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With regards the treatment of Luke in TLJ and Hamill's evolving thoughts on the matter, it turns out that story arc actually comes from Lucas' own treatment for episode VII before Disney bought in and hired JJ Abrams.  Haters gonna hate but it came from the world builder himself!  Our Only Look at George Lucas’ Vision for the ‘Star Wars’ Sequel Trilogy


The entire space battle makes very little sense and honestly the Dreadnought didn't seem remotely threatening considering the level of ease it was dealt with. Poe's plan exposed the fleet with lack of star fighter cover.
Agreed. This was one of the worst parts of the movie for me (fortunately it got better later).  However it does demonstrate, once again, that over-confidence common to many Imperial officers, going all the way back to Tarkin and Admiral Motti in ANH.


Funny how a bowcaster bolt kills Stormtroopers in armor hurling them several feet but barely phases an unarmored teen with no knowledge it was about to hit him. That entire scene can be summed up in shitty plot armor, so don't go on about kylo's wound taking a toll on him when he's just apparently not very good at what he does next to mary sue.  Rey is somehow a better fighter than both kylo and Luke in spit eof having far less experience in lightsaber combat, is magically stronger than both of them with far more control than either at that age or stage of training. Again there's tapping into the Force and then using the force like a lvl 20 Wizard in D7D with zero negatives.
Hang on now. You can't arbitrarily ignore plot points you don't like and then use it's absence to claim Rey is a "mary sue".  Kylo's significant injuries prior to his fight with Rey, which are clearly shown on screen, have huge bearing on how that was conducted.  For most of the fight his weakened state is the only reason she was able to stay in the game, until that moment when she opened to the Force and let it guide her actions.  And Force-augmented reactions has often been shown as one of the most common manifestations even in the untrained (see Anakin's podracing).

TLJ shows clearly the huge disparity between Rey and Kylo's combat skill in the throne room scene against the royal guard.  For every single guard Rey took on, Kylo was fighting three at once.  And at no point was Rey superior to Luke during their sparring; he disarmed or blocked her moves multiple times before she summoned the lightsaber (a sign of frustration?).

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He got a lot of stick earlier when he made Star Trek: Into Darkness, which was a blatant rip-off/much shittier remake of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. And then did the same thing with The Force Awakens, just rehashing A New Hope. This guy just cannot write an original story to save his life, which is why the majority of both the Star Wars and Star Trek communities can't stand him.
Honestly, I think JJ is treated rather unfairly by a lot of the Star Trek "community".  He was hired to refresh Star Trek for a new generation (recasting TOS was probably Paramount's idea which he had to follow through on), and he did so quite successfully in ST '09.  It just so happens that each generation of Trek fans seems to view their show/movies as the one true Trek and are unwilling to accept other interpretations.  That happened when TNG first turned up, distressing huge numbers of TOS followers, and then again with ENT, and now twice in the last decade first with the JJverse and latterly with Discovery.

Star Trek Into Darkness mirrored (not copied) elements from earlier Star Trek works, but personally I thought that was done tastefully and generally quite well.  Certainly most of the issues I have with the film are of the nitpick variety rather than against the whole.  And despite everyone's hate STID still has to be considered infinitely better than at least four out of the original 10 movies, and probably edges out one or two others as well.


No, I don't mean the previous EU stories but the OT. Where the Empire was defeated and freedom restored to the Galaxy. Jump ahead 30 years and the New Republic is destroyed when the FO destroys a single star system after which the FO conquers the Galaxy basically overnight.
But as Illidan said, we don't know exactly what state the galaxy is in at the start of TFA.  How much of the galaxy does the New Republic control?  I doubt it's as much as we might think, and the First Order must already have been quite a significant power.  Sure the end of the OT had the Emperor and Vader dead, but that's hardly a defeated Empire and a free galaxy.  Even in Legends that was never the end of the Empire.


As for the Luke/Ben situation:
1. No one is in immediate danger.
2. Luke is far more experienced Jedi.
3. Ben hasn't actually done anything by that point. He hasn't even turned to the dark side yet.

For Luke to take out his lightsaber and ignite it is very much out of character, based on the information we have so far.
I think it's quite reasonable to believe that the Force premonition emanating from Ben had a great sense of immediacy to Luke and triggered an involuntary reaction, which then served to fulfil the premonition and push a hurt, scared and confused Kylo towards the darkness Luke sensed.  Hell, if Snoke is as powerful a manipulator of the Force as we're led to believe maybe that premonition was planted in Luke's mind to deliver that very outcome.

