Star Wars VII trailer and an interesting speeder - CHARACTER NAMES 12/12

[former user]

Well, if you want to get all nitpicky, they wouldn't even work as crossguards - any locked blade would chop the emitters off!

there you are plot device  
nitpicky?

are we talking th same blade lock?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BladeLock

[FramFramson]

Looks like we are.

[former user]

in the link there is a special note regarding "star wars parry"   

[Comsquare]

Well, if you want to get all nitpicky, they wouldn't even work as crossguards - any locked blade would chop the emitters off!

Depends how you lock it
But you're right, the risk would be quite high, except the hilt would have been made from cortosis ore.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cortosis

But at least you have a good chance not to get your wrist/fingers chopped off that easy 

[former user]

well, apparently there is some in-universe explanation why lightsaber blades actually lock...
mind my words in december 2015 

[beefcake]

Although I like the look of the light saber, why not just have a cortosis hilt rather than a light hilt?

[OSHIROmodels]

Because it looks cool 

cheers

James

[former user]

oh it does....
anakin is jesus and moses  together anyway

[FramFramson]

[Connectamabob]

Lightsaber looks like a great way to chop your own hand off. O'course Maul's lightsaber looked like a good way to chop your own leg or torso off, and he lost no badass points for it. So it could go either way depending on the character and how he's (she's?) played, really. Wouldn't want this to turn into a trend of gimmick escalation with further movies either way though.

Also that one shot just looks GoT as Ffffffffff......

"You know nothing, John Snow Skywalker."

Speeder looks awkward, but if it's home-built from a pod racer or ship engine, that would turn it 'round into cool. A hero who's a tinkerer like that would be a good inheritor for the Falcon.

I've got no problem with the droid in concept. Just wish they gave it a unique head shape instead of an out-of-place looking chibi-R2 head. It's also hard to tell how big it is. The simplified/lack of details on the head make it look small and toylike, but looking at the ground, it might be regular astromech sized? Can't tell. It's passable, but as a possible "not-R2" it has much to learn from T3-M4.

Falcon and next-gen X-Wing shots are pure win though. New stormtroopers helmets look boss.

I'm "meh" on the Abrams Star Trek films. Great action and visuals (mostly: brewery engineering was a fail), but the man can't assemble a plot/story to save his life, so both films were a complete hash on that front. He is by his own admission much more in his element with Star Wars though, and it's not him or his favorite monkeys doing the writing this time but people with a proven good track record, so hopes up all 'round.

[BlackWidowPilot]

Speeder looks awkward, but if it's home-built from a pod racer or ship engine, that would turn it 'round into cool. A hero who's a tinkerer like that would be a good inheritor for the Falcon.

This was my first reaction as well, that the bike was the result of some judicious salvage and kitbashing off a wreck or three out among the dunes on Tattooine. Parts is parts, and if those starboard engines are still salvageable off that old Correllian puddle jumper....

[aliensurfer]

Brought a tear to my cynical eyes. 

I'm with you about the new Treks too. Just awful.

bits of the Star Wars trailer made me feel like a kid again and get all nostalgic, I just hope it's better than the prequels regards directing, script and the ability of the cast to act.

I agree regards star Trek too, but then I think Star Trek always has been and will be crap - poor ideas, awful ship design and just generally woeful.

[Connectamabob]

I like Trek, and was a proper trekkie as a kid, but even at my most nostalgic I will fully admit it was always half rubbish. Often fell on it's face from trying to be smarter than it's writers were capable of, rarely was able to do humor to a non-cringeworthy standard, and was always a fair bit more camp than was actually deliberate. Didn't help that it spent good chunks of both old and new runs being helmed by the clueless and apathetic (Rodenberry started out a bit funky and got worse with age, and Bannon-Braga were... whatever you call the polar opposite of a "dream-team").

JJ Trek... Well, at least it wasn't actually trying to be smarter than it's writers were capable of. 'Course that's left handed praise, considering once you get past the bright lights and shiny paint they're so cross-eyed nonsensical it's almost like some form of stealth-dadaism.

[former user]

the really good SF themes will never be funded blockbuster-style anyway, so it is eye-candy all along, Trek, Wars, Babylon or Gate

[YPU]

the really good SF themes will never be funded blockbuster-style anyway, so it is eye-candy all along, Trek, Wars, Babylon or Gate

Personally I can live with that. For "smart SF" I prefer other media, such as books, where there can be extensive explanation on interesting theorem and concepts without breaking up the story flow as much as it would in a movie.