Anakin Skywalker Reference Cut From Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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A fan has noticed that a shot from one of the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been altered for its theatrical, DVD/ Blu-ray and VOD release. Director J.J. Abrams has the answers as to why the change was made. Read on for more…

 

A few months before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens several fans noticed different flags on the facade of Maz’ Castle. Our very own Calithlin, a SWNN, The Cantina member, identified most of the symbols on those flags last year. What was interesting was that most of them were homages to different eras of the saga, including the prequel trilogy. In fact, one of the symbols first appeared on young Anakin Skywalker’s podracer in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

 


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Recently, the film has been released on DVD/ Blu-ray and fans have been able to get a much a closer look at some of the smaller details.

 

A Reddit member named Aero-Space, has noticed that a shot from an early trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens had been altered for its theatrical and home video release. When Han Solo, Finn and Rey begin entering the courtyard of Maz’s castle the camera pans up to a set of different flags than the ones shown in the early trailer. Anakin Skywalker’s symbol and other symbols from the Star Wars prequels have been entirely changed.

 

Here are some comparison shots:

 

Early Theatrical Trailer

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Why Were The Flags Changed?

 

A Rolling Stone Magazine feature on director JJ Abrams from the release of the film reveals the answer:

Abrams, fresh from his speech about the importance of details, sits at the center of the editing room…They begin by reviewing a shot shown in the trailer, where dozens of flags appear on a castle that belongs to Maz Kanata, a mysterious little goggle-wearing creature, played by Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) via motion-capture and CGI. The flags are designed to drive superfans nuts with references to the earlier movies, but Abrams tells Guyett that too many of them allude to the first of Lucas’ prequels: “I don’t want to be too about podracers,” he says. “I’d rather come up with our stuff.”

 

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Source: /Film

 

 

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243 thoughts on “Anakin Skywalker Reference Cut From Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  • May 3, 2016 at 5:13 pm
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    Incoming: comments from haters, especially due to this article that seems like it might be pandering to a certain crowd as it’ll probably get them riled up to chime in…

    • May 3, 2016 at 5:42 pm
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      The article which the site is refering to is only a couple of days old…

    • May 3, 2016 at 6:16 pm
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      No doubt you will report it, because you can’t handle anyone expressing an opinion different from your own.

      • May 3, 2016 at 7:08 pm
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        When the same unoriginal, tiring, “not as a big deal/bad as haters make them out to be” talking points are continuously being parroted and regurgitated vocally and loudly on the Internet in obsessive fashion like a purist fanboy hopped up on nerdrage, even after 11+ years (instead of getting over it, dropping it, and letting it go and moving on and just accept what’s there and try to better understand why something was so because guess what? It’s here and it’s staying), yeah, it probably will get reported.

        • May 3, 2016 at 7:37 pm
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          The only one “hopped up on nerd rage” is you, ironically lol!!!!!

          • May 3, 2016 at 7:38 pm
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            reported

        • May 3, 2016 at 11:48 pm
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          Mmmmm, your post and maple syrup = yummy breakfast.

        • May 5, 2016 at 7:47 pm
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          You must not be familiar with the concept of ignoring something that you aren’t interested in or don’t care for. It’s not a difficult thing to do. Why is criticizing those movies unacceptable to you, but constantly defending them is not obsessive at all?

          The truth is exactly that – these movies will be with us forever, and they always will be terrible. There is no statute of limitations on criticizing something that is terrible. So I suggest you learn how to ignore such things and not let them be so distressing to you – because you’re always going to hear them.

      • May 3, 2016 at 8:04 pm
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        You’re not expressing an opinion as much as saying that other people’s opinions are stupid while reflecting your own. I don’t even think you read the article. At least have more tact if you want to engage in a discussion about polarizing topics. You really come across as a troll.

        • May 5, 2016 at 7:42 pm
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          Yeah, I read the article. And I don’t give a crap what the overly-sensitive prequel fans think. Their opinions ARE stupid in that they constantly defend the indefensible mediocrity of those movies.

  • May 3, 2016 at 5:17 pm
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    …so he removed a reference to TPM, specifically because it was a reference to TPM?

    • May 3, 2016 at 10:54 pm
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      Then why did he keep in “Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the force.” which was one of the first sentences spoken. Balance in the force was never mentioned in the OT, only the prequels,

  • May 3, 2016 at 5:17 pm
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    “I don’t want to be too about podracers”

    Hmm… That’s interesting. I had a theory that Maz was once a legendary podracing champion, with that big statue surrounded by flags, the racing glasses, and using the Force to improve her reflexes and driving skills, making it a direct reference to podracing.
    Guess that, as far as we know, she is just a colector of cool stuff with some knowledge of the Force… I really hope we get more details on her past in Ep. VIII.

  • May 3, 2016 at 5:20 pm
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    “I’d rather come up with our stuff.”
    How can he say that after making a 3rd Death Star…

    • May 3, 2016 at 5:31 pm
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      Well, he’s the first one to create Starkiller Base. 😛

      • May 3, 2016 at 5:41 pm
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        True that. It’s bigger, which apparently makes it easier for even less fighters :D.

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:12 pm
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      What I still don’t understand after watching TFA for the 5th time is to why didn’t Han and the Rebels do the same thing with the shield generator on Endor as they did in TFA at light speed.

      • May 3, 2016 at 7:37 pm
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        Might have actually be trapped within the shield – if we assume that it must be lowered for ships to leave the shield just as it is to enter.

      • May 3, 2016 at 7:48 pm
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        Because the shield only had a fractional refresh rate because it was SO large to cover the entire planet. sheilds like the ones on hoth and endor can cover a base or small moon, but cant cover an entire planet all at once, so they made a patchwork shield that moves & refreshes really quickly to cover such a large area. This would keep out orbital bombardments or large crusers but A small ship with miraculous timing could just barely slip through.

        • May 3, 2016 at 8:01 pm
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          Got it. But wasn’t the shield all around Endor as well? Some clarification from Pablo Hildago would be nice!