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4. So Is Emo Ren the uncontestant ruler of the FO?
I wouldn't be surprised if Snoke is actually undead and Kylo just killed his avatar/puppet.  I don't think he really cared which of Rey or Kylo turned (Kylo has consistently been shown as conflicted until that decisive moment in the throneroom), as they both seem to have similar levels of raw power.  As your questions 1 and 3 make clear, we don't really know enough about the First Order to determine whether there may be other leadership elsewhere with a claim (although any that did would have to outfight a very angry Dark Jedi to make good on it!).


5. Did that moment between Rey and Poe tease a possible romance?
Must have missed that bit. To be honest I was perfectly glad to see the back of the psuedo Rey/Finn love interest and don't care to have them try and force another one in.


6. Where and what are the Knights of Ren?
Kylo's probably murdered then all already in his fits of angst.  No, but seriously, I'm assuming this is something that JJ will pick up in the next movie although from the flashbacks in both TFA and TLJ they're probably no more than a handful of part-trained Jedi apprentices anyway.


7. Why did Luke make a map to his location if he wanted to be left alone?
He didn't.  The partial map from the Imperial archives was to the lost Jedi Temple on Ahch-To, which Leia/others knew was what Luke had been searching for.  For both factions it seems finding the missing part of the map was just their best guess at where he might have ended up, and probably no more directed than ANH Leia desperately heading to Tatooine in the hope that Obi-Wan hadn't moved or snuffed it since he'd last pen-palled with Bail Organa.



Overall this movie undermines a lot of previous Star Wars stories by ignoring them or just making them irrelevant. So much that didn't make sense to me. Lukes story is just a total 180 on his character that was built in the OT.
You mean the previous EU Star Wars stories that Disney categorically wrote off in 2014?  None of that matters in these movies because they never happened.  Specifically with regards to Luke, we've really no idea what his character has been through in this timeline since RotJ.  For all we know he suffered PTSD after the events with Vader and the Emperor!

For me the event at the new Jedi Temple with Kylo shown in the flashback, from multiple perspectives, doesn't seem that far removed from how Luke reacted in the throne room when he realised Vader was considering going after and trying to turn Leia.  Suddenly scared, he lashed out.  Only this time it's a perception of deep darkness from his nephew, whose training he was already concerned about, and possibly a Force vision or premonition, which led to a momentary loss of balance.


If that hyperspacer ramming thing is that effective it means that the Death Stars were never a true threat to anyone, you could just take them out with one cruiser.
If an A-wing ramming into the bridge of the Executor was so effective why didn't Poe or someone just do that with the Dreadnought at the start of this movie?  One swallow does not a summer make.  I'm sure people can come up with any number of reasons why said strategy wouldn't have worked against the Death Star, and failing that you just fall back on the "nobody thought of it before" get-out clause.


Who is Snoke and who are Rey's parents were two things that were implied to be important questions in TFA. And this movie just ignored them both. The reveal of Rey's parentage is a throwaway line that has no lasting effect on the story. I don't care that they are just dead junkers. You don't need famous parents to be important in Star Wars. But TFA made it seem that she has some connection to Luke by guiding her to his lightsaber. It called to her and we are never given an answer as to why.
I thought both Luke and Snoke hinted at where Rey's power comes from, and indirectly, why she was called to the lightsaber.  An inherent unconscious balancing act of tension by an unseen force.  The Force Awakens.  How and why was Qui Gon drawn to Anakin in Phantom Menace?

For Snoke, I agree some more exposition on him and the state of the galaxy would have been nice, but I don't think strictly necessary.  The Emperor was almost as vague in the OT, only with the advent of the Prequels did he become more firmly fleshed out (and the timespan between PT and OT is shorter than that between OT and ST).  And as I suggested earlier, I don't yet believe Snoke's story is finished - or Rey's parentage, for that matter.


And Rey just continues to be perfect in everything she does. With basically no training she defeats trained warriors easily. And let's remember that has passed from the beginning of TFA to the end of this movie is, what, a month tops.
Rey's skills and their origin were telegraphed quite clearly in TFA: an orphan growing up in practically indentured servitude on a harsh desert planet where you have to be tough to survive.  Combat skills from growing up in such a hostile environment.  Technical knowledge from dismantling and selling parts from crashed starships, and living in a derelict Imperial walker.  Piloting skills gleaned from her scavenged flight sim headset and being one of Ungar Platt's favoured servants.  Compare that to Luke: farm boy on a comparatively safe world (the odd Jawa or Tusken Raider aside) who shoots womp rats from his crop-duster in his spare time.

