Star Wars Episode VII
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I agree the Han and Chewie introduction was terrible.
Lot's of interesting comments in the recent pages I wanted to add my two cents to.
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-"...Kylo being Han Solos son. I mean could that have felt anymore forced into the movie?"
Being their son plays back to the expanded universe (canon or not). It also cements the two characters as having a relationship beyond Jedi, and was ultimately the reason they also grew apart. As well it might have further plot benefits in the next movies.
-"He didnt need to be anyones son! He just needed to be a badass henchman for the first order, exactly what Vader was. He was just some guy, he didnt need to have all this other story shit attached to him."
Vader was not a random henchman... he was the protagonist's father after all and linchpin of the entire redemption arc. Kind of ridiculous to call him random in any regard. Even before you knew he was the father, he was "murderer" of the protagonist's father, and former pupil of the protagonist's mentor. Actually plain stupid to call Vader random, IMHO.
-"Why remove the helmet... does JJ know nothing about mysterious villians"
To me Kylo (helmet) and no helmet (Ben) was a visual representation of the conflict of dark and light within him. Even with Vader, his final redemption came to finality unmasked, as a representation of his duality.
-"What was the real threat in this movie? Them blowing up some random planets for no reason at all?"
The reason was clear. They destroyed the home system of the Republic, thus unseating the current government, destroying the secret supporters of the Resistance and creating a power vacuum for the First Order's rise to greater power. It was next trying to destroy the whole system that the Resistance used for its operations. It was clearly explained and I had a 6 year old distracting me.
- nice post
http://49.media.tumb…Bluejam - They established that they had the technology to build the ultimate weapon is a planet destroyer in the Death Star, in the 30 years that passed you could only.._niko
- Assume that they would improve on that weapon. 30 years after hirishima they still built bigger and better nuclear bombs._niko
- I agree, but how does that relate to the post?ETM
- sorry was just waking up when i posted lol, it was in addition to yours, commenting on how people say that a planet killing death star is a re-hash and lazy._niko
- also miss-read what you had written, but yeah I agree 100%_niko
- nice post