and the kitty cats yell at clouds

[donutsweeper]

I've been meaning to post for absolutely ages but somehow never get around to it and I finally decided today that that's going to change. So voilà! A post!

We finally saw Star Wars this weekend! I somehow managed to remain mostly unspoiled, but it didn't matter much as nothing seemed shocking or surprising to me. Kid liked the movie, Hubby *hated* it (he will rant for hours and hours as to why, it's hilarious) and I walked away thinking the two hours were enjoyably enough spent but that was it. I'm not going to harsh anyone's squee (I hate people who do that) but I will say I am starting to get frustrated by JJ Abrams' friendship with Greg Grunberg- his popping up in everything JJ Abrams directs is starting to get distracting. (I know it's a time honored tradition and Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell do it all time time, but still...)

It's been insanely warm here. The snow cover is completely gone and we've even had the windows open a bunch- it hit 68°F yesterday!! The average temp should be about 35°. (That's 20°C instead of 1.66 if the F to C conversion chart is to be believed). The cats are, not surprisingly, loving it. Open windows FTW!!!

How's everyone on my flist doing?

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'll have to watch that later when I've some time.

It's quite possible a LOT of the things had explanations in the expanded universe, but I'm always of the 'if it doesn't air it isn't canon' belief and, honestly, if it doesn't make sense without doing reading ahead of time, it's just bad storytelling.

As for Ben- did they even call him Ben in the movie? Hux calls him Ren a few times but unless Han calls him that during the O SO DRAMATIC scene it's usually 'our son'? In general though, Ren was so awful. If he'd been in that mask most of the time he'd be super pale, which wasn't the case. His hair certainly wouldn't be styled and pretty. Where was his hat hair?

Hux, I got the feeling, was sort of supposed to be this movie's Tarkin, but that actor certainly didn't have the gravitas that Peter Cushing had.

You're right that 7 is basically a reboot of 4, but 4 was an actual movie in itself (beginning, middle, ending) while 7 is obviously the first of a trilogy while still keeping most of the data points of 4, if switching the characters around at times. Some scenes were directly ripped from 4 (the cantina, Poe and Finns reunion right before battle = Luke/Wedge, Ren killing Han in front of Finn is like Vader killing Obi Wan in front of Luke, etc)

The thing with the Tie fighter was also due to the fact due to its name it had a certain kind of engine that wouldn't work in atmosphere (I don't remember Hubby's specifics on the rant on that now)

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Han calls out "BEN!" to get his attention on the catwalk. Yeah, the whole "our son" pronoun game was so weird to me. If you only have one child, can't you just say his name or our child or whatever...but then The X-Files did the same thing for season ten so...whatever.

Yes, 7 needed a lot more explanations of...everything. The characters were too mysterious.

But I am going to correct you that Luke's reunion was with his childhood friend, Biggs Darklighter from the deleted scene, not Wedge Antilles.

Twin Ion Engine...I'm more of a biological science/DNA girl so yeah, I don't know what that actually means...what did Luke take to get down to the moon of Endor? I can't remember now.

And I couldn't resist putting this since you said you were tired of Greg Grunberg, lol

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* Biggs, not Wedge. Right.

lol. that's an amazing number of dick jokes there

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

There's also a Greg Grunberg cameo, lol.

I do wish they would have Denis Lawson appear in one of the other films...they should take advantage of everyone still living while they can, right?

Plus, I always loved how, in real life, Wedge is young Obi-Wan's uncle.