UPDATE 3! Several New Faces from The Force Awakens Cast. Sith General Added!

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Film journalist Lizo Mzimba found several actors/actresses who are listed on the UK’s leading casting agency Spotlight as part of The Force Awakens cast. See who they are after the jump…

 

 

(November 26,2014)

 

Most likely these talents will play small roles in the movie, but nevertheless it’s always great to see a padawan, a stormtrooper and a character named Xavier in the mix.


Jessica Henwick

  Sam Carr

 

  Tony Bailey

 

Special thanks to Lizo Mzimba.

 

 

UPDATE!

 

(January 16, 2015)

 

Another interesting find by Lizo Mzimba from Spotlight. This time a female Stormtrooper!!!

 

AMYBETH HARGREAVES

 


Couldn’t agree more with Mr. Mzimba. 🙂

 

 

 

UPDATE 2!

 

(February 2, 2015)

 

British actor Aidan Cook updated his Spotlight profile adding The Force Awakens as his latest credit.

 

Aidan Cook

Some of his credits are:

 

5 Episodes of Dr Who with Matt Smith Series 7. Two-Headed Shop Owner in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Creature/primate performances for TV, film, game and live projects and currently and for much of 2014, one of the principal creature performers on a yet to be released film.

 

I think you all know which is that “yet to be released film. 🙂

 

So far these casting agencies proved to be pretty resourceful for small bits of info on the movie. If you haven’t seen our piece on the StarNow agency click HERE.

 

From the combined info from Spotlight and StarNow we now know about:

a padawan, a female stormtrooper, a creature performer, character named Xavier, a politician, main street crowd, heavy weapons stormtrooper, evil castle crew character, space pirate, clan leader and more.

 

Special thanks to Cantina member Carne for the heads up and stay tuned for more Episode VII news.

 

 

 

UPDATE 3!

 

(April 22, 2015)

 

Another interesting update from BBC’s Lizo Mzimba:

 

Robert

 

 

Now this is really an interesting little bit of info. All the other cast members that we mentioned above are definitely minor characters in the movie. On the other hand a Sith General sounds serious enough. It makes you wonder, how many Sith are there in The Force Awakens?

 

If you remember back in November, 2013 THR reported that the producers were looking to fill a new role: a 40-something military man.

 

Robert Lindell definitely fits that description. It would be interesting to see how this turns out. Are we going to see several Sith generals in the movie? Maybe there’s a new hierarchy in the First Order? What do you think?

 

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296 thoughts on “UPDATE 3! Several New Faces from The Force Awakens Cast. Sith General Added!

  • November 27, 2014 at 7:49 pm
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    At first I thought that you mean James McAvoy by Xavier

    • November 27, 2014 at 7:51 pm
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      I’d say Patrick Stewart

      • November 27, 2014 at 7:53 pm
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        He is too Star Trekish for Star Wars!!!!!!! Don’t let him in

        • November 27, 2014 at 7:55 pm
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          Then what are you going to do with our lovely JJ?

          • November 27, 2014 at 7:57 pm
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            I’m gonna see the trailer first

          • January 16, 2015 at 3:20 pm
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            Jonathan Frakes should direct Ep8 and William Shatner should star in Ep9.

          • January 17, 2015 at 7:26 pm
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            NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

          • February 2, 2015 at 6:09 pm
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            GAWD NO

          • April 23, 2015 at 2:42 am
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            I would see that because I believe that Frakes would finally answer the age old mystery of Who farted in my pants? It was William Shatner.

          • January 17, 2015 at 10:09 am
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            No

        • April 24, 2015 at 9:36 am
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          Patrick Stewart was Gurney Halleck, the Fight Trainer character in David Lynch’s Dune! Very Star Wars style! Let him in!

    • January 17, 2015 at 10:13 am
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      Yeah, I get that a lot.but at first I thought *you said* that the chick in the first pic was giving you the chink-eye
      *pukes*

  • November 27, 2014 at 7:55 pm
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    “Sam Carr plays a Padawan”

    Unexpected this is ..

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:04 pm
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      … and unfortunate.

      • November 27, 2014 at 8:32 pm
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        Fortunate… I’m confident that they’re going to include the best from the PT and OT, and the Padawan master relationship has proved to be a strength of both of the trilogies and TCW and Rebels

        • November 27, 2014 at 10:13 pm
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          Right, so if they include the best from the PT and the OT, why will there be padawans?!

          • November 27, 2014 at 10:26 pm
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            Because they are cool

          • January 17, 2015 at 10:10 am
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            Nope-ass

          • January 19, 2015 at 1:16 am
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            no they arent cool and i dont know if i beleieve this–every spoiler ive read says theres absolutely zero jedi besides luke in the new ones to start out.

          • April 23, 2015 at 3:58 am
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            Luke’s dead pupils…flashback sequence…

          • April 24, 2015 at 1:14 pm
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            Well… technically a padawan’s not a Jedi yet.

          • April 23, 2015 at 7:26 pm
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            There isn’t anything remotely cool about a padawan apprentice.

          • February 3, 2015 at 2:09 am
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            Because they are awesome. And they are in Rebels too.

        • April 23, 2015 at 2:34 am
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          I am VERY relieved to hear that the Jedi aren’t completely dead in TFA 🙂 Hmmm methinks they used more of GL’s story than we’ve been led to believe 🙂 🙂 🙂

        • April 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm
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          No. They can shove the krishna braided brown robed padawan 1 master 1 apprentice boring crap up their butts.

          It makes for dull characters and really hampers the plot.

          Buddhism has different sects and varying customs. Some are martial artists and warriors, some sit around in caves for months at a time. I don’t see why the Jedi faith should be any different.

      • November 28, 2014 at 2:12 am
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        I feel a disturbance in the force.

        • January 16, 2015 at 9:20 pm
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          You have gas…

          • April 23, 2015 at 8:28 am
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            The dark side promised cookies, but it gave me Ebola instead

      • April 23, 2015 at 7:19 pm
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        unfortunate we know (part of) the truth??

    • April 23, 2015 at 2:54 pm
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      Real question is… Padawan to who? Luke, IMO, would be too old, and too important to the Jedi order, have a Padawan.

  • November 27, 2014 at 8:06 pm
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    was kinda hoping the word “Padawan” wouldn’t be mentioned in the new trilogy…along with “midiclorians”, and….”sith”. Hate the word Sith…in the original trilogy it was just “the dark side”. So much cooler. while I’m on it…no flying R2-D2. thanks.

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:09 pm
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      Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes.

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:40 pm
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      Disney was never going to completely ignore the PT.

      • November 27, 2014 at 8:55 pm
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        Disney will not ignore any of 6 star wars films.

        • November 28, 2014 at 1:31 am
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          7… you forget the clone wars one! 😛

        • February 2, 2015 at 6:35 pm
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          The only thing I wanna see from the prequels in EP7 is a freakin pod engine in a junkyard somewhere. That will suffice for me.

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:56 pm
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      Nope, Padawan and Sith are much cooler.

      And midiclorians do not bother me.

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:58 pm
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      Wasn’t “Sith” first used in the original Star Wars novelization? I agree about the other stuff, but I never really thought “sith” was a prequel thing.

      • November 27, 2014 at 9:10 pm
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        No, it wasn’t. And neither was the concept of Jedi apprentices, of course.

        After all, Jedi are not born knowing all that we saw Obi-Wan and Yoda passing on to Luke in the OT. It’s only the term “Padawan” that was introduced by the PT.

        Hating on a simple word, only because it happens to be a concept from a trilogy of films that some folk can’t stand, is more stupid than ALL of Binks shennaningans in the PT put together, IMO.

        • November 27, 2014 at 9:26 pm
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          He’s just expressing an opinion, a harmless one too, so just chill out

          • November 27, 2014 at 11:55 pm
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            My previous comment cleary ends with the three words: IMO, as in “In My Opinion”, in case you didn’t know what “IMO” means, anonymous friend.

            That also means I’m obviously entitled to expressing my opinion too. And in that sense, I was merely expressing my opinion on the previous post, in an even, neutral voice. So no need for anyone to chill out here…save for you, perhaps.

          • April 23, 2015 at 12:12 am
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            Then you have your opinion matey no one gives a fuck!

          • April 23, 2015 at 4:01 am
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            Actually, I do

          • April 24, 2015 at 4:22 am
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            I care

        • November 27, 2014 at 9:27 pm
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          I’m in agreement about midichlorians retardizing the SW universe… but I do believe the phrase “Sith” was around at the OT time period. I can’t prove it but I know that Lucas had referred to them as Sith at some point… maybe one of the toys or something was labeled “sith” back in the 80’s… all I know is that used officially in some way… I’m almost certain.

          I don’t have as much of a problem with Padawan… however it does seem to carry an air of wussyness about it.

          Either way I’d be glad to see multiple Jedi & Sith roaming about & fighting.

          • November 28, 2014 at 1:15 pm
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            The word “Sith” was indeed used during the original trilogy. In fact, I have a Darth Vader card from The Empire Strikes Back with the caption, “DARK LORD OF THE SITE.”

          • February 3, 2015 at 5:29 pm
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            “The word “Sith” was indeed used during the original trilogy.”

            Not in the movies it wasn’t. What it even meant offscreen at that time was not even the same thing. What it meant was not at gone into. The duel of Obi-Wan and Vader wasn’t mentioned either as tons of other things were not mentioned.

            To pretend that what the Sith are and will be going forward isn’t a creation of the prequels is revisionism of the worst kind. It’s simply ignoring facts.

