Perfect Xero

One of the girls: "Why isn't Jason here?" Alison: "So he can be a red herring suspect later in the season when we find out that he really was in town today.

I think that Padme going in to hiding on Alderaan as a servant in the Organa house would have been a fitting way to close her story. It would have mirrored the way she'd disguised herself as a hand maiden in TPM. And, if we assume that she survives to ANH (the mother that Leia talks about remembering could have been her adoptive mother, who Leia believed to be her real mother), you add the irony that Vader and Tarkin would have actually killed her when they destroyed Alderaan in ANH.

After seeing it a second time I noticed that the way that Rey kills the Rathar by bringing the door down on it is an allusion to how Luke killed the Rancor in Jedi. I found it more enjoyable on second viewing because I didn't spend most of the movie wondering when/how Han, Chewie, Leia, Luke, R2, and 3PO would show up.

Kylo Ren ordered the murder of an entire village in TFA, which presumably included children. It was also at least strongly implied that he was responsible for the massacre of Luke's students.

Then perhaps they should have had the girls apologize to the boys for they way they were treating them? I mean, they were literally trying to murder one of them ...

I guess that answers the question of how they're going to have 13 year old Clark/Kal on the show.

Some versions of Clark didn't have his powers start to kick in until he hit puberty and then it took him years to learn how to actually control his powers (like the scene in Man Of Steel where his super senses kick in for the first time while he's at school and his classmates see it as him just freaking out for no reason). If you can't participate in gym class because you might not be able to control your strength and accidentally kill another kid or can't walk down the hall without bumping it to walls because your x-ray vision is making you see through them you'll probably come about the reputation for being the awkward, nerdy kid quite naturally. So, in that respect Clark and Kara could have had a similar curve, grew up a normal kid until they hit 12/13, then suddenly having to learn to control all these crazy powers while attempting to fit in, making them seem weird and awkward and making it difficult for them to feel close to their peers.

The only thing that I really didn't like about this movie was that being willing to kill the dog was part of the test. It didn't feel like it fit with the nature of the other tests.

Well, yeah, but that's the sort of motivation that racist/speciesist villains tend to have for going after Superman when he's done absolutely nothing wrong. Which I hope doesn't apply to Batman, because I'd rather his motivation not be that he's just an angry bigot.

Maybe one of these trailers should give some idea why Batman has such a mad hate-on for Superman, so far Bats just looks like a total psychopath who is trying to pick a fight with Supes because he doesn't like that Superman is more powerful than him.

It's actually in Attack of the Clones that Mace and Yoda debate telling the senate that their ability to use the force has diminished. I'll certainly agree that the execution of the PT was downright bad, but the way I see Yoda being right about Anakin is a lot like how Anakin had a vision of Padme dying which came true ... because Anakin went over to the Dark Side to try to save her and ended up killing her. Yoda's right about Anakin, but I think part of the reason that he's right is because of the missteps that the Jedi made throughout the trilogy in dealing with Anakin (and Palpatine). Even Anakin's final nudge over to the Dark Side is when Mace Windu seemingly has Palpatine defeated and decides that Palpatine is too dangerous to be allowed to live, so he breaks with the Jedi way and goes to execute Palpatine himself. Which sums up the Jedi's role in the entire trilogy, the Jedi are so afraid of the Sith and the Dark Side that they lose sight of what it's supposed to mean to be a Jedi.

The story of the Jedi Order in the prequel trilogy is that they've become so afraid of the Dark Side that they've removed themselves from their own emotion and humanity and had actually begun to lose their ability to use the Force.I think that Qui Gon and his talk of the "Living Force" is supposed to represent an experienced Jedi Master who believes that they should be part of the world rather than removed from it and that you fight the Dark Side in the here and now, not by removing emotion. Basically he's the guy who could have actually trained Anakin properly, and probably would have struggled to keep the Jedi out of fighting a War because there was a Sith on the other side. Obi Wan is awesome, but inexperienced, and Yoda and Mace are so afraid of a 10 year old who loves his mother that they refuse to aid in his training.

