Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:24 pm

Did we have a thread for this yet? Did a search and couldn't find one.

Regardless, Episode 8 got a title today: The Last Jedi.

12/15/17

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:48 pm

In.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:49 pm

Am I supposed to get goose bumps at the reveal of the name of a movie?

tgb · Post by **tgb** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:50 pm

In only if the last Jedi turns out to be Jar Jar.

NickAragua · Post by **NickAragua** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:52 pm

tgb wrote:In only if the last Jedi turns out to be Jar Jar.

In that case, those aren't goosebumps.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:52 pm

coopasonic wrote:Am I supposed to get goose bumps at the reveal of the name of a movie?

I did. No shame.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 12:54 pm

I'm excited that the movie's release is getting (slightly) closer. Also that the title isn't dumb, though otherwise I don't care much.

Daveman · Post by **Daveman** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:19 pm

So we've gone from "Return of" to "Last" in 30 years. Sad.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:22 pm

To be fair, there is no difference between singular and plural. So he did Return. Even then, he was the last. Whether or not that has been the case in the intervening thirty years remains to be seen.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:26 pm

El Guapo wrote:Also that the title isn't dumb, though otherwise I don't care much.

I don't either, but figured this small, independent film could use it's own thread.

You know, for the exposure.

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:28 pm

I believe that I shall venture out to go view this film in a cinema.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 1:28 pm

Skinypupy wrote:
El Guapo wrote:Also that the title isn't dumb, though otherwise I don't care much.
I don't either, but figured this small, independent film could use it's own thread.

You know, for the exposure.

My mom isn't super tied into mass pop culture. When I went to see Captain America 2, I was talking to her on my cell on the way to the theatre. When I told her what I was going to see, she said, "Now, how did you hear about this movie?"

Somehow they got the word out on that indie film.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:08 pm

Zaxxon wrote:I believe that I shall venture out to go view this film in a cinema.

I'm counting on work to buy me tickets and popcorn and send me during work hours. They have set these expectations. They better not let me down.

Sudy · Post by **Sudy** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:38 pm

I think that's a great title. I wonder if it will have an alternate meaning, referring to more than just Luke.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:40 pm

Sudy Nym wrote:I think that's a great title. I wonder if it will have an alternate meaning, referring to more than just Luke.

Yeah, they were going to be more clever but "The Penultimate Jedi" just confused the focus groups.

Coop Fact: I am known to use the term penultimate to intentionally confuse and deceive for my own amusement.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:41 pm

Daveman wrote:So we've gone from "Return of" to "Last" in 30 years. Sad.

Yeah, WTF was Luke doing all this time? I thought he was supposed to become the new Yoda and train a new generation of Jedis.

Carpet_pissr · Post by **Carpet_pissr** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:42 pm

He failed, then pouted and ran away.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:44 pm

Jeff V wrote:
Daveman wrote:So we've gone from "Return of" to "Last" in 30 years. Sad.
Yeah, WTF was Luke doing all this time? I thought he was supposed to become the new Yoda and train a new generation of Jedis.

He was still trying to get over the fact he was turned on by his sister. Also, there wasn't much of the Jedi Infrastructure left to work with.

Now I need to watch TFA gain.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:54 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote:He failed, then pouted and ran away.

Yeah, he started to, but then Ben Solo / Kylo Ren got turned and (with help - other fallen students?) slaughtered the rest of the trainees.

I *do* really hope that Luke has been doing something on that island for the past couple decades, rather than just moping and whining. Though then again, he is Anakin's son, so...

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 2:59 pm

Maybe Luke refuses to train Rey as a "Jedi", and from here on out there is some other approach to mastering the Force

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:04 pm

He starts training her, but she will get a feeling that her friends are in trouble and run to help them against his advice before her training is complete. A limb will be severed in the process.

