Said it in the trailer thread, but not one of their best videos, they didn't even have the information the planet isn't tattooine and the black soldier is actually an imperial trooper and not just wearing ones armor.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Well there is the belief maybe Jakku didn't look like that to start and we can finally have the aftermath of a planet being bombarded with ships...
But more importantly there would be zero reason for a major ship battle to be carried out over Tattooine, a dirt water planet in hutt space that the empire/republic would care very little about.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Well there is the belief maybe Jakku didn't look like that to start and we can finally have the aftermath of a planet being bombarded with ships...
But more importantly there would be zero reason for a major ship battle to be carried out over Tattooine, a dirt water planet in hutt space that the empire/republic would care very little about.
Oh I know, but it seems a little silly to have a second desert planet
Eh desert planets would be plentiful in space. All it takes is just a government run as poorly as Texas and boom desert. I may or may not know how deserts come into being.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Well, it got spun into a time vortex at the center of the galaxy. And with water so scarce in the rest of settled space, only the wealthy have access to water. And in those dark time, came pirates. Ice Pirates!
Eh desert planets would be plentiful in space. All it takes is just a government run as poorly as Texas and boom desert. I may or may not know how deserts come into being.
Saw the first TFA trailer on the big screen for the first time yesterday when watching Age of Ultron again. I almost sprained my face I was grinning so hard and I think I peed a little during the Falcon reveal. Holy shit is that so much more powerful in a theater.
If I'm home when this hits the theaters I am absolutely camping out for it. Damn the December release date, I'll wear long johns.
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I had a funny feeling when I saw The Force Awakens trailer before AoU. See, with Jurassic Park, San Andreas, and even a bit of Mad Max, I was unconsciously picking out CGI bits and analyzing them for their effectiveness. When TFA came on, I only felt one emotion:
I'm watching this happen.
Yes, obviously in retrospect and if I concentrated very hard I would recognize these things as CGI, sets, and movie magic. But when that trailer hits, when you see the sun shine through the X Wings, everything just feels very solid. It's very real. When Gravity made its mark establishing a new benchmark for special effects, I didn't know how many movie producers or studios would run with it because from everything I've heard that movie was very difficult to nail visually. TFA is the first movie since Gravity (and Gravity was the first movie since... I don't even know) to give me those feels.
If the movie hits its visual marks and can crank out even a half-decent, OT worthy story, then we might get some of that excitement back. The trailers are breathtaking, an adjective I do not use lightly. They're beautiful. They inspire wonder and adventure instead of appreciation/disdain for the technical talent required to make such a detailed dinosaur model.
If this movie falls on the story like the PT does, I am done with this film series outside of the original movies. I mean, it's not even that high of a bar to cross, let's be honest.
Don't suck Star Wars. I want a piece of my childhood and the feeling like the movies are showing me places where I can lose myself for two hours.
I'm almost kinda hoping that this whole Jakku thing is just a smoke screen and the planet really is Tattooine.
Because, damn, it looks just like Tattooine. I don't see why we'd need two identical locations.
Maybe Jakku isn't a place, maybe it's a person.
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I like how all the planets in Star Wars galaxy have a single climate each. We see a desert scene and immediately we know the entire planet is a desert and nobody questions that.
While goofy, when jumping from planet to planet it makes it easier to tell what is what and where they are.
It's one of the many parts of Star Wars where you aren't supposed to think about it too hard, you are simply supposed to roll with the iconography.
Tatooine is a dusty backwater. Literally. Like, the entire planet. Don't think about it.
Yea, absolutely. Tatooine is a backwater because the hero has to come from a backwater. But this is an intergalactic story so if the entire place isn't a backwater then why don't they go to the big city?
And then the heroes flee to the mountains/north. So literally the entire planet has to be the mountains/north because otherwise why didn't they settle some place warm. And then the heroes hide at a hide out so literally the entire planet is a hide out and one goes to see some guru, and guru's live in swamps or mountains so literally the entire planet has to be a swamp and then....
To be fair, have an entire planet be extremely arid is probably fairly likely (or at least possible), and it would then be incapable of supporting a large population, so most settlements would be small towns.
Similarly, a planet could easily be far enough from the sun that it's perpetually frozen, making it unlikely to have much (or any) permanent population. It would probably make a pretty good hideout if you could handle the cold. (My understanding is that the Earth has actually been in this state in the far past (sans rebel base, of course).)
There would obviously be changes in temperature and climate depending on location, but you could still get a planet whose entire surface (or close to it) is essentially "arid desert" or "frozen wasteland".
Having every planet be single-biome is just daft, though.
"Everyone is clear on the mission, right?"
"Right! We've got to shut down that shield generator to save the fleet!"
