| [Article] Burning Questions from Episode VII [message #306811] |
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From the New Zealand Herald newspaper (22 December, 2015) ...
Burning questions from Star Wars
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Spoiler alert: Latest blockbuster instalment keeps fans
guessing
First things first: This is for people who have seen
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', which means spoilers.
So stop reading now if you have to.
No, on to business. Watching the latest 'Star Wars'
instalment was supposed to answer all our questions. We
did get some answers, even if we didn't like them. (No!
Not Han Solo!) But other mysteries remain, even after
two hours and 15 minutes of action.
What's a fan to do? Make some moderately educated
guesses, of course. Here goes.
Did Luke go to the Dark Side?
Best guess: It doesn't appear that way based on his
monkish robes and far-flung location. Still, when Rey
tracked down Luke, didn't it seem like he was going to
rip that lightsaber out of her hand and show her who's
boss? No? We would have a more definitive answer if
Luke had said something, but in the absence of that,
we're going with: He's probably still a good egg.
Who's Rey?
Best guess: There's all kinds of evidence that Rey is
somehow related to Luke: The Force is clearly strong
with her; Luke's lightsaber was calling out to her
like a toddler looking for its mama; Leia gave her a
tender look upon their first introduction, then tasked
the young woman with finding Luke; and a low-energy
R2-D2 suddenly got his groove back the second Rey
showed up. Then again, Rey and Han have a lot in common
with their piloting skills and handy way of fixing the
Millennium Falcon's circuitry. It seems far-fetched
that Kylo Ren wouldn't know he had a sister though. So
Rey must be Luke's daughter.
How did Rey end up abandoned on Jakku?
Best guess: If Luke really sentenced himself to exile
after his nephew pupil, Kylo Ren, went to the Dark Side,
perhaps he felt that he wasn't capable of raising a
child either. That would make sense, and yet the
scenario raises a host of other questions, including:
Who is Rey's mother and where is she? And if she was
dead or incapacitated, why didn't Aunt Leia raise Rey?
What kind of monster dumps a little girl in the desert
all by herself? It looks like we will have to wait
until 2017 to find out.
Who knows Rey's real identity?
Best guess: Let's say Rey is Luke's daughter - which
other characters figured it out? When Han offered Rey a
job on the Millennium Falcon, did he do it because he
figured out her identity? When Leia first saw her
(maybe) niece, did General Organa know who she was
hugging? When Luke first spotted Rey, could he tell she
was family? This mystery may never get cleared up, but
we'd go with: Leia knew. Leia knows everything.
Where did Finn come from?
Best guess: We know that he was kidnapped as a small
child and programmed to be a killing machine, growing
up in a prison of white Stormtrooper plastic. But is
his parentage important to the story? There was
speculation that he might be the offspring of Lando
Calrissian, especially after a jigsaw puzzle identified
Finn as such. But there was no indication in 'The Force
Awakens' that the two are related - certainly not to
the extent that Rey and Luke (or potentially Han) have
similarities.
Is Kylo Ren dead or alive?
Best guess: At the end of 'The Force Awakens', our evil
villain lies maimed on the edge of a giant fiery chasm.
Then, moments after Supreme Leader Snoke tells General
Hux to grab Kylo Ren and escape, the planet explodes.
It seems improbably that Darth Vader-in-training
survived such an event, and yet Kylo Ren is such an
optimally constructed villain, there's no way we've
seen the last of him.
C-3PO is a droid, so why hasn't anyone programmed him to
be less annoying?
Best guess: Maybe, in a world where Jar Jar Binks exists,
C-3PO doesn't seem all that irritating.
[End of article]
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| Re: [Article] Burning Questions from Episode VII [message #306896 is a reply to message #306811] |
Sun, 27 December 2015 13:20  |
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Originally posted by: TruthSlave
On 12/24/2015 5:23 AM, Your Name wrote:
>
> From the New Zealand Herald newspaper (22 December, 2015) ...
>
>
> Burning questions from Star Wars
> --------------------------------
> Spoiler alert: Latest blockbuster instalment keeps fans
> guessing
>
> First things first: This is for people who have seen
> 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', which means spoilers.
> So stop reading now if you have to.
>
> No, on to business. Watching the latest 'Star Wars'
> instalment was supposed to answer all our questions. We
> did get some answers, even if we didn't like them. (No!
> Not Han Solo!) But other mysteries remain, even after
> two hours and 15 minutes of action.
>
> What's a fan to do? Make some moderately educated
> guesses, of course. Here goes.
>
> Did Luke go to the Dark Side?
> Best guess: It doesn't appear that way based on his
> monkish robes and far-flung location. Still, when Rey
> tracked down Luke, didn't it seem like he was going to
> rip that lightsaber out of her hand and show her who's
> boss? No? We would have a more definitive answer if
> Luke had said something, but in the absence of that,
> we're going with: He's probably still a good egg.
No, he became disillusioned after a 'pupil' turned...
> Who's Rey?
