On the positive side, this is another prop I can use for cosplay on the downlow. I have a plain blue shirt with a Venture Industries logo patch. Fans recognize it, but most people think it’s a work shirt from a legit business. I have a blue baseball cap with the Nostromo crew patch from Alien, which few people recognize. I always have a cheap burner cell phone in my pocket, so I’m repping The Wire. Now I can slip a tire pressure gauge in my shirt pocket and I’m secretly doing X-wing pilot cosplay. …Or six of them protruding from various pockets for Rogue One cosplay.
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So many props from the first trilogy were just random junk cobbled together anyway. Lightsabers were made out of old camera parts, originally. I think re-purposing random items is the truest-in-spirit.
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You know, this is what bugged me about the Jedi in the prequels: they were too prominent on Coruscant. I have no problems with a Jedi temple, but I would have been happier if we were given as little insight as to the workings of the Jedi as possible. The idea of actual Jedi being rare was mentioned and promptly forgotten.
In my imaginary rewrite of the prequels, I would have Yoda never named in them, only show him as a funny old gardener in a temple who gives Obi-Wan advice, so that to a newcomer watching in sequence seeing him in Empire will leave the viewer thinking “cool, the old gardener knows where Yoda is!” And the reason the Clone Wars are named as such is because there were so many of them, little wars that were clones of each other. And never show the Republic capitol, only hint at how far away it is, how little they care for the systems out on the edge.
I did want to have one big change as well: leave Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker two different people. When Kenobi struck down Vader, he died. A mutilated Anakin was mistaken for Vader, and took his place. Or for a darker version, Vader fathered Luke with Anakin’s wife, and none were aware he was the true father.
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First one’s great fun. The second one was the one that broke Pixar’s quality streak. First Pixar movie to get a Rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Up until then, all Pixar features scored at least 90% “Fresh,” IIRC.
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The thing that blew my mind is that it came out at the same time as one of the Transformers movies and the Michael Bay movie about anthropomorphic CGI automobiles was the one that got better reviews.
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Well, it is the capitol of the Republic and it is where the head temple of the entire Jedi order is. Why wouldn’t they be prominent?
Again, rare in the galaxy. It is the capitol, where they are based…
You see, this doesn’t really do it for me. The Jedi are not the Templars nor are they Samurai, but work best as something who once were great but are only an echo of their former glory. Steal from the Kung Fu movies about the battle monks. Trusted advisers to many worlds, perhaps, but I feel the Jedi should have been in abbeys and cloisters, not in one big temple. If they were already so scarce and low-profile that people in the Galaxy already thought of them in the past tense, then Han’s attitude makes more sense. The galaxy is thousands of inhabited systems, visiting the same worlds over and over only makes it smaller.
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I’m not sure your feelings have to do with criticisms of Star Wars (except for you). I’m giving you the explanation of why they were obvious on the capitol in the movies and not on other worlds and why many people had never seen a Jedi.
I get it. You wish Lucas and others had done something different. They didn’t though. 
I wish they’d kept the force more “zen” like as they had it in the first couple of movies, avoided midichlorians, and not made Jedi all dress like they were from Tattooine.
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Well, he wants to go to the Academy to be learn to be a pilot next year, so a bit older than 14, I’d think. Of course this assuming the Academy is a university akin to West Point or Annapolis.
I’m never sure when I get carded if the server really thinks I might be underage or if they think they’ll get a better tip if I think “hey, I must still look pretty young!”.
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I’m just drifting off topic, to be honest. Ruminating. Relax. 
Oh I don’t know but I probably wouldn’t read it. 
It seems like their transfer method of tape backup carried by droid has a packet loss ratio of greater than 50%. The astromec droid who blew up just before C3PO conned Luke into buying R2 had the first message.
Joke. Not based on canon.
The more I think about it, perhaps it might have been less of a hiccup if instead of Jimmy Smits they would have used someone who aged hard, like Gary Busey…
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Just think of all those times Hollywood made Stewart wear prosthetic age makeup for no reason at all. X-Men: Days of Future Past could have let him play both the young and old versions of Dr. Xavier without so much as a fake wig.
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What year is Logan supposed to be set in? The wikipedia page just says “the near future.”
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What is this “Episodes I – III” that you speak of? Are you sure you refer to the Star Wars franchise, and not some other awfulness like “Battle Beyond the Stars”?
“Episodes I – III” indeed! My eye, eh?!
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I like that Vader had just got over the loss of his wife and limbs then after a some time chilling in his vertical bath pod he decided to start asphyxiating people and saying cold shit like “don’t choke on your aspirations” like that was even an expression.
It didn’t bother me that Bail Organa didn’t appear to age, he was like king of space or something. I thought the progress of Obi Wan ageing was pretty fairly done seeing as the established end point was Alec and the bizarre rats tail youth Ewan was the start point. He became beardier and then more beardier. But yeah, whoever said MOAR EWAN AS OBIWAN ADVENTURES gets my support.
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And a greeble for you, good lady, for adding that nurnie to my personal vocab.
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Yeah but Ewan didn’t really hold a candle to Guinness. Soz. It’s an unfair match, to be sure.