          • April 23, 2015 at 1:21 am
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            Nevertheless, as you admit, the word Sith was around long before the prequels. It pretty much existed as long as the word Jedi, even if it wasn’t explored fully until the prequels came out. I love the term “Sith”. pretty ambivalent about “Padawan” or “Mediclorians”

          • April 23, 2015 at 2:38 am
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            Sith history – according to GL – has changed little since the 2nd Draft. So I’m conmfy with Sith being a core SW concept. But this news is sooooo intriguing!

          • April 23, 2015 at 12:31 pm
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            Tell me about it. It sounds like we are in for some big big changes in the star wars universe. Wow. Makes one wonder if the first order is a sith order.

          • April 24, 2015 at 4:25 am
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            Yep it most definitely was. the back of figure packaging had it for vader and palpatine. Also various interviews Lucas gave back than.

        • November 27, 2014 at 9:42 pm
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          Vader was always known as a Dark Lord of the Sith. Read the original trilogy. Its right there at the start

        • November 27, 2014 at 10:08 pm
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          Thank you @ Darth Vedder! That sorely needed to be said. Some of the other replies just reek of butthurt and bandwagon contempt -_- .

          Its like a giant PT bashfest convention in here…including the admin… smh. “Terrible, terrible.” (::in my gravely concerned Yoda voice::)

          • April 23, 2015 at 4:46 am
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            It’s a prequel bash fest rightly so because the prequels are D grade filmmaking applied to a beloved set of far far superior movies. The prequels weren’t just bad starwars movies they were failures as pieces of entertainment and of competant filmmaking.

            People including myself will bash the prequels forever because it was a dream crushing fiasco that we are only now beginning to recover from. Any mention of prequel crap sends me into PTSD shock. Padawans sith midichlorians blah blah. Id be happy to never have any of it mentioned again in starwars. And no SITH was never in the OT. The novelizstions sure but that ain’t the OT is it? We’re talking abt the movies, not books or radio or TV versions.

          • April 23, 2015 at 12:09 pm
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            I agree. Later for the damm prequels. Especcially after what I saw last weekend (trailer), I would care less if I never again in life thought about the prequels. And to be quite honest. We are not “bashing” the prequels. They were simply not quality films. They were two dimensional and stale. I am so relieved as of recently because I feel that JJ gets it. Can’t wait. It’s gonna be so much fun.

        • November 27, 2014 at 10:15 pm
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          I agree.
          Some people are really annoying with all these prequel movies bashing.

          We get it, original trilogy purists hate everything that is not from original trilogy.

          Please move on…it is irritating.

          • November 27, 2014 at 10:28 pm
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            I second that.

          • November 27, 2014 at 11:01 pm
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            Oh come on… don’t act as if it’s not a two way street. I think it’s fair for some to be concerned because a lot of folks on here would like the ST to be a rehash of the Prequels… while all of us who grew up with the OT have been waiting 33 years for a proper sequel. That desire for a well made sequel is justified… if not please tell me why.

          • November 28, 2014 at 12:02 am
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            As someone who saw ANH when it first came out in ’77, I can easily say that not “all of us” agree with your views on this particular subject, Aras.

            Lucas did give us a new SW trilogy from ’99-2005. Alas not everyone liked those films, obviously, but that doesn’t mean the man didn’t try.

            So please refrain yourself from generalizing and speaking for “all of us” SW fans who’ve been there since the beginning, because what you’re saying clearly is not the opinion of “all of us”.

          • November 28, 2014 at 3:53 am
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            I did say “sequel” as in seeing what happened to all the characters after VI… a lot of the people who are bitching about the OT fanatics can’t grasp why we wouldn’t want the PT clutter to burden the ST. I can give Lucas props for trying… but he wasn’t the same person who he was when the OT was made, by extension Star Wars became a different universe as well. For instance… it’s obvious midichlorians weren’t on Lucas’s mind when the OT was written & filmed… otherwise he wouldn’t have tried to portray it as some magical, spiritual force.

          • November 28, 2014 at 3:56 am
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            But I don’t really care much at this point anymore… because I know JJ has enough sense to make SW the way it should be made (consistently). I’m excited as F*** about the trailer… I guess we’ll see but I doubt JJ will midichlorian-ize/ Neo-Lucas-inize the ST.

          • November 29, 2014 at 1:36 am
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            Meh, sequels, prequels…it makes no difference with regards to my original point, which was that no one has the right to speak for all of us SW fans.

            “a lot of the people who are i%#??## about the OT fanatics can’t grasp why we wouldn’t want the PT clutter to burden the ST.”

            And here we go with the simplified generalizations again, huh? Well, wrong again, friend. As I posted before, I was 7 when ANH first came out, I have loved SW ever since, and you can rest assured that I have no qualms with the PT whatsoever.

            Did I like those 3 films as much as IV, V and VI? Certainly not. But I do like them nonetheless, and what’s more: I can easily say that I, II and III felt a LOT more like SW to me than what I’ve seen of VII so far, now that the teaser’s out (Take that funny looking red lightsaber with little laser lights coming out of both sides of the pommel, for instance. I’ll take Maul’s double-edged blade over that piece of cr@p ANY day of the week, thank you very much! Ditto for the new-look Stormtrooper armors compared to the Clonetrooper unis from II and III.)

            As for the part about Lucas, from a storytelling POV, it’s obvious that the GFFA would be completely different in the PT and OT eras. Anyone who failed to see this coming has absolutely NO idea on how a story should be told, and that’s obviously not Lucas’ fault.

            In fact, Lucas’ only mistake was being waaay to clever for the minds of most SW fans. There, I said it, because it had to be said. And notice I said “most”, because I certainly will never be as stupid as to generalize and speak for all, lol.

          • November 28, 2014 at 5:52 am
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            I don’t think anyone here wants a rehash, not sure who you’re refferring to

          • April 23, 2015 at 12:15 pm
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            Here here!

          • January 16, 2015 at 7:34 pm
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            I completely agree, prequel bashers are literally the most narrow minded nit picky people. Yes Star Wars Episode 1-3 wasn’t exactly like SW 4-6 so it’s all wrong, we get it.

          • January 16, 2015 at 7:46 pm
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            so…..your basically saying that almost the entire population of the world is wrong…and your small band of clueless prequel lovers are the only 12 people on earth who know the truth? gtfo

          • January 16, 2015 at 11:21 pm
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            “Almost the entire population of the world”? HAHAHAHA. What planet do you live on? The prequels were huge hits with a lot of repeat viewers, and if you look at public opinion sites like Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, etc., they actually fared pretty well. As well as the OT? Generally, no. But they were FAR from flops, and most of the general population is fine with them and even LIKES them. The PT bashers are a VERY vocal minority. I have my problems with the PT, but I’m not deluded enough to think the world population views them as a modern Plan 9 From Outer Space. “Almost the entire population of the world…” hahahaha

          • January 19, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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            you better think again buddy..you obviously do not read much…even the chinese hate the prequels. send me a link to ONE good review of any of the prequels from ANY country………….exactly

          • February 3, 2015 at 12:28 pm
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            The prequels are disgustingly bad. fact

          • April 25, 2015 at 9:24 pm
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            They are not regarded as well-made movies.

            Period.

          • April 23, 2015 at 10:37 am
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            C3PO swaps his head.

          • April 23, 2015 at 12:35 pm
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            Yea and it just plops right onto his shoulders like a fuckin cartoon. Really? How can any true star wars fan defend such crap. Artoo flying around? GEorge Lucas did do one thing right as ao recent though….he sold star wars.

          • April 23, 2015 at 10:48 am
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            I bash the prequels because of the utter shock and disappointment they caused me. They were so bad I had to try to ignore them so they wouldn’t wreck the OT for me. In fact I was so disappointed with the first two that I didn’t even watch Revenge of the Sith until about 6 months ago when it came out on TV. Then Lucas went and added a bunch of stupid stuff to the OT, basically taking a wrecking ball to his own masterpiece… Solo doesn’t shoot first??? Fuck off please…

          • January 16, 2015 at 11:10 pm
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            We get it. It bugs you that no one else likes those stupid pt. move on please.

          • April 23, 2015 at 1:43 am
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            We bash the PT because it was utter shit. 3 of the worst pieces of cinema in the last 20 years. Fact! Anyone who disagrees has poor taste, period.

        • November 27, 2014 at 11:18 pm
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          Darth vader was referred to as a dark lord of the sith in the original novelization

          • January 17, 2015 at 12:18 am
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            DAR(k lord of the si)TH VADER

        • November 27, 2014 at 11:52 pm
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          From my childhood in the ’70s onward, Darth Vader has always been referred to as a Dark Lord of the Sith. No one knew what that meant. But we all wondered. Vader was A Sith Lord, not THE Sith Lord. We knew there were other Sith Lords in the Star Wars galaxy. From page 7 of the first edition of the novelization…

          “Two meters tall. Bipedal. Flowing black robes trailing from the figure and a face forever masked by a functional if bizarre black metal breath screen – a Dark Lord of the Sith was an awesome, threatening shape as it strode through the corridors of the rebel ship.

          Fear followed the footsteps of all of the Dark Lords. The cloud of evil which clung tight about this particular one was intense enough to cause hardened Imperial troops to back away, menacing enough to set them muttering nervously among themselves.”

          Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas, copyright 1976.

        • November 28, 2014 at 4:00 am
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          The word “Padawaan” (with “aa”) is used in the early drafts for ANH. So, much like the word “Sith” it goes back all the way to the beginning.

        • November 28, 2014 at 9:24 am
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          Yes it was read it again for the first time.