          • May 3, 2016 at 8:11 pm
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            I believe the shield was just covering the death star II, not all of endor, but i’d have to watch the scene from RotJ again to be sure. The Death Star II was 160 km in diamter, endor is 4,900 km acording to wikipedia. Can’t seem to find a canon source on how big starkiller is, but given its size related to the nearby sun I’d guess its much larger

          • May 3, 2016 at 8:26 pm
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            There’s a curious contradiction in that scene; in the CG image in the briefing room, the shield just covers the Death Star, but if so, why do Han et al. need to pass through it?

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:23 pm
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            You can see it projecting up from the surface of Endor, maybe they need to pass through it to land anywhere near the actual generator otherwise they’ve got days of trekking before they hit the same shield and can’t walk through it.

            Something like that has always been my assumption.

          • May 4, 2016 at 1:20 am
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            Wouldn’t landing in the forest near the shield raise suspicion though? I always assumed there were 2 shields one for Endor and one for the Death Star

          • May 4, 2016 at 2:28 pm
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            From RotJ

          • May 4, 2016 at 7:38 pm
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            I believe there is a line when they are in the shuttle where Han requests the deactivation of the shields. Why would he need to do that if it wasn’t around the planet as well? Couldn’t the rebels just have sent a bunch of ships to just destroy the shield generator and bombard the planet? Something isn’t adding up.

          • May 4, 2016 at 7:48 pm
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            I believe that the shield generator was within the shield that it was generating and needed to be deactivated for them to land near it. Could also be Imperial protocol.

      • May 3, 2016 at 8:43 pm
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        Only a truly great pilot, or mad, would attempt what Han did. Most would end up like bugs on a wind shield.

    • May 9, 2016 at 11:46 am
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      ha….abrams is a moron.

  • May 3, 2016 at 5:41 pm
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    I just figured it was because of Jake Lloyd’s arrest, not that I even noticed it was missing in the first place lol

  • May 3, 2016 at 6:14 pm
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    Good move, JJ. Keep that prequel crap OUT. Only brings up bad memories.

    • May 3, 2016 at 6:58 pm
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      Reported for baiting and attempting to rile people up.

      • May 3, 2016 at 11:33 pm
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        Reported for fascist attempt to curb free speech.

      • May 5, 2016 at 7:49 pm
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        Keep on reporting, you oversensitive, fragile baby who feels the need to shut out difference of opinion.
        It isn’t accomplishing anything.

      • May 10, 2016 at 3:52 am
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        Reported for false reports, MARSHA.

  • May 3, 2016 at 6:40 pm
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    I get a chuckle out of people who get a boner from articles about this subject and Disney distancing itself from the prequels. Regardless of what they think, episodes I, II, and III do exist and are indeed canon. Even JJ couldn’t say, distancing from TPM, he said he wasn’t thrilled on the pod racer reference. Nobody would know who Darth Vader was if Qui Gon didn’t take a chance with Anakin and the pod racing. You can’t remove it, whether you believe it to be true or not, it is true in Star Wars canon.

  • May 3, 2016 at 7:02 pm
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    “I’d rather come up with our stuff.” LOL yeah, because TFA was soooooo fucking original, JJ keeps being more of a jerk as time goes by, and of course we know of his PT hating, well make no mistake, he’s getting the same hate Lucas got for the PT, and it is growing.

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:14 pm
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      You must be a blast at parties lol

      • May 4, 2016 at 12:34 am
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        You don’t know half of it :p

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:26 pm
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      Not even remotely close… The ones who hate JJ seems to be only the PT and EU fanboys.

      • May 3, 2016 at 7:33 pm
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        I think he’s referring to casual fans.

      • May 9, 2016 at 11:53 am
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        I’m not a star wars fan and i hate abrams.

    • May 3, 2016 at 10:52 pm
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      Making a mountain out of a grain of sand here.

  • May 3, 2016 at 7:13 pm
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    I think Disney needs to get a grip on the fear on referencing the prequels. Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. In this case the creation of a truly great Star Wars Saga.

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:16 pm
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      This pandering they are doing to PT haters to try and sell their new canon is gonna come back and bite them in the assess for sure. Flawed marketing strategy

      • May 3, 2016 at 7:24 pm
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        Got it: Star Wars headed to heck in a handcart. Heard it here first – Thanks!

        • May 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm
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          Oooohh you said h**k – mods…

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:23 pm
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      *rimshot*

    • May 3, 2016 at 7:37 pm
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      The references are there in new canon material (comics, Rebels, some novels), so you must be referring to the new movies. That said, I’m all about serving the story and if a reference that needs to be there makes sense, I’m all onboard for it.

  • May 3, 2016 at 7:48 pm
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    PT fanboys need to get a grip.. No one is erasing your precious movies. TFA was JJ’s movie and he decided to keep prequel references to a minimum.. get over it! Seeing as it made more money and was better received than any of the prequels.. I think he did alright for himself 🙂

    • May 3, 2016 at 8:52 pm
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      PT haters should get a grip themselves. They feel they have to come on any article that references anything from the PT and roast it all over again. We get it, you didn’t like the PT, you don’t have to remind us every article.

      • May 4, 2016 at 6:14 am
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        True, plus PT haters can hide around a whole library of stuff they agree with. Try walking around in the shoes of a prequel fan. You will find that we are bashed at every turn, and the movies’ value are slowly losing being intentionally eroded by Disney.

  • May 3, 2016 at 7:51 pm
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    It’s a little odd that such a small, inconsequential detail was removed when something as blatant as ‘perhaps supreme leader Snoke should consider using a clone army’ was left in. I thought it was kind of cool that all the flags meant something, but other than that, who gives a shit? It changed nothing in the movie. I think a lot of the problems with TFA involved it trying to be the original trilogy. I mean instead of having a new doomsday device just to add a hollow, over-used ticking clock element, why not have the first order bomb the new republic with Star destroyers and make the end mission just about getting Rey because she’s the last hope for defeating Kylo? It really isn’t that hard to make a new story. I had fun with the movie, but it could’ve been so much more with these great new characters and I think something as small as this omission is the reason why.

