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I'll admit I was sort of hoping they'd wait until 2019 or whenever so they could do a trilogy game, to better mesh with LSW and LSW2, but... realistically I'm sure that was never going to happen TFA just crossed 2 billion, after all. Still, this looks hilarious and I'm sure I'll play it. I played the original two to death, and I've dabbled here and there in the post-Indy Lego games. Here's hoping they recreate the next two trailers in Lego format in the lead-up to the June release

@@Circa: That would certainly make me and many others quite happy, as well as being very appropriate for the time. Hope it's true! While it's true that Del Toro would almost definitely make a great Imperial commander/general/Moff/whatever, my money's actually on him being a Resistance/Republic military leader instead. TFA introduced four villains, didn't kill any of them, and underused all but one. Del Toro taking Hux's place makes Hux rather useless to the series. The Republic on the other hand just had its government and leaders wiped out. If it is to survive, someone would have to step up and take over. It makes sense for it to be a military take over, either by what's left of the Republic army or perhaps even by the Resistance. Benicio Del Toro could play the new head of the Republic(Technically, Leia could also serve that roll, but I get the feeling that they don't want to give Fisher a lot of screen time...). That said, he could still be a villain, even as the head of the Republic. Or perhaps not a 'villain', but ruthless and uncompromising. I think that could be an interesting direction to take the series in, the Republic becoming darker/greyer and more militaristic to combat the unequivocally evil First Order, with the Jedi and the main characters just caught in the middle.

Maybe, but the thing about 2017 is that it marks the 40th anniversary of the original's release. They've got the wrong month now, but right year.

^^I hope so. My reaction to announcements of delays is almost always as follows, first the initial disappointment, then the acknowledgement that it's almost certainly for the better. Besides, even with that delay, Episode VIII will still be the shortest wait between episodes so far.

Nothing to see here, folks.

Back in 2008 when the movie came out(I was actually ignorant of the upcoming show at all, I thought it was just a standalone movie), I despised Ahsoka's character, both from an in-story and out-of-story point of view. From an in-story viewpoint she was very annoying and insisted on giving everyone nicknames, and from an out-of-story viewpoint she was an obligatory kid because it was a kids movie and it broke the canon because why the heck would no one ever mention Anakin's apprentice in Episode III or beyond? And the fact that I found the character design to be somewhat sleazy wasn't helping any, either... That was me in 2008 anyway, over the years I softened to the concept and realized that, with the show, there's plenty of time to remove 'trouble characters' like Anakin's and Dooku's apprentices. But even without that problem, the movie itself was so off-putting I didn't get around to giving the show a shot until... 2015, once it was all done and on home video - I've got to admit, over the course of five and a half seasons, Ahsoka's character really grew on me. I could admit I liked her in Season 3, though really I think I did in 2, I was just in denial because I'd disliked Season 1 and the movie so much. Any early complaints I had are completely gone, I think Ahsoka as Anakin's apprentice worked fantastically, not just from a character standpoint but from the larger saga standpoint as well. While it is a shame the show had to be cut prematurely, Ahsoka had a great outro, and the general format of the stories made it pretty believable that Episode III was simply the 6-part finale. Paradoxically, because I know this couldn't happen, I wish that Ahsoka could've been in Episode III, to be killed by Anakin. Tragic, yes, but that's what Episode III is supposed to be. The way the prequel trilogy is, the only Jedi that Anakin had a real emotional connection to was Kenobi - and obviously Vader can't kill him, so instead the only ones Vader gets to kill are Mace(Whom both the audience and character barely care about, if at all) and some younglings. Imagine the emotional impact of that, vs. the hypothetical version of Episode III where he kills his own apprentice. Granted, the prequel writing and characters being what they are, that probably wouldn't have had the 'oomph' it should have, but... eh, I can dream. Basically what I'm saying is that I'd love an Episode III remake by The Clone Wars team done as an 8-part arc. Or even a season-long arc, why not. But yeah, Ahsoka's pretty great. Kenobi's still my favorite Jedi(One of the few SW characters I actually like *all* incarnations of, be they prequel, original, animated or otherwise), but Ahsoka's probably in the top 5 at least. I'm also a big fan of her theme music, it's my favorite non-Williams Star Wars track. Sorry about the long post, I'm prone to making those if I'm not careful. Or even if I am. Or any other time.

@ & @@eezstreet While you might be right that Finn and Poe technically could've been merged, the theory that Finn was added later is incorrect, according to the art and making of book I've been reading the past few days. In the earlier script, Finn(known as Sam) and Poe(John Doe) escape pretty much as they do in the movie, and then part on hostile terms on Jakku. I'm not really sure what becomes of John Doe in that version of the script, but Sam goes on to be a main character alongside Rey(Known then as Kira). Random side note, but in the early concept art for these character and this sequence, made long before casting, Sam, the trooper, is white, while John Doe, the resistance pilot, is black. In a later, near-final script, Poe was supposed to die in the crash. That was current all the way up until casting, as confirmed by JJ and Oscar Isaac. JJ specifically made the script change to have Poe survive because he wanted Isaac in the sequels. But yeah, regardless of names and where they decided to take the character and such, the concept of a defecting storm trooper as one of the main cast was there almost from the beginning. Poe was barely a presence at all(Even less than the actual movie) until very late versions of the script.

