopt This Cat That Looks Just Like Adam Driver
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:21 PM on January 18, 2016

They kind of seem like shitty cops in that though - in contrast the First Order just turns up and murders your whole town.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:14 PM on January 18, 2016

There was a thing on twitter recently to name a single character from Avatar off the top of your head... it's basically impossible.

I see you Jake Sully.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:34 AM on January 21, 2016

Like Star Wars, it's an ensemble piece with one protagonist having particular prominence, ajd yeah, that is undoubtedly Rey.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 5:17 PM on January 21, 2016