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They've all been bought off. Didn't you know? Of course that doesn't explain why tent pole movies from the major studios don't all get rave reviews from critics across the board. They're not all as large as Disney but still large enough to throw some money around to critics that are inclined...

Hand held weapons that could be used to fight against lightsabers are certainly nothing new. It was a concept introduced in the some of the games with cortosis weave enhanced weapons. And of course the prequels featured the magnaguards with electrostaves that could do the same. The weapons in...

TLJ was never going to get TFA's numbers. Here, China, or anywhere else. If it ends up being the worst performer of the three there it won't be shocking. Disney seems to have accepted that the franchise simply won't turn big numbers there and hasn't put nearly as much effort into promoting...

Star Wars doesn't really do that well in China in general. The first two of the new movies both got around 7% of their box office take from there. Internationally it really only performs well in those places that were big enough markets to gets releases back when the OT came out.

I never said they followed his outlines closely merely that Lucas's own assertion that they just shitcanned all of his ideas isn't accurate on his part. And in isolation I would agree with you that having a female protagonist isn't leveraging Lucas's story but if you're compiling a list of...

No, these were a story treatment and outlines he started working on just before he decided to sell Lucasfilm. They weren't heavily fleshed out at all apparently. They were supposed to serve as a starting point for someone else to write a screenplay from. And yeah, EC isn't a great catch for...

Central protagonist, in the same sense that Luke was in the OT, was a girl who would go on to become a jedi. Her name was originally Kira and it was still that in some of the early scripts. They eventually changed it to Rey though, as a nod to it, it will be Emilia Clarke's character's name in...

Chaps with gaps ??? The tag it's gets filed under in "the industry" is the very uncatchy FTM. oblig:

Lucas is a consummate revisionist, down to the very marrow of his being. He's been one for so long now it's not hard to imagine the habit bleeding out beyond his movie making. What he was laughing at was probably more the notion of someone besides himself making a Han Solo movie. That's the...

Seeing it I imagined he didn't even notice it when it happened. He probably had still had visions of Luke Skywalker staring down the FO on Crait dancing through his head when he reached for it. It was the sort of simple action one does without paying hardly any attention that something like...

What are you defining as force outburst shit?

Well he didn't pull it to himself across the room. While being a couple of steps away from it reached for the broom as he walked to pick it up and it closed part of the distance between it and his hand by being pulled to him. It looked pretty much like what you'd expect a subconscious use of...

The part about no one knowing about Luke isn't true. His name was known throughout the Rebellion after ANH though some were pretty dismissive of him as just some lucky kid. After the fall of the Empire many people across the galaxy knew that Luke Skywalker was a jedi like those of old. Luke...

Months of training? You really don't get that impression while watching the movie. It seems like a few days. Even piecing together the information to come out years later as to the distances between the locations shown most people conclude it took place over several weeks at most. And Luke's...

So you make a reasonable assumption. Which was all anyone could do at that point since we don't see those intervening years between the movies. But it's just an assumption, however reasonable it might be, not some hard fact. You could also assume, based on Luke's reaction when Ben's force...

I thought you were a big prequel guy. As little as I've watched TPM I remember Anakin's mother telling Qui-Gon that Anakin had special powers and him telling her the reason the boy appeared to have such fast reflexes was essentially because he was using precognition to see things before they...

And far more children were confirmed to be force sensitive than actually entered into training as jedi. One of TCW story arcs was centered around Cad Bane stealing the Jedi Temple record of confirmed force sensitives who had not gone on to become younglings.

In the Ahsoka novel she got confirmation of a kid who she had suspected was force sensitive when she saw her making pebbles float. I wouldn't assume that to be an isolated incident. Though many families did summon the jedi for testing a child purely as a shot in the dark, hoping they would end...

In the days of the Jedi Order that's how kids became suspected of being force sensitive. They'd do things via the force like that without even realizing it. Someone would witness it and in many cases the jedi would be contacted and send someone to investigate or test the child.

Expecting any extensive retconning to occur in 9 would be foolish but it is worth noting that Abrams did bang some heads at Lucasfilm, specifically with the Story Group, while he was making TFA. There have never been any specifics come out about it just some faint admissions that it wasn't...

This one is actually one of George's ideas, including having Kasdan write it. That might be a cautionary note unto itself.

The next contestant jumping into the sink or swim role for WB overseeing the DC films: Walter Hamada. I guess this is supposed to be a promotion for his time running New Line and getting an unexpected runaway hit with It.

If you didn't like it the first two times I don't think I'd take a third time is the charm approach.

I really don't have much in the way of a list of hope-to-see's for this one. I'm sure we'll get various red letter day events from Han's past like winning the Flacon, meeting Chewie, etc. Those are the sorts of things I'd rather just know that they happened without seeing them laid out as part...

Well she did outright leave the order so you're right on that count. But in her later interactions with Kanan and Ezra she didn't try to dissuade either of them from walking that path, she just stood firm in that she wasn't going to.

The individual systems still had their own defense forces which was given a nod when Snoke said he had his legions deployed across the galaxy to consolidate control. That was one of the ideas behind the downsizing of the centralized military of the New Republic. It would be harder for anyone...

That's definitely not the approach that Lucasfilm takes with the expanded material. They populate those with interconnections with the movies to get people interested in them and feel like they're worth investing time and money into. In some cases they end up relying too much on those to prop...

I haven't read most of it myself. I've read Bloodline which goes into the political stuff with Leia and some of how the FO was being supported by certain figures and I would rate that book as merely ok. The post RotJ demise of the Empire and setting up people who would later become important...

I don't know how we can assume that his only jedi experiences were the ones we saw on screen in the OT. Luke having further conversations with Ben, Yoda, and Anakin in the intervening years as well as finding bits and pieces of jedi teachings and history that the Empire hadn't managed to...

Nope. Maybe just loading the page with them embedded is enough?