"Whoa whoa whoa there, buddy. First we need to take a tour of the southern ice caps, hit up the bitchin' beaches on the west coast and then visit that large desert on the southern continent. Maybe check out some of those mountain ranges for good skiing. Then we shut down the shield generator."
"Be... because of the internet, sir?"
"You're damn right because of the internet"
*everyone piles back into the transport and heads for the southern ice caps*
"Everyone is clear on the mission, right?"
"Right! We've got to shut down that shield generator to save the fleet!"
"Whoa whoa whoa there, buddy. First we need to take a tour of the southern ice caps, hit up the bitchin' beaches on the west coast and then visit that large desert on the southern continent. Maybe check out some of those mountain ranges for good skiing. Then we shut down the shield generator."
"Be... because of the internet, sir?"
"You're damn right because of the internet"
*everyone piles back into the transport and heads for the southern ice caps*
*Pushes up glasses*
The large desert of the forest moon is in the NORTHERN hemisphere.
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I assume in the film there will be copious lens flare on that shiny armor.
They won't have to use anything fancy like CGI because it'll be a PRACTICAL EFFECT! Pure sunlight, right into the cornea.
Don't be fooled, J.J. will surely add some digital lens flare. You just won't be able to see it because of the real lens flare.
It's lensflare, all the way down.
Because, damn, it looks just like Tattooine. I don't see why we'd need two identical locations.
But more importantly there would be zero reason for a major ship battle to be carried out over Tattooine, a dirt water planet in hutt space that the empire/republic would care very little about.
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Oh I know, but it seems a little silly to have a second desert planet
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there's the one in KOTOR thats 100% ocean
THAT'S NOT HOW STAR WARS WORKS
Sandworms are involved. The spice must flow.
Then we had the second desert planet anyway with Geonosis. A third can't hurt
Nothing in that film came within a whiff of being as cool as that image suggested.
If I'm home when this hits the theaters I am absolutely camping out for it. Damn the December release date, I'll wear long johns.
I'm watching this happen.
Yes, obviously in retrospect and if I concentrated very hard I would recognize these things as CGI, sets, and movie magic. But when that trailer hits, when you see the sun shine through the X Wings, everything just feels very solid. It's very real. When Gravity made its mark establishing a new benchmark for special effects, I didn't know how many movie producers or studios would run with it because from everything I've heard that movie was very difficult to nail visually. TFA is the first movie since Gravity (and Gravity was the first movie since... I don't even know) to give me those feels.
If the movie hits its visual marks and can crank out even a half-decent, OT worthy story, then we might get some of that excitement back. The trailers are breathtaking, an adjective I do not use lightly. They're beautiful. They inspire wonder and adventure instead of appreciation/disdain for the technical talent required to make such a detailed dinosaur model.
If this movie falls on the story like the PT does, I am done with this film series outside of the original movies. I mean, it's not even that high of a bar to cross, let's be honest.
Don't suck Star Wars. I want a piece of my childhood and the feeling like the movies are showing me places where I can lose myself for two hours.
Maybe Jakku isn't a place, maybe it's a person.
"Tatooine: Not all scum and villainy"
It's one of the many parts of Star Wars where you aren't supposed to think about it too hard, you are simply supposed to roll with the iconography.
Tatooine is a dusty backwater. Literally. Like, the entire planet. Don't think about it.
Yea, absolutely. Tatooine is a backwater because the hero has to come from a backwater. But this is an intergalactic story so if the entire place isn't a backwater then why don't they go to the big city?
And then the heroes flee to the mountains/north. So literally the entire planet has to be the mountains/north because otherwise why didn't they settle some place warm. And then the heroes hide at a hide out so literally the entire planet is a hide out and one goes to see some guru, and guru's live in swamps or mountains so literally the entire planet has to be a swamp and then....
Similarly, a planet could easily be far enough from the sun that it's perpetually frozen, making it unlikely to have much (or any) permanent population. It would probably make a pretty good hideout if you could handle the cold. (My understanding is that the Earth has actually been in this state in the far past (sans rebel base, of course).)
There would obviously be changes in temperature and climate depending on location, but you could still get a planet whose entire surface (or close to it) is essentially "arid desert" or "frozen wasteland".
Having every planet be single-biome is just daft, though.
"Everyone is clear on the mission, right?"
"Right! We've got to shut down that shield generator to save the fleet!"
"Whoa whoa whoa there, buddy. First we need to take a tour of the southern ice caps, hit up the bitchin' beaches on the west coast and then visit that large desert on the southern continent. Maybe check out some of those mountain ranges for good skiing. Then we shut down the shield generator."
"Be... because of the internet, sir?"
"You're damn right because of the internet"
*everyone piles back into the transport and heads for the southern ice caps*
*Pushes up glasses*
The large desert of the forest moon is in the NORTHERN hemisphere.