> Best guess: There's all kinds of evidence that Rey is
> somehow related to Luke: The Force is clearly strong
> with her; Luke's lightsaber was calling out to her
> like a toddler looking for its mama; Leia gave her a
> tender look upon their first introduction, then tasked
> the young woman with finding Luke; and a low-energy
> R2-D2 suddenly got his groove back the second Rey
> showed up. Then again, Rey and Han have a lot in common
> with their piloting skills and handy way of fixing the
> Millennium Falcon's circuitry. It seems far-fetched
> that Kylo Ren wouldn't know he had a sister though. So
> Rey must be Luke's daughter.
Yep, but whose her mother...
> How did Rey end up abandoned on Jakku?
> Best guess: If Luke really sentenced himself to exile
> after his nephew pupil, Kylo Ren, went to the Dark Side,
> perhaps he felt that he wasn't capable of raising a
> child either. That would make sense, and yet the
> scenario raises a host of other questions, including:
> Who is Rey's mother and where is she? And if she was
> dead or incapacitated, why didn't Aunt Leia raise Rey?
> What kind of monster dumps a little girl in the desert
> all by herself? It looks like we will have to wait
> until 2017 to find out.
The flash back shows she had a similar upbringing to Anikin / Luke.
Question is, was this Luke's doing, or the mother we know nothing
about, or her Aunt's?
The real question is how did Ren turn. Who or what had that power?
>
> Who knows Rey's real identity?
> Best guess: Let's say Rey is Luke's daughter - which
> other characters figured it out? When Han offered Rey a
> job on the Millennium Falcon, did he do it because he
> figured out her identity? When Leia first saw her
> (maybe) niece, did General Organa know who she was
> hugging? When Luke first spotted Rey, could he tell she
> was family? This mystery may never get cleared up, but
> we'd go with: Leia knew. Leia knows everything.
>
> Where did Finn come from?
> Best guess: We know that he was kidnapped as a small
> child and programmed to be a killing machine, growing
> up in a prison of white Stormtrooper plastic. But is
> his parentage important to the story? There was
> speculation that he might be the offspring of Lando
> Calrissian, especially after a jigsaw puzzle identified
> Finn as such. But there was no indication in 'The Force
> Awakens' that the two are related - certainly not to
> the extent that Rey and Luke (or potentially Han) have
> similarities.
The fact that Finn even manages to take a piece of Ren, begs
the question, how? Does Finn also have some latent ability with
the force? And yah, the galaxy is too small for us not to bump
into one or two of Lando's off springs. ha ha..
>
> Is Kylo Ren dead or alive?
> Best guess: At the end of 'The Force Awakens', our evil
> villain lies maimed on the edge of a giant fiery chasm.
> Then, moments after Supreme Leader Snoke tells General
> Hux to grab Kylo Ren and escape, the planet explodes.
> It seems improbably that Darth Vader-in-training
> survived such an event, and yet Kylo Ren is such an
> optimally constructed villain, there's no way we've
> seen the last of him.
>
> C-3PO is a droid, so why hasn't anyone programmed him to
> be less annoying?
> Best guess: Maybe, in a world where Jar Jar Binks exists,
> C-3PO doesn't seem all that irritating.
>
>
> [End of article]
>
I expect there'll be a slew of books to fill the gaps between
episodes VI and VII, not to mention animation spin offs. In
fact there's room for another prequel, but lord knows what
they'd call it. VI.V
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| Re: [Article] Burning Questions from Episode VII [message #308683 is a reply to message #306896] |
Sat, 16 January 2016 15:54 |
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On Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 11:20:20 AM UTC-7, TruthSlave wrote:
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> fact there's room for another prequel, but lord knows what
> they'd call it. VI.V
Well, after all, when Star Wars originally appeared in theatres, it didn't say
"Episode IV" over the crawl.
So I think there would be absolutely no problem in editing The Force Awakens to
change it from Episode VII The Force Awakens to Episode X The Force Awakens
should they feel like making a prequel trilogy.
Hopefully with no equivalent of Jar Jar Binks.
John Savard
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| Re: [Article] Burning Questions from Episode VII [message #308697 is a reply to message #308683] |
Sat, 16 January 2016 17:57 |
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In article <5c3685ab-187c-46cf-a85d-4a0eed13d469@googlegroups.com>,
John Savard <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 11:20:20 AM UTC-7, TruthSlave wrote:
>>
>> In fact there's room for another prequel, but lord knows what
>> they'd call it. VI.V
>
> Well, after all, when Star Wars originally appeared in theatres, it didn't
> say "Episode IV" over the crawl.
>
> So I think there would be absolutely no problem in editing The Force Awakens
> to change it from Episode VII The Force Awakens to Episode X The Force
> Awakens should they feel like making a prequel trilogy.
>
> Hopefully with no equivalent of Jar Jar Binks.
Jar Jar Abrams is already there - he was in charge of making the
pointless "reboot" movie. :-(
If Disney simply wanted to make a clone, why bother wasting huge piles
of money buying the Lucas empire at all. Simply make a Star Wars
rip-off and call it something else ("Sun Battles" / "Solar Clashes")
.... of course they have already tried that with "John Carter" and
failed, so that's probably why.
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