SPECULATION What is the worse thing that could happen in Ep VIII in your opinion

Jabba's son Chabba the Hutt appears.

He wants to kidnap Rey and make her his dancing slave. And yes, it's the return of the dreaded metal bikini.

 

How could you possibly know my argument if TL DR?
You either read the OP and lied or you didn't read it and presented an argument in response to imagined points created by your self?
Either way this has become unproductive. and employing Reductio ad absurdum doesn't mean your point is any more valid. short enough?

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Couldn't agree more, would love to see the universe expanded. now we have characters we care about world build and escalate. break away from the old of the OT though.

 

CGI has come on a long way since RotS. Snoke done with Bad CGI would be awful alright, but the Planet of the Apes films are amazing and the main characters were mocap and all looked great.

 

It's okay to say "I was wrong." You were wrong about Rey. She's an idea by George Lucas. Pablo Hidalgo confirmed it. Yet here you are... still going on like it's not true.

After Kennedy and Co told Lucas they weren't using his treatment he took a step away from the entire project. This was recorded before he saw the movie. Apparently he wasn't happy during this period. The CBS interview happened before he saw the film. So it quite possible that he didn't know the story at this point. Also, he was happy with the film once he saw it. Either way... Rey was his idea. Lucas' gripe is probably what they did to change the character from his treatment.

 

He said he was happy, but not thrilled. He enjoyed it, but didn't love it. He criticised the film because they didn't do enough original stuff e.g. 'new' planets, new spaceships, not the change of Rey.

 

Gotta link to that? I haven't seen anything by Lucas since the film came out. James Cameron has made those statements.

 

That was the CBS interview, which I think was filmed after he saw the film for the first time. He saw it a second time at the world premiere.

 

Yeah, mentioned above that the CBS interview happened before he saw the movie. CBS released it around the time the movie came out, but he had recorded it a few weeks before.

 

As always, being bad is the worst thing that could happen to the movie.

If the movie will be good, as a normal person I will accept everything. Even... sigh... Luke's death

 

Luke being killed off by a minor Knight of Ren or after doing something evil.

 

The weird sensation about Snoke was due to his gigantic size. It wasn't "bad" at all. Just... weird. On the other side, Maz Kanata looked good. CGI will be always recognizable as CGI, even in these hyper-technological movies, but a CGI "normal sized" Snoke will be fine. I have great expectations about his reveal.

 

Han steps out of the shower... it was all a dream...

 

I feel like it was a great choice to have started EP8 right where we left off (I'm sure there will still be a pan down from space of sorts). The entire film (TFA) led to Rey meeting Luke and to miss finishing that grand moment will have been to throw away the climax set up by last film (finding Luke). This moment is absolutely crucial to the trilogy and a time skip would have totally subdued that.

Now that doesn't mean we don't get the theme/crawl/opening in space, of course. There could be a long crawl as usual that could end with something along the lines of "meanwhile, Rey and Luke Skywalker are united at last.."

 

So another potential "worst" thing occurred to me, which a few people have touched on here. Mainly, I was really underwhelmed by Snoke in TFA. He didn't get a lot of screen time but both the characterization and design just felt off, as if they gave up trying to think it through and just put Andy Serkis onset and fed him some lines to say. Having said that, the benefit here is that he's still pretty much a blank slate, so they can characterize him however they want and give him whatever backstory/motivation they want. He can still be a truly amazing character.

Getting the villain right isn't as critical as getting the heroes right, but it can be the difference between a good and a great movie. For example, the only Star Trek movie I've ever heard people apply the "great" label to is Wrath of Kahn. The movie is solid as a whole, but it's Kahn that takes it next level. An iconic character and performance.

I think they've done a great job with Kylo, truly an original creation, but TFA set him up as more of a fallen hero than straight up villain. If Snoke remains a kind of placeholder villain, the movie can still be really good. But if he rises to the iconic level of ROTJ's Emperor, it can be great. I think this is possible -- we've seen Serkis nail it before -- but if they fail it will be a missed opportunity and pretty disappointing.

 

I agree and can't wait to hear the first lines between Luke and Rey.

 

The worst thing for me is if this is simply a middle chapter. A story that leads on from the previous chapter and only serves to set up the next one. I want the movie to stand on it's own feet - tying up the loose ends, delivering intrigue for IX, but also with it's own heartbeat, it needs to stand out.

1st film - Set up of characters events
3rd film - pay off

It needs to excel in the middle there. How will they do it? Lord knows, but if you give me a big salary and a job at Lucasfilm I'll come up with the best damn middle chapter you've ever seen!!

 

I have to agree with you. If there is an actual source of the dark side, and the force is no longer an inherent fact of reality, like gravity, that would almost be enough for me to give up on star wars. It just starts to sound like bad fan fic at this point. I actually was feeling that way already about the clone wars Mortis arc. I also agree that if Snoke is just some random guy or thing that is super powerful in the force, and that Palpatine just ignored, would just be so mindbogglingly stupid. Snoke needs to have some connection to the old Sith for the three trilogies to be tied together. If they have Sith Enemy, Sith Enemy, Random darkside user, as the way they structure the threat.... oh boy would that stink.