More terrifying, maybe, but not more interesting.

This is all quite clear to everyone, but it doesn’t actually explain his motivation for killing his father, it just defers it to the generalized explanation, “to continue his path to the Dark Side”. But since the reason he killed his father was in service of his Dark Side training, his motivation for joining the Dark…

You are right. While Adam Driver is much more convincing than Hayden Christiansen is, it doesn’t change that fact that Anakin had clear motivations for falling to the Dark Side, which is something we cannot say of Kylo Ren. We have no idea why he fell and if they are convincing reasons for wanting to kill his own…

Absolutely. But I was responding to someone else you made that accusation, I wasn’t making it myself. Not only did they not need to plagiarise the EU to create the TFA, it wouldn’t have been plagiarism anyway since they own that content, you are absolutely right.

That’s strange. Why were they told about the events of the EU when those events are no longer canon and not relevant to these new stories?

Saying that he would use any good EU plot elements if they came up does not indicate he has read them. And I’ve been a huge Star Wars fan all of my life and have never read completed an EU novel, so I’m not sure we can assume he has read them either.

Well, in this movie, “Ben” is not the name of Luke’s son, it is the name of his nephew, and since the character is clearly named after Obi-Wan “Ben” Kenobi, I see no reason to assume that it is a reference to the old EU. The same goes for many of the other similarities to the EU. Those similarities are the result of…

Honestly, I doubt Abrams or any of the writers have read those books or even have enough knowledge of them to plagiarize them.

How can Rey use the Force if she’s never been trained?

I didn’t love the reboots and this trailer does not have me excited for the next film, but I do think it’s too early to judge. We all knew the film was going to be action packed. There is never going to be another Star Trek film that is not an action film. Likewise, there was no chance they were not going to play up…

There is at least one example of lightsabers illuminating the objects around them in Attack of the Clones, but its true that for most of the films they seem to not give off much light. I wonder why they didn’t do this more. Too troublesome to animate?

I was not saying our pedigrees are equivalent, but that appeals to such things don’t matter if we cannot demonstrate our knowledge in a meaningful way. Nicholas Meyer may have babysat JJ Abrams, but Into Darkness is not Wrath of Khan.

I have the same reservations on the “fandom”. Every fandom does have its divides (“Tennant is the best Doctor!”, “DS9 ruined Star Trek!”), but I’ve never seen a fandom quite so at war with itself as the Star Wars fandom. It’s a rather strange thing to see people call themselves fans of franchise so completely despise…

Yup. It’s one of the few things in the film that really holds up, and the comparisons others have mad to Mad Max are appropriate, I think. In the age of the hyper-kinetic action sequence, Lucas’s leaning towards a cleaner, more classical look really stands out. The prequels have tons and tons of story problems, but…

The fact that the original scene already had very little music and mostly relied on sound effects is a fact, not my opinion, and you already admitted that you didn’t realize this because you were distracted by the announcers. I didn’t state anything that we hadn’t already agreed on.

Hey, at least you are able to admit you were not looking at the film objectively because you were distracted by the bits you didn’t like. That’s a start.

There is no music during the race until the third lap. There are only sound effects up until the latter part of the last lap, and you are right, it gives the whole scene a sense of weight and intensity. Only the choice to keep it music free was made by Lucas, not some fan who took it upon himself to edit another…

Making the whole scene almost totally music-free, just relying on the sound effects, until the very end also worked really well in terms of the intensity.

You’ve never met anyone who was a fan, therefore, there are no fans. Solid logic!

Most fans have no problem with John Beyoga being a stormtrooper, honestly. I visit the Star Wars subreddit fairly frequently, where I expect the most reactionary fans would hang out, and nobody there cares. Most “true fans” know that clonetroopers were phased out between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and that…