Star Wars Ep. VII has a name...

Something else I noticed re-watching, when Han says "We're home" they're in one of the corridors of the Millennium Falcon, which makes me think at some point between VI and VII they lost it.[DOUBLEPOST=1429330480,1429330288][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, someone get that black kid an inhaler, he's out of breath in every single shot he's been shown in.
 
Ummm....I'm not sure how to tell you this...


Vader is actually Anakin
Hey man, spoilers!

There's three different sabers. There's Anakin's blue lightsaber, taken from him by Obi Wan Kenobi and given to Luke years later.



There's the red saber that Darth Vader uses afterwards, which looks very similar since, you know, they were both made by the same guy.



And then there's Luke's green saber that he makes himself.

 
When did Luke have time for that?
After Empire, but before Return. He built it during the search for Han Solo after he recovered and mastered his new hand. While Chewie, Leia, and Lando were dealing with the Dark Sun Syndicate, Luke went back to Obi-wan Kenobi's house on Tatoonine to meditate and work on the new saber. Look up "Shadows of the Empire", which is a comic/novel/game that covers that time period.
 
After Empire, but before Return. He built it during the search for Han Solo after he recovered and mastered his new hand. While Chewie, Leia, and Lando were dealing with the Dark Sun Syndicate, Luke went back to Obi-wan Kenobi's house on Tatoonine to meditate and work on the new saber. Look up "Shadows of the Empire", which is a comic/novel/game that covers that time period.

Vader also comments on it in Return of the Jedi, noting that Luke must have completed his Jedi training, since that typically happens with building your own lightsaber.
 
Something else I noticed re-watching, when Han says "We're home" they're in one of the corridors of the Millennium Falcon, which makes me think at some point between VI and VII they lost it.
That was my impression as well, that they were reclaiming it somehow.
Vader's, or Anakin's? I thought it was Anakin's, though that one is probably still lost somewhere on Cloud City.
...if it survived the fall. I assume it was eventually ejected the same way Luke was, which would mean it would probably be lost somewhere deep in Bespin's churning gases.
Ummm....I'm not sure how to tell you this...
Vader is actually Anakin
Vader is not actually Anakin, Vader is Vader, the same way that Cassius Clay and Muhammed Ali are two "different" people. One is what he was, the other is what he became.
--Patrick
 

GasBandit

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So Luke went back to the forest moon of Endor, and sifted through the ash pile, and reclaimed the helmet... WHY?
 

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For the current teen generation's reaction: my 12 yo son barely made it through the trailer and followed it up with a "meh". He used to like Star Wars.
 

GasBandit

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For the current teen generation's reaction: my 12 yo son barely made it through the trailer and followed it up with a "meh". He used to like Star Wars.
I could see that. The trailer's definitely modulated to tug at the nostalgia of people who saw the original 3 as kids.
 
For the current teen generation's reaction: my 12 yo son barely made it through the trailer and followed it up with a "meh". He used to like Star Wars.
"The dislike is strong in our family. I have it. You have it."

:p

I went through a period like that, and so seemed the case with other kids at the time. We stopped liking Star Wars, Disney, etc. My cousins will be 13 in two months and it seems to be the age of "I'm bored."
 

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So did you like the force unleashed? I have a copy that I grabbed out of the $2 clearance bin at GameStop once but I never played it more than 5 minutes.
 

GasBandit

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So did you like the force unleashed? I have a copy that I grabbed out of the $2 clearance bin at GameStop once but I never played it more than 5 minutes.
I never actually played it. It looked too much like... I dunno, emo mary sue basementdweller ego stroking.
 
For the current teen generation's reaction: my 12 yo son barely made it through the trailer and followed it up with a "meh". He used to like Star Wars.
It is definitely not an exciting trailer. When the voiceover is a recut of dialog from a movie released in the 80s, the whole point is to pluck the nostalgia strings. 12 year olds aren't the target, clearly.
 
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