And I don't believe Rey "defeats trained warriors with ease".  Sure she beat up some thugs on Jakku, but then later the fight with Kylo was really tough for her despite Kylo's weakened and disadvantaged state (shot by Chewie's bowcaster).  It was only when she "used the Force" that she was able to match even that.  Then in this film Luke outmatched her easily in their sparring until she cheats and brings out a Lightsaber, and in the throne room scene is tossed about like a leaf by Snoke and then handled one royal guard (if that's still the term) for every three Kylo fought.


And then we have the First Order, which during no part of this movie feel a like a genuine threat to anyone. They're far too incompetent to be a threat. They could have destroyed the Resistance at anytime by sending some ships through hyperspace to intercept them but they dont' even consider that option. Or send their fighters but they don't do that either.
No arguments on this from me, but then the Resistance leadership didn't fare much better either.  Obviously Snoke took a leaf out of Vader's book and killed all the competent officers already!

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I really liked The Last Jedi.  From a first watching I'd probably put it somewhere top three (and obviously above all of the prequels).  There were lots of similarities with both ESB and RotJ, but I feel the way those elements were brought together and reinterpreted here worked well.

The great:

- Luke's Force projection on Crait.  At first I was like "now how is he supposed to have got there?" but quickly decided it had to be a projection.
 That entire sequence was utterly brilliant and especially the way Hux/Kylo Ren reacted to the event.

- Kylo and Leia sensing each others presence and Kylo then being unable to fire on his own mother (after killing Han last movie), only for his wingmen to destroy the bridge right in front of him.  At this point he believes she is dead but i can't rightly remember if he later learnt otherwise?

- Luke and Rey, and Rey and Kylo conversations.  I loved the interaction between these pairs, and the latter in particular was quite a divergence from what we've seen before (I don't have any problem with that manifestation of the Force).


The good:

- Porgs and cystal foxes.  Loved the new fauna, although seeing the origin of blue milk was a bit weird!

- Luke's struggle with the Jedi legacy (including his failures as a teacher, which mirrors the old EU well) and the re-appearance of Yoda's Force ghost (glad they didn't try to cram Ewan McGregor in as a weirdly younger Old Ben too!).


The bad:

- Poe Dameron single handedly taking out all of the turrets on the Dreadnought.  They're bigger than his fighter yet they all went *poof* just like that.  Also does that thing have no shields?

- Drawn out suspense scene with gunner in the bomber ship thing during the battle to destroy the Dreadnought.  I assume that was supposed to be a moment for the audience to emotionally connect with the battle and Resistance sacrifice, but it just left me cold.  It's been used too often in various movies (wasn't there even a similar bit in Rogue One?) and this version wasn't particularly original.

- The Dreadnought itself.  Big black super ship with a giant cannon on the bottom.  All I can think of is Benedict CumberKhan's line from Star Trek Into Darkness: "Dreadnought class: two times the size, three times the speed, advanced weaponry, modified for a minimal crew.".  It's like Disney just lifted that concept wholesale from Paramount's movie.


The ugly:

- Lizard washerwomen on Ahch-To.  Seriously??
- Captain Phasma.  Utterly pointless character.  Saved from near certain death in the last movie for no reason whatsoever.


Various unrelated longer thoughts:

I feel some of the continuity in the movie was rather haphazard.  The bit that has stuck in my mind is the scenes in the giantbatwingthing hangar (no idea what that ship was actually called) which got rather fuzzy.  Before the ship was hit by hyperspace Raddus Finn and Rose are on the floor with Plasma/stormtroopers right next to them, yet in the next moment when the hangar is in flames Plasma and the stormtroopers are all the way across the deck heading back towards her prisoners? Wtf? Also thought it was rather convenient that the shuttle over by the exit was miraculously the only thing undamaged!

