re: Star Wars: TFA -Official Discussion Thread - Spoilers

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She sure doesn't seem to plan staying long, since Chewie hangs out and waits for her to come back (the Falcon doesn't leave as she climbs the path).

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I think their goal is to get Luke and take him back to the Resistance. I doubt Luke will go along with them though. I think Chewie and R2 will stick around in Episode VIII as Rey gets trained by Luke. They could make for some good comic relief.

IDK why he hides, there are alot of theories. I think Han has an idea why he does it but I have to go back and watch it. I wonder if Luke knows about snoke? If snoke is a sith he may be a good match for Luke. But just speculation, should be made clearer in VIII

I don't think Luke will kill Kylo. Leia wanted Han to bring her son back, after he blew up the Republic's planet, and was now preparing to blow them up too. Han died trying to redeem his son. That redemption will be the only thing that will comfort Leia, so that is what her brother will attempt.

Rey might. And she seems to have better focus and emotional discipline than Ren does, so while he can do amazing things, she might be a better channel for sustained Force usage.

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I think their goal is to get Luke and take him back to the Resistance. I doubt Luke will go along with them though. I think Chewie and R2 will stick around in Episode VIII as Rey gets trained by Luke. They could make for some good comic relief.

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He may go eventually, or maybe he will become more like Yoda. I really think, they are going to be more original in VIII and IX, as much as people think this VII was a recycle of A new Hope, except the attack on new death star there are plenty of differences between the two that I think they will take VIII in a much different direction. The similarities in VII and IV where JJs homage to the original trilogy.

Just saw it and loved it. It's what I wanted and soo much better than the prequels

My questions/complaints

I didn't like how the old lady from the bar was CGI. I felt it could have been a real made up lady. Who is she by the way?

I hated to see Han die. He was awesome in the movie

I wonder if we will see Lando in episode 8

I'm just glad it's in good hands with Abrams. So much better than what Lucas did with it

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I'm just glad it's in good hands with Abrams. So much better than what Lucas did with it

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the whole, single good shot to destroy an entire planet was actually believable in this movie. You have to contain that energy somewhere, so if you can destabilize what stabilizes basically the power of a star, yeah things going to blow up. It's reasonable to think this situation would actually occur, it took some effort to destroy, shooting it from the outside obviously didn't work. I know a lot of people complain about this, but JJ did a good job making how they destroyed the new death star much more believable than IV and VI.

Also, it was cool to see a planet collapse into a star

It was also pretty cool to see how the light coming from the star changed as it go smaller.

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I think he will eventually go, just to see Leia and confront Kylo Ren again. I think Rey will be under the assumption Luke will go with her from the start, but he will initially refuse. He will agree after a bit of begging though to train her, while Kylo Ren goes on a parallel journey in his lessons with Snoke. Then about 2/3rds through the movie, Luke agrees to return.

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I think the other direction. After initially refusing, Luke will see her as a Force adept. She's itching to go back and assist Chewie in the fight, and Luke comes along. He does so legitimately to see Leia, but also to keep an eye on her. He may be wary of any "official" training, as she isn't interested and he's been creating disasters when he does it, but they have an adventure or two (Chewie stays with them, as the bridge between the two) and he guides her in almost an offhand way.
I wonder if he even refuses the lightsaber for awhile? It's chief advantage is deflecting blaster shots, and if Kylo can do it with the wave of his hand, I'm sure Luke could too. And he was a good shot with a blaster, something the older Jedi never did. He might agree to come along, but as Luke, not Jedi Master Skywalker, and just pull sneaky Force shite along the way.

The more I think about it, the surer I am that he returns with them. I can only imagine him being introduced to Poe, "the best X Wing pilot in the galaxy" by Finn (might actually prompt a little smile from Luke, who modestly mentions that he flew one a time or 2).

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I think the other direction. After initially refusing, Luke will see her as a Force adept. She's itching to go back and assist Chewie in the fight, and Luke comes along. He does so legitimately to see Leia, but also to keep an eye on her. He may be wary of any "official" training, as she isn't interested and he's been creating disasters when he does it, but they have an adventure or two (Chewie stays with them, as the bridge between the two) and he guides her in almost an offhand way.

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No, we need to see her train extensively with Luke. As I said, do it different than Yoda did and focus on Chakras. Abrams picked a wonderful location for them to train in the ways of the Force. And do the same with Kylo during this time, who is in desperate need of this type of training.

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I wonder if he even refuses the lightsaber for awhile? It's chief advantage is deflecting blaster shots, and if Kylo can do it with the wave of his hand, I'm sure Luke could too. And he was a good shot with a blaster, something the older Jedi never did. He might agree to come along, but as Luke, not Jedi Master Skywalker, and just pull sneaky Force shite along the way.

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I honestly think he'll allow Rey to keep his lightsaber, not only because it chose him, but he's become much too powerful for it. I think Luke's level of power now is to control all matter, energy, and emotions. He is fully realized at this point. His goal will be to put Rey at this point, although I don't think she'll be fully realized until the final film. Kylo I think will achieve this mostly by Episode VIII.

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The more I think about it, the surer I am that he returns with them. I can only imagine him being introduced to Poe, "the best X Wing pilot in the galaxy" by Finn (might actually prompt a little smile from Luke, who modestly mentions that he flew one a time or 2).

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If Luke is where I think he is, he won't really care if someone else is a badass pilot.

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how was it in any way realistic that the fight between Kylo Ren and Fin was remotely competitive? He should have slaughtered him in 2 seconds, or more likely just force froze him.

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I don't think the duel was remotely competitive. Sure he scrapped him, but Luke scrapped Vader as well in the Bespin duel. Kylo wanted to toy with him and butcher him and fully realize what was going on. Finn got his arse kicked by a Stormtrooper for god's sake.