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Method of Madness:
What would that retcon?

BenRG:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 17 Jul 2016, 13:40 ---What would that retcon?
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That Luke may have had a semi-romantic relationship at some point during the Original Trilogy. FWIW, I don't buy that it is a retcon at all but I'm sure that some fans would scream 'heresy!' if someone tried to add something to the main characters' OT-era canon.

Neko_Ali:
Why would that be the case? There was kind of a long stretch in between episodes 6 and 7. Given Rey's age, she would have been born in that time frame. So if Luke is her father, then any kind of relationship happened after episode 6. No retcon, no conflict.

Akima:
So, I finally got around to watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens over the weekend. It's not a bad movie, but it is such an awfully safe movie. Everything was very competently done, with none of the grating blunders of the prequel trilogy, but nothing was new. It was essentially just a pastiche of things we've seen before, and if you played a drinking game where you took a shot every time the film repeated elements from earlier Star Wars movies, you'd be unconscious well before the film was half over. I've had low expectations since seeing the teaser trailer, so I wasn't disappointed, and I did enjoy the film, but it was a bit "Meh...", which epic space-opera shouldn't be.

And judging by the trailer for Rogue One, they're featuring yet another giant spherical super-weapon. Seriously? That's two episodes of the original trilogy,  cameo appearances in two episodes of the prequel trilogy, on steroids in The Force Awakens, and now yet again? Could we move on, please?

Neko_Ali:
There is kind of a reason for it. That is the original Death Star under construction. From Episode 4. Rogue One is chronologically shortly before A New Hope. Those plans that Leia was carrying? This movie is about how the Rebels got their hands on them. But  yeah, I rolled my eyes so hard at Starkiller Base. I could just see the First Order planning session.

"So guys... We lost two moon sized super weapons to the Rebels. The last one the blew up killed the Emperor and Darth Vader and fractured the Empire. What should we do now to establish ourselves as a galactic power?"

"Ummm... Let's build a PLANET sized super weapon!"

"...... Brilliant! Make that man a Moff!"

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