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Official Episode VIII - Kylo Ren Discussion Thread

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started by Old Biff from the Future, Dec 27, 2015.

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Will Kylo Ren face off against Luke Skywalker on film?

Poll closed Sep 2, 2016.
  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. What is the point? He is weak.

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    When you increase the colors it's yellow.



    My screen is from the direct feed video of the panel, the eyes are yellow on the original picture, look in 720p fullscreen.
     
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    and when you adjust the color balance, he's Thrawn.

    Screen Shot 2017-04-19 at 6.00.28 PM.png

    as @Obi-Wan Solo said, it's really impossible to know anything with certainly from one screencap of a projected image.
    we know he doesn't have sithy eyes in the trailer. nor in the Battlefront game.
    seems highly unlikely they'd reveal this as a casual promo shot at celebration.
    and as i mentioned, Driver's eyes are deceptively light.

    again: it seems doubtful. i'd even say very doubtful.
     
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    Precisely! Let's not jump to conclusions. He doesn't have "dark side" eyes in the trailer, nor does he have them in the Battlefront II image. Nor I will add does he have them in the teaser poster, where his eyes are his normal color.
    People simply have to wait for an official copy of the panel image (and other official images)to be revealed, which I think will be soon since it doesn't seem that they really plan to keep his look a big secret.
    Sorry, but you cannot say that the eyes are yellow on the original picture. All you can say is that the eyes seem yellow on the video of a screen where a picture is projected. As @FN-3263827 said, this is a screencap of a video of an image projected on a screen. It is a second hand image, even if your screencap is from the panel stream. Let's not get ahead of ourselves and run to conclusions which are at this moment highly debatable...
    The photo I provided was taken by someone at the panel.
     
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    "It's time to finish his training"

    He could have dark side eyes for a short time because of the dark side training of Snoke, for example Anakin in Episode 3 has dark side eyes when he kills the separatists on Mustafar and normal eyes just after with Padmé.
     
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    I was watching the duel again in TFA and noticed that Kylo gives a mean left hook to Finn. Maybe Kylo is mad at his family because he wanted to be a boxer or in the UFC and they were like NO! you will be a Jedi like your Uncle Luke.

    Han"ya bum, you need to be a smuggler like your old pops."

    Snoke was like"I'll be your manager

    Kylo uses light saber to knock the saber from Finn, left hook, Saber up the spine. That is a one heck of a street fighter combo.
     
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    Okay, I have a random question that is based on nothing: Who's more likely to lose a limb in 8? Kylo Ren or Rey?
     
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    I think it depends on whether Rey being a Skywalker or some one else. If she is a Skywalker, then she should lose a limb. I don't think Kylo will lose a limb against Rey and therefore lose to her again. Maybe Luke chops one of Kylo's limb.

    It is also possible that some one else will lose a limb or no one will lose a limb.
     
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    Kylo costume looks more like a medieval version of Anakin while Rey is a samurai version of her costume in The Force Awakens
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    My boy, Kylo looks so badass. I can't wait to see that cape in action. You're right about the costume looks. Kylo Ren pretty much looks like a knight (of Ren).
     
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    Now we only need a Viking Jedi. Maybe Luke? ;)
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    (crossguard)
    As like long as Star Wars doesn't have revolving doors he should be fine (crossguard):D
     
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    Absolutely love Kylo's new look for TLJ.
    Can't wait to see the tunic as well.
    He is becoming to look more and more like some dark prince (and a knight).

    Basically I'm getting this Prince Caspian vibes (albeit a little darker version with the sad prince of Alderaan, who is also a fallen knight, of course). But nevertheless high fantasy prince vibes.

    Even their hairstyles are practically the same now...:p

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    [​IMG] That shining crossguard sword pointing towards the viewer. Now where have we seen that?!

    And now that the teased new FO starfighter ship is confirmed to be indeed Kylo's (also confirmed by MSW spoilers) I can't wait to see Kylo/Ben as a pilot. :)

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    He also looks more and more like Darth Caedus:
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    Nevermind non-canonical figures. :p

    He basically looks almost just like grandpa Anakin.
    (ROTS concept design for Anakin)

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    The evolution of the costume designs for Kylo more and more confirm that he is set up to be a reverse Anakin. Kylo starts of as Vader-looking creature in a mask in TFA and we see that in TLJ he looks like Anakin in ROTS.

    I will not be entirely surprised if he ends in ep. IX some sort of podracer or something (I'm totally kidding! :p)
    Joking aside. I will give anything if at the end of IX Kylo does something like this to jump start the Falcon and murmurs something how this is a hunk of junk. (In my headcanon he does...)

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    That would be cool! :D
     
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    JJ Abrams in the audio commentary of TFA:

    "But when his mask comes off, you see Adam Driver, and he just looks like a sort of prince.”

    "In this scene Rey is drawn to this place (inside Maz's castle), almost like Cinderella.”

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    "You’re probably going to have a castle, and a prince and a princess, if you’re looking at a fairy tale. We wanted to give these sort of, fundamental, not cosmetic, but, sort of, prerequisite elements. These locations in which we can set our new story and our new characters.”

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    (Rey and Kylo meet in a very fairytale-esque forest, just like the prince and the future princess in the fairy tales)

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    "Kylo Ren, a character who she’s going to have a very interesting relationship with moving forward."
     
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    Here is a much clearer look at Kylo's outfit:
    tumblr_op3yrf6lBX1r8kwvso2_500.jpg
     
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    I'm still speculating on what causes the demise of Kylo's mask. Does he destroy it? Does Snoke? Is it destroyed as a result of combat? How much more sure of himself will he be now without the mask and (presumably) with Snoke's final training regiment? The quick glimpse of him that we get he seems really confident.
     
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    i dunno that i get a strong sense of his mental/emotional state from that brief moment (he does seem possibly calm).
    the destruction does look deliberate maybe, possibly ritualized. but again, so very little context here.
    i'm guessing he destroys it himself either early on because he's trying to accept that he's a monster even without the mask. or, later, because he no longer wants to be a slave to it.

    perhaps a lot rides on whether the mask to him is the KoR, Snoke, a way of hiding, a way of being free, a burden, a crutch, an empowerment.
    we just have no idea what he feels about it.

    even in TFA he took it off for Rey and for Han even though both times he failed to hold himself together without it.
    so far as his identity with the mask is concerned, even he seems a bit ambivalent about it.
     
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    I just realised one thing about that Battlefront image. Kylo has "bags" under his eyes. It almost seems like he doesn't sleep well. Maybe Han is haunting him in his dreams. :D
     
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