More The Last Jedi TV Spots Arrive, Showing That One Big Spoiler Yet Again

Not too long ago, we were all blown away by one of the ads for Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi giving away what appeared to be a major spoiler. Well, apparently that wasn’t a one-off, because they used it two more times out of three different ads.

 

 

The first video listed here is the only one of this set that does not feature the shot in question. (I will not discuss what it is here out of courtesy of fans who are avoiding spoilers. Seriously – don’t watch the last two if you want to go into the movie without knowing a major surprise. Unfortunately, the spoiler is the thumbnail of the last video, so don’t scroll down too fast.)

 

 

 

SPOILER ALERT!

 

 

 

 

 

NO, SERIOUSLY!

 

THE BIG SPOILER IS IN THE THUMBNAIL OF THE VIDEO BELOW!

 

THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new shots in these ads include:

  • Poe asking permission to blow stuff up in an X-wing.
  • More of the Millennium Falcon maneuvering above the skies of Crait.
  • R2-D2 cussing Luke out, much to his annoyance.
  • Possibly a little more of the Finn/Phasma fight.
  • A masked Kylo Ren kneeling before someone – presumably, Snoke.
  • More of the mighty Porg roar.
  • A TIE fighter being blown to pieces.
  • A new shot of the Resistance fleet confronting Hux’s Star Destroyer.
  • An uninterrupted “This is not going to go the way you think!” from Luke.

 

At this point, I’m starting to wonder if two years from now, the inevitable “In IX Days” ad for Star Wars Episode IX: From His Nap will top this by showing Snoke’s death or something. I mean, seriously!

 

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

81 thoughts on “More The Last Jedi TV Spots Arrive, Showing That One Big Spoiler Yet Again

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:11 am
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    Did Kennedy not take notes from the way JJ kept the TFA under wraps? That spoiler is ridiculous.

    • December 8, 2017 at 4:41 am
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      Yeah, like the way the entire shot list was kept under the wraps 6 months before the release…

        • December 8, 2017 at 6:38 am
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          I was just referring to how Making Star Wars and a few other sites got a hold of the entire shot list after the crew was out of work for a few weeks when Harrison Ford got hurt. Pretty much the entire shot list was leaked and the 80% of the TFA plot was known to all of us (who wanted to know) before the movie was released

          • December 8, 2017 at 7:59 am
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            ah, well i guess i missed that… thank goodness. in terms of the regular marketing it really felt like JJ had things more on lock down in comparison to this time around.

          • December 8, 2017 at 8:33 am
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            It seems from this that the security leak was simply due to this unforeseen event. Maybe they have some protocol in place now to prevent similar leaks even in case another unforeseen event shuts down filming for a bit.

        • December 8, 2017 at 10:34 pm
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          Clearly.

    • December 8, 2017 at 6:07 am
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      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      • December 8, 2017 at 6:08 am
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        I am laughing bc if they are showing this, it’s clearly meant to draw interest and half the internet knew the entire plot of TFA way before it came out.

        • December 8, 2017 at 2:49 pm
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          It’s just not a statement aligned with what actually happened. I know you know better. It happens.

          • December 8, 2017 at 6:45 pm
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            I’m not because that’s the truth.

            This is the kind of tease that raises more questions than answers, which makes it good marketing, not some giant spoiler. We saw Daisy in BTS stuff fighting multiple dudes, so hardly a surprise.

            The entire plot of TFA was known before it came out, but TLJ is largely a mystery, so I don’t see what basis you have for your statement.

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:28 am
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    It’s really not a spoiler.. you have no idea why she’s grabbing it at all.. you can only tell that she’s angry or determined.. and the guards are like oh shit no you didnt

    • December 8, 2017 at 4:53 am
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      I agree. She could be like”Anyone want some roasted Porg? I’ve got fire.” and the guards are like what are Porgs? Then Rey goes badass Jedi on the guards while eating some Porg.

      • December 8, 2017 at 7:50 am
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        omg yum

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:35 am
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    The R2/Luke interaction is just like old times.

    • December 8, 2017 at 8:31 am
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      Nice to see a bit with Luke *not* acting emo. Gives me more hope that we’ll see more sides of his character than have been previously hinted at in the trailers and TV spots!

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:46 am
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    OMG OMG OMG Really is there a spoiler reveled in the TV spots? Don’t tell me. Not looking at this again until after I see the movie!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!!!

  • December 8, 2017 at 4:16 am
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    I like the sound the Pretorian Guard’s weapon makes (I think it’s coming from their weapon). Helps balance out their plastically look.