        • January 17, 2015 at 9:15 am
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          I distinctly remember merchandise from 1977 describing Darth Vader as “a dark lord of the sith”

        • February 2, 2015 at 10:18 pm
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          Fact: Darth Vader was referred to as “Dark Lord of the Sith” at least once in the original trilogy.

          • April 23, 2015 at 2:03 pm
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            Um….no he absolutely wasn’t called a Sith anywhere in the OT. Nor was the term Sith ever mentioned.

        • February 3, 2015 at 2:01 am
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          Well guess what..I´m not a prequel trilogy hater, in fact I take it as a six-episode story, but I do dislike terms like Sith, midichlorians and padawans…quite a shock, isn´t it? 🙂 You can like a movie but at the same time you can dislike some things from that movie….

          • April 23, 2015 at 1:31 am
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            Completely understandable. But its a good bet those terms will appear in the sequels as well since they’re canon. I DO think we will not hear “Mediclorians” since that was so WIDELY panned, but Sith and Padawan are pretty widely accepted in popular culture so I’m pretty sure they are coming along for the ride.

      • January 17, 2015 at 12:37 am
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        “Wasn’t “Sith” first used in the original Star Wars novelization? I agree about the other stuff, but I never really thought “sith” was a prequel thing.”

        Yes but never in the actual movies themselves which is the point. The term “Sith” existed but what it actually meant to the characters and the story was defined in the prequels.

        The Emperor was not Palpatine in the movies any more than he was a Sith. From his actual name being Palpatine to his being not only a Sith but the Dark Lord of the Sith with various apprentices and the term Darth to signify a Sith and the Rule of Two to explain why there were only 2 Dark Side users in the OT itself.

        Once “Darth” was no longer a real name as Vader’s real name was Anakin Skywalker then making it a Sith designation was a brilliant stroke and allowed Palpatine to have his public name and his true Sith name of Sidious.

        Lots of things were purposely left out of the OT because Lucas’ didn’t want to spend time going into it. The PT had to go into it to some small degree and more than likely the ST is going to go into the origins of the Sith (and Jedi) to an even greater degree with Sith and Jedi temples as now mentioned in both the new canon in books and TV.

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:28 pm
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      so you half hate the word “Darth?”

    • November 28, 2014 at 5:05 am
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      But people need something to identify with, like a brand. So you can say “he strolled along and joined the sith” “the sith is too imperative for my taste” “i prefer not to let it sith with me” otherwise you can’t do politics. The human brain needs a well defined force. Otherwise youre talking about some nonsense randomly occuring mystery? Not for me sister. I need my brans and logos. So i can say, i like Mercedes, I like Sith. Were not living in times of fsirytales anymore. Everything is explained…by humans

    • November 28, 2014 at 8:55 am
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      What’s wrong with “Sith” and “Padawan”? I mean, the light side users are titled “Jedi”, so why can’t the dark side users have a title too? And, yes, they could’ve just called Padawans “Apprentices”, but Padawan sounds cooler, especially in a universe full of people and places with weird names. Midichlorians, why I don’t see what’s sooo bad about them, wasn’t really needed, so I agree with you on that.

      • April 23, 2015 at 11:49 am
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        Here is what is bad about Midichlorians: Star Wars is about myth not science (which is why I like it a lot better than Star Trek, whose plot always revolves around science and technology). Midichlorians is a SCIENTIFIC explanation of the force, which is diametrically opposed to everything that Star Wars is about. The fact that George Lucas himself did not understand this simple concept made me realize he was far from the genius I had thought he was and the whole midichlorians thing is probably what bothered me the most about the Prequels.

    • January 16, 2015 at 6:40 pm
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      Deal with it…..
      And I finally get a chance to shoot female stormtroppers in upcoming games…..YES!!!

    • January 16, 2015 at 7:27 pm
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      Yes thanks!!! No AOTC video games.

    • January 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm
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      Um…sith was a part of the old trilogy…sorry. you obviously never read the original novels. i still have my vader t-shirt from 1978 that says ” dark lord of the sith” on it. even the trading cards refer to vader as a “sith warrior” or Sith lord”.i also have a shirt from return of the jedi era that says “sith happens”… the term was not new to the PT. there has ALWAYS BEEN JEDI vs SITh…. what fucking rock have you been living under for 35 years?

    • January 16, 2015 at 11:24 pm
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      Sith is in the original A NEW HOPE novel and Padawan is in the original script.

      You’re a Poser and not a real STAR WARS fan

      • February 3, 2015 at 2:06 am
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        So the true star was fan is the one who worship every fart and every shit falling from the star wars machine-maker? 🙂

    • January 17, 2015 at 3:57 pm
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      No, The word Sith was introduced the OT but only in novels versions of StarWars. The Book Splinter of the Mind´s Eye also introduces Darth Vader as The Dark Lord of the Sith. And IMO it is a nice title for a dark lord. I agree however that midiclorians and padawans were the shitty inventions of the PT

    • February 2, 2015 at 9:56 pm
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      Darth Vader was always mentioned as a Dark Lord of the Sith in the original OT books

    • February 2, 2015 at 11:29 pm
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      Yes. Please no flying R2 nonsense! That really irked me!! A wth moment!!!

    • February 2, 2015 at 11:32 pm
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      Yes. Please no flying R2 nonsense! That really irked me!! A truly “WTH” moment it was!!!

      • April 23, 2015 at 3:19 am
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        I heard you the first time, jackass. That really irks ME.

      • April 23, 2015 at 11:51 am
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        and please, it’s “WTF” not “WTH”

    • February 3, 2015 at 2:11 am
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      Sith is from Original trilogy script.

      Padowans are in Disney Rebels too.

      In my opinion both Siths and Padowans are awesome. And I do not mind midichlorians.

    • April 23, 2015 at 3:18 am
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      You don’t like the word “sith?” Then please never use the word “darth” ever again…. because, as we all know, Darth is derived from the word “sith.”

    • April 23, 2015 at 6:47 pm
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      What this guy said x100!

    • April 24, 2015 at 4:46 am
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      I have no problems with Sith, the rest though, i have major issues with.. Always hated the padawan thing, hated that anyone could be jedis and not a chosen few from birth. Don’t get me started on midichlorians..,

    • April 24, 2015 at 1:37 pm
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      The title “Sith” in connection with Star Wars, has been around since 1977.

  • November 27, 2014 at 8:10 pm
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    I thought Luke was (Maybe Spoilers)…..
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    Crazy now…..So I guess that kinda defuncts that rumor..

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:38 pm
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      Where I have never been a huge fan of the crazy Luke rumor I don’t think this by default disprove it.

      Been rumored a few places that Luke was around 20 or so years before leaving. So some sort of Jedi order could be in place and Luke could be missing at the start of the film.

      • April 23, 2015 at 4:58 pm
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        Remember Dogabah…

        Luke: I can feel the force
        Obiwan: yes but you cannot control it

    • November 27, 2014 at 9:06 pm
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      There’s never been a crazy teacher? Ever?

  • November 27, 2014 at 8:10 pm
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    apart from Henwick, the rest don’t have film faces. So hopefully blink and you will miss them parts 🙂

  • November 27, 2014 at 8:18 pm
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    Could be the Nightsisters are in this movie.

    The Disney Plan — Have many characters in the movie
    to make as many toys as possible to reach both boys and girls?

    • November 27, 2014 at 8:46 pm
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      No just no. The EU is bullcrap.

      • November 27, 2014 at 9:29 pm
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        Why would anyone even want night sisters to be a part of SW lore? So boring.

        • November 27, 2014 at 10:28 pm
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          Because they are part of star wars lore. And they are not boring, they are awesome.

      • November 27, 2014 at 9:42 pm
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        Uh, the Night Sisters were in the CLone Wars and the episodes with their appearances were some of the series best.
        Therefore the Night Sisters are cannon in the Disneyverse Star Wars.
        I love bad ass women who are beautiful in a dark and frightening way, think Underworld Selena meets the mythic Lilith.

        • November 27, 2014 at 10:06 pm
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          Yeah but the clone wars was boring… the other animated version was far superior & fun to watch.

          If you are hoping for night sisters I doubt JJ will fulfill that desire… we are getting something new.

          • November 27, 2014 at 10:16 pm
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            Yeah, A V, coz u’ve seen the script for not 1 but all 3 films and have been on set too, so there’s no way that anyone else’s opinion or interest matters more than yours. /sarcasm

            Please tell me that you’re being handsomely compensated for being so insolent. If not then STFU.

          • November 27, 2014 at 10:25 pm
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            If something is boring to you it does not mean that is boring to others.

          • November 27, 2014 at 11:09 pm
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            You guys want to place bets? I’ll bet you a 100 bucks there’s no night sisters in the ST. (you can send me my winnings via paypal). If you want to raise the stakes let me know.

            And yes… I do think it’s logical to assume JJ will be going with something a bit more original. I’ve got no problem with female Sith… but I think whatever we are going to get, it will be far more intriguing than tossing in Clone wars characters… none of which were even interesting enough to make it into the Prequels. Please use common sense.

          • November 27, 2014 at 11:37 pm
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            Asajj Ventress was a Nightsister
            before she left the group.
            If you saw the Clone Wars early animated cartoons she was in them.

            I don’t see why we can’t have Ventress
            in the movies or a standalone movie.
            I think she is a cool character.

          • November 28, 2014 at 1:54 am
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            SHE IS IN IT!!! That’s who Lupita is playing …..

          • November 28, 2014 at 3:39 am
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            LOLZ

          • January 16, 2015 at 7:33 pm
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            ASAAAAAAAJJJJJJ!!!!!!

