JJ Abrams to Direct Star Wars VII

[GDS_Starfury]

  The kind some do-it-yourself Dark Side prodigy would build with only smatterings of info they had found on how to go about it.

you would think the Sith could do a better google search.

[endfire79]

Implicit message in the trailer.  We aint found shit!

[GDS_Starfury]

I swear that was the first thing that I thought of as well.

[BanzaiCat]

Me three.

Then I immediately thought, what happened to the Fett clone? Are they scraping the barrel for Stormtrooper recruits?

Then I immediately thought, that could be seen as racist given the picture.

Then I immediately thought, well f&ck, maybe the Stormtroopers will shoot better now.

Then I immediately thought, that could be seen as racist given the picture.

Moral: I can't think anything about the picture without it seemingly being racist. Thanks, PC culture!

[Staggerwing]

Just be thankful the trooper wasn't also female (in reference to your internal dilemma dialogue, that is) .

[GDS_Starfury]

That would be kinda hot.

[BanzaiCat]

I'd have no problem shooting THEM straight.  ^-^

[SirAndrewD]

Lense flares aside I liked the new Treks.

Same.


And I've heard conjecture that the cross hilt on the light saber may be some kind of Exhaust ports for a slapdash homemade lightsaber.  The kind some do-it-yourself Dark Side prodigy would build with only smatterings of info they had found on how to go about it.

;)


I expect this is, after all, the re-emergence of the Sith or some Dark Side Jedi attempting to become one after their extinction.  Since it's now moving towards the New Republic period, that seemed to be the common theme from literature anyway.


The only bad thing I saw in that teaser was the ridiculous f'ing droid.

The exhaust thing is the most likely explanation, and there are some insiders that have hinted that it's correct.

Disney/Lucas went to a LOT of effort to change the ancient Sith home world's name from Korriban to Moriband, to the extent of changing the name in SWTOR and copy writing the name Moriband.

Given earlier leaked frontal image of the Sith from the trailer, which I will not share here due to spoliery consideration, my theory is that the armor, robes saber and other things are ancient tech scavenged from the ancient Sith homeworld.

[Barthheart]

Exhaust ports.... On a light sabre... :o WTF?

When does coherent light give off exhaust? For that matter how does a coherent light beam stop at 1 meter from the device..... 

[SirAndrewD]

Exhaust ports.... On a light sabre... :o WTF?

When does coherent light give off exhaust? For that matter how does a coherent light beam stop at 1 meter from the device..... 

When it's a lightsaber!  Whatever whiz bang technology they have in Star Wars, I'm pretty sure that lightsabers aren't just coherent light.  I imagine the tech of a lightsaber is similar to that of a Star Wars blaster, light and gas plus some sort of containment. Of course, when you go all out, to apply real, good science to Star Wars, you're going to be pretty unhappy.

[GDS_Starfury]

plasma

[Staggerwing]

Exhaust ports.... On a light sabre... :o WTF?

When does coherent light give off exhaust? For that matter how does a coherent light beam stop at 1 meter from the device..... 

Same way its able to  deflect bursts of energy fired by battle droids and stormtroopers.

[SirAndrewD]

plasma

Pretty much this.  Light and plasma with some sort of containment tech. 

Blasters and turbolasers seem to work on the same principle, as does the Death Star superlaser.  Despite the word "laser" worked into everything, even on film you can see the particles accelerated along he beam.

[Pinetree]

....and the piss take trailers begin  ;D:

[Centurion40]

Lense flares aside I liked the new Treks.

Me too.

But I am getting really sick of lens flare.