Checks out

ngl, when that desert village with all the tents and flags and stuff popped up my first thought was 100%: 'oh no, desert ewoks'.

So you know. I don't hold high hopes, so much of what we've seen is just continuing JJ's pattern of copying the original trilogy, right down to waiting until the third movie to make Palpatine appear on screen. Never mind that the poster is basically just the "copy my notes but just change some stuff so it looks different' version of the RoTJ teaser poster.

And the whole "We've taught you everything we know...blah blah blah" just kinda reinforces that these movies do /not/ give a shit about actually doing the leg work on these characters, cause Luke, you knew her for all of like a week, 99% of which was you jerking her around. Anyways, looking forward to seeing how JJ is just gonna steamroll over the couple interesting thing TLJ managed to get in, and see how big the Death Sun is gonna be this time around.

And seconded on giving the series to a female director, it's just becoming a fucking joke at this point.

Yes. Teagued it.

I mean.... if I take my fandom back to the beginning, I was never a fan of any of the characters, I was much more a fan of The Force.  The Emperor was so scary, because he seemed to know so much more about The Force than the other characters.

And like, obviously, I'm experiencing that through the characters, so the characters have to be well written and motivated, but on the other hand, dooooo they??

Like, it's very Twilight, ya?

Not sure about any of this, just writing it down.

I really like the places Kirshner/Kasadan and now Johnson, have taken The Force.

If we could just have a whole movie of Force Rabbit Holes with All The Infinite Mirrors while Ben Burt makes ALL THE SOUNDS butwitha lilStereoDelay and theroomreverberates with Lightsaber Thrum...

thatwouldbeniceplease.

Just like, cocoon me in that TFA Takodana lightsaber flashback and I could totally live there the rest of my life.

So, all that to say, there's like a 3% chance they could turn "The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant..." into "The force can literally destroy a planet/theuniverse/itself"

All is forgiven.  Fly you crazy diamond.

Except the director part, no takebacks on that.

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Back to that poster tho.  What is that broken pillar thing that Rey and (Kylo? is that you? That's your sword but your head's a little... off) are fighting upon?  It looks kinda familiar, but then Star Wars is full of greebley pillars, so, could be anything...

Oh, wait, I thought that was a cross cut from TFA.  Deathsun indeed.

Bgi: Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah.

The one thing I am kinda curious about, is what JJ is gonna do with his little pet idea of the Knights of Ren in RoS. Not because I think it'll be good or anything, but it'll be fun to see the shitshow of how he retcons them having not even kind of mattered or been mentioned for an entire movie and a half, and then suddenly being there like, oh right, Kylo has this entire group of crazy badass sith knights at his beck and call... that's a THING huh?!

Teague:

Yeah, like I said, I'm blaming the 360p early version I was watching on that. When you were referencing the poster in the video the spec hits looked basically exactly like they did on your eyes, but once I refreshed to get the full res version and you started zooming in I saw what you were talking about with the spec being just on the iris.

Palpy's Fun House and Laser Moon Experience.

We've already got Creepio canonized, let's just let the Auralnauts guys do the entire movie. It could only be an improvement.

Wait...

WAIT.

HOLD THE FUCK UP.

It actually doesn't really mean anything but there are similarities:

I’m pretty sure they’re fighting on the remains of the Death Star, which we saw in the first teaser. As for that specific piece they’re fighting on? I’ve seen people say it could be the column where Obi-Wan disables the tractor beam in ANH, but it could just be standard Star Wars greeblies.

Also, I’ll happily watch Teague rage at Photoshop any day of the week.

EDIT: You guys beat me to it!

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Translated extract from a french magazine:

I'm completely stunned by the notion that there is so little connection made between episodes, that a trilogy is now nothing more than three separate stories told by different people who hope something holds together in the end. This is such a mess. He's glad the second episode of the trilogy he's making the other two episodes for, hasn't derailed his plans. He might as well be talking about a competitor, but no, he's referring to a part of the same fucking story he's working on.

I can't wrap my head around this. TV shows have seldom reached that level of fucked-up Frankensteinery. Storytelling is dead.

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Let's hope it's not another Sifa Dyas...

I mean are we really surprised that JJ is just telling the story he started in TFA? The original plan, as bad as it was, was to have 3 different directors all doing their own thing for each of the movies with a marginal guiding hand from Disney.

Of course he's gonna immediately try and wrap up his story lines that he started (see: my previous point about the Knights of Ren) the entire thing is gonna be a clsuterfuck that completely ignores everything Rian tried to do in favour of the stuff JJ wanted to do in the first place.

BDA : Oh I'm not saying I'm surprised (I'm not). But reading those few sentences from Abrams, it suddenly occurred to me in a perfectly verbalized vision: this whole thing is fucked up beyond any kind of decency and respect for a story.

I'm speaking out of anger, but my hopes are an all-time low right now.

Leaves room for good surprises, I guess.

bgii : it's a different thing to me. Of course, the OT was a miracle pieced together by many people, but there was at least a certain search for continuity, an acknowledgement that all instances of the saga were doing the same thing. I don't recall ever seeing anyone from the OT going "right, so there's that part in the previous episode, let's just ignore it and allow ourselves to go a completely different direction". There's a lot of retconning, but that's just filling the gaps, which in a way is the opposite.

I guess we'll see, but seeing as TLJ received lots of criticism and Solo tanked, I think Disney is in Defcon 1 right now. They'll go the safer route, which means no surprises, which means stereotypical resolutions that TLJ was cleverly setting up to avoid. As much as I like the themes that arose from it (maybe accidentally), TFA was safe as fuck.

How is it even possible that J.J. didn't have anything to rewrite? Is he gonna piece Snoke back together with technoForcebabble, or had he already planned he wouldn't be here in 9?

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