1814

Yes I meant the score. Not the garbage narrative.

1815

Yeah, I don’t remember the scene anymore, but I remember when Rey’s theme came on, it really slammed home for me in that moment.

1816

The pan pipes or flute that start the arrangement bring to mind when we meet her scavenging at the outset.

1817

I love pan pipes. So eerie.

1818

Saw this on Christmas afternoon. I’ve been pondering it since then.

Overall not bad, but I don’t think it will hold up the way the original trilogy does.

And WAY WAY WAY too many callbacks. The fan servicing might as well be a brothel.

1819

I literally facepalmed at two moments. The celebration being every 42 years, and the medal for Chewie.

1820

What was that a callback to?

1821

The fact that A New Hope came out 42 years ago.

EDIT: I assume this is the intent. I have no evidence that this is the case other than it is JJ ‘callback’ Abrams, and the timeline fits.

1822

Shit, I thought it was a Hitchhikers reference.

1823

Maybe it’s a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference?

Don’t panic.

1824

I mean I thought of the same as well. Really it is as likely that played a role in why they chose that over, say, 36.

If you are making that type of callback and you have the chance to go for the double nerd nostalgia? Why not.

1825

It was also 42 years since The Holiday Special. “Life Day”.

1826

The Mandalorian thread reminded me of another gripe I had: why the he’ll do stormtroopers bother wearing armor? Every shot the rebels take at them, regardless of weapon, goes right through their armor and kills them. Even their OWN weapons, used against them, always blast right through the armor and kill in one shot.

Is the Empire using lowest-bid defense contractors?

1827

Flying debris, you know, like how helmets don’t actually protect you from direct shots in reality, or at least they didn’t in wars.

1828

I finally watched this the other day. It’s REALLY bad. Like there is bad, so bad it’s funny, so bad it’s no longer funny, and then so bad it wasn’t funny for a while but now fuck it it’s funny again. It was category 4.

1829

And I like Harvey Korman.

1830

Dude, their armor doesn’t protect them from rocks, clubs, spears or arrows.

But at least it costs them a ton of mobility and field of view.

I’d say it’s like medieval full plate, but that would stop the above mentioned weapons almost completely, so it’s actually worse than that.

1831

and as long as we’ve invoked the Holiday Special:

1832

You should spoiler those weird eyes to spare the rest of us from that horror.

1833

Dude, that video is the whole movie plot (what there is of it), you should say that clearly.