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  1. Chronocidal
    What's actually funny to me is that I really didn't feel like that was a problem? It was an interesting and more mystical way to portray it, which I was mostly okay with. The outright physical interaction across light years of distance (or maybe in JJ Space it was just down the block, hard to tell) just didn't flow as well because it was so ham-fisted. I don't remember the water soaking him (granted I saw the movie all of once so I could have forgotten), but I remember him wiping away a drop with a confused look that kept things subtle enough you could believe he imagined it, or it was just his own sweat. Rey sending him a lightsaber via her Force Onedrive had all the subtle nuance of a drunken Viking dual-wielding lawn mowers.
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    To be entirely fair, the force teleportation thing was -sort of- addressed in the EU, but was given... well, to say more explanation would imply there was any given at all in this case. It was explained there as a key character learning of the force from a reclusive race living in a far corner of the galaxy who studied aspects of the force not directly attributed to either dark or light. Not the best explanation, but it was much more mystical in nature ("Did I just teleport that coffee cup to you, or was it there all along?") and less "I'm going to upload a lightsaber through our Force-Skype for you to download." In fairness to the movie, the problem was not new force powers being invented, it was the method in which they were introduced. Healing, teleportation, projections, or whatever else have all existed in previous material. The problem is that instead of being naturally introduced, the characters called up Amazon and kept ordering deus ex machinas via Prime shipping. There was no build up, there was no explanation, there was no effort spent to acquire anything involved. The ass-pulling was getting so enthusiastic, we were seeing teeth.
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    There's a reason people have said the leaked plot would have actually been a better movie.
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    They blew up all across the universe at the same time because JJ has the spatial comprehension of a two-year-old. He can't understand that people on every planet don't see the same things all at the same time, because everyone in the universe exists within a stone's throw of each other, and light travels at the speed of plot.
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    You can't have that without adding another competent fighter pilot to the plot, which is more than these movies were willing to do. How are they supposed to keep believably screaming in your face about how awesome Poe is if they add someone he might possibly struggle against?
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    They had his approval for the first DX VF-25 too. Remember how that mess turned out?
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    Honestly? It had fun bits. I want to call it decently entertaining, but this movie needed to be split into two separate movies to ever have a hope of even trying to tell a complete story. A lot of people have said the leaked plot points actually made for a better and more coherent movie, because they actually fleshed out a lot more details, but there was a ton of material removed that never made it to the final cut. The question of whether the explanations contained in the cut material would actually make a better movie is up for grabs though. Part of me suspects that attempting to plug the Maw-sized cluster of plot holes would have actually been a detriment. Leaving some of the nagging questions unanswered at least lets people fill in the blanks with theories they like. I don't know. The movie had some good points, but it felt like an empty joy ride full of nostalgia-bombs that were strategically placed to distract you with so much material at such a fast pace that there was no time to think about anything going on. The overall story arc works on a basic layer, but there are so many little incomprehensible problems with all of the little details required to hold up the plot that I think it collapses under the weight. This movie wasn't like the prequels, where you had a coherent story acted badly, but it wasn't quite the opposite either? It felt passably acted, with a rough outline of a series of plot points strung together with wads of chewing gum pulled from under tables in a restaurant. Sure, it was held together, but the connecting tissue was nasty, and you really didn't want to touch it.
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    Managed to nab one of those from CDJapan on release day, I'm personally really hoping we get a few more older fighters from the 50s-70s, like the Century Series, maybe a Vigilante, Crusader, Panther, Cougar.. I could go on for days.
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    Depending on the source, I think the audience reactions have been tampered with. Rotten Tomatoes specifically is littered with thousands of nearly identical one sentence posts all within minutes of each other, all giving 5 stars. I'm not sure what other sources may exist though, so I haven't researched any of that myself.
