/starwars/ - Star Wars

>>1437
Star Wars was always more about the fantasy angle.

I remember they gave a number for the amount of Clones in the Republic Army and it was stupidly small for a galaxy that size.

Maybe they'll fix it in SW7 because if you think about it an Empire the size of the one in Star Wars would never fall.

>>1438
indeed, let's hope that in Ep7 they'll fix the scales… though, judging from the directors previous works, it will all go even worse now.

The interior and exterior of the Enterprise were completely incompatible in the new Star Trek movies to begin with.
Though, I must admit if he tackles the scales as he did in Cloverfield, then I'll gladly welcome it. Better to obscure the scales, than to get them wrong.

>>1440

jj abrams was a producer on cloverfield and basic story concept creator

>>1437

clearly you don't into EU

>>1440
Well it's 30 years after ROTJ and the Empire is still around as a power so they've got some sense of galactic scale.

The ending of ROTJ SE just hand waved it all and said the Empire was overthrown on Coruscant because reasons.

>>1437
>Less Jedi.
>As cool as the jedi are, they were always considered "Rare", and a million Jedi, spread over a galaxy spanning a few thousand planets, each with a population similar to earth would make them more rare than you'd think.

Luke and Rey seem to be the only Jedi in EVII.

>>1443
Oh i dearly hope that is true.
Maybe they should get the academy going at some point but not rush it.

>>1441
I'm quite wellversed in the EU, but that's not really the point, now is it?
In terms of scale, the EU only adds divesity, but not actual scale within the universe. It still only takes a few dozen ships to conquer a planet…
The one bit of scaling I agree with the battle for Jabiim in SW-TCW comics by Dark Horse.
The scaling did improve in Legacy, though.

And in terms of JJ Abrams working on Cloverfield as a story concept creator and producer, he still had influence in the scaling of the movie as a producer.
My point still stands though; JJ Abrams doesn't scale well.
Directors/producers that do scaling well are for example Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson or Wolfgang Petersen.
Example of good scaling: The scene where the Prometheus enters the atmosphere of the planet.
The panning out scene from Orthanc in the Lord of the Rings, right before Saruman's speech.
or the large panning shot of all the ships landing on the beaches of Troy in the movie Troy.

>>1447

abrams' problem with the trek reboots is that no matter how big you think the enterprise is, there's always a bigger ship.

it's like the guy who thinks he has a big dick until he sees one that's bigger and then goes home sad

>>1442

the empire is no longer the controlling political power for the galaxy is what the SE ending did. you have to remember that there was the entire fleet of star destroyers waiting for palpatine's signal to destroy the rebellion, which never came due to his untimely death. they wouldn't just disband and go back to ordinary civilian lifestyles.

speaking of that, wouldn't it be cool if someone made a film like inglourious basterds but in star wars?