        • January 16, 2015 at 7:55 pm
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          ummm…the clone wars??? yeah… so…… your refering to the cartoon that just released the new episodes that show Yoda losing his mind as qui-gon talks to him and then he goes on his little adventure to train to be one with the force when he dies??uhhhh…yeah…so..how many minutes into those episodes before you said to yourself…” hey wtf?????….ummmm qui-gon doesnt contact yoda until the temple is already destroyed and he and obi-wan are on the run and Padme is in labor?” there is a whole huge scene in the novel..and it briefly shows it at the end of ROTS…and then Yoda tells kenobi that he was just contacted by his old master and Obi wan got excited..lol your arguments about the clone wars are invalid…..

    • January 16, 2015 at 7:31 pm
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      I so hope the night sisters are in this film. That would really make my day. Remember that leaked “night sister” photo a while back?

  • November 27, 2014 at 8:18 pm
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    He could simply be a Padawan in flashback sequence.

  • November 27, 2014 at 9:09 pm
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    Wait…what?! I don’t know how to feel about “Padawan” making its way back into the SW lingo.

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:10 pm
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      “Padawan” is part of star wars universe.

  • November 27, 2014 at 9:14 pm
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    Its also possible that at the end of the film Luke returns to glory and starts training a new generation of padawans

  • November 27, 2014 at 9:25 pm
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    I for one would think it cool if Luke were to say Palpatine Sith, Padme midichlorians on the other hand would be taking the piss.

  • November 27, 2014 at 9:27 pm
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    I for one would think it cool if Luke were to say Palpatine Sith, Padme.midichlorians on the other hand would be taking the piss.

  • November 27, 2014 at 9:39 pm
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    some one said it well here. “Padawan” sounds really sissy. …”I can’t go out tonight, I have to babysit my padawan”

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:17 pm
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      ”Jedi” sounds sissy too.

      • November 28, 2014 at 8:58 am
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        Jedi sounds sissy-ish. It’s not totally sissy, just a little.

        • November 28, 2014 at 9:35 am
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          Jedi is sissyish?
          I’m gobsmacked at how fans on a fan site communicate.
          So very sad that in 2014 reads as follows:
          Cosby rapist, Charles Manson marries, and Star Wars fans debate the term Jedi as sissyish.

    • November 28, 2014 at 12:13 am
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      So I am to take it that “disciple” sounds far cooler, and much more bad@ss than Padawan, then. Especially when the latter is clearly meant to be used in the same context as the former.

      “I can’t go out tonight, I have to babysit my disciple”.

      Yeah sure, that sounds a LOT cooler indeed…smh.

      • November 28, 2014 at 2:42 am
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        I´m not a PT hater, and I never be. But I never liked too much midichlorians or padawan learner…I prefer Star Wars background in a veil of mist, without explaining everything, and, thank you very much, I never HEARD the word Sith in the OT and it didn´t harm the movies at all. Maybe we can move along and let padawans and Siths to the past and hope in something fresh, original…

        • November 29, 2014 at 1:46 am
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          It’s one thing not to like a certain thing, and a completely different thing to knitpick everything.

          I hated the Padmé-Anakin “romance” in the PT, for instance, and there are many other things that I didn’t like about the prequels. But simple words? Well, in that case, what about Salacious Crumb, for instance? Not the coolest name ever, is it?

          Moreover, none of these words are the reason why the PT is such a failure in the minds of most, because simple words have absolutely nothing to do with the story, pacing, acting, etc.

          If the PT was as beloved by all SW fans, like the OT is, then I’m sure nobody would have the slightest problem with ANY word from the films, no matter how cheesy, sissy or absurd.

          Oh, and btw Sith’s been around since the very beginning. I suggest looking up Lucas’ earliest, roughest drafts (I found them online once) for “The Star Wars”. The word Sith is in those drafts, just like it is in basically every official book and other publications from the OT era (as in the late 70’s and early 80’s).

          • January 16, 2015 at 4:58 pm
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            How dare you imply my name is not cool!
            May you explode in a sail barge one sunny day!

            FEAR THE CRUMB!!!

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:00 pm
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    Look… I hate the prequels and nearly everything in them. That said… I’m prepared to accept some of their stuff carrying over. I don’t like it and never likely will but it’s apart of the universe now.

    At least some of the technology was cool. I wouldn’t mind seeing broken or repurposed battle droids or vehicles.

    Yeah I hated everything about the Jedi Order in the PT but again… it’s just the way things are now. That being said it could still be transformed into something cool. It’s not a terrible framework. Hopefully they can twist it back to something cool like an order of knights that defend the republic…

    • January 16, 2015 at 5:15 pm
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      Finally, a Moderate in our midst!!

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm
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    I get that “padawans” and “sith” happened and you can’t erase the past of the SW universe. Its still canon. But the new sequel trilogy could just not use those words to refer to those things. They could say “dark side” etc. like the original trilogy did. Just a thought. Theres no reason that they have to use those words just because the prequels did.

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:21 pm
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      That is stupid.

      They need to use right words, “padawans” and “sith”.

      Who cares what some OT purists think. The world does not revolve around them.

      I like prequels. For all new generations of fans “padawans” and “sith” are important part of star wars.

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:21 pm
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    People dont like the term sith now?…sigh…

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:22 pm
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      They are stupid. Who cares what they think.

      • January 16, 2015 at 11:33 pm
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        I garentee no one cares what you think

        • January 17, 2015 at 2:51 am
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          It’s insane fans of the same movies get on here to argue.

          I look at it like this… If 4, 5 and 6 hadn’t happened, we would probably all love 1, 2 and 3 regardless. (Maybe not so much 1, tons of exposition). But two is a fun movie and three, though classic Lucas cheesey at times, is really entertaining.

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:27 pm
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    @ Anon 22:11pm
    ‘Theres no reason that they have to use those words…’

    AND…there’s equally no reason why they shouldn’t. So, Luke Skywalker via JJ and KK is just gonna completely forfeit and forego the traditions and lexicon of the Jedi Order’s (canon) history in favor of appeasing some fanboys that don’t mind the flavor of onion in their meals, so long as they don’t have to see the little bits of onion in it while eating?? Yeah..that really sounds like a great plan.

    • November 27, 2014 at 10:33 pm
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      I agree some OT purist fanboys really live in their own world.

      • January 16, 2015 at 11:37 pm
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        Yeah they live in the world everyone else does. And pt fans live in a bubble where they pretend that it’s just a small group of radicals that disagrees with them when in reality the pt is synonymous with epic failure

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:34 pm
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    There are some people that are simply stupid. “Why use Sith or Padawan? Why not Dark Side or Apprentice?”. Stop crying.

    “Who cares what some OT purists think. The world does not revolve around them.”
    Perfect quote.

    • November 28, 2014 at 1:04 am
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      Well in that case, who cares what PT purists think? The world doesn’t revolve around them either.. We are all allowed opinions so hush hush immature PT fanboy.

      • November 28, 2014 at 2:41 am
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        I’m a Star Wars fan. I like the Star Wars films, although it’s prequel or classic. My favorite are The Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith.

        I’m not a blind fan, who loves without see the franchise errors. I do recognize IT has its errors but I love the entire saga. So no, I’m not a PT purish.

        • January 19, 2015 at 2:12 am
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          I agree with you. “Empire” and “Sith” are my favorite two films as well, and I’ve been a fan since the first Star Wars was released with the story scroll that did not say “Episode IV”.

          The debate between OT’s verses PT’s with a tug-of-war over what the ST’s should be is so much wasted energy on something, in one way or the other, we all like here.

          In the end, there are people who like Star Wars, period. If you like particular ones, that’s great; and if you hate particular ones, that’s fine too. Those of us who will possibly come to despise the sequels like the prequels, look at it this way:

          You’ll never have a gun pointed at your head to see these films (just as you didn’t with the prequels) nor to buy them on blu-ray or dvd.

  • November 27, 2014 at 10:45 pm
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    Now some people dislike ”Padawan” and ”Sith” words?!?
    Wow, just wow … speak about nip ticking….

  • November 27, 2014 at 11:05 pm
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    I hope Nightsisters are part of SW 7.

    • November 28, 2014 at 2:48 am
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      Who are Nightsisters??? Are they good or bad? Are they monks?? Who is Assaj Ventres? Will this character be in Episode 7?? Could it be Daisy Ridley? Please don´t make funny of me and be so kind to explain, if you know, I´ve seen the 6 star wars movies but it´s been few years now..

      • November 28, 2014 at 3:04 am
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        Nightsisters are female force users from planet Dathomir. Planet on wich females are dominant in society.

        They are not sith or Jedi, they are different, they use force on different way.
        And for them dark side or light side of the force do not exist.

        They have their own abilities and powers that Sith and Jedi do not have.

        Darth Sidious and Siths destroyed Nightwitches in Clone wars, only Asajj Aentress survived.

        Asajj Aentress is not good nor evil. She is mistery.

        Nightwitches hate both Jedi and Sith.

        Here in this video you can see some of their powers.

        http://youtu.be/ymQ8DZFejS4

        • January 16, 2015 at 5:17 pm
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          Hmm, they sound evil to me… just, not on the Sith bandwagon sort of evil…

  • November 27, 2014 at 11:14 pm
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    Xavier? … Let me guess, we’ll see Magneto in the teaser.

  • November 27, 2014 at 11:35 pm
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    I’am huge fan of nightsisters potrayed in Clone wars.
    Mother Talzin rocks!!!