  • May 3, 2016 at 8:00 pm
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    Seems really weird to erase such a minor easter egg. It would be like them digitally erasing the question mark on the back pillar in batman v. superman to avoid a reference to the riddler. The 3% of people who noticed and understood what those flags meant probably liked the reference and nobody else really cared at all. Its not like he cut a line about mediclorians to avoid backlash, we are talking about a digital removal of a few millimeters of the frame to avoid a reference that barely anyone got.

    Maybe when the special edition comes out they can digitally re-insert them 😉

  • May 3, 2016 at 8:16 pm
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    I’m pretty sure the flag was in the trailer only, not in the actual movie. If they planned to get rid of it while reviewing the trailer, like the interview suggests, it would only make sense to take it out before the release of the movie.

  • May 3, 2016 at 8:31 pm
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    What an odd justification.

    “I don’t want to be too about podracers,”

    In what universe is having a less-than-one-second Easter Egg with a flag that hardly anyone would recognize being “too about podracers”?

    “I’d rather come up with our stuff.”

    Is that why your movie was so goddamn derivative?

    • May 3, 2016 at 8:34 pm
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      It’s called paying attention to details, something George “Padme dies in childbirth yet Leia has memories of her” Lucas wasn’t very keen on.

      • May 3, 2016 at 8:48 pm
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        “It’s called paying attention to details”

        Oh, dear. In your haste to defend this movie you actually forgot to address my concern. Let’s go over this again. Abrams had some flags in his movie for a fraction of a second, one of which was an Easter Egg to the pod race scene in TPM. Then apparently he changed his mind and digitally removed it. His(rather transparent) justification for this is that it was being “too about podracers.” How is that a plausible justification?

        “something George “Padme dies in childbirth yet Leia has memories of her” Lucas wasn’t very keen on.”

        Oh dear. So, in your haste to defend this movie you brag about your inability to understand a plot point in Lucas’ movies? OK then, Skippy.

        • May 3, 2016 at 8:50 pm
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          Plot hole*

          • May 3, 2016 at 8:53 pm
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            “Plot hole*”
            What are you babbling about?

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:04 pm
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            Padme dies while giving birth in ROTS. In ROTJ, Luke asks Leia about her real mother and she remembers her. This is a plothole

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:05 pm
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            “Padme dies while giving birth in ROTS. In ROTJ, Luke asks Leia about her real mother and she remembers her. This is a plothole”
            Considering this is explained in that very scene, it’s not a plot hole.

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:15 pm
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            Care to elaborate?

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:29 pm
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            LEIA: Luke, don’t talk that way. You have a power I–I don’t understand and could never have.

            LUKE: You’re wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you’ll learn to use it as I have. The Force is strong in my family. My father has it…I have it…and…my sister has it.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:09 pm
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            Rylo is saying how can Leia remember how her mother looked liked since she died a minute later after Leia being born. That’s the plot hole.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:14 pm
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            Again, since this particular conundrum is resolved by the dialogue IN THAT VERY SCENE it does not constitute a plot hole.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:17 pm
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            Resolved in that “she has memories of her mother because… something, something… the Force”?

            If you call that “resolved”, okay, I guess it’s resolved.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:27 pm
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            Bragging about your inability to understand something simple is neither the way to win an argument nor a way of making yourself look smart.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:30 pm
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            Whereas pretending that what is at best a half-baked plot point is actually a swiss watch is?

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:35 pm
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            I’m not “pretending” anything, I didn’t say anything about a Swiss watch (WTF?), and your need to resort to a straw man speaks volumes.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:39 pm
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            “swiss watch” – it’s an expression for something constructed perfectly that operates flawlessly.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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            Also, file under “straw man” – claiming that me saying a plot point is not very good / convincing is me “bragging about my inability to understand it”.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:49 pm
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            Above, you very very clearly demonstrated to not understand it, and apparently proudly so. Ergo, you’re bragging about not understanding it. No straw man.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:53 pm
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            “because… the Force”. That is fundamentally what you claim the intended explanation is, right? So how do you figure I don’t understand it?

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:18 pm
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            That makes no sense. Just because she has the Force she remembers how her mother looks like? Really? Then how come Luke can’t remember. You are grasping sir.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:23 pm
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            Oh dear lord. She has vague images of her mother in the same way that Luke thinks Dagobah is familiar; they’ve had some dream or vision. Leia, not knowing about her latent Force abilities, might attribute this to an actual memory (though she doesn’t even say that). It’s not difficult to infer; I know this, because I’ve seen preteens being able to understand this (without any guidance on my end). If preteens can get this, adults should be able to understand this too.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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            So lets say you’re right, and she just had visions of Padme. Then how did she know who she was? Besides being born, there’s been no interaction between them. The visions would have only been of Padme being sad and kind with no context who she is to her. If you are going to say “its because of the Force she can feel that she is her mother” then your inference is self-justification.

            And it also doesn’t explain why Luke doesn’t know how she looked like since they were born at the same time and is more in tuned with the Force then Leia.

            I’m not a fan of the PT, I admit to that, only because they were poorly done. I don’t bash PT lovers, because to each their own, but people who think Lucas can do no wrong is just as annoying as PT bashers.

          • May 4, 2016 at 6:12 am
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            Question: can you admit that OT fans can do no wrong?

          • May 4, 2016 at 4:23 pm
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            I already did, “…but people who think Lucas can do no wrong are just as annoying as PT bashers”.

          • May 3, 2016 at 11:10 pm
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            When ROTJ was written, the backstory was this: Padme died when Leia was two years old. That’s why the lines were written as they were. From the ROTJ story conference:

            Lucas: She knows that her real mother died.

            Kasdan: She does know that?

            Lucas: Yes, so we can bring that out when Luke is talking to her; she can say that her mother died when “I was two years old.”

          • May 4, 2016 at 1:22 am
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            which is probably another fuckup on Lucas’ part. Why hint at Daghoba being familiar and not picking it up in ROTJ?

