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They also predicted President Trump back before he was making any noise about running.Yeah, that one hurts in hindsight.
Also, this picture is not an edit. The Simpsons can see the future
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
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Jive Turkey
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Trump had already announced a possibility of running for president in 1999. That Simpson's episode is from 2000, so they were just being topical.
He also considered a run in 1988
Morrow
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I think Star Wars is definitely worth a ton more than Disney paid.The Force: Star Wars Franchise Worth Over $30 Billion and Growing - 24/7 Wall St.
Chris
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She was very prominent for a non speaking role and has Alderaan style hair. Would be interesting if she is another Leia/Han child and is Kylo Ren's brother, maybe having a role in later films. They just didn't introduce her properly here because it's irrelevant to the story.Here's a pic of Billie Lourd in the movie; she might indeed be the one you saw in a later scene.
You're not the only one who think they saw Sutherland there, although he's not mentioned anywhere on the mainstream movie sites so it might be a lookalike.
Sludig
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Head looks dumb. Granted out of the original movies, the real world usefullness of the at-at was probably a little silly. The graphic novels, forget the name but when luke goes and finds all these emperor clones and han and folk are out trying to find luke..... Had a lot of cool war machines in there.Wish we saw more of the vehicles the First Order was using on Starkiller Base. I kinda get not wanting to show these as I'm sure they would generate more 'rehash' talk. I think there was a scene when they first get off the Falcon where you can see them walking in the distance
Not sure I like the design of these as much as the original, but the wider gait seems to make them impervious to speeder cables, which is kinda cool
I was kinda disapointed not to see Y wing and B wings. Hell some A wings with how hot they made the laser sounds. I figured there was B wing action since the newest crop of star wars toys includes one.
Famm
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Speaking of vehicles, why wasn't Phasma a tie pilot? She could have had a special fighter like Vader did, although they probably would have made it a shiny chrome one which could have been stupid. But having her in the final dogfight with Poe and his squad would have at least given the character something better than getting bitched out on the base. Then Finn/Han could have intimidated some other rank and file troopers to get the shields down, which would have been easier to accept.
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Royal
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If you're talking about who I think you are looking like Sutherland, it wasn't. The guy with a very full head of almost white hair who said something about disabling the planet when they were discussing the attack on Starkiller Base did slightly resemble an early 90's era Donald Sutherland.
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The use of Phasma was one of my biggest let down. I honestly think she should have been the one to fight with Finn at Maz's place.
This would have also been a good lead to Finn taking revenge on her later at the base and intimidate her into lowering the shields.
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Royal
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They might have done it the way they did to play up a future rivalry between Finn and Phasma. I could easily see her being sent to deal with him one on one both to make an example of deserters and because in the novelization he was one of her prize troopers. I could also see her leaving the Order out of fear for being held accountable for bringing down the shields and deciding to hire out as a bounty hunter (maybe even changing her identity) with Finn as her own personal mark.
And you would think that only a high ranking officer would have the authority to deactivate the shields anyway. It would also need to be someone easily recognizable to pick out of an entire base crawling with stormtroopers.
Famm
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Well some sort of ranking dudes could have been operating that shield room, maybe not even stormtroopers. She's more of a field officer for combat anyway. Which sort of makes sense for base security and all, but in the Star Wars paradigm I feel like it makes as much or more sense that she'd be an elite fighter pilot. I thought I read before that flying ties was the path to promotions in the empire in the first place, not sure if that's EU or what. Kinda makes sense the same way that fighter pilots are the pool for admirals in the real life navy.
They obviously were tied to the Finn/Phasma feud, but it played out poorly. One of my biggest remaining nitpicks of the plot is that she would willingly lower the shields under duress like that. She's the head of the brainwashed trooper brigade, she'd take the blaster to the face before surrendering her base. The defecting bounty hunter angle could be cool, but I don't really see this series going that way for some reason.
Royal
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It would have been better on some levels but problematic on others, given what they were trying to show in that fight scene. Finn kills one trooper that he took completely by surprise with the lightsaber. The one with the riot baton fucking owned him and he only lived because of a timely shot by Han. You can't really show Finn's lack of ability with the lightsaber the way they did in that fight then create a moment where you think that he might actually be killed only to have both he and Phasma live.
Royal
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It wouldn't surprise me at all if they don't promote conditioned troops to high ranking officers because they consider them to be not quite suited to certain leadership roles.
Famm
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Yeah but still, do you really expect me to buy that the captain of the whole thing would have just laid down and given up like that? It was just a convenient way to have a Finn/Phasma confrontation. We'll see where they go in the future with her but obviously right now her character is a huge nerd rage point. I just think having her see some real Tie/X-Wing combat involving Poe would have at least given the character some more pertinent stake in the story. Probably will have a connection involving Finn going forward but for this film she was a tangent at best or a pointless shoehorned suit of action figure armor at worst.
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If she didn't look so badass I wonder if we'd even care about her. She didn't really do anything noteworthy. Had she been just some regular uniformed human officer, we might not even expect to see her again
Royal
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Probably not. The only reason she looked so badass is because her shiny armor was originally supposed to be Ren's. They later decided to go with a different costume but it just looked so good they decided to create her character to be able to put it to use. That's also why she was so underdeveloped as a character. They also didn't know they would eventually cast someone with such a high profile in the role.