@: Very interesting, and it sounds very plausible. I didn't notice Luke was near a grave/shrine/statue, but I'll keep an eye out for next time. The only part of this theory that doesn't make sense to me is Han Solo watching her. He found her by accident, and then told Chewie he was going to ditch her and Finn somewhere immediately, why would he do that if he'd been watching her? And how did he find her in the first place if not by accident? While I do like the Kenobi theory, it doesn't make as much sense as the Luke one, at least not yet. And it'd be harder to explain, since she'd have to be his granddaughter and not just daughter as with Luke... then again, Obi-Wan and Vader both having rival grandchildren is perhaps an interesting angle to take. Eh, just thinking aloud now. Fun theories, regardless.

I actually disagree on the beard part - though it will be Episodes 8 or 9 that solidify this or change my mind. Looking like a teen/early twenties guy, and making him very human, very emotional and unhinged, could really payoff in a big way, depending on how they play their cards for the sequels. Which I'm fairly confident they will. Ep8 I'm sure will be a lot more focused on the Force, dark and light, and I'm also reasonably sure it will, for better or worse, try to be the darkest entry in the trilogy(ala Empire). With that in mind, I'm really expecting Kylo to go deeper and darker and more powerful. In Ep7 his struggle was defeating the light in him, by the end, he just may have done that, setting the stage for him becoming a truly badass villain. And unlike with Vader, we'll actually get to see how he transforms on-screen. It was definitely a risky move portraying the main villain like they did(Especially when they easily could've gone the Maul or Vader or EU Sith route, and people, possibly myself included, would've loved it anyway), but I'm confident they know what they're doing. I guess we'll know for sure in a year and a half. Going a bit off base here, but something I'm really hoping will happen to completely differentiate Kylo's arc from Vader's, is basically everything I said above... but at the end of Episode VIII, Kylo kills Snoke and takes his place, promoting him from the Big Bad to the Biggest Bad in time for Episode IX. This is of course assuming Snoke gets a lot of development and screen time in Ep8, and sort of tricking the audience into assuming it'll be the same Emperor/Vader relationship we're familiar with from Ep5/6. I have no idea if that's what they're doing or not, but it sounds really good and fitting in my head.

^^Agreed. I think something that could be really cool in a future episode/spinoff/videogame is this massive battle sequence *on* Coruscant. Think that Deceived trailer for The Old Republic, except without the Jedi/Sith/Temple focus, just turning a large portion of the planet into a warzone. If you're gonna wreck a planet like Coruscant, that'd be a better way to do it than simply blowing it up with a superweapon, IMO.

True that, but it can be a good resource for tutorials, and getting your stuff seen(Or trying to anyway).

So long as you link back to my DeviantArt page, that is A-Okay @: Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't think it was Coruscant(I trusted they'd have the good sense to show something iconic, like the Senate building, were that the case) but I was curious as to what it was.

I thought of this a few days ago, and just now finished drawing it: Cheers! I'm off to bed now.

As much as I like the show, unused pre-cancellation concepts for The Clone Wars don't really apply to the sequel trilogy or new canon, because unlike the sequel trilogy and new canon, TCW was under George Lucas and mostly fit itself into existing EU lore. They had no idea the EU was getting wiped or overwritten back then, so the creators' mindsets would be completely different than they are now. As for the EU references TCW makes left and right, those references could technically mean anything now, because TCW was kept as canon and the EU was not. It's not dissimilar to how Coruscant was actually introduced in one of Zahn's books before appearing in Menace, and now Menace is canon, but Heir to the Empire is not.

The upcoming Rogue One could be a good time to retcon a love interest for Luke into the picture. Not that Luke will be in the movie, mind you, but it could introduce a female character(I believe the main character is a woman, though I could be mistaken) that could either appear in Ep8 or be referenced in Ep8 by Luke. That way the audience could know who he was talking about even if Rey wouldn't. Or they could not dwell on it at all, similar to how Luke's mother was only mentioned... once... in the entire OT. But that'd be a bit strange.

Her having the ability wasn't what originally bothered me, it was why the thought would even occur to her - nothing to do with midichlorians or anything anti-OT. I was just thinking that, logically, if you find out you've got some space magic in you, of course you might try a few things, levitating objects for instance, but at the time I didn't see why it'd naturally occur to her to mind trick someone. But, like I said in my more recent posts, enough explanations for why/how she'd know to try it have been posted here, that I now accept the scene without issue Interesting note on Tekka there. I hadn't heard that, but it fits with my(And probably many others') theory that he was the one holding Rey's hand in the flashback, and he was an Obi-Wan-esque watcher/protector(?) to Rey.

You raise a fair point. I guess the general tone of the movie up to that point had been pretty devoid of the Force, what with Han having to tell them it was even real. So on my first watching, it seemed to come out of nowhere. But, this scene I am now totally fine with. I think I'll reserve further nitpicks till after my second viewing

Actually, no. In ANH, Obi-Wan did the mind-trick and Luke had no idea what the hell that was or how the hell he did it, despite being very strong in the Force himself. In Ep6 he used it because he'd seen it done before. My point was, as far as we know, Rey has no idea the Force can do that. Her exposure to the Force that we *see* in the movie is limited to being frozen in place by Ren, seeing a vision from the lightsaber, and the interrogation scene... ...which... actually now that I think of it, that interrogation is probably a form of mind trick, and she turned it back on him and inadvertently read Ren's mind, so from that she could've gathered the idea of a mind trick. Or, like I said, if Episode VIII reveals that she's already seen Jedi using the Force like that before, and had just forgotten. But uh... I think I just defeated my own argument, lol. I hadn't thought that much on the ramifications of the interrogation, but now I'm thinking it's not a stretch at all to figure she got it from that.