    • December 8, 2017 at 6:03 am
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      Agreed! Up until I saw/heard that I honestly thought they looked a bit silly

      • December 10, 2017 at 9:48 pm
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        I still think they do look out of place but maybe they get a cool action sequence. If I had been in charge of their design I would have gone with this concept made for TFA.
        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c82d3a339e63fd579f0a8ad659f13a4e13174ca53a0655371a8e0e388b5f63f4.jpg
        If the characters were required by Rian to fit the red coloursheme of the throneroom they could have use red gloves and boots. The inner lining of their robes could have been made of some sort of red, shiny silk making them as pompuous as their leader Snoke.

  • December 8, 2017 at 4:38 am
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    If Rey turns bad I will be very disappointed. I was hoping Rey would be an all-out hero like Finn, Poe, and most male characters in this franchise.

    • December 8, 2017 at 4:38 am
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      And Kylo…

    • December 8, 2017 at 4:40 am
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      You know Finn was a Stormtrooper, part of a unit that massacred a whole village in TFA. Just because he didn’t pull the trigger doesn’t mean he didn’t commit war crimes

      • December 8, 2017 at 6:06 am
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        He didn’t though?

        • December 8, 2017 at 6:35 am
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          He was part of the unit that massacred the villagers, just saying he stood by and watched it happen, a perfect all-out “hero” would have done more than just stand there. I’m just saying, nobody’s perfect, the original commenter seems to think that Poe and Finn are pure as gold, yeah right…

          • December 8, 2017 at 2:48 pm
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            But he isn’t meant to be a perfect all-out hero and there is literally nothing he could have done anyway.

            That was the moment he broke free of brainwashing, a lifetime of indoctrination. You don’t go from that moment to instant action. He was disoriented. He himself committed no war crime, so that statement is a bit out there.

          • December 10, 2017 at 9:56 pm
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            I am pretty sure it’s not a war crime if your own life is at risk if you don’t follow orders.

      • December 8, 2017 at 12:05 pm
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        It was his first mission… and he didn’t participate.
        So no war crimes. He worked at the sanitary.

      • December 9, 2017 at 5:45 pm
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        The village mission was Finn’s first field mission. So I think it is highly likely he never killed anyone before.

    • December 8, 2017 at 6:06 am
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      She likely will be, but there has to be a conflict.

    • December 8, 2017 at 12:05 pm
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      If a theory about her origin turns out to be true, then her going dark would fulfill her destiny, the why that she even exists.

    • December 9, 2017 at 1:41 am
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      I dunno, the only completely good male hero so far is Luke, imo. I think having Rey be too pure of heart would be a big mistake after what happened in TFA.

    • December 10, 2017 at 9:54 pm
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      I think it would be nice to have a female SW antagonist for once and I am really hoping to see Rey turn to the dark side or at least tap into it more than she should. A villainous Rey would turn the criticism of her being too powerful in TFA into a feeling of real thread to our heroes. I would also fit well into the Star Wars narrative where pride leads to the downfall of a hero and would give us the chance to see a master and apprentice faceoff with Luke in IX.

  • December 8, 2017 at 4:39 am
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    Okay, I am now going to stop watching TLJ TV spots. That moment isn’t necessarily a spoiler, but I would have liked to have been surprised by it in the theater.

    • December 8, 2017 at 5:56 am
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      That’s exactly how I feel about it. I’m just really annoyed that people that cover this are refusing to talk about it.

  • December 8, 2017 at 4:41 am
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    I am not watching the ‘spoiler’ spot… but just remember – they are showing us exactly what they WANT to show us. Its not going to be a spoiler. Its deliberate.

    I’m still avoiding it.

  • December 8, 2017 at 4:41 am
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    I’m sorry but this is not a spoiler.

    • December 8, 2017 at 6:35 am
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      I’ve talked to plenty of people who have wished that they didn’t see the ads showing the clip in question after watching them. I’m being mindful of people who feel this would take away from their viewing experience by giving them fair warning.

      Yes, they chose to market this scene for a reason, but given that it happens late in the movie and features something incredibly unexpected, I can totally see why someone would want to see this for the first time in the theater instead of on television.

      – Pomojema

      • December 8, 2017 at 7:05 pm
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        Fair point, and apologies if my short comment came across as aggressive. But I think this is true for much of the released material – not just this specific scene. For example, TFAs trailer showed Finn holding the ignited blue lightsaber, which is something that definitely falls into the same category you described.

        I think my beef is more of a semantic one around the word “spoiler”. A spoiler, IMHO, is something that reveals a strong plot point, and I don’t see the above doing that.

