Any time things ever get heated in here, we just need to post Father Roderick reaction videos, and all will be as it should...

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I always get a kick out of this guy.

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General reposti!

Just make Rey and Ben twins separated at birth. The whole trilogy being their struggle with the dark/light side. It would explain their ability to force facetime, Rey's likeness to Han, and how they tend to turn to the other side when around each other (Ben gets soft and Rey gets pissed). The Rise of Skywalker is them creating a balance in the force by being each half.

I somehow posted directly below you and missed that.

I think because the OT cast is so much older, they had to have a big time gap and have a lot of stuff happen in between. I like that there is a lot of story there that we don't know....Otherwise the whole first movie would have just been characters giving us exposition or telling us what happened (which was kinda Leia and Hans dialogue when they talked....imagine a whole movie of that).

I agree. This has always felt like a staple of Star Wars to me, going back to A New Hope.

You're thrown into the middle of the action, and hear references to things like the Old Republic, the Senate, the Emperor, the Clone Wars... things you never see.

But it gives the whole saga a real feel of history. Of things actually happening before and after just the movie we're watching now. It's a great way to make it feel like a real world.

I think it'd be the exact opposite, actually. Episodes VII and VIII are full of exposition and stuff we have to infer. Whereas the Episode VII I outlined would be actually seeing that stuff in real time. I'm literally suggesting they show don't tell...

- We would see The First Order reveal themselves.

- We would see Snoke tempt Kylo.

- We would see Kylo turn.

- We would see Luke go into hiding.

- We would see Leia and Han break up.

... instead of all of that being things characters simply talked about the past two movies. And I don't think the ages would have to be all that different. Driver could play 25, and just have him turn at that age. And Luke, Leia, and Han could all play five years younger than they were in TFA, no problem.

But if they couldn't swing that for whatever reasons, and wanted to have Ben turn at 15 or whatever, there's still opportunity to do a really cool animated movie or series set 15 years prior to TFA, where all of that basically plays out. I'd watch that in a heartbeat.

Wouldn't that feel like a retread of ROTS? (As opposed to ANH.)

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I agree. This has always felt like a staple of Star Wars to me, going back to A New Hope.

You're thrown into the middle of the action, and hear references to things like the Old Republic, the Senate, the Emperor, the Clone Wars... things you never see.

But it gives the whole saga a real feel of history. Of things actually happening before and after just the movie we're watching now. It's a great way to make it feel like a real world.

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A New Hope was really the only one that did that, though, and the only reason they got away with it was because there had been no other movies prior. So being thrown in the middle of the action worked to its advantage. But being thrown into the middle of the action after SIX movies just didn't make a whole lot of since, IMO. Gaps needed to have been bridged better. I actually think that's a huge reason why people don't connect to the sequel trilogy as much.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Wouldn't that feel like a retread of ROTS? (As opposed to ANH.)

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If I had to pick between retreads, I would have MUCH rather we got a ROTS redo over a redo of ANH, as only one of those movies didn't need to be remade because of how perfect it was the first go-around.

TCTTS said:

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I agree. This has always felt like a staple of Star Wars to me, going back to A New Hope.

You're thrown into the middle of the action, and hear references to things like the Old Republic, the Senate, the Emperor, the Clone Wars... things you never see.

But it gives the whole saga a real feel of history. Of things actually happening before and after just the movie we're watching now. It's a great way to make it feel like a real world.

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A New Hope was really the only one that did that, though, and the only reason they got away with it was because there had been no other movies prior. So being thrown in the middle of the action worked to its advantage. But being thrown into the middle of the action after SIX movies just didn't make a whole lot of since, IMO. Gaps needed to have been bridged better. I actually think that's a huge reason why people don't connect to the sequel trilogy as much.

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Plenty happened off screen between ANH and TESB ... maybe less stuff happening between TESB and ROTJ but that was probably due to the shorter time frame story-wise between those movies.

still don't like it but whatevs, it's just going on merchandise.

Looks like poor Klaud has been treated just like empty-handed Chewie on the medal stand. #AlienLivesMatter

I just realized. Isn't it pretty late in the game to have not gotten an official teaser poster yet?

Trying to think if we'd gotten them at this point for TFA and TLJ.

What do you mean? We got the teaser poster at D23.

I thought we established that was just a D23 poster?

I mean just look at it. Palpatine is copy/pasted from Clone Wars.

Edit: I guess I should clarify. Didn't we have the actual theatrical posters by this point?

October

I wonder why C-3PO has Chewie's bowcaster and bandoleer.

Same as the final trailer? I could've sworn they came out earlier, but yeah, you're right.

Yea, TFA one was about a week before my birthday; only reason I remember it.

The sequel trilogy has only have ever had teaser/convention posters (one for each movie), and then final posters (one for each movie). The TLJ teaser poster was released at Celebration that year, and the TFA teaser poster was released at either Celebration or Comic-Con that year.

The final posters always hit day of the trailer in October.

Ah, as per my handy index, it was the day before the final trailer dropped.

http://texags.com/forums/13/topics/2440759/201

Awesome stuff.

Also really drives home the fact that ST teaser posters do nothing for me. I wish they at least matched each other more.

Thanks. And yeah, the one with the final versions of each poster looks better. It's all assembled, I'm just waiting to slide the final Episode IX poster in, and it'll be ready to go. But each trilogy has a distinct look/design on that one, which helps.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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TPM and AOTC definitely win in this category. Both are great. TPM is simply iconic. One of the best posters ever.

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AOTC - the one with Padme and Anakin back to back?? That's lame as hell.

I pretty much hate everything about the prequels, but I do agree on TPM... That is an incredible poster and absolutely iconic.

Yeah, the AOTC one is my least favorite. It looks like photoshop 101.