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:35 pm
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            This is the pathetic excuse prequel fanboys came up to defend the incoherency of the PT’s writing. In Rotj Leia was talking about remembering her mother, because she still lived when Leia was a toddler. So simple. She hasn’t seen a force ghost, nor a dream nor any other crap like that. She saw her real living mother until Lucas fcked up the continuity.
            Same with 1000 years vs 1000 generations, or Obi-wan finding and training Anakin vs Qui-gon finding him and asking Obi-wan to do it and so on. There are dozens like this. Those are called: ,,contradictions”.

          • May 4, 2016 at 6:10 am
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            Wrong, Leia only remembered glimpses, emotions. That is her power in using the Force. She can sense how people are emotionally. That was why she could sense Luke’s suffering on cloud city, and Han’s pain/death. It is not a plot hole.

          • May 4, 2016 at 6:09 am
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            No, Leia was actually using the Force when recalling this memory form her infant-hood. That was why it was ironic when she said “you have a power I will never have.” She was using it that very second.

        • May 3, 2016 at 9:02 pm
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          I have to correct you. Abrams had a bunch of PT flags in the TRAILER and for the theatrical release he decided to replace them. Easter eggs in Star Wars movies are a stupid idea anyways, sice some fans tend to overinterpret them and create insane stories around them.

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:05 pm
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            OK, a bunch of flags, not one. Thank you; I appreciate the correction.

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:06 pm
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            Yeah, just miss the important part. It was in the TRAILER only, not in the MOVIE.

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:15 pm
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            Welp, I did indeed write “movie” rather than “trailer.” My bad.

        • May 4, 2016 at 1:30 am
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          In the trailer there were many flags that were podracer flags. Anikin, Sebulba, etc… It wasn’t just one flag.

    • May 4, 2016 at 1:29 am
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      In the universe where ot purists and prequel bashers started talking shit about the movie because of speculation that Maz was a podracer pilot due to the flags being in the trailer. Saying he didn’t want the castle to seem like it was podracer centered is a viable and logical explanation since that’s what everyone assumed upon seeing it.

    • May 4, 2016 at 6:07 am
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      Exactly.

  • May 3, 2016 at 8:43 pm
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    You know..though we may not seem like many..they have to give us PT fans a little bit of fan service as well..don’t get me wrong I’m all for these OT references but give us a little bit of everything!

    • May 3, 2016 at 8:45 pm
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      Exactly, love them or hate them they are part of the saga, and should be treated as such.

      • May 3, 2016 at 8:54 pm
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        For the record I wouldn’t mind this Anakin reference but to many people the prequels are explicitly not part of the saga

        • May 3, 2016 at 9:22 pm
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          To those many people, they should know that to everyone else it really happened. 3+3=6 but to those many people it’s like 3+3=3. When they come into a comment section they knowingly are creating comments to ruffle feathers of people who enjoyed the PT, or just accept it, for what reason? Nowhere in the article did it say that JJ was distancing himself from the PT by making this change, but those “many people” have to come out in full force to make sure everyone remembers how they didn’t like the PT.

          • May 3, 2016 at 9:50 pm
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            Hi, no I was not trying to ruffle feathers (notice how I said I wouldn’t mind having the reference in the film), I was just pointing out that “love them or hate them they are part of the saga” is an absolute not everyone agrees possibly agrees with. The other absolute is “and should be treated as such” which, again, I would like to point out that people may disagree on this.
            In other words, I wasn’t even close to insinuating that JJ Abrams scrapped the reference because PT.

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:47 pm
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            I know you weren’t. I was referring to the notion of many people, not you. I was careful in my comment not to single you out and referred to most people as they. I know people who love the PT and could care less about the OT, there are many of those people to. Likely a generational thing, Empire is still my favorite but I enjoyed the PT. Was it perfect? No, but to me I’m just happy we got to see more Star Wars and not bicker about the things I would have done differently. May the force be with you.

          • May 3, 2016 at 11:26 pm
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            The PT trilogy will never be as beloved as the OT.

          • May 4, 2016 at 1:26 am
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            To you. But to many people it is.

          • May 4, 2016 at 1:59 am
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            Well that’s obvious. The people who like the PT like the OT,
            and half the people who like the OT don’t like the PT.
            I think the point is that the prequels should be acknowledged as part of history. A little flag won’t hurt anyone. The fact that they removed it for that reason alone I think is unprofessional.
            And that leaves me to believe that we’ll never see a pod racer again because there was a pod race in episode one?
            that’s bullshit as bad as the prequels were there were god damn fun things in them and rather than ignoring them they should be salvaging the good stuff.

          • May 4, 2016 at 4:17 am
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            Not true. Part of PT fans do not like OT. For them OT are dated.

          • May 4, 2016 at 4:38 am
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            Well, if you say so. I haven’t met anyone who likes star wars and doesn’t like the OT.
            And I like to think that the people who saw the OT are still alive and will be for a long time. People who don’t like the OT because it’s dated must be children or teenagers.
            And wtf Star Wars compared to other movies from that time period still holds up. And TPM and AOTC are dated as well.

          • May 4, 2016 at 2:01 am
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            To me and a lot of people it is..

          • May 3, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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            Those many people know it really happened, that’s the problem, because they find the PT totally worthless. So you see it’s really 3+0 = 3.

          • May 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm
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            Precisely. The PT has zero value and has ZERO cultural significance at this point in 2016. So 3 + 1 (TFA) = 4.

          • May 4, 2016 at 4:16 am
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            TFA is the worst and the most unoriginal Star Wars movie.

          • May 10, 2016 at 3:45 am
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            Stop spamming the same shit, or I will report you. That is all.

          • May 3, 2016 at 11:12 pm
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            The 1st comment of this article is from a prequel fanboy bashing “haters”..
            Also Pablo Hildalgo confirmed JJ knowingly ignored the prequels

          • May 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm
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            What did Pablo say about it ?

        • May 3, 2016 at 11:31 pm
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          That’s a personal choice though, Disney shouldn’t be taking that approach. I can understand not going overkill in references, but a flag isn’t a big deal compared to making mention of clones (which was maybe done simply to explain the difference for casual Star Wars fans).