  • November 28, 2014 at 12:53 am
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    watching Revenge of Sith (it’s actually a really good movie and by far the best of the PT) and then Return Of The Jedi before I watch the trailer to make it even more epic!

  • November 28, 2014 at 1:41 am
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    I really wish people would stop crying when every time something about PT is mentioned. We get it you hate it, so stop whining like Anikan and bumbling like Jar Jar, no one CARES!

    • November 28, 2014 at 2:04 am
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      really B.umbling is crossed out?

  • November 28, 2014 at 2:09 am
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    Sam Carr is one hot twink! I’m in love!

  • November 28, 2014 at 3:28 am
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    Damn, its friday already here inn Norway…well, 02.27 at night i might ad…but wheres the freeking trailer!!!! Ok ok ok, i’ll stop drinking and go to bed.

  • November 28, 2014 at 3:32 am
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    “Master, I just saw a recording from the new R2 unit. What are midichlorians?” – Eppy 7 Padawan

    “On Korriban, they are called a ‘stupid waste of time’… on Moriband; however, they are called ‘the essence of life’. The nature of the force is yours to decide.” -E7M

  • November 28, 2014 at 5:09 am
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    I chose positivity moving forward when it comes to SW films. The hateful attitudes will only keep you from enjoying what you claim to love the most.

  • November 28, 2014 at 6:41 am
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    I hope there will be younglings everywhere !!

    No…seriously…the word “padawan” is not a good news.
    How this word could have “crossed” the original trilogy ?

    • November 29, 2014 at 3:32 am
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      It is a great news.

  • November 28, 2014 at 7:26 am
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    Do you realize how awful you fan boy haters sound? Nothing will EVER please you. Stop trying to ruin the fun for everyone else because you think your opinion trumps all.

    • November 29, 2014 at 3:33 am
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      Amen

    • January 16, 2015 at 11:42 pm
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      When in reality your opinion trumps all

  • November 28, 2014 at 8:00 am
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    I can see that critical about PT affected you deeply…but please do not try to ruin my freedom speech.
    There is no need to make a personnal attack :
    if you don’t like my comment, pass your way or answer me on the subject.
    Otherwise I don’t know who is the real fan boy here…

  • January 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm
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    I’m liking this…

  • January 16, 2015 at 3:29 pm
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    There are female troopers in the canon novel A New Dawn featuring Kanan and Hera so this is nothing new to me. Also, in Tarkin there are women serving as Imperial officers, so apparently, even in the OT there were women serving, we just never saw them on screen. Still, very cool with this new info…as the films themselves have never featured female imperials…I hope the armor is slightly different…more feminine. Of course I think the difference should be minimal, but necessary to fit the anatomy of a woman. Take Bo-Katan’s armor versus Jango or Boba Fett’s for instance. I think the ultra-feminine Sabine look would not be allowed by the Empire, but Bo-Katan esque trooper armor would be cool.

    • January 16, 2015 at 3:39 pm
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      According to J. W. Rinzler’s The Making of Star Wars, Lucas had notes in ’77 saying there were female troopers that just weren’t shown on screen. I believe these notes were either for any “EU” authors to pick from or for himself so he had more of the background of the world written down. There are also notes talking specifically about Midi-chlorians, so they were also there from the beginning, hence Luke saying the Force runs strong in his family in ROTJ and that Leia “has it”. It always kills me when people act as if the Force was originally usable by anyone when it is clear in the films that only certain people can tap into it in the way that the Jedi do, and that some have a connection stronger than others.

    • January 16, 2015 at 8:52 pm
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      In the leaked imp shuttle pic I always thought one of the troopers looked female…hmm

  • January 16, 2015 at 3:33 pm
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    “This is the story of Mace Windy, a revered Jedi-Bendu of Opuchi, as related to us by C.J Thorpe, PADAWAAN [emphasis mine] learner to the famed Jedi.”

    Padawan is as old as Star Wars itself. Chill, people.

  • January 16, 2015 at 4:27 pm
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    Is that Connor from Angel?

  • January 16, 2015 at 4:28 pm
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    All Stormtroopers are white. Just look at those casings. I don’t get the confusion.

  • January 16, 2015 at 5:42 pm
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    I KNOW WHY THE STORMTROOPERS WERE ALL WHITE IN THE OT!!

    This was in the 70’s mind you, If they have a major blockbuster family film that depicts a white protaganist gunning down a black Stormtrooper, “THAT’S RACIST” people would have been VERY divided over how morally sound or progressive this movie is.

    Fast-forward 30 years, it’s racist NOT to gun down a black stormtrooper. I think that one spoof on the teaser perfectly summed up the argument.

    I was tripped up slightly, continuity-wise [seriously the Empire was racist], but now that they’re NOT racist anymore I see no problems, it’s just a change, I’ll adapt

    I’m betting that a lot of people who read this will think I’m racist,
    If that’s what you think, you’ve completely missed the point of this comment.

    People are comfortable with bad-guys being black periodically nowadays (more or less),
    I’m also cool with there being some She-Stormtroopers, so long as they don’t super-impose polygonal boob-bumps over existing stormtroopers in A New Hope, because that would be weird on many levels. Just imagine the explaining previous extras would have to give to their grandkids.

    • January 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm
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      you couldnt be farthest from the truth….i dont understand why everyone always tries to make everything a fuckin race issue. 95% of the actors in the original are british, as it was filmed in london. there really werent many black actors beating the doors down in those days in england. BESIDES. how would ANY of you even know that all the stormtroopers were white?the only time we saw a stormtrooper with their helmets off were when Luke and Han were in diguise.so i have NO CLUE wtf you people are talking about with this whole ” i am excited for non-white stormtroopers…..you are seriously retarded.people insinuating that Lucas was Racist even,…wow..give me a break…you people do realize that George is married to one hot fuckin black chic right? or are your heads still buried in the sand?
      get a clue people. there is NO evidence or proof that boyega is the first Black man to ever wear a Stormtrooper outfit in a star wars film.. i dont kow wether or not to laugh at you people…or to be in shock by your stupidity

      • January 17, 2015 at 4:50 pm
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        George is not racist did you actually read my comment AT ALL?

        I, George, and moral society have no problem with this. I’m not making it a race issue, I’m pointing out that race did effect they’re casting decisions (e,i, randomly shooting a bad-guy who happens to be black, at least in those days, would have been a bit of a “no-go”) and that is a factor

        About the thing with them not being visible multi-racial because of the masks is partially true, a friend of mine pointed out the same thing. But not one of the officers were black, in fact no one affiliated with Sidious/Palpatine [in the context of what we saw as of 1983] was obviously non-white.
        I stand by my statement that back in 1983, the Empire was seen as very racially selective.
        That in no way suggests that George is or was in any way racist, not unless Steven Spielberg is Anti-Semetic because he made a film that depicts a war against German Soldiers.

        I don’t think you were paying much attention to what I was actually saying…

      • January 19, 2015 at 5:51 pm
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        There’s actually one point where we see a biker scout without a helmet from a distance in ROTJ. It’s when Han and friends storm the bunker and then imperials go in after them. I think he has his hands on his head because he’s captured. He has a black scuba hood and a blonde beard.

      • February 3, 2015 at 12:34 am
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        Thank you!!!

  • January 16, 2015 at 8:48 pm
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    …man alive she is seriously good-looking – I mean SERIOUSLY!

  • January 16, 2015 at 9:33 pm
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    I’m excited that we’re getting female and non-white stormtroopers. Maybe Boyega will be another!

    I want to see talented diversity on all sides of the galactic conflict, not just the heroes. And no special treatment for the women. Let them kill and be killed just like the men. Don’t hold back.

    Star Wars ain’t about muscles. It’s about strong, beloved characters and “the great equalizer”: blasters, lightsabers, starships, the Force, etc.

    • January 16, 2015 at 10:17 pm
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      excited for non white stormtroopers? So tell me…..What gives you the impression that all the Stormtroopers in the Original films were all white actors/extras? is there a deleted scene somewhere that i am missing out on that shows all the stormtroopers in the locker room after work getting out of their gear, that clearly shows they are all white? because personally i have never seen a Stormtrooper in any of the movies without their helmets on. To my knowledge, the Force Awakens will be the first movie in the series that finally reveals any sort of human element to the stormtrooper.

      • January 16, 2015 at 10:45 pm
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        I think he means the armor will be chrome for some stormtroopers :/

      • January 16, 2015 at 11:27 pm
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        Anon @ 22:17 PM

        That’s the great thing about the OT. The extras were all or mostly white male actors, but it’still open to a diversified interpretation.

        No, I saw non-white stormtroopers because of that Rebels episode with Zare Leonis, and I heard that the Dawn novel mentioned female stormtroopers.

        All canon.

      • January 19, 2015 at 5:58 pm
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        There’s an un-masked biker scout in ROTJ outside the bunker when the empire reclaims it and everyone’s hands are on their heads.

  • January 16, 2015 at 11:00 pm
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    No….read the rest of the post…the poster is talking about “diversity”. The poster wasn’t referring to stormtrooper armor.

    As a person from a diverse background….I can honestly give a rats behind about “diversity”. Never have I watched a movie, enjoyed it and thought “this movie would be better if it had more people that look like me in it” or “this movie would be better if the cast was more diverse!” Only a racist idiot watches a movie and thinks that way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it agsin, the real racists and sexist people in society are the ones complaining about a lack of “diversity”. They are the most racist people, and they are using the argument of “standing up for equality” to hide it. People with a healthy and universal outlook on life don’t obsesse over race or sex. It’s a scam.

