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"The Force Awakens" (with SPOILERS)

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Dick Whitman, Dec 18, 2015.

  1. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    Neat. That was in the novelization. I didn't know if it was cut before filming or filmed and then cut.

    And yes, this might as well be the Star Wars thread since I'm sure we'll get the title of the next film any day now .... one can hope.
     
  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Does the novel have enough material not in the movie to be worth reading? I thought about picking it up a few times, but hadn't bothered yet.

    I kinda wish they had used that scene in the theatrical release, but I understand why they left it out. There was already so much going on and they didn't need yet another call-back to the original. It looks like they filmed it, but didn't really finish the effects on the scene.
     
  3. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    Star Wars Ep. VIII: One Can Hope.
     
  4. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    It would be funny to cast Maury Povich as the character who tells who Rey's father is.
     
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  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Luke Skywalker is revealed as the ultimate deadbeat dad.
     
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  6. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    I'm starting to see more momentum for Obiwan being the grandfather
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I was thinking during the Super Bowl.
     
  8. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    So was the Death Star project like the intergalactic Big Dig?
    Bureaucrats were just blatantly lying all along about completion schedules, cost and effectiveness?
     
  9. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    From reading some on Wookiepedia, it seems the answer is yes. At least in the old EU. It took about 19 years to build because of strikes, Rebel sabotage (akin to modern eco-terrorism), issues with procuring materials and budgets, etc. It didn't help that Vader probably force-choked to death 29 different project managers when they started running behind schedule, or that the Empire apparently likes to kill off its chief engineers in mass purges.
     
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    See that is probably a big compounding factor in the schedule and cost over-runs - consistently killing of PMs and chief engineers.
    Filling those positions had to be consistent cause of schedule variance, which causes additional cost over-runs.
     
  11. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The Death Star to Nowhere.
     
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  12. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    The required weekly safety meetings with all the subcontractors really drags down productivity.
     
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