Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[rubberducker]

just a guess, but i don't think that's a frame grab from the actual film.

(i have no proof of this however.)

[PopeSmokesDope]

That's all 'Rebels' stuff.

Yup, anything with the stormtrooper head with scaring is all rebels merch. (plus it says rebels)

[PopeSmokesDope]

Are you camping out on one of those hills?

I could be, it's just up the road at Greenham Common... but no, we're watching Rebels tonight...

[Jammy]

There were some stormtroopers at the office today because we're doing a big Star Wars Rebels promotion

When the lift got to my floor one of them said "Open the blast doors!", so he'd done his research!

Aren't they a little short to be stormtroopers ?

[Jg15]

Anyone catch Rebels on Friday? Missed it but just found its being repeated on Disney XD➕ 1 at 12.

Also when does the series properly start? Read its meant to be the 13th but cant find it in the TV guide for that date on Disney XD so assume this is an American date.

[jonamok]

Saw it. Enjoyed it. Very pretty. Good fun.

[makkuwata]

Saw it. Enjoyed it. Very pretty. Good fun.

Maybe we need a separate Rebels thread. It took me a full half-second to process that after opening the thread blind.

[MDY]

The third ep (the 'pilot' technically being one and two) of Rebels is out as well.. great fun, several familiar faces and starting to get a little Firefly vibe from the crew as they start to gel..

Plus loved the Star Tours cameo! Such a cool reference back to the old Universal Studios ride..

[Vespa Alex]

Just watched the first douple episode of Rebels and thought it was pretty well done. Granted, I'm not target audience any more, but there's still a lot to like in there.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

Ha, they've finally given Palpatine a first name.

Are you sitting comfortably?

'Sheev'.

Anyway, in less rubbish news, there's supposedly a ton of leaked and spoilery concept art from Episode VII here: http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2015&t=9509

[Glasgowchivas]

Lots of rumours being confirmed by that leak and possibly that big one from a few weeks ago too, so I'd avoid it if you're wanting to stay unspoiled.

Looks good though!

[Jumble Jumble]

Sheev's electric/Sheev's in a family full of eccentrics/Sheev's done things I never expected

etc.

[Space Renegade Ulala]

They're going overboard on using the X-Wing jet intakes on practically everything. Lovely to see the Outrider again, though.

[SeanR]

Stephen Palpatine.

[TehStu]

I'm not reading any spoilery links. In what context was Palpatine named? His obituary, or are they bringing him back?

[Commander Jameson]

Sounded like he was named in Rebels not Episode VII stuff.

[Jumble Jumble]

And we're sure it wasn't Steve?

[rubberducker]

i sorta wish i hadn't looked at that spoiler link.

but hot damn the concept art looks spot on.

[Sponge]

I've accepted that spoilery information will inevitably reach me before I see the film so I've embraced that by willingly looking at concept art and so forth.

Looking at those links has actually got me pretty excited about the whole thing.

[rubberducker]

The concept art more of less tally's with the leaked stuff on Episode7news.com

some of my favourite images:

EDIT: Looks like they have been removed...

[Hanzo the Razor]

Stephen Palpatine.

I always thought he would be Frank Palpatine.

"I must be Frank, your majesty"

[Glasgowchivas]

The 2nd and 4th picture REALLY back up that big rumour from a few weeks back.

The eye and lips are clearly modelled on him.

[Flams]

Warwick Davis has joined the cast

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=124098

[Mr Cochese]

It's weird how some people in Star Wars just have normal sounding names, like Luke Skywalker, Ben Kenobi, and Darth Barry.

[Matt Defis]

Don't be fooled by his simple name though, that Darth Barry was a right fucking cunt.

[jonamok]

Really enjoyed the latest Star Wars Rebels ep with artoo and threepio in it. Great fun and beautiful to look at.

[Steven]

I was initially sceptical about more Star Wars and then warmed to it. Now, with all of the recent rumours about Luke , etc, I'm back to thinking it should have all ended, it did all end, with ROTJ. The story arc is there, the fairytale ends. Done.

Starting to think that anything else, no matter how clever they think they're being, will feel like bolted on fan-fic with high production values.

[Glasgowchivas]

You might want to spoil that because the rumour is not being widely talked about in this thread for fear of spoiling the film for others. Also that image is shit.

[Fury4k]

Yeah let's keep these spoilers in spoiler tags please guys.

[makkuwata]

We 100% need two threads.

I'm more inclined to eek out every little drip feed of this experience as it's only going to happen once. I know I'm not alone. There should be a thread with zero spoiler tags and a thread with zero spoilers.