Star Wars Appreciation **Spoilers Ahead**

no handrails to prevent people from falling into the ginormous cavern of death

On the second viewing I was trying to look around a bit more and this was something I found really worrying.

Also, when Rey is tripping out/tripping over after coming into contact with Luke's light sabre, I liked the quick glimpse of the Knights of Ren (I am assuming that's who they were). They might feature a lot more in the next film if Ren needs a new posse to run with after the demise of the First Order.

The Knights of the what now?!

^ the lightsabre fight at the end reminded me of the black knight from that.

"I'll bite you to death!"

Daniel Craig ...Stormtrooper JB-007 (uncredited)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

They briefly used Alec Guinness's voice. He was on 2% of the gross so they must have had permission from his relatives.

Just got back from seeing it a second time, first time was BFI imax 3D, this time was 2D 70mm at the science museum. Also much preferred it in 2D and the expanded 70mm sequence was pretty spectacular!

I saw it the other night, loved it. Is Poe Dameron gay? I appreciate there's a lot of online debate about this, but to me the way it was done seemed at the same time both really obvious, and no big deal, which was nice.

Not sure about gay, but I definitely thought all he was missing was a white silk scarf around his neck, reminded me of a WW2 fighter pilot ace.

I saw it the other night, loved it. Is Poe Dameron gay?

This. There was some smoking bromance going down in the 'keep the jacket' scene.

I rate the movie in two bits - first 45 mins or so: nice, 7/10.

The rest... 4/10 would not bang etc

Thought it was easily the most watchable and entertaining in the series so far. Not complex or suspenseful, just a great watch.

Standout for me was the menace and violence from the Stormtroopers when they turned that village over at the start - they were always a bit hapless and cute in the originals.

Thought you could only operate a lightsabre if you were a Jedi. Never expected them to have an on button, thought you switched it on with the force. Disappointed to see any old herbert being able to fuck shit up with one.

Didn't Han use Luke's lightsabre to cut open the belly of the arctic space kangaroo?

Disappointed to see any old herbert being able to fuck shit up with one.

exactly! fuxxake

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/90522/why-did-most-lightsabers-have-an-activation-button

I remember a force-activated one from the extended universe but I think otherwise I assumed they were dead-man switches that needed to be held (hence the really slow fighting of the original trilogy).

^That discussion made me smile, i like the idea that if you use the force to switch it on, your opponent can use thr force to switch it off again!

if you use the force to switch it on, your opponent can use thr force to switch it off again!

Lozl. Why hazn't Robot Chicken done a fun sketch of this?

Reckon Luke's one must have had the battery out of a Nokia 3210. It just switched straight on after lying dormant for years.

I watched the film for a second time yesterday and am now firmly of the opinion that it's bloody ace.

It is really good.

I have a super nerdy spaceship physics question though. This was prompted by nerdily watching a nerdy video of a nerdy flying x-wing model. Like a nerd.

How do x-wings fly? Or the millenium falcon for that matter. I mean, how do they steer in atmosphere and in space? I ask because the only element of the new CG stuff that didn't totally convince for me was the spaceship flying bits. They still look unrealistic and cartoonish to me which really jars with how much care and attention is taken elsewhere.

I thought the presumably several hundred tonne millenium falcon bouncing about relatively unscathed like it was a big polystyrene toy drone was daft. The effect was exacerbated by it being in front of a backdrop of convincingly massive wrecked starcruisers.

Then there's the dog-fighting x-wings which seem to be able to perform feats of physics-defying agility in the atmosphere and behave in an oddly ww2 plane-ish acrobatics manner in space.

That is all.

Holy sh*t. I just googled my own question and peeked into the abyss of true nerdery.

*backs away whistling casually.

pls forget you saw this.

how do they steer in atmosphere and in space?

Magnets

Something, something, inertial dampeners.

I'm glad someone else thought this - the super agile and robust MF really grated.

And the "this old ship hasn't flown for years" and it's in a place where the only industry seems to be stripping old spaceships for parts, yet it starts first time, gets off the ground without exploding and is airtight in a vacuum.

yet it starts first time

Who left the keys in the bloody ignition, too?!

Still no cctv on the death star apparently.

And the tie fighters didn't think to shoot it before shooting at the market... (not that they'd have hit it anyway, but y'know)

Roddy Doyle

-I brought some o' the grandkids to the new Star Wars there earlier.
-Wha' was it like?
-A load o' shite.
-I heard it wasn't too bad.
-It was shite, I'm tellin' yeh. It looked like it was made in the Phoenix Park with a load o' wheelie bins painted white. Absolute fuckin' drivel. It made no fuckin' sense.
-Was Princess Leia in it?
-Yeah - played by Angela Merkel.
-That's alrigh', isn't it? Yeh'd trust Angela to save the world.
-Only if she's playin' Angela in a fillum about Angela. Not in this fuckin' thing. She looks lost. She couldn't handle a fart, let alone the European economy. But the worst bit - .
-Go on.
-They're tryin' to find that irritatin' little prick from the first fillum. Luke Skypilot. An' d'yeh know where they find him? In all the fuckin' Galaxy an' infinity or wherever. Where do they fuckin' find him?
-Where?
-Kerry.
-Fuckin' Kerry?
-Not even Kerry. A rock off the side o' Kerry. He's been hangin' off a stone in the middle o' the fuckin' Atlantic. Not a Spar or a pub in sight. An' this cunt is goin' to save us? For fuck sake.

ha!