The part where she runs with him on her back will be extra challenging.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:19 pm

Unagi wrote:Maybe Luke refuses to train Rey as a "Jedi", and from here on out there is some other approach to mastering the Force

Bow-chicka-bow-bow

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:41 pm

Luke's training was pretty abbreviated. I have no idea how he could think he has what it takes to train Jedi. It's not hard to see why a student of his would be drawn away by the dark side.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:43 pm

He's got a trio of force ghosts with which to commune.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:01 pm

I seriously doubt this will in fact be the Last Jedi, unless every other movie that Disney puts out is a prequel.
But hey, they are in bed with Squaresoft, so maybe its The Last Jedi, The Last Jedi II, The Last Jedi III, and so forth.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:03 pm

Episode IX: Rebirth of the Jedi.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:05 pm

Episode IX: Seriously You Guys, The Jedi Are Coming Back This Time

Redfive · Post by **Redfive** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:22 pm

Cool name, can't wait.

To me the title is a little foreboding. Seems pretty likely that Rey is on the path to become a jedi. If she is the last (at least for now) that doesn't bode well for Luke's survival. For what it's worth (nothing), I never expected Luke to survive this trilogy--I just hope he goes out in a blaze of badass jedi glory.

And I could be all wrong too.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:27 pm

You think Mark quoted Samuel L Jackson, telling them to make sure he didn't die like some punk?

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:54 pm

Redfive wrote:Cool name, can't wait.

To me the title is a little foreboding. Seems pretty likely that Rey is on the path to become a jedi. If she is the last (at least for now) that doesn't bode well for Luke's survival. For what it's worth (nothing), I never expected Luke to survive this trilogy--I just hope he goes out in a blaze of badass jedi glory.

And I could be all wrong too.

"Jedi" is used as both a singular and a plural noun in Star Wars, so the title isn't clearly referring to only one person.

Redfive · Post by **Redfive** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:16 pm

El Guapo wrote:
Redfive wrote:Cool name, can't wait.

To me the title is a little foreboding. Seems pretty likely that Rey is on the path to become a jedi. If she is the last (at least for now) that doesn't bode well for Luke's survival. For what it's worth (nothing), I never expected Luke to survive this trilogy--I just hope he goes out in a blaze of badass jedi glory.

And I could be all wrong too.
"Jedi" is used as both a singular and a plural noun in Star Wars, so the title isn't clearly referring to only one person.

Yes, I know. Just speculating on the admittedly little amount of information released.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:37 pm

It will be a retread of episode 5 just as episode 7 was a retread of episode 4. Young untrained potential meets Jedi master, must over come some character flaw, face the evil, etc.

Yeah, I didn't like episode 7 at all

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:39 pm

coopasonic wrote:He starts training her, but she will get a feeling that her friends are in trouble and run to help them against his advice before her training is complete. A limb will be severed in the process.

The part where she runs with him on her back will be extra challenging.

They are already in training:

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 6:02 pm

It doesn't fit with the Star Wars title naming scheme.

Rumpy · Post by **Rumpy** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 6:54 pm

Yeah, my guess is the title refers to both Luke and Rey. Rey because it feels like Luke will end up training her so that she can rise up against Kylo. On the other hand, at the time of ESB, after Obi-Wan's death, it was Yoda who was thought to be the last and going on to train Luke, and if TFA followed a similar formula to ANH, I wouldn't put it past them to do the same thing here.

rshetts2 · Post by **rshetts2** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 7:43 pm

The title refers to Luke Skywalker. I know this because they already told us this is so.

This is a direct quote from the opening scrawl in The Force Awakens:

"Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister first order has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed."

Sometimes a duck is just a duck.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:24 pm

Oh crap. We're going to lose the Core Trio -- Han, Luke and Leia.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:54 am

There is also a line in TFA where they maybe give hint to the name of Episode 9.

Snoke wrote:The droid will soon be delivered to the Resistance... leading them to the last Jedi. If Skywalker returns... the new Jedi will rise.

Rise of the New Jedi?

(This being after a massive smack down in Eposode 8.)

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Tue Jan 24, 2017 10:17 am

Unagi wrote:Rise of the New Jedi?

Episode IX: Just Kidding

DD* · Post by DD* » Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:06 pm

Spoiler alert!