With regards to what happened to Luke at the end of the movie, I'm actually quite happy with it.  He's choosing his own time of passing and is at peace with his legacy (Yoda still handing out lessons from beyond the grave).  I also thought it nicely reflected both Yoda and Old Ben's deaths from the OT (i.e. there's almost a "if you strike me down I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" subtext between Luke and Kylo).  I'm also in two minds about that last strike of Kylo's lightsaber to projection-Luke and whether despite the metaphysical separation there was some real impact to Luke (he seemed to react to the saber).

Honestly, I feel Finn was dis-served by Rose's save in those last moments.  For me he's always been the weakest of the new hero characters and seems only to exist as a plot device (hey, I'ma rescue the named pilot, hey I know where the weapon control doo-da is, hey I know where the secret hyperspace tracker is on the supreme leader's ship even though I've probably never been on it before).  Allowing him to go out a proper hero, sacrificing himself for the greater good of his new-found friends and the Resistance, seemed like a good end.

The throne room scene with Snoke/Rey/Kylo was interesting.  Harks back to both RotJ and RotS, where Palpatine was trying to manipulate Anakin and Luke, but I like how it was changed up so Snoke is the one being played.  Kylo using the Force purposely to turn Rey's lightsaber into Snoke's side was a masterstroke for me.  However I'm still in two minds about whether or not that was actually Snoke there, or just a puppet with the real Snoke yet to be revealed.  I'm also wondering about Kylo's un-reveal about Rey's non-lineage.  Was he telling the truth, or was it merely a clever falsehood to undermine her self-confidence and beliefs as part of his attempt to turn her to his side?

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The Allegiance is new content for 2.2 which hasn't been released yet (but there is a 2.2 Demo where the Allegiance is available to the Zsinj's Empire faction).  The Wiki is maintained solely by fans of the mod rather than the dev team so we can't vouch for it's accuracy.

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Did Ea shoot themselves in the foot with BF2?
« on: October 15, 2017, 11:46:27 AM »
I would fully support cosmetic only lootboxes, but not loot boxes that give weapons, gear, and currency.that is how it is. You would need to play about 6 matches in order to get enough credits to get a single loot crate, problem is in isn't tied to how well you do, its YOUR TEAM. so you can be the best and not get rewarded for hard work, or you can be lazy and just get free credits for no reason.
Isn't the fact that the in-game rewards are based on team performance, rather than individual performance, a balancing action against your supposed "pay to win" issues?  Even if players dropping significant sums of real money into the game turn out to be as common as you're clearly expecting, once you take into account distribution across teams and shared winnings the impact on player progression is much reduced?

EDIT: As Mr Puerto said the more "traditional" DLC model used for the previous Battlefront, where each pack added new locales to play etc, split the player base hugely with each release which over time makes for a less resilient community.  This time with the purchasable perks EA are trying to keep the playerbase together by funding those new maps/DLC differently and offering the additional content freely to all.  In the grand scheme of things I think for a multiplayer-oriented game the latter is definitely a more sustainable approach.

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The Lounge / Re: How Do We Feel about J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Reboot?
« on: October 07, 2017, 04:16:21 PM »
I really enjoyed all three and am still hoping for a fourth.  IMO they're better than at least half of the previous 10 movies! :)

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Thrawn sequel
« on: October 07, 2017, 06:18:34 AM »
Hopefully Zahn uses it to re-introduce to canon that offhand warning from Thrawn about the natives of a certain forest moon. :D

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I concur with Guderian; that's a Raider-class, with the blue lights being the weapons hardpoint above the forward blades/panels (you can just see the shape of the hull cut-outs above the lights).

If the blue lights were engines you'd expect the rest of the ship to be visible in the porthole to the right in the video, but there's nothing there.

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I believe Corey and I will be going through the planet lists at some point (for both ICW and FotR) to identify where additional maps would be useful - either specific planets which deserve bespoke maps or more generally planet types/biomes which need more variety.

One thing to bear in mind when working on your maps is things like civ spawns can restrict where a map can be re-used - not only in terms of species (Bothan, Mon Calamari, Ewoks etc) but also factional affiliation (some planets were very pro or anti- Empire even decades after Endor).

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Steam/workshop has absolutely nothing to do with how we choose testers or how we distribute the mod to said testers.

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If people want to add submods onto the Steam workshop version of a mod they can easily download and install them via the existing non-Steam method (e.g. from ModDB, or whichever other file sharing site the submost is held, and paste the content into the relevant mod folder).

