Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi

[Ithekro]

The balance....what is it? That will definitely be a question. Anakin brought balance to the Force. This has been stated. The question eventually becomes....what balanced did he bring? The end of the Sith? Luke? We'll find out.

[barcode120x]

I'll definitely watch this as I did E7 (despite how...not so good it was...), but there better be some badass freaking lightsaber duels for crying out loud.

[Magin]

I suspect that for the lightsaber battles, along with HOPEFULLY showing that Luke is an incredibly powerful Jedi/Force User, they're pulling what was done with Godzilla: saving it for us to see in theaters. Assuming, of course, that the actual trailer (I guess this was still just a teaser?) doesn't show us.

[FlareKnight]

Well....that teaser was ok. You can make an exciting teaser. This one...just existed. It wasn't bad. But I didn't get any excitement out of it. Episode 7 had that hype factor for just existing. This one doesn't get that. Need a bit more.

This is the movie I'm more curious about. E7 was just re-doing a New Hope. But here they can start getting interesting with it. They've got the general audience hooked, so now just do something interesting.

Hopefully they can handle light saber battles better. When you have two people with incredible abilities fighting with laser swords...you have to make that entertaining.

Fingers crossed. Will look forward to the end of the year.

Originally Posted by Magin

I suspect that for the lightsaber battles, along with HOPEFULLY showing that Luke is an incredibly powerful Jedi/Force User, they're pulling what was done with Godzilla: saving it for us to see in theaters. Assuming, of course, that the actual trailer (I guess this was still just a teaser?) doesn't show us.

So you mean Luke will just be in the movie for 5 minutes and teased at for the rest of it ?

[Magin]

Hey, to be fair, 5 minutes is still more time than he had in TFA!

... please don't let that be a thing.

[Chosen_Hero]

Look at the poster and notice how Reys' lightsaber extends and changes from blue to red... hmm. The voice saying that the Jedi need to end could be Benicio del Toros' character talking. Also, I hope Finn isn't stuck in a coma for too long.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

The balance....what is it? That will definitely be a question. Anakin brought balance to the Force. This has been stated. The question eventually becomes....what balanced did he bring? The end of the Sith? Luke? We'll find out.

Well the Jedi council was clearly corrupt. They assumed that the Sith were no more and as such no longer follow the light. They don't know why they even exist for. Thus they ceased to be.

[B214]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

"Its time for the Jedi to end."

Yet you see Luke training Rey in the trailer.

[Ithekro]

But training to be what? A Jedi....or something else?

[quigonkenny]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

But training to be what? A Jedi....or something else?

https://youtu.be/mup7aH5LK_Y?t=30s

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Watching that teaser, that thing with the books on the shelf gave me Dark Souls vibes, like real strong ones even though they are obviously completely unrelated. I kind of hope they do go for a proper balance thing rather than Light and Dark, get some nice grey going on.

[AntonKutovoi]

Originally Posted by Magin

I was also reminded that Jedi can be either singular or plural, so here's to hoping that Luke Skywalker isn't killed off in this movie.

BTW, Russian version (and maybe also trailers for the other countries, but I didn't check them) of the latest trailer confimed that it's plural.

[AnimeFan188]

Originally Posted by B214

Yet you see Luke training Rey in the trailer.

Now Luke will be able to train Rey the way Yoda trained him!





Note: Looks like someone else made the same realization.

[Yui Is My Wife]

Originally Posted by AnimeFan188

I doubt we'll see Jar Jar in any of the new movies, but just in case you ever wondered
what happened to him:


The New Star Wars: Aftermath Novel Reveals the Pitiful Fate
of Jar Jar Binks:

"All the debate can finally be laid to rest. We’re about to finally know what happened to Jar
Jar Binks after Revenge of the Sith, and what he’s been doing since Return of the Jedi."

See:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-new-star-...ful-1792481018

You mean the dumb b#tch who started the Clone Wars AND allowed the Death Star to be built was NOT on Alderaan when its people and culture was murdered and vaporized thanks to his stupidity?

There is NO justice in Star Wars.

[Ithekro]

Reduced to a homeless, exiled clown that only children will talk to? He might be only slightly better off than when Qui-Gon found him. At least the children find him funny.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

Reduced to a homeless, exiled clown that only children will talk to? He might be only slightly better off than when Qui-Gon found him. At least the children find him funny.

It is obvious he doesn't deserve the hate. But it doesn't change the fact that he still did what he did, even though he had no ill intentions.

Sometimes good intentions don't matter as much as the bad outcome. He still lives as a free man because he committed no crime, but you can't make public opinion like him.

[Ithekro]

Politically manipulated to get the Senate to vote to give the Chancellor of the Republic emergency powers so that he might enact a standing army at the behest of the Republic and the Jedi to combat the perceived threat of the Separatist movement towards war based on information provided by a Jedi Knight (Obi-wan Kenobi) on the massing of a Droid Army on Geonosis. An illegal army perhaps depending on what was suppose to happen to the Trade Federation after the Battle of Naboo some ten years earlier.

Palpatine and the Jedi both needed someone how would not be seen as threatening to introduce the motion to the Senate. Senator Amidala was invoked, but not present (I doubt Padme would approve of the raising of an Army, though I cannot guarantee that she'd not also call for the Chancellor to be given emergency powers, since he did manipulate her into calling for a vote of no confidence ten years before. She'd probably hope more for the powers to be used for more direct negotiations and getting past the usual Senatorial red tape in dealing with the corporations and their armies, so they could again avoid what happened on Naboo due to procedures stalling the Senate from acting). So Representative Binks was....elected to be the one to do it.

Interestingly enough, if one looks at the deleted bits from Revenge of the Sith, Jar Jar Binks was part of the Delegation of 2000 that wanted Palpatine to return his powers to the Senate at the end of the emergency (the Clone Wars). So he wasn't completely stupid, but easily manipulated when it seemed like it was for the greater good (from both the Jedi's and Palpatine's public point of view).

[MrTerrorist]

[MrTerrorist]

Seeing Carrie Fisher again makes me miss her.

[TnAdct1]

The fact that the Porgs (the creatures in 2:07 and 2:25) are practical effects rather than CGI is a good sign of how impressive the visual effects are shaping up to be.