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            You would think that Disney, who measures everything in terms of $$$$$ would jump at the chance at making prequel tie-ins. Because unlike some people on this forum, the prequels were big money makers.

        • May 4, 2016 at 12:57 am
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          Those people are idiots.

        • May 4, 2016 at 4:15 am
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          These people are just plain stupid.

    • May 3, 2016 at 8:51 pm
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      Latest rumour that MSW have heard on that Rogue One scene is that it is a bacta tank, with Vader inside it awaiting to have new limbs attached to his battle injured body. Hayden Christian could be the actor playing Vader in that scene, so there’s your PT link.

      • May 3, 2016 at 8:54 pm
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        Yea I’ve heard..hopefully it’s true..I also wouldn’t mind seeing him return in VIII or IX to provide guidance to Luke or Rey as a force ghost

        • May 3, 2016 at 8:57 pm
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          Now you’re just being greedy. /;O)

          • May 3, 2016 at 8:59 pm
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            ..

        • May 3, 2016 at 11:25 pm
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          Hayden Christensen was absolutely HORRID in Ep 2 and 3 — and we will NEVER be seeing him in a Star Wars Film again. The new regime is building Films based around the OT, not the reviled PT.

          • May 4, 2016 at 1:57 am
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            He did what he was supposed to do well enough..Anakin was a whiny, horny young 20 y/o in AOTC (as was his son in ANH whether you choose to see this or not) and a brooding emotional mess in ROTS..have you thought of the possibility that you just don’t like the character of Anakin Skywalker? Why blame Hayden for that?

          • May 4, 2016 at 4:14 am
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            He was better than TFA cast. Adam Driver is just plain awful in TFA.

      • May 4, 2016 at 6:04 am
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        I’m willing to bet money that Hayden will not be in the bacta tank, supposing that rumor is even true.

        Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see Hayden C again in Star Wars, but at this rate Disney is dissing the PT, we’re probably going to get David Prowse.

        • May 4, 2016 at 12:37 pm
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          You’re most likely right. I don’t see Christiansen getting anywhere near a SW movie again. Like I said, MSW speculation on a latest rumour they heard. David Prowse, LOL.

  • May 3, 2016 at 9:00 pm
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    Despite how the prequels pale in comparison to the OT. At the end of the day they’re star wars, and without them we probably wouldn’t be where we are today. In my honest opinion, yea… they’re not on the same level… not by a long shot. But I’d rather more star wars than no star wars at all. Just like with Die Hard. I wasn’t a big fan of the newest one with Jai Courtney, but at the end of the day, would I rather a world with only 3 Die Hards or 4? Or the best analogy yet… we’ve all (or maybe most of us) have had that night where we didn’t perform as well in bed as we could have. Did it suck? Yeah. But would you rather have not gotten it in? I don’t think so haha

  • May 3, 2016 at 9:44 pm
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    If JJ actually believes that comment, what world is he living in? TFA in almost every way lacks originality and looks to the past for inspiration and/or copying/pasting.

    Also, everyone, it is possible to complain about TFA and not be a prequel apologist.

  • May 3, 2016 at 9:54 pm
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    “I’d rather come up with our stuff.”

    ahahahaha the irony Abrams the irony. Also how do banners that were in the film for 5 seconds allude the prequels? I think JJ is mentally retarded.

    • May 3, 2016 at 10:11 pm
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      Except that they were not in the movie at all. The PT banners were only in the trailer at a point where many things in the movie were changed around.

      • May 3, 2016 at 10:26 pm
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        Thats not the point of my comment.

    • May 3, 2016 at 10:49 pm
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      Like all the new aliens used in Maz’s castle pub, then people complain their aren’t any old classic aliens?

    • May 4, 2016 at 4:10 am
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      I agree. Abrams is an retarded. He destroyes everything he touch.

      • May 4, 2016 at 5:14 am
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        Now this is a comment that can be justifiably flagged.

  • May 3, 2016 at 10:51 pm
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    I see this story as a non story, but Rian has said some decent things about the prequels. And even JJ said he liked ROTS

  • May 3, 2016 at 11:23 pm
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    LOVE IT! The Prequels get BURIED more each and every day. Obviously some Prequel-Dork-Head at Lucasfilm tried to sneak that in, under JJ’s radar. Glad it was removed, the Podrace needs to remain in Ep 1, not referenced again.

    • May 3, 2016 at 11:54 pm
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      I would argue that the entire story of a lonely character living on a desert planet who meets a droid containing crucial information put in said droid by a rebellious figure who then runs into some new characters and leaves said planet on the Millenium Falcon and spends the rest of the film with Han Solo and Chewbacca before the 3rd Death Star kills billions of people after which point the good guys make a trench run to destroy the aforementioned Death Star and then everyone lives happily ever after should also remain in Episode 4 and not be referenced again, but what do i know?

      • May 4, 2016 at 12:55 am
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        The difference is: Ep 4 and 7 are GREAT films, so I don’t mind the similarity. About 2 billion movie goers seems to agree with me. I’m sorry but you have LOST — the Prequels are over — that war is DONE.

        • May 4, 2016 at 1:29 am
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          Of course you think they’re great films- if you’re a fan of chocolate cake and I feed you chocolate cake twice, you’re still going to love chocolate cake… doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Just so you are aware (because you clearly have done zero research and have no legitimate knowledge about this), both Revenge of the Sith AND the Phantom Menace grossed more money worldwide than the original Star Wars film.. so justifying your argument with the number of people who saw TFA is illegitimate. I’m not sure I’ve “LOST” anything and I’m not sure there was ever a “war” to begin with- the prequels are as “over” as episode 4 and episode 7 are. After you crawl out from the hole you live in, you’ll realize that the majority of people on this planet enjoy all 6 original star wars films- which apparently you don’t. And at no point have I attempted to criticize you for enjoying what you enjoy- I just think you should follow suit and let people enjoy what they want without being brainlessly criticized.

        • May 4, 2016 at 4:09 am
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          TFA is the worst Star Wars movie. ANH rip-off.