It's seems pretty odd that Astra would play up Kara as the "true heir" to the House of El though, since Astra herself isn't a member of the El family. IMO Cat revealed herself to be on team Supergirl but not team Kara. She went right to talking about how many people weren't being saved because Kara was maintaining a secret identity and spending time getting her coffee. We've already seen that Cat likes to push people and play "bad cop" to get them to raise their game. Does Kara need someone who is going to guilt her every time someone dies or gets hurt because she wants a slice of a "normal" life as a way to decompress from the pressures of being a hero? If Cat thought that Kara was "slacking" on being a hero, I wouldn't put it beyond Cat to out Kara to try to force her to be a hero 24/7.

Kara somehow has better chemistry with text messages on a computer screen that she does with either Winn or James.

What about the timing would she question? Cat was demanding proof that Kara wasn't Supergirl, so Kara provided proof that she isn't Supergirl using a resource (James) that Cat obviously knows Kara has access to. You can't demand that someone provides you with an alibi and then call it suspicious that the person provided an alibi in a timely manner. Based on the information that Cat currently has, continuing to believe that Kara is Supergirl would require huge leaps in reasoning based on broad speculation about things that she has no way of knowing. There's a huge difference between being critical and not believing the things that you're seeing with your own eyes because you had a hunch based on circumstantial evidence.

Why wouldn't she? She literally saw Kara and Supergirl at the same place at the same time. Their cover story, that Jimmy Olsen, publicly known as being a friend of Superman and Supergirl, called Supergirl in to clear up Cat's theory that was about to cost his friend Kara her job is believable enough. J'onn is not a publicly known hero, so Cat has no way of knowing that Supergirl has a friend who can fly and shapeshift.

I don't think they'd tell you that it's part of your training ... It's your job, but it's also a stealth training exercise. Like the old army practice of making cadets clean the bathroom with toothbrushes, which was both a punishment but also a way to teach them discipline and attention to detail. It's also a nod and an answer to the Clerks dilemma where Dante and Randall argue about how the Rebels must have killed a bunch of innocent workers and contractors when they blew up the Death Star. The Empire/First Order fills their menial jobs with off-duty storm troopers, so it's okay to just blow up their entire moon/planet sized super weapon and kill everyone inside because they're all storm troopers.

But they're kidnapping and raising those slaves for their army anyway. And again, being forced to perform undesirable, tedious tasks is almost certainly part of their training/indoctrination. There's only so many hours of the day that you can put a child through actual combat training without them burning out, so you need other things for them to do to keep them occupied the rest of the day when they're not eating or sleeping. The last thing that you want is a bunch of teenage slaves having time to sit around and talk and think about why they're doing what they're doing. They need something useful for them to do before they're actually old/trained enough to send out in to the field, it forces them to work as a group, accomplish tasks that they otherwise wouldn't want to perform, pay attention to detail, and do a through job.

It doesn't make sense to waste resources on droids when you literally have free slave labor to do those tasks. Also, the First Order probably views it as part of their training and a way to make going out and risking your life as a stormtrooper look like an attractive goal over a life of menial labor.

Well, I hope that Cat isn't secretly plotting to steal Kara's powers.

It probably would be. Of course there's a reason that they thought Anakin was too old to train at 8 years old.

It was something Lucas clarified in an interview (and in one of the Attack of the Clones commentaries, IIRC).

I've seen this come up a few times. The Jedi Order didn't actually require celibacy, it was it was forms of attachment like marriage/romantic love that were forbidden. So, in theory, the old order Jedi could have a "friend with benefits" but couldn't have a husband or a wife.

I agree. ANH is based on the structure of the classic hero's journey anyway, so any story focusing on the calling of hero to arms is going to have similarities. It's not like the structure of ANH (or the OT) was some brilliant bit of originality. While there's also the clear allusion to elements from all 3 of the OT films, Lucas often described the Prequel Trilogy as an "Echo" of the OT, and he clearly set about showing us similar things but from the other side. TFA does this (but executed much better) it Echos the original trilogy while doing its own thing with them. I just hope that Luke learned some new training techniques other than what Yoda taught him, because I don't think that Rey can carry him around in a backpack.

Anakin was a genius techie, having constructed his own pod racer and 3PO as an 8 year old. Also, all those random gadgets that R2 would bust out in the Prequel Trilogy and Clone Wars had to come from somewhere. As much as people mock his line about power converters, it indicates that Luke was at least some level of gear head.