        I agree with you that you need to give fair warning to viewers. I just disagree that this is a “big spoiler” or that we should be freaking out / considering it a major slip from Lucasfilm. In fact, I see this as *exactly* the same as when they showed us Finn holding a blue lightsaber 2 years ago.

  • December 8, 2017 at 5:55 am
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    What annoys me is that the popular discussion shows/podcasts refuse to cover this. Isn’t that their job? Like you get the privileges of going to the premieres and get to talk these thing but want to be selective on what you cover? That’s poppycock.

    • December 8, 2017 at 7:03 am
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      Rebel Force Radio would probably cover this, but… they record their shows on Wednesday nights… 🙁

    • December 8, 2017 at 2:58 pm
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      It just came out.

      • December 8, 2017 at 4:03 pm
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        The show that this site loves to promote, recorded their show AFTER the TV spot came out and said “no we aren’t going to cover it because some of us don’t want to be spoiled” which is bullshit. If it’s officially released by Lucasfilm, then the whole purpose of the show is to talk about it. They enjoy the privileges of going to the premieres and other stuff that normal fans would love to be apart of, but get to be selective about what they want to cover? They give up that right to not be spoiled by doing these shows.

        • December 8, 2017 at 6:48 pm
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          People are allowed to make that choice for themselves, I don’t see why you are so desperate to hear them talk about it. What possible insight or questions could they have that no one else does?

          They don’t give up any rights at all. You are being very entitled right now and sound like a spoiled child.

          If someone doesn’t want to be spoiled, they don’t have to be for your entertainment. it’s not like this website costs money. They owe you nothing.

  • December 8, 2017 at 6:01 am
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    Spoiler or not, I am so rooting for Rey in this movie!

  • December 8, 2017 at 6:46 am
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    Another way to look at it is if this is what they are willing to let out with all the secrecy. Than just how significant are the real secrets?

  • December 8, 2017 at 9:18 am
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    I think R2D2 has some scotish accent, but may be that is just me.

  • December 8, 2017 at 12:04 pm
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    What spoiler?
    She just force-grabs Kylo’s lightsaber to defend herself against the Praetorian Guards.

    • December 8, 2017 at 12:12 pm
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      Many consider that in itself a spoiler — considering it significant that she’s holding Kylo’s saber.

      • December 8, 2017 at 2:25 pm
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        Is a light-side Force user somehow “tainted” by grabbing and using a red light saber? Hardly. Conversely, Anakin continued using his blue saber to do dark deeds.

        • December 9, 2017 at 1:37 am
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          It is significant in its implications though. First of all, it raises the question of why she can’t just use her own lightsaber, and second it also implies that Kylo is either incapacitated somehow, or he is actually cooperating alongside Rey, seemingly confirming the teases of them working together.

          • December 9, 2017 at 2:11 am
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            It’s not significant at all Rey has called for a lightsaber before and got it instead of Kylo so why not again.

          • December 10, 2017 at 9:37 pm
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            It could also mean that Kylo was told by Snoke to not attack Rey and lay down his weapon which Rey then took. It could be some weird force vision or Snoke playing some mindtricks on her. There are so many possible scenarios how she ended up in a situation like this that it can hardly be considered a spoiler

  • December 8, 2017 at 12:11 pm
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    A running tally of my wild guesses:

    1. Does Poe get killed off? No body is shown. Cliffhanger.
    2. Does Rey go dark? Cliffhanger.
    3. Does Leia survive? Cliffhanger.
    4. Paige gets killed off in the first act.
    5. DJ get killed off.
    6. Hux gets killed off — by Kylo Ren. Phasma knows this.

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:16 pm
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    Honestly though, there isn’t a spoiler anywhere in these TV spots. What does Rey holding Kylo’s saber spoil?

    • December 8, 2017 at 5:46 pm
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      Absolutely nothing, that’s what. People are freaking out and making a big deal over nothing – which is exactly why they included that shot in the teasers. They wouldn’t put an ACTUAL spoiler in any of the ads, so the fact that it’s in the trailer at all means it’s not a spoiler.

      • December 9, 2017 at 2:08 am
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        That happens when the movie plot has been pretty much kept secret until that close to the theatrical release. Seriously, in comparison, TFA’s plot had been practically all leaked at this stage.

    • December 9, 2017 at 12:13 pm
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      Agreed. It’s clickbait.

  • December 8, 2017 at 3:48 pm
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  • December 8, 2017 at 8:49 pm
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    It is only me who thinks the throne room looks like a muvie studio with red screen with some plastic furniture?