        • May 4, 2016 at 6:01 am
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          Kent Kaliber, what was the first Star Wars film to cross 1 billion dollars?

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:28 am
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      So, just to be clear, you didn’t really like the prequels?

  • May 3, 2016 at 11:24 pm
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    Dream on, PT is Humpty Dumpty.

    • May 4, 2016 at 1:51 am
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      What? Lol

      • May 4, 2016 at 3:51 am
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        It can’t be fixed.

        • May 4, 2016 at 4:11 am
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          Ah..clever

      • May 4, 2016 at 6:15 am
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        Look at the new picture of the Jedi temple (or whatever it is in Pinewood.) Very phantom menace-esque.

        • May 4, 2016 at 6:18 am
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          Yea it looks really cool..this movie in general looks like it’s shaping up to be really great and I can’t wait!!

    • May 4, 2016 at 4:21 am
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      Rian likes prequels. And EP VIII already looks more like prequels than TFA.

  • May 3, 2016 at 11:28 pm
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    The article keeps mentioning the Prequels? What is the Prequels as they are not registering with me? There is Star Wars, Empire, Jedi and The Force Awakens as they are the only SW movies I know….

    • May 3, 2016 at 11:36 pm
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      YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

      • May 4, 2016 at 6:00 am
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        NOooooooooooooooo

  • May 3, 2016 at 11:40 pm
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    this entire movie was built on a plot we’ve already seen, characters that we already know, familiar story beats, and j.j. abrams thinks that having two seconds worth of phantom menace easter eggs means it’s not coming up “with their own stuff”? what a ridiculous comment. 98% of audiences wouldn’t have even noticed if those podracer flags were kept in there.. OT purists need a reality check

    • May 4, 2016 at 12:54 am
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      I’m so happy JJ deleted that stinky-Prequel-Easter-Egg —- we don’t need that rotting a great film 🙂

      • May 4, 2016 at 5:59 am
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        Just like OT fanatics. They want it all and anything less is unacceptable. I wish Disney can throw a bone to us PT fans too.

        • May 4, 2016 at 3:50 pm
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          Hear, hear!

        • May 4, 2016 at 6:33 pm
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          Clone troopers in Rebels, but is that subject to a ‘purity test’ for PT fans too?

        • May 5, 2016 at 6:34 pm
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          It is romoured that Rian Johnson is a PT fan, so there might will be something to the prequels fans aswell. However, Imo except of a couple of small references to the other trilogies, the new one should focus on the new elements. TFA was a homage to the OT, but the rest really need to stay on their own imo.

  • May 4, 2016 at 12:09 am
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    Like it or not the PT is cannon and very much part of the Starwars universe.

    • May 4, 2016 at 1:01 am
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      Yep, lots of bad memories in my life are canon. Doesn’t mean I am ever going to think about them again LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • May 4, 2016 at 6:17 am
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        Your mean like what you are doing right now?

        • May 4, 2016 at 11:56 am
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          Exactly….

  • May 4, 2016 at 12:53 am
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    OT Purists are the reason Star Wars still exists and is FLOURISHING as never before!

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:12 am
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      OT Purists are the reason that I have to buy a book to understand WTF is going on in the new movie because if someone mentions politics people will start whining like babies.

      • May 4, 2016 at 2:26 am
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        Politics are fine but were WAY overdone in the Prequels. Those long diatribes were literally putting audiences to sleep.

        • May 4, 2016 at 2:29 am
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          I agree. But because they got so much crap about it now they are afraid to to put anything that had anything to do with the prequels in the new movies. Which i think is kind of dumb.

        • May 4, 2016 at 2:29 am
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          *Fistbump* Honestly, try watching ‘The Phantom Menace’. The dialogue is utterly mind-numbing. The look of near-agony / disbelief / defeat on Liam Neeson’s face when he delivers some of his lines is palpable…

          “To Coruscant….”
          “To Coruszzzzzzzzzz….*snore*”

        • May 4, 2016 at 5:58 am
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          the first few chapters of a long book are rarely the most action-packed.

          • May 4, 2016 at 6:31 pm
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            That reasoning is sound….if this was a book discussion.

    • May 4, 2016 at 7:36 am
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      They’re also the reason why directors are scared shitless to even try anything remotely unique and different for Star Wars

  • May 4, 2016 at 12:56 am
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    Right – the PT is “canon” but its buried in a dusty old History Book that no one cares about anymore. 🙂

    • May 4, 2016 at 4:08 am
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      OT purists/PT haters are minority. Majority cares for all of them.

      • May 4, 2016 at 4:17 am
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        Actually not —- as OT merchandise is still a BEST SELLER at stores including Hot Topic, Target, and at conventions —- which PREQUEL merch is pretty much NON-EXISTANT at this point. The numbers are on the side of the OT, period and end of story!

        • May 4, 2016 at 5:48 am
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          wait, the logic of your statement is still buffering in my feed. You’re saying that because stores are down-playing the PT then obviously stores don’t care about it, and further, there are no PT merchs in existence, or, phrased differently, there are none left that haven’t been purchased, or yet another way of saying it would be; they’re sold out because people bought everything that’s available.
          I’m just saying, your statement is shaky.

        • May 4, 2016 at 5:57 am
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          Perhaps the PT stuff doesn’t sell because the only stuff available is the OT stuff!

          That’s like saying “women aren’t good directors” when there are hardly any of them.

        • May 4, 2016 at 9:23 am
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          They are selling Jar-jar toys for 99 cents on ebay xD.

      • May 4, 2016 at 5:10 am
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        Don’t over-classify,

      • May 5, 2016 at 5:02 am
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        4,5,6,7,8,9 will be the Saga for most fans now. 1,2,3 are EU books that exist in some bizzaro world.

  • May 4, 2016 at 1:00 am
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    After reading all these passionate comments, I think it is so extremely obvious that I am hungry. So, I am going to go get a sandwich or something.

  • May 4, 2016 at 1:56 am
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    Well there goes the theory that they weren’t actively trying to avoid any references to the PT.

