C@LAg said:

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Laser Wolf said:

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How do ya'll think Lando will die in this one?

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They ain't killing a brothah.

and they most definitely will not suicide the Falcon because they will want to use that in media going forward.

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ahem.....

No one's ever really gone.

I have some potential spoilers, or at least hints at spoilers.
As a few of you remember, in 2016 I got in a bad car accident that saw me away from the boards for half a year and also missing Rogue One's entire time in the theater. My brother, also a big fan, reached out to reps at Lucasfilm and told them what had happened to me and my relative massive fandom status. When I had largely recovered in 2017, one day I got to video chat with someone who works for Lucasfilm who had themselves had a bad car accident a few years back (was not George or Mark) and had struggled to recover.

This person is nobody famous but does work on the movies and I got to talk to them for about an hour about SW obviously, and healing, and some other things we had in common - largely love for the Dark Tower books.
Anyway, we exchanged #s and shockingly this person texted me the next week to see how I was doing, and has continued doing so maybe once a month or so since then. I have never asked anything about Star Wars other than giving my opinion when asked because I don't want to be that guy.

However, on Saturday morning they texted me to ask how I liked the IX trailer and I gave my normal long-winded this and that theory in reply - a really long-winded way of saying it was awesome. And when they texted back, it was with two questions and a winky face. I answered the questions but did not get any sort of confirmation or denial response, but I got permission from the person to post them here as well, so enjoy or shake your lightsaber angrily at me.

Who would you contact if you needed the coordinates to a 40-year-old secret military base?
If you lived on primitive planet that had never seen a Jedi, what would you call someone who could soar through the air onto the back of a flying machine?

MuckRaker96 said:

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I have some potential spoilers, or at least hints at spoilers.
As a few of you remember, in 2016 I got in a bad car accident that saw me away from the boards for half a year and also missing Rogue One's entire time in the theater. My brother, also a big fan, reached out to reps at Lucasfilm and told them what had happened to me and my relative massive fandom status. When I had largely recovered in 2017, one day I got to video chat with someone who works for Lucasfilm who had themselves had a bad car accident a few years back (was not George or Mark) and had struggled to recover.

This person is nobody famous but does work on the movies and I got to talk to them for about an hour about SW obviously, and healing, and some other things we had in common - largely love for the Dark Tower books.
Anyway, we exchanged #s and shockingly this person texted me the next week to see how I was doing, and has continued doing so maybe once a month or so since then. I have never asked anything about Star Wars other than giving my opinion when asked because I don't want to be that guy.

However, on Saturday morning they texted me to ask how I liked the IX trailer and I gave my normal long-winded this and that theory in reply - a really long-winded way of saying it was awesome. And when they texted back, it was with two questions and a winky face. I answered the questions but did not get any sort of confirmation or denial response, but I got permission from the person to post them here as well, so enjoy or shake your lightsaber angrily at me.

Who would you contact if you needed the coordinates to a 40-year-old secret military base?
If you lived on primitive planet that had never seen a Jedi, what would you call someone who could soar through the air onto the back of a flying machine?

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In all of TexAgs' history, let it be known that no one has ever gone - or will ever go - to the lengths you have to bring us nuggets like this. This is amazing.

In all seriousness, though, once again, I'm so sorry for your wreck, but we're certainly glad you're back on the boards - especially in threads like this - in full effect.

As for the specific tidbits you posted, my mind is reeling...

The secret military base angle is something that once again falls in line with the whole Palpatine-created-Rey theory. Regardless, I'm now assuming what the heroes are looking for on the fallen Death Star IS a map of sorts - or coordinates, rather - only these coordinates don't lead to Luke Skywalker (as originally intended, from "The Art Of" book), they lead to this secret military base. If so, I love that. I love the idea of there being something back around the OT time period that we didn't know about. Some secret base with hidden answers. That's a GREAT potential MacGuffin.

As far as who they would have to reach out to to find it, I have two thoughts. 1) I wonder if they have to SUMMON Palpatine? Instead of Palpatine coming back on his own, maybe there's some old Jedi or Sith method of communing with the dead? That said, I can't see the good guys actually summoning Palpatine like that. So my only other guess is 2) Lando. Maybe he knows a guy who knows a guy who knows something. That kind of thing.

What REALLY interests me, however, is the whole Skywalker thing. What if we actually learn or see HOW the Skywalker name came to be? And what if it holds more meaning than we originally thought? And THAT'S what the title is referencing? There does look to be a primitive tribe of sorts in the behind-the-scenes pics on the desert planet from the trailer. So did the Skywalker lineage mean something BEFORE Anakin came into the picture? Is there any evidence of this in canon? Was there a Skywalker descendant - a Jedi - who did amazing things and appeared to these people on a ship, and THAT'S where the Skywalker name comes from? Taking it even further, what if Palpatine didn't create Anakin, but maybe Darth Plagueis somehow created the Skywalker lineage way back when?