    • December 8, 2017 at 9:42 pm
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      It’s really hideous. Compared to Gareth Edwards I feel like Rian Johnson has a really poor taste when it comes to picking designs. He’s been working with the same talented creature artists, setbuilders and vehicle designers but somehow manages to pick designs that look like they’re straight out of Babylon 5. These are the worst designs so far imo.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/babb50021f30322c8e36fe0ea7d9589033d91219e79daeaf40766b0f8b0afd1a.jpg

      • December 9, 2017 at 12:57 pm
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        Shut the fuck up. Bitch about stupid shit and haven’t even seen the movie. Goddamn

        • December 9, 2017 at 3:50 pm
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          Dude would you just chill out please? I was merely stating that I think Rian is bad at picking some of his designs. JJ did a good job, Gareth an even better one ( which is not surprising given his background in special effects). But Rian has made some really weird decisions. I made an image comparing some of the creatures from VII, R1 and VIII and you can clearly see how they vary in terms of believability (anatomy and such). I could totally imagine a Gabdorin like Quiggold walkign arround like a living and breathing creature. Neepers Panpick however is a ridiculous design with bulbous eyes that are unprotected by any form of eyelids or eye cavity. It’s a really cheesy design and bushy brow dude isn’t any better.
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/079344a4a70db0d0840d0178d4c2b965819136ae1434062ed6a4bb5d640dd310.jpg

          As a 3D sculptor who loves creature design this bugs me. I already made a posta long time ago in which I explained how a couple of simple changes would make the characters Rian picked more believable and less cartoony. Here’s the photoshop I made on the direction I would have gone with the porgs. (female and male version)
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eaacf62b91ede75ca305715ad3f29931eb6653efffefb85d88c4b4b543cb64b3.jpg

          I am not saying anything about the quality of the movie since I haven’t seen it. But I have seen the creature designs in the TLJ Visual Dictionary and while some of them are absolutely fine, many even great there are others that are a step down from what we have seen so far. So would you please justa ccept that I think differently of these designs than you? I would much rather prefer having an informed discussion than you calling me “bitching”. Ever heard of constructive feedback. Jesus…

          • December 9, 2017 at 5:10 pm
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            It doesn’t matter if they only appear for seconds if their immobile faces can literally break the immersion in seconds. I do agree that TFA had a few bad designes too like the yellow furred abominations in Maz’ Cantina which you’re probably referring to. But while I can only think of one creature design I disliked in TFA and probably none in R1 I already dislike a couple of creatures from TLJ. Unfortunately there is quite a bit of difference in quality that I am just not used to in a Disney era SW movie. Take these two guys for example: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/822a62aa3dca31e52ee7aaff5305c4385c81e2a35b2725e53d76614414abd050.jpg
            The weird tentacle alien musician is an incredibly bad design in my oppinion. The texture of it’s skin looks like cheap papier-mâché. The thin tentacle like fingers make no sense in terms of anatomy. I have seen dozens if not hundreds of concepts of creatures with tentacled hands but none of them looked remotely as ridiculous as this. I am not even starting about the placement of the arms here which goes acgainst any rules of believable anatomy. Look I know what they were trying to do here. I know that they wante dto emulate zuckus breathing aparatus which was also a mess of papier’mache but Ep. V was shot almost 40 years ago and Zuckuss did have a nice overall, silhouette and an iconic facial structure.

            The alien in the white dress on the other hand is breathakingly well done. The overall bodyshape has a very interesting silhouette that is reminiscent of ithorians and thus feels immediately at home in the SW universe. Despite her unusal bodyshape they gave her an outfit that perfectly fits into the high society of SW. Since she is a masseur for the wealthy aliens of cantho bight her erlongated hands and fingers make sense in terms of why they would use her as a masseuse. I especially love how they stretched the lenght of her palms making her hands ook alien but still functional. On a scale from 1-10 tentacle guy would be a 3 while the aldy inw hite would easily be an 8 or maybe even a 9. This kind of picking fluctating quality is what really annoys me about Rian Johnson’s taste in picking creatures which directors before him simply didn’t have to that extend. I think that Snoke’s throneroom is another example of a poor designchoices and unfortunately we are going to see quite a bit of that…

          • December 11, 2017 at 9:31 pm
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            I agree with the canto bight creatures and that weird eye guy looks like crap but oh well they are useless and don’t do anything to the story which is most important. Nothing will ever look perfect or come close to the originals like in the cantina were my favorite but as long as everything else is good I will be happy. I like your porg designs the little feathers make it better