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    I think SQ42 is slated for a beta and release this coming year actually (I'll believe it when I see it), which I'm looking forward to more than the base SC game. Been lacking that classic Wing Commander gameplay for far too long, and while I know Freespace 2's engine has been upgraded to high heaven, a current gen space sim engine is way overdue. The recent patches have made the environments just beautiful, been having fun exploring the snowy one over the holidays. In my case? I've had more fun flying around and testing this game in its current state than I have most of the other games I even play. Don't go in blindly, and educate yourself on what to expect, because it can be disappointing, but there are also a lot of fun things to see. I recently gifted a friend my starter pack, because I had since bought a newer ship that included the base game. They were completely blown away by the fact that we could board a space yacht with an interior to rival any MMO housing system, load the bay with rovers and shuttles, take off, then go explore a planet with those rovers.
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    I pretty much went in with full knowledge that I would be waiting a year or more for my packs. I wouldn't actually bet that they managed to get any orders in for the first batch at all, so they won't have any stock until the second run. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm just forcing myself to be patient.
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    I read one amusing comment that actually mentioned that the leaks made a better movie than what we got, because they were pre-edit, and contained more details than the final cut.
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    Oy.. I feel like the packs need to be stripped down, and have every tampo reapplied at 50% size.. Bandai just cannot do subtle markings, can they?
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    Oooh, now that's a pretty one. Mine's going to arrive after I'm already off for vacation, but I'm glad to have one with the proper white and gray! Here's hoping they do a VF-142 as well, that's my other must-have scheme.
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    Did it actually break, or just have the glue come loose? It does look easy to fix either way thankfully, and possibly not structurally necessary.
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    Yeah, that's the impression I'm getting across the board. Since TLJ ended the trilogy one movie early, JJ had to cram two movies' worth of content into this one to make up for it.
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    I honestly don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell of that happening this time around. Cinematic quality aside, the prequels had a coherent narrative, because they were written by one person. I feel like they got better with age in people's memories, as the flaws blurred compared with the overall story. This storytelling-by-committee mess is only going to get worse over time. Where people could go back and find little things to like about the prequels, I think the next decade is going to be spent finding layer after layer of incoherent sewage beneath the shiny lens-flare exterior. At the very best, I feel like it's going to wind up like 2009 JJ Trek: a decently entertaining movie that only holds together until you actually think about any of it for more than five seconds.
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    The tonal pre-shading thing I get, and I can appreciate the effect it gives, but I'm far more baffled by the fact that the entire thing looks permanently assembled before final painting. I have to assume it's only pinned together, and can all be separated out to actually apply proper colors, because otherwise painting things like the feet and missile pods is going to be a miserable process.
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    I always wondered what it would look like if you projectile vomited an entire paint set onto a model.
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    Apparently.. welding in star wars leaves the seams molten.
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    See, where were all these designers when the new movies needed new designs, and all they could come up with were knock-off McQuarrie bootlegs? Seriously, this comes off more as them copying all the crazy ship ads developed for Star Citizen now. Where was this when it mattered?
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    See, I actually feel like that would be detrimental to the experience. Unless you actually want to be driven into a blind rage by the lead-in to this movie.
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    It's more a case of progressive leaks that get progressively reinforced. Bits and pieces of story rumors and vague plot points eventually find their way into tv-spots, interviews, and other sources (that Swedish MPAA rating explanation, or the soundtrack listing, for example). It could all be the most massive misdirection campaign in cinematic history, but keep in mind that the same thing was attempted with Star Trek: Into Darkness. JJ spent the better part of the marketing campaign swearing up and down that the villain wasn't Khan, and he established himself as one of the most untrustworthy voices in Hollywood. I'd love nothing more than to discover that this whole mess has actually been a completely successful misdirection campaign to disguise the fact that this will be one of the best Star Wars movies ever released, but given the past two movies, I frankly don't think Disney is even remotely capable of that. Doing so would require a literal real-world deus ex machina, somehow alchemically transforming the collective waste of the world's dairy industries into a solid diamond Death Star.
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    Beautiful.. looks like it came with a spare Spike figure? And that is some quality packing there. I'm going to have fun opening this one when it arrives.
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    That would all be a nice way to tie it up, but it's been abundantly clear for a while now that there has never been that much thought put into any part of this trilogy. As a side note.. apparently a lot of the leaks keep getting further and further reinforced by every new little thing, including the track listing of the soundtrack, and even from the Swedish equivalent of the MPAA, as they published notes on what sort of content the movie contains.
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