Star Wars Episode 7
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I think I've watched it about 50x times today, haha.
I'm pumped and I believe J.J. Abrams is going to do a good job!
At approximately the 36 second mark, it looks like someone is riding a usb flash drive.
Can't wait.
At approximately the 36 second mark, it looks like someone is riding a usb flash drive.
Can't wait.
LOL!
I thought the new droid kinda looked like a combination of WALL-E and a soccer ball!
That's what I thought too! It looks like it could be a good movie! I hope so.
...looks great, and I'm not being racist here-but anyone taste the irony of a black man in a Stormtrooper clam shell???....
JJ Abrams is da man...this is going to be all kinds of awesomeness!
It looks like a lot more fun than the Jar-Jar Binks trilogy.
Twist my arm. I'll go. This one looks like it needs to be experienced in 70mm.
Twist my arm. I'll go. This one looks like it needs to be experienced in 70mm.
...thank you for THAT image Mr. Checker....
I can forgive him for Lost, but for what he did to Star Trek...never. May he burn in the pits of Hades until...until...oh, just make it forever.
Eh?
The stormtroopers were clones of Jango Fett (as was Boba). Jango Fett (and clones) were played by a bloke I recognized from his time on Shortland Street, which my sis used to watch (back through the mists of time).
Of course, if I can disregard the prequel 3 (please!), then no drama. It'd also help make sense of the height differences between stormtroopers in eps IV-VI.
My thoughts (like they matter)(they don't):
A non-Fett stormtrooper lost and confused on Tatooine? Okay, I'm intrigued.
Weird-shaped speeder and droids... sure, I'm fine with that. Part of the culture.
Falcon... very cool. Nice.
J.J. Abrams... I wouldn't have believed that one person could destroy a lifelong devotion to Star Trek, but he did it. Still, I have an open mind. If he can pull this off, I'll happily watch it.
A non-Fett stormtrooper lost and confused on Tatooine? Okay, I'm intrigued.
Weird-shaped speeder and droids... sure, I'm fine with that. Part of the culture.
Falcon... very cool. Nice.
J.J. Abrams... I wouldn't have believed that one person could destroy a lifelong devotion to Star Trek, but he did it. Still, I have an open mind. If he can pull this off, I'll happily watch it.
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IIRC, he said in an interview once that he liked Star Wars, but didn't like/was ambivalent towards Trek because he had problems with the characterisation, the philosophy, and so on.
Quite why anyone let him near Trek after that, or at least didn't hook him from the project, I don't know. It'd be like saying 'We're gonna do the Dark Tower series!', then handing it off to someone who said something like 'Of course, I've hated Stephen King's work ever since Carrie made me scared of asking Mary-Jane Rottencrotch to the prom'.
On the flip of that, asking a fan to add to the canon? Whoa. Nods and winks and self-referential BS everywhere.
But, seeing as J.J.'s the go-to guy these days after Joss Whedon somehow fell out of favour (or got stuck in contracts he couldn't get out of)...