    • January 16, 2015 at 11:51 pm
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      Look. I never claimed that every non-white or female Star Wars fan thought the same as me on this topic. If you don’t care about race or sex in movies, great. That doesn’t mean it’s racist to want greater diversity.

      It’s no coincidence that American culture heavily favors white males in leading roles while women and non-whites are marginalized. Who do you think benefits the most from the current paradigm? Which demographic of actors do you think would most like things to remain the same?

      Calling me names changes nothing. You’re a minority, but you honestly call people like me who want more opportunities for female and minority actors the REAL racists? Seriously? -_-

      • January 17, 2015 at 1:18 am
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        You know what other role white males comprise the most of? Lead villain. Funny you guys never complain that more minorities and women need to fill that role.

        • January 17, 2015 at 2:06 am
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          Retrotek:

          Wrong.

          I wrote the following earlier this evening at 21:33 PM:

          “I want to see talented diversity on all sides of the galactic conflict, not just the heroes.”

          Last year I had hoped someone like Samuel L. Jackson would be the main Sith villain enforcer. I was excited about Gwendoline playing a villain, and I was open to Lupita playing one, too.

          I don’t want the Empire to be all white males again. Variety everywhere! 😀

          • January 17, 2015 at 2:18 am
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            Saying you are open to it or liking to see it is not the same as outright condemning people as “phobes for having a minority or female in a lead villain role as your ilk have been doing in regard to lead hero roles.

          • January 17, 2015 at 5:35 am
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            Yeah. Why would it be? ^_-

            Stop lumping me in with those people . I want to see female and minority actors playing heroes AND villains.

          • January 17, 2015 at 12:04 pm
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            STFU, whiner. You and YOUR ilk are basically mad that every other demographic that have been supporting white men at the box office forever are finally getting more vocal about seeing major characters on screen other than just white men. Get over yourself.

          • January 18, 2015 at 2:23 am
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            You guys need to keep your white guilt to yourselves and let the rest of us just get along.

          • April 23, 2015 at 3:04 pm
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            So if you want to see diversity on the big screen instead of mostly white men, like we have been since the beginning, suddenly that’s expressing white guilt?

    • January 17, 2015 at 5:01 pm
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      I actually like your atittude about how this stuff shouldn’t matter in the context of a movie, because now in 2015 we’re comfortable with there being characters of various races, I’m all for it, I think having a major motion picture with a female villain has a lot of potential and is kind of overdue.

      My original post was referring to movies BACK THEN in 1977-’83. It was more a retrospective comment than anything else, guess I didn’t make that clear.
      I said it before and I’ll say it again,
      audiences are ready for whatever character no matter who is playing them. We’re over that,
      I didn’t mind Lando then, I don’t mind Boyega now…. Unless Boyega turns out to be a horribly bad actor, but I’ll have to wait and see….
      sorry for the hate-thread I created

  • January 17, 2015 at 12:29 am
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    Edit: double post

  • January 17, 2015 at 12:29 am
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    Absolutely. What good does seeing a person that looks like you in a movie do? “I’m im Chinese and the new Star Wars movie has a Chinese lead”. So what ? What good does that do? It flatters the ego but it doesn’t do anything for anyone. If you’re a black female and enough people complain and protest to the point that the lead of a new movie is a black female…..WHAT good does that do for black females?! “Look! We complained until they made US the lead! Ha!” Ok? So what? You base the value and merit of a movie based in the diversity of race and sex? You’re a racist and a sexist. Intellectually Honest people don’t think that way. You and the other race and sex baiters are the real problem.

  • January 17, 2015 at 1:28 am
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    Off Topic: Australian TV news report today about a man walking around Oz in storm trooper armor,raising money for charity. He was bitten by a King Brown snake (very deadly). He would most likely be dead, except his armor stopped the snakes fangs.

  • January 17, 2015 at 2:47 am
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    It’s insane fans of the same movies get on here to argue.

    I look at it like this… If 4, 5 and 6 hadn’t happened, we would probably all love 1, 2 and 3 regardless. (Maybe not so much 1, tons of exposition). But two is a fun movie and three, though classic Lucas cheesey at times, is really entertaining.

    • January 17, 2015 at 4:28 am
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      Actually, If Lucas had made 1, 2, and 3 to fit with 4, 5, and 6 instead of changing the original to fit with the later (but fails in key moments as with Leia remembering her mother) it would have been better received. But you are right in that if he had made the first three first, we would be complaining that 4-6 ignored what came before too much. Either way, poor 0bi-Wan comes out looking like a lying pile of crap.

  • January 17, 2015 at 3:21 am
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    Well said.

  • January 17, 2015 at 5:35 am
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    I’m Sorry too, buddy. But, I was also 7 yo when Star Wars, not ANH, came out. I loved the OT and can’t stand the PT. Here’s why, The OT had great characters that people loved and cared about, great script, and suspense. The PT has characters that no one cares about nor loves. When Obi-Wan died in SW we all gasped in our seats, wondering what was going to come of Luke and our heroes. When Qui-Gon Jinn got killed, did anyone really care? No! The PT scripts were mystery novels, and didn’t feel like a SW movie. The voices of Jar Jar and Watto were childish and stupid renderings of bad Italian mixed with English. Not to mention the silly, useless poop jokes. And there was no suspense. Lucas over-explains everything to the weak-minded generation, because if you had a story that was like the “failure in the tree” episode from “ESB”, most of the PT fans would be lost and confused. Empire is absolutely the best SW movie ever. Yet to me, since I was 10 in 1980, it is the best movie, period! I’m looking forward to the new SW movies, but, ” I shall be cautious.”

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      im not expecting to like 7 100%, hell I only like 50% of ROTJ but im feeling good about this one. we’ve already seen elements that remind us of scenes (or promo photos!!) and as long as things like that aren’t rehashed too much and the story is good and there are a few twist and turns(which I think there will be) we will have a great SW movie on our hands.

  • January 17, 2015 at 5:49 am
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    Like any good story, it should get better with every chapter/episode, eps 4-6 better than eps 1-3, check. Now the greatest challenge is for eps 7-9 to be better than eps 4-6….do or do not guys, there is no try!

  • January 17, 2015 at 7:49 am
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    The Empire using non-white stormtroopers feels believably mercenary to me but a female stormtrooper who is not in an above-the-law Vader type role makes the empire seem progressive in a way that’s out of character. Maybe I’ll feel differently once I see her with her head shaved or what not.

    • January 18, 2015 at 12:40 am
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      I have known very rough, manipulative, and controlling females!
      So in 30 years who is to say a female did not infiltrate ranks, it even happened in the Third Reich. There were evil wemon involved in history.

      • January 25, 2015 at 11:32 pm
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        Not many though. If there ends up being a whole female division of troopers I’m going to internally scream during the movie.

  • January 17, 2015 at 7:57 am
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    Cue Deliverance theme.

    • January 18, 2015 at 12:43 am
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      Did you loose your teeth and play a banjo?

  • January 17, 2015 at 11:03 am
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    Has anybody else noticed there seems to be a bunch of Asian or semi Asian looking chicks cast in this movie?

    Surely this cannot be coincidence? Could be that they are all from the same planet or creed or family even.

    • January 17, 2015 at 4:58 pm
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      I like that idea to some extent. The way movies diversify casts often feels inorganic – a few Caucasians and one or two characters of another race in their midst. You don’t often see a group of, say, four black people together as you would in our world. I think it would be both realistic and visually interesting to have the occasional racially homogeneous non-white group just like Heronomous Bach used to have in his paintings hundreds of years ago. I’m all for racial diversity in these films but if it’s feels forced and the movies suffer as a result then the T~~I~~M Sn~o~w’s of the world are proven right and there’s no way around that.

    • January 19, 2015 at 12:48 am
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      Or maybe Disney wants to expand the market further ?I checked out the Marvel comics site and saw Star Wars in anime style so maybe it’s no coincidence .

  • January 17, 2015 at 5:12 pm
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    Derth Nadir:

    Lucas did not come up with the concept of midichlorians back in the 70’s. Johnathan Rinzler, the author of The Making of Star Wars, has clarified that with the following statement:

    “While we were preparing the text for The Making of Star Wars, Lucas added a note…about midi-chlorians, bringing his original words in line with his later thoughts and the events of the prequel trilogy.”

    You can find that quote here: http://www.starwars.com/news/so-what-the-heck-are-midi-chlorians

    • February 2, 2015 at 7:19 pm
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      yeah, you can notice that many of the stff we realized in the prequel trilogy were not developed when they filmed the OT. E.g. the emperor says a line about lightsabers intending that Jedis used them and Darth Vader represents an exeption in the sith order by using it.

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        “…the emperor says a line about lightsabers intending that Jedis used them and Darth Vader represents an exeption in the sith order by using it.”

        The Sith did use lightsabers in the earlier drafts, so he went back to the old idea.

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      Well, thanks.
      I’ve tried hard to give the man the benefit of the doubt on many things, but that was a blatant lie in my book as that wasn’t clarified in the book itself, and new notes had no business being there as it was supposedly a representation of his notes in ’77. I’m more ticked off at Rinzler for not making it perfectly clear that this was a recent edit.

  • January 19, 2015 at 12:31 am
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    Phineas and Ferb got it right I guess.

    Candace as first girl cartoon storm trooper complaining about another storm trooper getting ahead of her , yep that sounds about right.

    Not very original after all.

    Cue the sock song!

  • January 19, 2015 at 1:07 pm
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    Isn’t the Empire supposed to be super racist and discriminatory? I don’t know much about the old EU lore, so I don’t know if this only extended to non-humans.

