Well, no one’s quit the forum in a huff from the thread yet.
Yet.
don’t talk shit about Poe Dameron dogfights I stg I’ll cut you
The dearth of new ship designs is extremely bizarre to me. Did they not want to sell toys or what?
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50% of my new job is stacking X-wing boxes on pallets and believe me when I tell you we are moving a stupid amount of T-70 X-wings.
Also, I have all of the ships’ names memorized now : 3
for real though? there was not a whole lot of space ships attacking each other in space in this one.
i mean there was the escape from the star destroyer at the beginning, and then IIRC everything else was done in the atmosphere of various planets and planet like objects.
in fact, in spite of the retreads plot and character wise, and lack of new space ship designs, it seemed like a lot of the movie set out to present familiar images and objects in unfamiliar situations or angles
i mean the first shot of the movie is a star destroyer from below, right? and then there’s the crashed star destroyer that is used for an action sequence that weirdly pays homage to star trek into darkness’s best scene?
and all of the x wings and tie fighters shooting around over the planets surface, etc. pretty cool imho.
All Luke had to do was fall into a sloping vent and grab onto a pole for a while 
I mean, far and away the most satisfying ship-on-ship battle was that one on the Yavin-ey planet, since we had a backdrop and could figure out where everyone was in relation to each other. Fragments of ships falling to the ground by the pull of gravity also gave some weight to it all, which never really happened in the original movies for obvious reasons.
I’m thinking in particular of that bit near the beginning where the Millennium Falcon hits one of the perusing Ties and it splints and buries into the sand. The fact that it didn’t just blow up made it a lot more satisfying.
I would’ve definitely liked more variety though, yeah. Especially since, with the exception of Poe’s black X-Wing, you have zero idea who any of the other X-Wings’ pilots are.
There’s no Biggs Darklighter of this reboot. Or Jek Porkins. The fact that I still remember those dudes even though they had such small parts in the trench run kind of speaks for what sort of personality their little moments had.
I did feel pretty happy to see Nien Numb in the command area though.
Maybe they’re waiting for Rogue One but they definitely dropped the ball here to make me care more about the spin-off.
I liked how angry the electro-tonfa stormtrooper was at Finn. “TRAITOR!”, etc.
I think they did a good job of selling the power of the force in subtle ways in this movie. I mean the scene where he freezes a blaster bolt in midair was hype as fuck. And the rigidity that beset people when Kylo Ren was gripping them with the force struck me as much more unsettling than all the original trilogy’s people grasping at their throats, getting choked out with the force.
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star wars fans are extremely pissed about the little white cuckball
what?
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yes it was!
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how can i escape this universe and get back to the correct timeline
its too late to go back
all we can do is ride out this universe to its inevitable heat death, and hope the restore point is somewhere before this mess
There is a disturbance in the force. Despite Disney pocketing a billion dollars they delayed the release of the next one by 7 months. So I wonder if maybe the internet got effected the Mouse House’s script writing or maybe there really wasn’t much script there anyway.
The story I read said they were rewriting to give more focus to Rey, Finn and Poe over characters new to Episode 8. Though episode 7 personnel reporting on Johnson’s script all went on about how excellent it was.
The panderschreck continues.
Disney has 1. a new Pirates movie out on 8’s old date and 2. the Bothan murder spinoff this Dec., so the reasoning I’ve heard is that December is the new Star Wars month and to also reduce franchise fatigue because Star Wars is now a franchise instead of a toy factory with bonus cool movies
God Notbov the bothans died getting the second death star plans!!!