Re: Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
Posted: Sun January 03, 2016 11:06 pm
It really was nice of them to make this movie, so we could have a 'new pearl jam album' thread without having to listen to a new pearl jam album.
now all we need is the equivalent of the wealthy eddie vedder memeMcParadigm wrote:It really was nice of them to make this movie, so we could have a 'new pearl jam album' thread without having to listen to a new pearl jam album.
*jar jartragabigzanda wrote:Ed's post-2005 annunciation = force push.spike wrote:Is the e-bow rock's version of a lightsaber?
Samuel Jackson doesn't even have a high midichlorian countB wrote:"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward." - Mace WinduE.H. Ruddock wrote:He was just pure badassStrat wrote:No.dprival78 wrote:was general grievous a jedi knight?Strat wrote:Where the hell did some of you idiots get that only Jedi's could hold a lightsaber?
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Samuel Jackson doesn't even have a high midichlorian countB wrote:"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward." - Mace WinduE.H. Ruddock wrote:He was just pure badassStrat wrote:No.dprival78 wrote:was general grievous a jedi knight?Strat wrote:Where the hell did some of you idiots get that only Jedi's could hold a lightsaber?

B wrote:"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward." - Mace WinduE.H. Ruddock wrote:He was just pure badassStrat wrote:No.dprival78 wrote:was general grievous a jedi knight?Strat wrote:Where the hell did some of you idiots get that only Jedi's could hold a lightsaber?
I'm guessing that the first order troopers have some kind of melee training. It's likely transferable to a light saber.Got Some wrote:B wrote:"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward." - Mace WinduE.H. Ruddock wrote:He was just pure badassStrat wrote:No.dprival78 wrote:was general grievous a jedi knight?Strat wrote:Where the hell did some of you idiots get that only Jedi's could hold a lightsaber?
General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
It's not that Finn can use a lightsaber it's how can he remotely compete with Ren who has been trained on how to use it.

The force is tied very closely with the users's emotions. I agree, it's likely that Ren was extremely rattled, causing him to lose focus of his force powers.stip wrote:Plus Ren was dying from Chewie's bow caster shot (whose power was a running point throughout the movie) is largely toying with Finn until Finn gets a hit in. Then he ends it.
On that podcast dime linked there is a really interesting discussion on how unnerved Ren is after the Rey interrogation and how he's off his game for the remainder of the movie - that the Ren they fight at the end is not the one we see at the beginning
Yes, this was confirmed by the novel.Sgt. Crackpot wrote:I'm guessing that the first order troopers have some kind of melee training. It's likely transferable to a light saber.Got Some wrote:B wrote:"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward." - Mace WinduE.H. Ruddock wrote:He was just pure badassStrat wrote:No.dprival78 wrote:was general grievous a jedi knight?Strat wrote:Where the hell did some of you idiots get that only Jedi's could hold a lightsaber?
General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
It's not that Finn can use a lightsaber it's how can he remotely compete with Ren who has been trained on how to use it.
Got Some wrote: General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber

He somehow manages to not cut off his bottom arms with his top arms. Skillz.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got Some wrote: General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
Let's not forget he acquired those light sabers by killing Jedi. Skillz.Kaius wrote:He somehow manages to not cut off his bottom arms with his top arms. Skillz.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got Some wrote: General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
Wouldn't those skills just be programmed in?E.H. Ruddock wrote:Let's not forget he acquired those light sabers by killing Jedi. Skillz.Kaius wrote:He somehow manages to not cut off his bottom arms with his top arms. Skillz.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got Some wrote: General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
Did he suck out their brains like the brain bug in Starship Troopers?E.H. Ruddock wrote:Let's not forget he acquired those light sabers by killing Jedi. Skillz.Kaius wrote:He somehow manages to not cut off his bottom arms with his top arms. Skillz.E.H. Ruddock wrote:Got Some wrote: General grievous was trained to use a lightsaber
stip wrote:Another plus for her being a Kenobi is that it enables the Kenobi v Skywalker battle to last 3 generations, and as long as we're on the same long story arc I like that kind of symmetry.