Sitting out in the back garden yesterday having a coffee and a cigarette I come across the new plot details for episode VII and a near animal growl animates from my mouth!!!!! If you haven’t heard the news the latest plot is as follows
After the opening crawl updating us on what’s been happening since Return of the Jedi the camera pans down not to a space ship but a severed hand holding a lightsaber. This hand and lightsaber some how survives re entry to a desert planet and are found by Daisy Ridleys and John Boyega charcters. They know the lightsaber is a relic of the past and decide to try and find the owner. In their travels they come across Han Solo and Chewbacca who are no longer piloting the Falcon???? Han recognises the lightsaber as the one Obi Wan Kenobi gave to Luke Skywalker. Han has not seen Luke since the battle of Endor so they all go on a hunt to find Luke. Meanwhile what’s left of the Empire are building a new secret super weapon on some ice planet.
Ive got one or two problems with this!!!! How does a hand survive re entry through a planets atmosphere??? If the lightsaber Han recognises is the one originally built by Anakin Skywalker then how did it survive the fall through the planet Bespins core???? and then reach outer space. Also a Jedi’s lightsaber is not indestructible and again that begs the differ on how it survived re entry in a planets atmosphere? Also what’s been happening since Endor? At the end of Return of the Jedi everyone from Bespin to Coruscant to Naboo were celebrating the fall of the Empire! so its sounds like everything did not go quite to plan for the Rebellion. Then there the new superweapon that’s being built. Its much smaller then the Death Star but it can destroy whole solar systems not just planets. This smacks of the Sun Crusher which was not a very large ship but could take out whole solar systems just by making the systems sun go super nova. The story also smells like a revamp of episode VI with very similar characters on a very similar quest.
But again all these rumours could be false just a red herring to taste the waters of all us Star Wars fans out there. I`m gonna keep reading the rumours as they come up even if they make me mad and want to send Boba Fett after JJ Abrams. We will just have to sit tight and wait for when the movie hits the cinema and probably all these worries will be for nothing.
On other news yesterday we got to see the new design for the X-Wing which many of us (even my good self) mistook for a Z-95 Head Hunter!
Till next time. May The Force Be With You!!!!!
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