SPOILER What potential spoiler about TFA bothers you the most?

I always assumed it was a piece of equipment that fell off the vane when he landed on it... I guess it could be his hand, though. It could have fallen to that exact spot.

The whole 'Luke's hand' thing in general is just a bit too creepy and weird, though.

 

See my previous edit. Apparently the novelization says it is a piece of the weathervane. I'll try to find my copy to verify.

EDIT: It is out of sequence from what is in the film (it comes after he tries calling for Ben and Leia), but here is the passage from the novel.
"Just then, a large piece of the weather vane broke off and went hurtling off into the clouds far below. Luke tightened his grip on what remained of the vane, and strained to hold on in the blast of air rushing at him from the pipe above."

If you look closely at the scene in the film, there is no sign of the "hand and saber" before the shot where Luke sees it falling. It doesn't come from the hatch when it opens and it doesn't fall past Luke from above. Luke looks down to see it already falling.

 

The belief that Han goes kaput bothers me the most. It's reasonable to assume that Ford will only get 30 minutes maximum screen time between Jakku, SKbase and First Order/Resistance exposition. That's 15 minutes of introductions, farewells and long-time-no-sees and 15 minutes of banter, action and meaningful delivery by Harrison. Not to mention the buzzkill burden it leaves on Leia, Finn, Rey and Chewy. My god, poor Chewy. We didn't know Obi Wan this well! His death was also shortly followed by the reassuring sound of his voice of his ghost and an upbeat escape scene.

I really hope if Han has to go, they filmed his great exit to be shown for Episode VIII, and his passing is also part of Leia's arc to becoming a powerful force user(not necessarily a Jedi). I've had this image in my mind for months of Leia revealing her powers to lift Han's dying body to safety and a tearful goodbye.

Cripple him if you have to, have him take a shot in the gut, but don't kill the guy. I'm not ready, and I don't think it would work...

 

My only problem with Han dying at the end is that he likely won't have a lot of time with Leia and no time with Luke. But I think he will have as much screen time or more than he did in ANH or ESB. I think his death at the hands of Kylo, who is likely to be his son, will have far more interesting implications than Han still being around after ep7.

 

I voted "the use of superweapons". I'm just nervous as to how we-as an audience-will be introduced to them. I don't want to feel as if they're simply rehashs of the Death Star I and II. But in JJ and Lawrence I trust. Starkiller base is a great nod.

 

If his death is at the end there should be scenes of all three together earlier on the movie, his screen time could be similar as in the OT movies, if it's his time to go I don't think it have a major setback fro the rest of the trilogy because his ex-wife & brother in law could be joining him very soon, I wish differently off course,

 

If Han and Leia have been separated, I'd rather it be that they have just been avoiding each other by focusing on their separate duties and missions (wanting to avoid discussing Kylo) rather than a legal separation. I just hate the idea that they are literally exes. It doesn't fit with their arcs in the OT at all. It would be as if they are avoiding anything after ANH.

 

IF the rumors of Han dying are true that would easily be the single biggest issue for me. Why bring him back just to kill him off? Will the next films in the series be better films without Harrison Ford playing Han Solo? I think not.

Look how poorly killing off Kirk worked for Star Trek. It took them 15 years to have another commercial hit after they killed off the series most popular character and the only way they actually had another commercial hit was to bring back Kirk and Spock...I don't see a need to kill off Han Solo especially in the first film.

Beyond these reasons given, it's just sooooo predictable. It would be less predictable if he survived.

 

For the sake of continuity?

This is a new trilogy, with new, young cast. Leia, Han and Luke had their story. It's not their movie. They are there to pass the torch, to mentor and guide the new ones and eventually fade away in one way or another. Heroes from OT are larger than life, so I'm absolutely not surprised with rumors of Han's death, Luke's "movie time", or Leia's "managerial position". It have to be this way so new trio have room to spread wings.

 

The reason to bring him back is to finish the character's story in a dramatically interesting way. If his own son turned to the Dark Side and kills him that makes for a lot of serious drama for the future stories. Solo doesn't necessarily need to be in the other films and his death could mean more than him living for more stories. As Nars said, this trilogy is for the new cast of heroes. The OT cast is there for continuity and for closure.

 

That's what he said in one of the interviews.

Anyway the idea of 72+ year old Harrison Ford really wanting to stick around as Han Solo with a big role for 3 movies seemed improbable anyway regardless of what their plans were.

So Han is being used to tell the story of TFA.
And Han's being turned into "fuel" at the end.

 

None of these bother me that much, but I'll admit the idea of having another "super weapon" is disappointing, and frankly, rather lazy.​

 

They could be doing that to, you know focusing on separate duties they probably won't know about Kylo until something happens to one of them, I don't like labelling them as exes either after what they have been through, their eu lives was already tragic losing 2 kids to the darkside.

 

One thing to keep in mind with Solo is that Ford still wants to do more Indiana Jones movies. He is getting up there, so I doubt he wants to do both Solo and Jones forever. I think a good last ride and tragic/heroic death for Solo that actually means something to the story was a draw for Ford.

 

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Exactly, it's not their movie so why have them appear at all?

I'd much prefer that the ending of ROTJ were these legendary characters were allowed to ride off into the sunset with their dignity intact rather than have them appear in someone else's film...Instead they are being brought back to be killed off and used as a pawn in Disney's new money making machine.

I strongly feel there is no need to even make these films. The story of SW has already been told. This is justing tacking on to the already complete saga in attempt to make bigger profits for Disney stockholders...And if Disney insisted on doing more SW films they should have set it far in the future and used all new characters.

 

Jar Jar's bones bother me the most.

 

at least we got the Starkiller base spoiler......I would think they would have kept that one away from us also

--- Double Post Merged, Oct 11, 2015, Original Post Date: Oct 11, 2015 ---

Hey Astro.

why is that?