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:18 am
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      I’m surprised they didn’t blow up Coruscant just to make sure there will be even less connections to the PT.

      • May 4, 2016 at 2:21 am
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        Actually now that I think of it it would have made perfect sense to blow up Coruscant. But I guess they didn’t even want to show it blow up and we’re left with wondering why it’s not the Capitol

        • May 4, 2016 at 2:24 am
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          Agreed, and if they blew up coruscant, it would have had a lot more emotional impact since we are so much more familiar with that planet than Hosnian prime which we’ve never seen before.

        • May 4, 2016 at 9:09 am
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          “Oh my god, TFA is so unoriginal, worst movie ever. It also doesn’t show enough planets that we already know, worst movie ever.”

          • May 4, 2016 at 3:40 pm
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            That’s not what I’m saying! It actually makes sense because people know the planet. It’s better than some random planets and they don’t even tell you what is the purpose or consequences to destroying them…

      • May 4, 2016 at 5:54 am
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        Yes, add to that: 1) wiping out Geonoseans in Rebels 2) changing the sequence of putting on the “hub” on Death Star in Episode III to what we get in Rogue One 3) rumor of Darth Vader’s “birth” reported at MSW website, despite the fact that he was already “birthed” in Episode III. There’s more changes if I think about it…

        I knew it wasn’t a coincidence when Disney hired every prequel-hater like Simon Pegg to work on the ST. Pretty soon they’re going to stick David Prowse in ther Vader suit.

      • May 4, 2016 at 7:30 am
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        No..NO! I’m sorry but FUCK no lmao..you don’t understand how I almost dropped my popcorn when I saw Hosnian prime get blown up for the first time because I thought it was Coruscant..GOD that would’ve been the biggest slap to the face to all PT fans

      • May 4, 2016 at 1:11 pm
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        I’m sure they wanted to but am glad they did not as it’s not even a PT one and technically an OT planet.

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:25 am
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      They were trying to avoid them. A couple of “PREQUEL DORKS” in the Lucasfilm Art Dept tried to sneak that it —- but JJ quickly STOMPED it out ! 🙂

      • May 4, 2016 at 1:09 pm
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        Well, The PT was only a decade ago so most of the team probably worked on them which is probably why.

    • May 4, 2016 at 4:06 am
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      They changed all of them. Not only prequels ones.

      • May 4, 2016 at 5:49 am
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        Yeah, changed them to OT references. I am angry that prequel fans like myself feel absolutely dissed.

        • May 5, 2016 at 12:13 am
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          You got a pretty big reference with “Clone army.”
          I’d be happy with that.

          • May 5, 2016 at 2:35 am
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            you get a pretty big reference with “this entire movie is the exact same thing as episode IV- definitively making it the most unoriginal star wars film of all time”
            i wouldn’t be happy with that.

          • May 10, 2016 at 3:36 am
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            The Hidden Fortress.

            That is all.

      • May 4, 2016 at 1:13 pm
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        I think there were more PT ones in there though.

  • May 4, 2016 at 2:21 am
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    The camera doesn’t “pan up,” it “tilts up.” Panning is a horizontal rotation of the camera–left to right or right to left. Tilting is the vertical rotation you described–up to down or down to up.

    • May 4, 2016 at 5:45 am
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      I would call you a pedant but that’s actually good information to know cause I’m interested in the subject.

    • May 4, 2016 at 6:35 am
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      While that might be true in the scripts it does say pan up and pan down.

  • May 4, 2016 at 2:28 am
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    Ironic that JJ wanted to avoid referencing the prequels when TFA had far worse storytelling than any of the prequels.

  • May 4, 2016 at 2:48 am
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    Sooo… when you talk crap about TFA your comments get deleted
    But when you talk crap about the PT nothing happens?

    Hmm..

    • May 4, 2016 at 4:23 am
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      If they deleted comments dissing the Prequels, like 90% of the comments would be gone LOL

      • May 4, 2016 at 4:53 am
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        It’s a little hypocritical. I don’t know the guy but he didn’t say anything worse about TFA than what you’re saying about the prequels and his comment disappeared 30 sec later…

        • May 4, 2016 at 8:59 am
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          “That guy didn’t say anything worse about George Washington than that other guy said about Bin Laden. I don’t understand why the first guy’s comment got deleted and the second guy’s did’nt.”

          • May 4, 2016 at 3:27 pm
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            So you’re comparing the prequels to Osama Bin Laden…
            That escalated quickly 😀
            It’s still hypocritical because we’re talking about movies and not mass murderers. I’m pretty sure that the prequels didn’t kill anyone.
            You PT haters have more anger than the emperor if you don’t like them why the fuck care so much?

          • May 4, 2016 at 3:58 pm
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            You can say the same stuff about two different things, but that doesn’t mean that it’s justified in both cases. I have no idea who wrote what about TFA that got deleted and who wrote the same thing about the PT and didn’t get his comment deleted and frankly, I don’t care, I was just having a bit of fun, don’t take it so seriously^^

  • May 4, 2016 at 5:24 am
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    I honestly wouldn’t have minded this Easter egg in the final movie.

  • May 4, 2016 at 5:45 am
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    Eh, pulling it down post-trailer was the spine-less thing to do. In fact, I’m really getting annoyed with the attitude that trailers don’t have to actually reflect the movie they’re selling.

    • May 4, 2016 at 5:55 am
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      “You have that power too.” Wasn’t in the film.
      Maz handing Lightsaber to Leia. Wasn’t in the film.

      And I’m pretty sure “who are you?” “I’m nobody” wasn’t in the movie either.

      • May 4, 2016 at 12:09 pm
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        also the first shot of Kylo Ren from the original trailer wasn’t in the movie. I find it interesting how many cuts are made from the time the original trailer is put out. Altering the movie between cinema release and DVD seems a bit much though. I’m sure nobody felt that changing the flags made the movie any better (I don’t think it made it any worse, but looks like some disagree).

    • May 5, 2016 at 4:59 am
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      No one cares as the niche fanbase of PT fans are irrelevant anymore. TFA succeeded without them cause it stuck with what worked in the OT.