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Impending doom of canon Thrawn? (SPOILERS)
« on: September 25, 2017, 03:51:51 PM »
I thought Vader had handed them over earlier than that, but still.  If Leia hadn't visited Honoghr the Noghri wouldn't have turned, and I think it unlikely that Rebels will find time for a storyline like that amongst the other stuff they have to tie up in the final season.

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Star Wars Discussion / Re: Impending doom of canon Thrawn? (SPOILERS)
« on: September 25, 2017, 12:43:43 PM »
Just because Rukh is in Rebels doesn't mean Thrawn is going to die.  Vader gave Thrawn control of the Noghri about this time in Legends too, and Thrawn still lived for ages.

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Imperial Civil War Tech Support / Re: Cannot get FOC To Launch From Steam
« on: September 24, 2017, 12:28:08 PM »
Actually, I don't think it's that as I recall trying to use the RaW mod and attempted to use the suggestion Anikan had on his mod page (have a direct path to the mod), but to no avail. It's so bizarre because it works just fine launching vanilla, just FoC.
So for RaW you updated your Launch Options in the EAW Properties to reference the mod (using MODPATH=, or STEAMMOD=)?  I take it you've since removed any of those references from the options? (unless that what TonPhanan already suggested)

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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: Planet-Specific Shipyards
« on: September 24, 2017, 12:14:23 PM »
Why don't we have planet-specific space buildables, using similar scripting as the old Hutt Palace and Cantina buildings so they can't be built on world with access to level three shipyards
You can set a minimum space or ground base level for a prerequisite, and/or a specific structure (e.g. barracks) or location(s), but you can't set a maximum space or ground base level (in much the same way you can set a minimum tech level for a unit but there isn't an equivalent maximum tech level).

To achieve what you're describing you'd have to do what we've done with the Golan III, only on a much larger scale - hardcode a list of applicable planets at which the structure is available.  And may I remind you that in ICW we have about 250 planets, most of which are limited to a level 1 shipyard.


or by recycling the asteroid base and other models that aren't being used right now (to any great effect, at least. They're in skirmish but they don't unlock more ships to build)
The Hutt asteroid base has already been co-opted in 2.2 for the Greater Maldrood to provide access to pirate and mercenary forces via Leonia Tavira.  A lack of buildables in skirmish is possibly a bug; I believe we've always intended that things like the Hapan ships and Yevethan thrustship would be available to other factions there (or was that the merchant dock?).


and let many, many more ships fit into the mod. Hutt ships could be available to the controller of Nal Hutta, Mandalorian ships for the Mandalorians- I want to build Kedalbes again. Maybe an appropriate shipwright for Naboo, too. Kuat Drive Yards could theoretically be usable by the Rebellion/Republic, assuming they could have taken it from the Empire, the lore and basic business sense agree that the corporations will serve whichever master pays them- though this a great way to get saboteurs. This would let the Rebels build Imperial-class ships, which they could definitely use for both strategic and lore reasons (the rebels used a shocking number of Imperial ships in the lore; most of their technology was Imperial in design and manufacture)...
Sure, it's a sellers market, but that doesn't mean it actually happened.  Would Imperials or the New Republic really buy from the Hutts? Would the Mandalorians sell their own ships to their former oppressors?  Most of the time we've seen factions give preference to their own designs over those available from third parties as well.

Although the Rebel Alliance definitely made use of whatever they could get their hands on, including Imperial tech through capture or defection, the New Republic in the period after Endor focused much more on production of their own designs such as those from Mon Calamari and the New Class programme over existing Imperial classes.  And even when on it's last legs in 19 ABY there was considerable disquiet in the Imperial navy over the purchase and use of non-Imperial-origin Preybird starfighters.

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Imperial Civil War Tech Support / Re: Cannot get FOC To Launch From Steam
« on: September 24, 2017, 05:17:18 AM »
When you say you can't get FOC to start, what do you mean exactly (i.e. is it crashing, not opening when you try to run it, or are you just getting EAW every time?) and how are you trying to launch it within Steam (desktop shortcut, taskbar or from your library)?

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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: More Imperialized Empire of the Hand
« on: September 22, 2017, 12:48:58 PM »
Funny I've seen a Submod on Steam for the Clone wars the 2006 Clone wars one. and it works.
I suppose that depends on whether said submod only included their modified files in their workshop file, or uploaded the entire original mod as well!

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There might be a unit-specific equivalent to that global tag, but I don't recall ever coming across it.

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