What’s Truly Unique about This Stormtrooper

By the time Luke is young and his friends are talking of going to the Academy the clone troops had obviously already been phased out or were being phased out.

I guess these kids are too young to remember that from the first movies but go back and watch the first Star Wars and read the first Star Wars book.

The clones were merely a contingency and a ploy to gain control over a easily manipulated military force by the Emperor.

It’s not rocket science.

Friendly Neighborhood Filmmaking

This week JJ Abrams released the teaser trailer for Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens and just like every other fanboy I watched the video over and over, often pausing to pick out even the most minute details. My dissection of the trailer was handled with the same level of precision as a group of Spaceballs with an giant fine-tooth comb. I mean this is JJ Abrams we’re talking about here. The guy who made Lost. Do you know how many Easter Eggs he snuck into that series?

Of course I wasn’t the only person with their eye on the trailer and it didn’t take long before people shared their discoveries and doubts to social media. It took no less than ten frames before some members of the Star Wars fan base had a collective head burst. The scene I’m talking about is the one that opens the trailer…

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