      • May 5, 2016 at 4:42 pm
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        I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about changing shit between the trailer and the movie. Movies left and right showing stuff in the trailer that you don’t see in the movie. Not to mention the whole adding or changing scenes thing like here or in Jurassic World (where they showed the clip of people running only to later add preterodactyls flying about like they were supposed to have been there all along but not in the trailer). What I’m saying is, there is a barrier of trust that is being violated.

  • May 4, 2016 at 5:45 am
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    Absolutely disgusting.

    • May 4, 2016 at 7:45 am
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      Yes the prequels really are 🙂

    • May 4, 2016 at 8:49 am
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      I don’t think it was any secret before today that Abrams despises the prequels.

    • May 4, 2016 at 10:47 am
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      ‘Absolutely disgusting’ seems a bit over the top. This 45-year-old who’s watched TFA eight times nevertheless says: Please run your eyes down theguardian.com/uk any day of the week for a bit of perspective on what is absolutely disgusting.

  • May 4, 2016 at 8:50 am
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    fuck you jj abrams

  • May 4, 2016 at 10:05 am
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    What does Katy Kartwheel have to say about this? Get our people phone her people

  • May 4, 2016 at 12:07 pm
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    Interesting. Perhaps it’s somewhat poetic that episode 1 was CGI’d out of ‘the force awakens’.

    • May 6, 2016 at 4:52 am
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      It rhymes.

      • May 10, 2016 at 3:32 am
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        Each stanza rhymes with the last.

  • May 4, 2016 at 12:08 pm
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    honestly that’s a pretty dumb reason to edit the scene…about as pointless as Lucas putting that rock in-front of R2D2 in the Blu-ray edition…

    • May 4, 2016 at 2:27 pm
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      It’s really not the same. They choose a bunch of flags to make the trailer before the final set of flags was finished. There are other shots in the trailer that didn’t make it to the released version, either.

    • May 6, 2016 at 4:51 am
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      No, nothing is that pointless. NOTHING.

  • May 4, 2016 at 3:07 pm
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    The question is: was the Blu Ray footage the actual Theatrical footage? I can’t remember, but if that’s not the case, we may be seeing the beginning of a new Special Edition. BOOM! I said it first.

    • May 4, 2016 at 3:48 pm
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      They are the same, only the trailer is different.

      • May 4, 2016 at 4:02 pm
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        Cool. So they could’ve used Mickey Mouse or Starbucks logos and it wouldn’t mean a thing.

  • May 4, 2016 at 4:33 pm
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    Isn’t continuity more important than fan service? What I really liked about VII is the feeling of it being a continuation of the story that ends in VI. It dovetails nicely, whereas III and IV really don’t (eg the Death Star has taken 20 years to build, Storm Troopers aren’t clones, Obi Wan didn’t serve under Senator Organna in the Close Wars and clearly has never seen the droids before). Ultimately cutting the flags doesn’t change anything – in fact the lengths you’d have to go to just to justify them are crazy… By this point the prequels are events that happened over 60 years ago, so their direct relevance to events is going to be limited.

    • May 6, 2016 at 4:51 am
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      Are you kidding? The end of 3 sets up 4 perfectly – all the pieces are in place for when we next walk into that galaxy. Between 6-7 there is a WHOLE lot of unexplained jiggery-pokery hand-waving that has to go on for the situation to make a lick of sense.

      • May 6, 2016 at 10:47 am
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        Continuity issues aside, it’s as if somebody hit pause for 20 years. Other than the Death Star changing from a hologram to a physical object (we know they take about 4 year to build), Obi Wan’s where we left him, Vader isn’t top dog, Yoda’s nowhere to be seen and the droids are on the same ship… Other than people getting older, there’s very little sense of anything meaningful having happened off-screen. Vader’s character actually appears to develop more in the gap between IV and V than it did between III and IV. At least in VII there’s a real sense of the passage of time.

  • May 4, 2016 at 7:00 pm
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    People who care about stuff like this should really rethink their lives.

    • May 4, 2016 at 7:19 pm
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      Should they rethink their lives before or after selling death sticks?

  • May 4, 2016 at 7:28 pm
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    Sorry to say JJ but the “pod racers” are cooler then any lame idea you thought up for TFA. At least Lucas knows that sound is an important aspect of Star Wars, you put the entire film and its effects on Mute. I’m serious, watch TFA and listen to how pathetic all the mechanical and ship sounds are. Once you notice it, there’s no going back.

    • May 5, 2016 at 2:02 am
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      The dumbasses at Disney sent Ben Burtt, sound genius from all 6 movies, to a desk, and left the sounds of the movie in the hands of Burtt’s apprentice.

    • May 5, 2016 at 4:56 am
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      Characters are what drives movies and that is TFA’s greatest strength. Lucas was more worried about CGI, action scenes and Jar Jar and forgot to make characters we care about in the PT. That is why they are souless movies that kinda look and sound cool. Perfect for idiot moviegoers who just want to be wowed at your average blockbuster.

      • May 9, 2016 at 11:54 am
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        We care about rey and a whiny vader wanna be and a scared stormtrooper?

    • May 6, 2016 at 4:48 am
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      That’s nonsense, there is some terrific sound design in TFA! Just off the top of my head I can name the fighter engines, the XW and TIE blasters, the Falcon’s engine and stalling start-up proceedure, lightsabers, Chewie’s dialogue, R2’s dialogue….

  • May 5, 2016 at 12:09 am
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    Never would have noticed. I don’t really care. I just wanted to know what his reasoning was. Works for me.

    • May 5, 2016 at 12:29 am
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      There is a middle ground, but…da internetz

      • May 5, 2016 at 10:46 pm
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        What I meant by that is there is no middle ground between those that hate and love it. Sure there are people in the middle… but the haters/lovers wont ever agree. So what’s the point of arguing?

  • May 6, 2016 at 8:39 am
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    References to what prequels? What are those? The movies I bought jost to give me the pleasure of burning them? Then I don’t mind. Sorry Ewan McGregor, I hope you can be back in some anthology movies.

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