The non-toy Star Wars discussion thread

[Bemblebuu]

I'd like to see lightsaber glows put into the older films too.

The de-aging tech on Hayden Christensen could have been better, but faces can change heaps once aging wrecks havoc, and I guess the budget just wasn't there for Hayden's mug.

I'm always amazed how different Alec Baldwin looks now to when he was younger. Middle aged men's faces tend to get significantly wider (whether it's injections or not). Weird.

One other gripe I have with face effects: the change in volume prosthetics and stuff add to a person's head often ruins the effect for me. Like Vader in full post roast make-up just looks weird. Why not hire an actor with a skinny head so the end effect will be in scale with Hayden's bonce?

[GoktimusPrime]

One other gripe I have with face effects: the change in volume prosthetics and stuff add to a person's head often ruins the effect for me. Like Vader in full post roast make-up just looks weird. Why not hire an actor with a skinny head so the end effect will be in scale with Hayden's bonce?

I imagine that that would be even more expensive to do than digitally deageing on-screen actors. You'd have to pay for both actors for one. Also, the end effect doesn't seem to look as good. Rogue One used body doubles for both Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher; I think they did a pretty good job, but I also think that examples of direct digital deaging of actors (e.g. RDJ, Sam L Jackson etc.) looked better. I reckon it must be a TV budget thing; these effects aren't cheap.

Like Vader in full post roast make-up just looks weird. Why not hire an actor with a skinny head so the end effect will be in scale with Hayden's bonce?

I don't see any issue with scale. It's Christensen playing both unmasked and masked Vader, so... it's his real-world proportions both inside and outside he suit. If anything, it makes more sense than seeing unmasked Sebastian Shaw (and later as Anakin's ghost) vs the larger and more imposing build of David Prowse; that made less sense!

But since we're looking at Vader 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith, I don't mind him (or Obi-Wan Kenobi) looking older. It's not a flashback; time has passed, and these men have aged. That's fine. It looked weird to me in the flashback training scene, but I'm totally okay with both actors looking like their current selves in the present day of the TV series. Also, it is a transition towards what they will eventually look like in the Original Trilogy as played by Sebastian Shaw and Sir Alec Guinness, so yeah, they should be looking progressively older.

[GoktimusPrime]

Final episode of Obi-Wan...

Ups
+ Links things up with A New Hope quite nicely
+ Showing how much Owen and Beru love Luke to the point that they would risk their lives for him
+ Beru being prepared for a home invasion
+ Leia's farewell to Obi-Wan
+ Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader; first time we've seen Vader's helmet cut open on screen. Story further legitimises Obi-Wan's belief that Vader killed Anakin (I know that it's further legitimising a retcon, but it's awesome, damnit! )
+ Reva's choice

Downs
- How exactly did Reva survive, and how did she get to Tatooine so quickly? Assuming that the Grand Inquisitor stabbed her in her mechanical guts... they would still need to be repaired. And then she would still need to get transport to Tatooine without being detected... all in a mad rush, apparently.
- How rubbish are those Star Destroyer gunners?!
- Star Destroyers carry multiple squadrons of Imperial T.I.E. fighters... why couldn't they have deployed a squad to pursue the main ship, or just have Vader pursue Obi-Wan by himself aboard his own shuttle or T.I.E. fighter?