          • December 11, 2017 at 10:13 pm
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            I might be more focused on SFX than most people but something like this in an introduction shot breaks the immersion, Once you see the immobile face of that creepy bastard can’t be unseen. It just feels weird to show an immobile face in a closeup and for such a long time in a position where he can be directly compared to a real person.
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f9445f2679349921f3be45f0ec9c80235ac3e3af8141cdf16ab7aa726e4284f.gif

            Not to mention the unbelieveable execution of the concept. You want an alien with a huge head and bulbous head. Why not something like this?
            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/71a082101a71dbe6e35e87f93a018470cd45ee130dd9d21e843e11d99f82080e.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57059e937c3704ab9a88fe23b05fdcca1045654081cc02bf4e001dfdd2a73d47.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e5c9aae4aadfb86f806ce5e81dd7efd6b6876d25fa95363dc5ee5e0a7e808f1d.jpg
            It’s a lot more believable and due to the clsoed mouth it would also work if it just periodically closed its eyelids. But yeah I probably have some form of OCD when it comes to creature design due to my field of work I guess.

          • December 12, 2017 at 1:12 am
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            I totally agree. That alien looks way better than the one they used. Much more sci fi looking and better facial structure. I also don’t like the flesh tone used on every single creature. What happened to blues greens reds? Even the eyes are just mostly black

          • December 12, 2017 at 1:32 am
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            I think Gareth Edwards did a fantastic job with using old alien concepts and updating them. By giving the Mon Calamari different skin colours and facial features he expanded the believability of their species as a whole. LIke we have different bodytypes and skincolourshe made them more diverse and less copy paste, Same goes for Beezer Fortuna who is reminiscient of his cousin Bib but at the smae time looks different enough to be a unique character. I would really love to see RJ reuse some old designs with the new technology that is availeable and make differently coloured versions of Rhodians, Duros or Nautolans.

          • December 16, 2017 at 7:28 am
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            Yes. I liked the rogue one creatures. It feels familiar but new. I would love to see new rodians and duros. They just have a simple but classic look that is iconic to Star Wars. I hope he comes back for another spinoff

      • December 10, 2017 at 8:32 pm
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        Maybe there’s a fancy dress party on Canto Bight. The eyebrows fella might be a fan of some kind of Thunderbirds-like show filmed on, er, Tatooine. The guards dressed in red plastic might be met there too.

        • December 10, 2017 at 9:18 pm
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          That would explain a lot 😛

    • December 9, 2017 at 12:12 pm
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      I don’t like that red color scheme at all. But hopefully it works when I see the movie.

  • December 8, 2017 at 10:37 pm
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    I think the real spoiler-like clip is Luke apparently having a warm sense of humour back – so he’s not going to be Christopher Nolan-Skywalker for the whole film, relievedly. Some of the CGI bothers me a bit – the way the porg comes towards us (or Chewie) looks a bit funny at least here, those white fox things bug me, and the set of the ‘spoiler’ as others have said looks garish. The black robots don’t look right to me, under-designed compared to many droids and androids from all periods of Star Wars. But. Things may look very different away from our little computers with in most of our cases a not overly great display screen. I was bugged by Ren’s voice in the trailers two years ago but once in the cinema things were fine. Like others here I’m now going to turn away from the site for a week. Where I live the nearest cinema is showing VIII at midnight on Wednesday and again at 3 a.m. It might mean walking for ninety minutes as a non-driver who doesn’t want to pay a taxi driver thirty or forty quid, but I might do it, the walk, although I am _far too old_ to be that enthusiastic…

  • December 9, 2017 at 6:11 am
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    IMO, it doesn’t look like Rey is facing the guard to fight them. When she ignites the blade, she doesn’t face either of the guards on her flank. Likewise. as the guard to her right ignites his weapon, he isn’t turning to face her. Neither is the guard to her left. Instead, it appears all three are facing a combatant off screen. Plot wise, having Rey flirt with the darkside at the height of Act II makes most sense to me. It also pays tribute to Hamill’s desire for Luke to go dark in Empire to be redeemed in Jedi. *shrugs*

  • December 9, 2017 at 11:22 am
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    I think people are making a bigger deal out of the “spoiler” than necessary. We already know she ends up with Snoke from the first trailer and it makes sense she’ll try to escape so she can be in IX

  • December 11, 2017 at 9:38 pm
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    I don’t think it spoils anything really. We knew she ends up in the throne room from the trailer and if she is fighting kylo with the guards or maybe she tries to fight snoke like the emperor wanted Luke to kill him and Vader intercepted such as kylo or the guards do here. Taking Kylos saber

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