    But if in the new canon, the Empire was normally discriminatory to women and races of human, then this would be a sign that the empire is a little desperate for troops.

    Just something to think about

    • February 2, 2015 at 7:10 pm
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      Racism and sexism was never an actual part of the Empire’s idealogy. It was only symbolically implied by us previously only see white males among them. Disney used that opportunity to show that the galaxy is a diverse place on all sides, which is great. I don’t want all white men in the Empire.

      • February 2, 2015 at 7:16 pm
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        actually they were kinda racist against non-human races, despite Thrawn or the inquisitor no alien got a high rank in the empire army.

        • April 23, 2015 at 3:12 pm
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          Where did the Empire explicitly discriminate against any race, gender or alien species?

          • April 24, 2015 at 6:05 am
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            All over the place in the novels and comics. Wookies were enslaved, Han rescues Chewie, that’s how they met. Than Chewie owed Han a life debt according to wookie culture. Palpatine and the empire were portrayed like Hitler and the Nazis times 10.

        • April 24, 2015 at 6:00 am
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          Yep, that’s why Thrawn wasn’t anywhere near the Battle of Endor. He was post on the edge of the Universe because he was an alien. But Palpatine couldn’t deny Thrawns strategic genius so he was made a grand admiral.

    • February 3, 2015 at 4:48 am
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      Yes, the REAL Empire in the Original Trilogy was a highly racist organization. They were never about equality.

      Saying otherwise is simply revisionist history in order to further a leftist political agenda.

      • April 23, 2015 at 3:20 pm
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        Beyond visual symbolism, there’s nothing racist or sexist about the Empire. Are there any lines where we see Vader or the Imperials disrespect or discriminate against anyone on the basis of gender or race? Was Palpatine a racist or a sexist?

        No.

        That’s why there isn’t a problem with Disney showing minority stormtroopers on the Rebels cartoon. It’s no different than diversifying the Rebel Alliance in ROTJ. The struggle itself was never over race or gender equality.

        • April 24, 2015 at 6:08 am
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          Ummmmm. Are you talking about just the movies? Because he absolutely was in the novels and comics.

          • April 24, 2015 at 6:12 am
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            Obviously new Canon things haven’t dealt in that stuff much yet, still kinda new.

  • January 20, 2015 at 7:55 pm
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    I think they are taking the idea of a women storm trooper from the Dark Horse comic Star Wars Legacy .

    It is nothing new at all to have a female storm trooper since there is one in the story Noob.

    Also found the name Finn in the comic book
    He’s an alien bartender .So Finn is not so unusual a Star Wars name.

  • February 2, 2015 at 5:47 pm
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    Clear as mud

  • February 2, 2015 at 6:13 pm
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    I forgot what this threads topic was but anyways..
    I have a feeling that we will see the main villian unveiled in Ep9 his name is Darth Plagueis played by Andy Serkis in Mocap. The guy with the crossblade will most likely die in Ep7 and some plot twist will happen in ep8 revealing some other baddie that gives a closer clue to the main baddie in Ep.9 {Darth Plagueis}
    This will all tie in to the other 6 as Anakin was born of the force by plagueis and Anakin is lukes father… see where this is going?
    I know the book isnt cannon but Darth Plagueis is as well as what Sidious says about him in Ep3. the book does say that sidious when he was pretty sure he killed Plagueis that ” the muun whouldve lived another 100 years unchanged”. this was right before the “happy Empire day” witch would mean Plagueis, if he survived whouldve been well under the “100 years unchanged”, something around 30 years under give or take.

    Plagueis lives!

  • February 2, 2015 at 6:40 pm
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    That 2 headed creature looks cool… I gotta re-watch the Hellboy movies now 🙂

  • February 2, 2015 at 6:54 pm
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    So tired of this PC bull crap, from the UK, I thought the states were bad! Cast the people for their ability to act, not for their race!

    • February 2, 2015 at 10:26 pm
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      So quick to judge these actors by the color of their skin huh. I’m sure you’ve done quite the research about these actors given by the looks of your negative response. Or maybe it’s just blatant racism. You need to learn that there are actors beyond the white skin tone. Who knows how well these actors will do. They were obviously chosen for a reason. And I can tell you right now its no political correctness nonsense. It’s called diversity. Star Wars is Star Wars because of its diverse cultures. These PC responses give me a headache.

      • February 2, 2015 at 11:19 pm
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        PC is CGI anyway. Those who are supposed to be pc ain’t anyway. And those who oppose pc are just dumb and uneducated.

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      Anon @ 18:54 PM

      Just because a number of these actors aren’t white men doesn’t mean they lack talent. People like you act like they were pulled in off the street at random.

      white male actors = talent-only
      women or minority actors = political correctness

      Nonsense. Funny we never hear a peep out of you guys whenever studios go out of their way to cast white-only actors for roles rather than give everyone a fair shot. Most of those characters don’t have to be white men.

      • February 3, 2015 at 4:33 am
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        They have to be white if the film is successful.

        Most paying moviegoers are either white or asian…and neither group cares much for films filled with blacks and politically correct nonsense.

        These are both major turnoffs. And subsequently cinema gate-killers.

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          Robotek:

          Why do you assume we’re white? I’m a black man.

        • February 3, 2015 at 10:42 am
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          “neither group cares much for films filled with blacks and politically correct nonsense. These are both major turnoffs. And subsequently cinema gate-killers ”

          I’m assuming you mean the groups filled with morons. I guarantee you anyone with a free mind and a passion for film doesn’t think like that.

          The only major turn off I see is your preconceived opinion towards other races.

          If you go into a film expecting nothing but your own race to satisfy you, then you are limiting yourself. No one should think like that. The media has poisoned
          so many brains that it saddens me.

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        That’s not what anon said at ALL. If you spent half as much energy reading what they said as you did climbing up on that soapbox, you’d know that and we’d all be better off.

  • February 2, 2015 at 7:13 pm
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    If i remember correctly from my childhood on some of the packaging from my Star Wars Action Figures it said Darth Vader Dark Lord of the Sith.

    These were the ones from Kenner in the 80s.

    So i know the term Sith was mentioned all the way back then.

    Padawan is new thouugh as previously stated by someone.

    • February 2, 2015 at 7:32 pm
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      Yes, we have always known that Vader a lord of the sith but it was never officially established what they were until the PT. The big surprise was that the Emperor was one too.

      • February 3, 2015 at 12:07 am
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        That was a big surprise? I thought it was obvious the Emperor was a Sith.

        • February 3, 2015 at 2:31 am
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          It was never officially stated and I don’t recall any of my friends guessing it since we were given no basis other then the name and Vader to go on. Most people assumed the sith were some kind of race that dark jedi were the masters of since Vader was “lord of” them.

  • February 3, 2015 at 2:56 am
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    Racial diversity is good, but it’s NOT the point of filmmaking, and George Lucas can back me up on that, the single biggest problem with Hollywood is that people are not cast or awarded based off of talent per se. There are a ton of talented actors [black, white, asian etc.] who are SHUT OUT of Hollywood or mainstream filmmaking.

    Every role Tom Hardy or Channing Tatum or Shia Labeouf or Johnny Depp gets cast in is a role that Someone else could have done better IF THEY WERE GIVEN A CHANCE. And that is what I have a problem with. 20 people not getting a job because they’re black is horrible. 100 people not being cast because casting directors are lazy is way worse IMO. Lucas had nothing to say about race in Hollywood, because that’s only one fraction of the restriction at play.

    So in summary:
    I don’t really care what race the actor is. But if they better be GOOD AT ACTING.

    If I wanted to see a movie showing Asian actors just for the sake of diversity above all else, I’d watch an actual Chinese movie, or a Japanese movie, which is like, not hard to arrange AT ALL if you really care about it and are connected to the modern world. I want star wars because it’s awesome, I like the furry dude, I like the Indiana Jones dude, and I like Lando. They’re all good characters. Diversity helps and is good, but it’s not the reason I’m buying the ticket.

    What’s really sad about diversity is that it’s still something people fight over, a lot of minorities are hurting over the fact that things are still changing too slowly. A lot of innocent, progressive thinking majority are being repressed, “racism” being the main weapon of choice.

    Please hold all judgement for the end of the tour, thank you.

    • February 3, 2015 at 10:53 am
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      Just because people like me speak out in favor of diversity doesn’t mean it’s the single most important part of the movie. Why do people continue to mistakenly believe diversifying your cast with talented actors will somehow threaten the film or remove the primary focus on story and characters

  • February 3, 2015 at 3:08 am
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    Can you actually provide evidence of this or are you THAT BORED?

  • February 3, 2015 at 11:03 am
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    @ I AM 110% NOT TIM SNOW

    You deserve a cringe award. Anyone that agrees with this blind idiocy can get in line behind him.

  • February 3, 2015 at 11:30 am
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    Everything you speculated about how it will be received, are from your demographic.Your Age and mindset.
    I identified with Luke, I’m most likely not going to identify with these characters now that I’m not an adolescent, perhaps I’ll have Luke and Han for this next installment, but I can still appreciate what this film is trying to bring to a new generation.
    But you can not speak for The other 8 billion people on this planet.
    John Singleton could identify with the original characters, so who is to say who will or won’t.
    This movie like the others, can transcend cultural and geographical boundaries, so don’t be so sure others who are open minded will not enjoy this film.
    You may find yourself open to a much larger world, so give it a chance and quit being a Sophist.

  • February 4, 2015 at 6:49 pm
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    As the previous reply mentioned, this is coming from your demographic.

