SPOILER Episode VII Easter Egg in GATHERING FORCES?

There was also an Instagram post by Boyega featuring an action figure/model of that exact R2 unit.

On mobile but will try to link it here ASAP.

 

isn't Boyega a little young to be this guy? i mean, the story in Rebels takes place something like 40 years prior to TFA. good shout on the R2 unit, but not sure Zare is Boyega.

EDIT: the fact that the R2 unit did show up in that tweet AND this episode AND the Greenham shot is pretty Easter Eggy...

 

Zare would be too old to be Boyega's character... but offspring... maybe.

 

Isn´t that a common imperial astromech droid? Don't they all have a similiar paint job?

 

I already posted this observation about a possible Easter egg in the episode review thread, but felt like this was pretty apropos here too. I noticed that the helmet that the Inquisitor wears when he's piloting the TIE looks an awful lot like the helmet for the likely villain in the concept art for TFA. I couldn't find a good screen capture from the episode, but I found a version from an action figure (I think), but it still has a similarity I think (imagine the eye slit glowing red like it did in the episode).

 

I don't know that they all did. But one very notable model has the exact same paint scheme, and is probably the basis for the figurine Boyega posted a picture of on instagram:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R2-Q5

Jboyega's photo on Instagram:
http://websta.me/p/831815811040093830_530561608

 

I had the same kind of thoughts, but I realized that would make Boyega over 60 years old in EP7. I think it may be more likely that this plot point is the source of the rumors about Boyega being a rouge storm trooper.

 

I subscribe to the theory that Boyega is a spy in the film, perhaps following in his fathers footsteps. That would explain why the imperials are searching for him.

 

I love the Easter Egg.....but............................how would an Imperial astromech droid match a Rebel X-Wing?

It would be cucumber cool to have a matching fighter/droid set, but....one is like the bad guy side while the other is like the good guy side. SeewhatImean?

 

Maybe he has an x-wing at the rebel base because he's a rebel spy? Ridley could be on Tatooine waiting to extract him when things start going downhill or his mission is over?

 

Vader and Palpatine are dead so no more empire

 

Roger that. I forgot that because two dudes die, an entire system of government fails on the dime. Like at that very moment.

I agree though that at the end of ANH it sure as he11 had the feel like we were done.

I'm just glad that we aren't.

 

Most interesting and new here is what the OP mentions about The Inquisitor's helmet potentially being the same as the one seen in 'leaked' artwork.

 

You know that's not true.

 

Oh right so who runs it? Maybe it's the witch king of angmar! Crossover! That explains the trailer being with the hobbit!!!!!!! Palpatine created the empire and he had no other apprentices

 

I'm pretty sure this R2 unit was in Return of the Jedi, rolling around on the Death Star II.

 

A droid's a droid's a droid. Astromech droids are pretty standard whether being used by the Empire or Rebel Alliance or Jedi Order or Clone Army. So fitting in a standard fighter slot shouldn't be a big deal.


By the way - here's the droid in question:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/R2-Q5

 

Perhaps the inquisiter survives the rebels era and hides and trains others in the dark side. Since he is not a sith in the only two sense he may just go and gather him sselfsome other darksider and eotherhe or one of his trainees is the big baddie.... maybe something along these lines but at this point who knows what JJ has in store for us. I just knowwe need a super badass villian to match the power of Skywalker and company