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Author Topic: Star Wars VII: We've Got Nothing (except stupid CGI tricks)  (Read 20346 times)

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Star Wars VII: We've Got Nothing (except stupid CGI tricks)
« Reply #375 on: November 02, 2016, 12:05:05 PM »
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I hear so many ideas in random Internet threads that seem more interesting/fun/rational than much of what they actually put in the films... I like this one. :-)

There was alot of those. One early one in a magazine I still have was speculation that Darth Vader was from Tatooine and possibly related to the Sand People.

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Star Wars VII: We've Got Nothing (except stupid CGI tricks)
« Reply #376 on: November 02, 2016, 01:21:28 PM »
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There was alot of those. One early one in a magazine I still have was speculation that Darth Vader was from Tatooine and possibly related to the Sand People.
That's funny. Maybe George Lucas read it and used/adapted it. It seems to me that is one of the ideas in the prequels that isn't pointlessly unbelievably improbable, logic-ignoring or annoying.

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« Reply #377 on: November 05, 2016, 03:07:31 AM »
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Who exactly did people think Yoda meant in Empire when he said "There is another?".  Empire Strikes Back foreshadows Leia being a Skywalker in the same movie as the Love Triangle scenes.  Therefore, not a complete RotJ invention, therefore, if you think so, you're provably full of shit.  :D

Carry on.


My mom called it long ago due to Luke being able to reach out to Leia with the Force at Cloud City.

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And I disagree about people saying Vader being Luke's father was a revision. I think it was set up that something wasn't quite right in Obi Wan's explanation to Luke. (Sir Alec Guiness does a lot of that acting stuff that isn't just rattling off lines)
I don't think Lucas had it all planned out like he claims he does, but I do think he was keeping some story options open as the series evolved.
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« Reply #378 on: November 09, 2016, 10:28:52 AM »
You're right that Obi-Wan's story about Luke's father being betrayed hints at more dark details. It still wasn't what Lucas originally thought of, by all accounts I know of. Similarly, Luke reaching out to Leia seems consistent with them being siblings, but isn't necessarily indicated except by juicy-plot-twist-invention-logic, as Empire already had Vader intentionally torturing Luke's friends because he expected Luke to be attuned to them so that the torture would send a psychic signal that would lure him there.