    Current moviegoers DO INDEED WANT TO SEE JOHN BOYEGA. If you’ve seen Attack the Block, you would know why. Same reason why we like Idris Alba for JAMES BOND, Chiwetel Ejiofor for anybody and why Marvel introduced Falcon and soon Black Panther.

    You can’t comment on Daisy Ridley yet. Nobody can. That’s your (possibly informed but I’m assuming not) opinion. BTW, has Carrie Fisher decided what accent to use yet?

    As for JJ vs. George Lucas….well, I don’t think this should be even discussed after their recent works. While JJ isn’t Cameron or the Russo brothers or James Gunn (who would have anticipated Gunn’s success with GOTG????), JJ has made solid films that are way better than Red Tails or Strange Magic LOL. If anything, the odds more against George Lucas making a quality film than against JJ making a fun space opera adventure.

  • April 23, 2015 at 12:25 am
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    Hasn’t it been confirmed that we will see flashbacks? I wonder if we will get flashbacks of a time the Sith ruled the galaxy and this guy just happens to play one. I can’t imagine an actor who is playing a significant role updating his page with sensitive info.

    • April 23, 2015 at 1:12 am
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      The Sith don’t have generals, do they?
      Maybe he meant Imperial General.

      • April 23, 2015 at 2:05 am
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        The FIRST ORDER may in fact be s new order of Sith. Abandoning the old rule of 2. Imagine…a Sith Ruler with a line of Sith generals commanding an army of First Order troopers.

        I write about this last week actually after seeing that lineup of dark figures behind the troopers.

  • April 23, 2015 at 12:27 am
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    Sweet his resume says he can milk cows by hand. Well done, well done. In all seriousness it seems he’s more like an EXTRA.. his other roles show that. He played a Pedestrian.. heh

  • April 23, 2015 at 1:25 am
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    Maybe as a Sith general he is one of those guys standing in the back of the podium during that part of the trailer with the stormtroopers and the snowy terrain.

  • April 23, 2015 at 1:40 am
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    I can’t believe most people on this page are fighting about when “sith” was first used (the original novelization BTW) instead of the fact that there may be a SITH GENERAL who is NOT Kylo Ren in this movie! Is there a Sith Army? New Jedi too?! Lets forget the word play and talk about how this changes everything most of us were thinking about episode 7’s villains if this is true.

    • April 23, 2015 at 2:04 am
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      Honestly, I can’t really say that this changes anything.

  • April 23, 2015 at 2:09 am
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    Confirmation of flashbacks? Source? Sith General? Yes please!

  • April 23, 2015 at 3:08 am
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    Anyone check the links? NOTHING abt TFA anywhere. Did Lucasfilm pull it? Or is this a hoax?

  • April 23, 2015 at 3:11 am
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    Maybe kylo ren is using his position of trust and authority to cream off resources and funds plus manpower from the first order and tucking them away somewhere hidden. Gradually building up its strength. He could steal ships and troops and say they died but put them into his own army. Then when it was strong enough he could over throw the first orders leadership and declare a new sith empire in its place. Back stabbing. A real sith would want a sith empire, not a first order.

  • April 23, 2015 at 3:18 am
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    Those tweets are from November! Sadly I don’t think this is even remotely legit 😛

    • April 23, 2015 at 2:09 pm
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      You’ve got to scroll down to the more recent ones.

  • April 23, 2015 at 6:06 am
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    Probably been seen already but anyone notice the new death star gunner uniformed guys when the ST’s do the about face? Of course I’m talking about the new trailer. Look at the TIE fighter wing. There are a couple of them. They now seem to almost have a beetle horn on the lower front of their helmet.

  • April 23, 2015 at 12:46 pm
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    Give wackybantha a medal!

  • April 23, 2015 at 12:47 pm
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    I am an OT Purist and YES the world does revolve around me!

  • April 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm
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    I still don’t really understand the word “Sith”. I read that it was a race and they had their own planet at one time. But did Anaikin become a “Sith” once he turned to the dark side? Does that mean anyone can become a Sith?

    • April 23, 2015 at 2:05 pm
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      In the movies “Sith” seems to be a certain Dark Side mentality, or religion. Not just Dark Side, but following a specific set of rules and ideals, just like the Jedi were Light Side users who followed their religion. I think this definition we see here is pulling from the games and old EU, in which “Sith” could also at times mean something like a nation, the Sith Empire (essentially a theocracy ruled following the Sith religion). Thus they are members of the Sith navy or whatever… not sure if it will turn up to be tied directly to Force usage or use the EU device of the country-like usage. EDIT: On that note, I don’t think Sith as a race is canon at the moment.

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    I would love to see some sort of resurgence of the Sith Empire from the Old Republic in the ST. The “Always two there are…a master and an apprentice…no more…no less” statement by Yoda in TPM or what’s been called “The Rule of Two” after the Darth Bane Legends novels, according to legends material has not always been in place. In legends, Darth Bane instituted the Rule of Two about a 1000 yrs before ANH, but things were not always thus. For a thousand years the Sith operated in secret…a silent reign that eventually culminated in the rise of the Galactic Empire and the ultimate destruction (or so we thought) of the Sith by Luke and Vader. But thousands of years prior, the Sith (in Legends mind you) were very active and even had their own empire that threatened the stability of the old republic. A “First Order” could be an attempt of the Sith at getting back to their roots and establishing galactic prominence and domination through force and numbers. The presence of a Sith general implies that the Sith were not destroyed but are back and with a vengeance. I hope this is the case for the film. I like to think that the Emperor had a contingency plan. I think he was working to build a Sith Empire that did not only include him and Vader, but other acolytes, as the new Vader comics have alluded to. There’s always someone waiting in the wings…when Vader and the Emperor died, I think this person (Serkis?) or persons stepped up to the plate. Bring it JJ…Bring it…

  • April 23, 2015 at 3:53 pm
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    If you cannot accept the whole PT & OT then you are not a true Star Wars fan. GL is the creator and it’s up to him to tell us how the story goes. Not up to us. So all you idiots bashing the PT move on.. That’s the story, like it or lump it.
    It’s so stupid seeing people think they are smarter than GL.. ‘Oh this would never happen, Oh this would never be called that..’ In reference to the PT. It’s his story people not yours! So f*ck up and accept it dogs.. Don’t waste your time crapping on about it. PT is how the story goes… If anything this new triology is the one that should be viewed as supicious.. It’s not even GL’s story.

    • April 23, 2015 at 5:50 pm
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      I like the OT because they’re well executed, balls-out unapologetic bullshit, which is a good thing in the case of Star Wars. Am I a “fan”? Who cares, the OT films are good and I enjoy them, the PT films are not and so I don’t.

      Ep VII looks like it’s gonna be good, so I’ll take my little brother to that as my father before me took me to Phantom Menace as his father before him took him to ROTJ.

      If the Ep VII turns out to be shit, meh, I’ll just watch it less frequently, I’ve seen bad films before [10,000 BC], I can take it.

    • April 23, 2015 at 7:52 pm
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      No. I’ll keep my own canon thanks 😛

      • April 24, 2015 at 3:36 am
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        Look, the PT are Canon, that I will not dispute, I’m just saying I don’t enjoy them…

        Own playlist? Yes.

        Own Canon? give me a break…

        • April 24, 2015 at 6:05 am
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          Yep. I’ve basically rewritten in my own mind what happened during the Clone Wars. Much better.

          I don’t ever plan on rewatching the PT so what’s it matter? I have the despecialized versions of the OT. So I’m good.

          Don’t worry it’s not like I’m going to argue my own canon against the official one. I’ll just stay away from those topics. That’s the beauty of the NT. It’s so far away from the PT I don’t have to worry much about it.

    • April 23, 2015 at 8:28 pm
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      Good. I’m not a ‘true Star Wars fan’. I’ll hand in my card.

      Now give me some flawed characters, not boring ascetics in brown robes with dumb hare krishna braids. Something like the Night’s Watch from A Song of Ice and Fire.

      I am the saber in the darkness…

  • April 23, 2015 at 6:38 pm
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    Sith general? And funny, now the usual bunvh are saying Andy Serkis could be Vader’s apprentice? HUH?

  • April 23, 2015 at 8:06 pm
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    Has anyone considered that TFA is actually going to be a take on the Sith Wars? All the old republic stuff is no longer canon so they can pull what they like from it.

  • April 23, 2015 at 8:36 pm
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    I’m really hoping the First Order and Sith General means that TFA will be inspired by the Nights Templar. They proclaim that the Empire has lost its way since the death of Emperor Palpatine, consider them heretics and make their new Empire more of a cult.

  • April 23, 2015 at 10:04 pm
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    Ugh. I’ve only just recovered from the taste of Jar Jar’s sludgy load. Bringing back the word “Padawan” sets off my gag reflex all over again 🙁

    • April 24, 2015 at 3:37 am
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      Would you like me to pat you on the back?

  • April 23, 2015 at 10:07 pm
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    What I want to know is…

    Who is Pip Anderson playing?

    This guy is a serious Parkour mofo. He wouldn’t be in the film if he wasn’t playing a character who does some serious athletic feats, at the very least.

    • April 25, 2015 at 6:55 am
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      Jedi Temple flashback scene.

  • April 25, 2015 at 10:48 pm
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    I don’t know about you guys, but if they’re already talking about there being a lot of Sith, I’m beginning to get nervous about how believable the new movies will be. It’s only been 30 years, for gods’ sake.

    • April 26, 2015 at 4:28 am
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      How long did Luke take to become a Jedi?
      How long does it take for someone in the world to hate?

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