Star Wars Lives!

[CWO Marc]

A couple of amusing articles on the infamous crossguard lightsaber.  I especially like the Swiss Army knife version in the second article.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/star-wars-science-print-your-own-crossguard-175641515.html

http://www.dorkly.com/post/70914/the-best-internet-reactions-to-star-wars-newest-lightsaber

[Gargantua]

Hey guys there’s a new feature on the made-up space laser sword that might not be realistically functional

[CWO Marc]

@Gargantua:

The soccer ball droid is official known as:
FIFA-D2

It now turns out that the droid is called BB:8, as mentioned here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/star-wars-the-force-awakens-characters-named-in-trading-cards-1.2870892

[aequitas-et-veritas]

I go with FIFA-D2 as Gargantua called him early. :-D

[CWO Marc]

@aequitas:

I go with FIFA-D2 as Gargantua called him early. :-D

Fair enough.  Besides, “FIFA-D2” has the advantage that it avoids potential confusion (at least in the minds of naval history people) with that other “BB:8”, the pre-dreadnought USS Alabama:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alabama_(BB-8)

[ABWorsham4]

Darth Zannah used a similar one for example. :-)

Zannah, what a Sith Babe.

I would love to see a Darth Bane movie.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

A Daaaark Sith babe

[ABWorsham4]

What do you all think of Star Wars Rebels?

[lexgreat]

no pay-tv, no SWR. Clone Wars didnt thrill me, doubt Rebels will, but lets see. Any good so far?

[ABWorsham4]

I have enjoyed the series, sad with no working Jedi Order.

[lexgreat]

do they feature Palpatine and Vader, in any way?

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Not really. It plays 14 years after “Revenge of the Sith” and 5 years before “a new Hope”.
There is a man called Inquisitor and has a funny double blade Lightsaber.
He Looks older then Vader and is some sort of an Sith. It looks like he is tolerated by the Empire and the Emporer since he is allowed to give orders to Imperials.
Ezra is Force sensitive and a youngling who is getting trained by an other Force sensitive man called Kanan Jarrus.

[lexgreat]

Thx. Without the Emperor, hm……hopefully over the course of the series

[frimmel]

Haven’t really got to see any of “Rebels” but I’ve been enjoying the “Lost Episodes” of the Clone Wars series now that I’ve got them on blu-ray.

My thing with Rebels is that it seems so very much “by the numbers” from the announcement stuff I followed. Not so much that it would be “bad” but that there wouldn’t be a lot of “there” there. I came across it in the guide but I didn’t get that station in my cable package and never went back to look for it.

[ABWorsham4]

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

[frimmel]

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

[ABWorsham4]

@frimmel:

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

I like oppo rancisis.

If I was going to choose four Jedi to arrest the Dark Lord of the Sith Sidious, Master Plo would have been one.

[amanntai]

@ABWorsham:

@frimmel:

@ABWorsham:

Besides the famous Yoda, who is favorite member of the Jedi Council?

In Clone Wars animated I rather like Master Plo. He is a nice in the middle between Obi-Wan and Anakin for Ahsoka.

I like oppo rancisis.

If I was going to choose four Jedi to arrest the Dark Lord of the Sith Sidious, Master Plo would have been one.

I would choose Shaak Ti.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Teaser Trailer #2.

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

[LHoffman]

@aequitas:

Teaser Trailer #2.

Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs

Some of it looks cool. I still have mostly the same complaints about it as the other one.

• Many action shots are not in keeping with Star Wars traditional camera angles. (Close following in front of the characters when they are running. Cameras doing loops and rolls with the ships, etc…) There seems to be some shaky cam too.

• A couple of the new generation of Star Wars actors are, to me, too young and polished looking for Star Wars. I know that there were a lot of young actors in previous films, but they did not seem so modern and manufactured to me as these ones do (except Hayden Christensen). From the brief trailers alone they just seem like they are over-acting the parts. I know it isn’t much to go off, but that is my opinion. John Boyega seems to be furiously panting and bewildered in every shot.

• The fan service at the end is a little much, but it is Star Wars… the franchise with probably the most fanboys/girls worldwide, so I really can’t expect anything different. The real blatant stuff just comes off as kinda shallow.

• The apparent heavy use of CGI does not help this movie fit in any better with the original trilogy. That was a big issue with Ep. 1 - 3 also, but here, with the original cast and storyline continued it will be more jarring. George Lucas’ “used future” is still present in the surface look, but it lacks the visceral and penetrating impact that we had in the original trilogy in large part, I believe, to the over-use of CGI where traditional models could be used (or at least combined with CGI). I guess this is just something that the industry is getting away from now. The only directors I know of who do it anymore are Peter Jackson and Christopher Nolan. And even Jackson seems to have left it behind in The Hobbit films. This is too bad… it makes the story and the films feel less real to me. Less authentic.

• And I hate that soccer ball droid. It seems more like a cute gimmick for comedic relief. Every time I see it all I can think of is WALL-E. At least R2-D2 was functional and didn’t look like a child’s toy.

It may seem like I just hate on the movie, but these are honest complaints. I am interested to see what happens.

For the record I think this upcoming Star Wars film has waaaayyyyy more potential and is something I am very interested in:

Star Wars: Rogue One (Dec. 2016) http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/19/star-wars-celebration-rogue-one-footage-and-premise-revealed