computer parts posted:

In the previous thread, someone posted a Lucas interview where he said verbatim that this line of thinking is why he had Maul cut in half so the audience knows he's dead and gone.

ungulateman posted:

Somebody, probably SMG but maybe Cnut, theorised that the monsters are just hideous visualisations of the characters' sexuality. Obi-Wan's is a praying-mantis like creature that he stabs to death with a sword/spear, Anakin climbs up on the rhino with a dong for a horn and rides it around, while Padme strangles the feminine cat alien to death with her chains.

I'm working off memory so I might have gotten something wrong, but the general idea seems fairly sound.

drunkill posted:

Someone made a set of posters, all showing the opening Star Destroyer scenes from each movie.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Vader (the mask-wearing character voiced by James Earl Jones) doesn't kill any innocent people.

micpp posted:

I may be misremembering but I think Yaddle was like a first attempt at making a new Yoda puppet for Episode 1 but it turned out creepy so they essentially went "welp better try again, gently caress just throw a wig on this one we'll use it as an extra"

homullus posted:

How many times does Yoda laugh or joke with people in the prequels? I can't think of any. Considering all evidence, from inside the trilogies & The Clone Wars and from their creators, the fall of the Republic was a life-changing experience for Yoda. Anakin was different and Obi-Wan was different. Why did you expect Yoda to be the same?

Toilet Mouth posted:

Re: shipping, Anakin is the only Star Wars character who ever had sex, and we all know how that turned out for him.

cargohills posted:

um actually it is in fact pretty bad

e: to back up my point this is the comic that evil C3PO+R2D2 and the cross between admiral ackbar & general grievous comes from

Viller posted:

Theres a couple of things that couple be interpreted both ways actually.

When he chokes that officer after he tells him a "girl" helped Finn and BB8 escape with the Falcon? "WHAT GIRL!?"
When he captures Rey in the woods "The girl ive heard so much about." From who? when?
If I'm not mistaken the only run in she has with the FO at that point is stealing the Falcon, so how would he know more?

Gonz posted:

Lord Hydronium posted:

My single favorite design in the prequels is the Trade Federation battleship, which has that same blend of the new and familiar that I talked about.



The obvious inspiration is the Star Destroyer (probably my favorite design in the whole saga) - it's a big off-white ship that's the main vessel of the bad guys, and the movie starts with the heroes getting drawn into it.

But all the particulars of the design are different. The Star Destroyer is aggressive - it's a big arrowhead stabbing forward, telling you that the most dangerous place is right in front of it. But the Federation ship is round, more subtle. It reaches out and grasps - like the Federation, or like Sidious. It's not obviously dangerous until you're inside (the EU actually nicely worked with that theme, by making the battleships converted freighters that could pretend to be harmless). Compare to the Droid Control Ship, which is much spikier, signaling its more direct danger:



Incidentally, we don't see a lot of round ships in Star Wars. It was even a joke in an older title of the Star Wars and Star Trek threads. The only ones I can think of are the Death Star and the TIE fighter. So we know this is a bad guy ship. But it's still alien, a little weird. It's not perfectly geometric like those two designs. These are new bad guys, not just the Empire. In fact, originally the design was a straight up UFO:



It was changed for the better, though. Besides the reasons above, adding that gap in the front gives it a sense of forward motion. It looks ready to pounce.

In short, TPM is a gorgeous looking movie and has some excellent design work.

Davros1 posted:

Because of course there loving is:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Henrietya_Antilles

Basebf555 posted:

Would you have the balls to tell Billy Dee Williams that he was saying it wrong?

Mr. Funny Pants posted:

Fun but goddammit, they spoiled the resolution to the, "What happens when you shoot a walker with a rocket launcher," question.

Pook Good Mook posted:

Why would he be on Mustafar?

Not a dig at anyone in particular, but why the gently caress would he want to spend time on Mustafar where he killed his wife? Would make more sense to me if he was somewhere else.

I did love that they made clear that he has sycophants who wait on him just like the Emperor. Again, this movie was best when it was fleshing things out. I never considered that Vader would chill in Bacta when he wasn't needed. To me it shows how much pain he's in all the time.

ImpAtom posted:

Aren't they troop transports?

dialhforhero posted:

Legit thought he was the real actor for the base CGI model of Snoke at first.

Zeris posted:

It's impressive how closely that guard's head dress resembles the royal guard helmet thing.