STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Thread (All discussion and spoilers in here)

[Alvin Flummux]

My main questions was how is the planet, when draining the sun of all its energy, still covered in snow??

Or how everything hasn't just been obliterated.
Best not to think about that bit.

Or where they keep getting suns from, can the planet move like a ship to different suns to suck in or did they have 2 near it to start with and so it is now out of suns.

What's the issue with a planet having two suns? Tatooine has two. Anyway point in debating this anymore because StarKiller is now in a gazillion chunks!!!!

Two would have been fine, the thing was if it couldn't move it was a pretty pointless limited use weapon.

Not if it's point was to wipe out the base planets of the New Republic.

Seems like the only reason it was built was to cut the Republic's head off, giving the First Order the opportunity to strike back with its large, well trained but finite fleets and armies and regain what was lost at Endor.

[Poser]

The repeated building of Death Stars does remind me slightly of the castle-on-the-swamp from Monty Python's Holy Grail.

[Victor Mildew]

STAR KILLER IS A PLAY ON DEATH STAR GEDDIT

[LewisD]

Anakin and Luke were originally to be named Anakin Starkiller and Luke Starkiller, but Lucas changed it for fear of it sound too violent a name for the hero.

So its also a nice nod to the original script.
(And Vader's apprentice in The Force Unleashed)

[Victor Mildew]

And the force was originally the kaiber crystal, which is the name of the crystal which is in Ren's lightsaber.

[Alvin Flummux]

Anakin and Luke were originally to be named Anakin Starkiller and Luke Starkiller, but Lucas changed it for fear of it sound too violent a name for the hero.

So its also a nice nod to the original script.
(And Vader's apprentice in The Force Unleashed)

The name is apt because the thing actually kills stars, too.


So, everything I've seen and read about the Battle of Jakku indicates that this one Star Destroyer, the Inflictor, crashed on the world, and its silhouette on the desert skyline is probably the most iconic image from the film. Why is there seemingly no mention of this Super Star Destroyer being downed elsewhere on the world? The one Rey flew the Falcon into to escape the FO Special Forces TIEs. Seems like a far, far more noteworthy downing.

[Victor Mildew]

Such a stunning image

I like that nothing is said about it, nice and mysterious and you fill in the blanks yourself.

[Alvin Flummux]

It's upside down, so something must have gone really strawberry floating wrong there.

I really hope one of these stand-alone films starts with that epic battle, and I hope Boba Fett is somehow involved.

Also, this moment where the FO TIEs were silhouetted against the setting sun was just fantastic:

Lots more here.

[D_C]

I like that nothing is said about it, nice and mysterious and you fill in the blanks yourself.

Or get the Battlefront DLC

[Return_of_the_STAR]

Anakin and Luke were originally to be named Anakin Starkiller and Luke Starkiller, but Lucas changed it for fear of it sound too violent a name for the hero.

So its also a nice nod to the original script.
(And Vader's apprentice in The Force Unleashed)

The name is apt because the thing actually kills stars, too.


So, everything I've seen and read about the Battle of Jakku indicates that this one Star Destroyer, the Inflictor, crashed on the world, and its silhouette on the desert skyline is probably the most iconic image from the film. Why is there seemingly no mention of this Super Star Destroyer being downed elsewhere on the world? The one Rey flew the Falcon into to escape the FO Special Forces TIEs. Seems like a far, far more noteworthy downing.

I think the battle of jakku was supposed to have happened a number of years before force awakens so that's why no one was talking about it in the film.

[D_C]

You can see it here



(Behind Rey's house)

[Alvin Flummux]

Anakin and Luke were originally to be named Anakin Starkiller and Luke Starkiller, but Lucas changed it for fear of it sound too violent a name for the hero.

So its also a nice nod to the original script.
(And Vader's apprentice in The Force Unleashed)

The name is apt because the thing actually kills stars, too.


So, everything I've seen and read about the Battle of Jakku indicates that this one Star Destroyer, the Inflictor, crashed on the world, and its silhouette on the desert skyline is probably the most iconic image from the film. Why is there seemingly no mention of this Super Star Destroyer being downed elsewhere on the world? The one Rey flew the Falcon into to escape the FO Special Forces TIEs. Seems like a far, far more noteworthy downing.

I think the battle of jakku was supposed to have happened a number of years before force awakens so that's why no one was talking about it in the film.

I mean in the Wookieepedia account of the battle and such - the SSD's crash is mentioned only as an "outcome," and there is next to no other information about this vast battleship going down. The battle itself only took place a year after Endor, and the Empire's defeat there was the last straw for most of the remaining Imperial forces. The Galactic Concordance was signed shortly thereafter. TFA being some three decades later, I wouldn't expect any exposition on it - the vast, decaying hulks are exposition enough. I just don't get the focus on the Star Destroyer when a much larger target - the last of the Super Star Destroyers - was destroyed that day.

Edit: Well, looks like its crash was included in the backdrop of the Battlefront DLC:




Does anyone know if the new Star Wars novel, Lost Stars, is canon or not? It's hard to tell now.

[Jam-Master Jay]

It's canon.

Those high resolution stills are gorgeous.

[Victor Mildew]

those screens are indeed gorgeous.

I don't get why you'd want to have that battle spelled of for you, surely it's something best left unsaid and mysterious?

[Errkal]

It's upside down, so something must have gone really strawberry floating wrong there.

I really hope one of these stand-alone films starts with that epic battle, and I hope Boba Fett is somehow involved.

Also, this moment where the FO TIEs were silhouetted against the setting sun was just fantastic:

Lots more here.

Love that scene, loved that you could see exhaust haze from the bottom of them the detail is incredible.

[Skippy]

Hadn't thought of that before.

[Moggy]

Hadn't thought of that before.

Darth Leia Snoke confirmed as the shock for Episode IX.

[Preezy]

She isn't strong enough in the force to choose either way. And shouldn't it be "y'all"?

3/10 would not recommend posting again.

[Memento Mori]

Does anyone know if the new Star Wars novel, Lost Stars, is canon or not? It's hard to tell now.

It's canon and the last two chapters or so deal with the Battle of Jakku.

[Victor Mildew]

Hadn't thought of that before.

Maeks u fink huh x