Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Spoilertastic Thread

[goflyblind]

Ah I missed it because it wasn't embedded.. Sorry bout that 

words are not your forte, huh?

[Tripe]

[NRRork]

Okay, so, really dug it. I feel like I've seen it before, but this was a really good version of that.

I'm watching it again.

Jakku? Why this? Did they just not feel like adding the second sun in post or what?

[ScottotD]

I love that it wasn't Tantooine, one of the biggest things that annoy me about the prequels is all the time they spent there. It just makes the universe small

[NRRork]

Yeah, but like the only difference is that one isn't called Tattoine.

If they wanted to do a new planet, do a new planet, man.

[Quantum Vagina]

I'd have loved to see more planet diversity in the Star Wars Universe. Another Desert planet was pretty boring, I've got to say. What about a civilized Tropical planet, that could be awesome! There's tons of climates that they could choose from, why choose another desert? Oh wait, they wanted to recreate Ep 4

[The Lurker]

Honestly, if they really wanted to do Tattooine  they probably would have.  At least the other planets were interesting.

[ScottotD]

I'd have loved to see more planet diversity in the Star Wars Universe. Another Desert planet was pretty boring, I've got to say. What about a civilized Tropical planet, that could be awesome! There's tons of climates that they could choose from, why choose another desert? Oh wait, they wanted to recreate Ep 4

...or Jakku is basically supposed to be a trailer park and tropics doesn't instantly say crippling, sparse poverty like a desert does. 

If it was a tropical planet the JJ Isaacs on here would be saying "another planet with one climate, why don't they do something original!? Rant, whine moan"

[goflyblind]

If it was a tropical planet the JJ Isaacs on here would be saying "another planet with one climate, why don't they do something original!? Rant, whine moan"

to be fair, this is the reaction of internet people elicited by any choice in any movie ever.

[RoninFox]

It wasn't Tatooine because there was never a massive space battle directly above Tatooine in any of the previous movies that would have led to the crash of a Star Destroyer. Making it a planet we haven't heard of means we don't know its history and we don't need to answer the question of "when did that happen?" right away.

[ScottotD]

No, you're thinking logically.  Clearly the answer is "WAAAH, my childhoods! where's all the fun politics and stuff from the prequels? that was way more my deal, Star Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!11"

[NRRork]

The unpleasable Star Wars fanboys don't know what they want, but I think I figured out what it is, even if they don't know it.

They want to go back in time.

Unfortunately, Disney is not quite THAT powerful.

[NRRork]

It wasn't Tatooine because there was never a massive space battle directly above Tatooine in any of the previous movies that would have led to the crash of a Star Destroyer. Making it a planet we haven't heard of means we don't know its history and we don't need to answer the question of "when did that happen?" right away.

I still question why they made it so much like Tattooine, like right down to almost-Jawas riding almost-dewbacks. I don't remember any not-Sandpeople, though. But I think there's been too much fanboy venom that causes people to assume the worst when someone says anything against the movie. I loved the movie, I'm just busting its balls a little.

It had me pretty much from the moment Finn and Poe escape on the TIE fighter. Up until then I was still wondering what I was in for. I was worried some of the banter was gonna be a little too Tony Starky. . . but I wound up really digging it. You can definitely feel the 2010s vibe in there from time to time, but it got the tone right in all the ways that counted, I felt. And the 2010s vibe was not altogether a negative, it mostly played to the movie's strength.

[ScottotD]

The unpleasable Star Wars fanboys don't know what they want, but I think I figured out what it is, even if they don't know it.

They want to go back in time.

Unfortunately, Disney is not quite THAT powerful.

Super dumb and angry because any changes threatens their weak grasp on nostalgia, it's sad really

[Tripe]

Partially what Scott said, arid = poor often. Arid also = alien for most people. Humans do live in deserts but as a species we tend to not do that all of the time. The image of people who inhabit a whole planet of sand makes things appear automatically alien in a way other environments do not.

Plus it's a call back obviously.