"The Force Awakens" (with SPOILERS)

Why is C3PO's arm red?

 

Good question. I guess you should go to the local comic shop to do some research and report back to us.

 

He spent 30 years birthing a calf?

 

Tell me, nerd!

 

Finally made a road trip to see it - it doesn't come out here until next week. I'm finally able to read this thread.

Enjoyed the heck out if the movie, even though I still hate 3D. I'm old enough to have seen the original twice in the theaters, so that's my bar.

I did know Han would die, so when he had his confrontation with Ben, I found myself muttering, "I have a bad feeling about this." I thought he'd go down in gunfire, but as soon as he stepped closer, I knew that was it.

I've never seen the actor portraying Kylo/Ben before, and I wasn't too impressed. Rey was fantastic.

My guess on her parentage is Luke or Han would be too simple. My guess would be some kin of Obi Wan, so when I finally caught up with this thread, the one made sense to me:

The thing with Vader's helmet always bothered me. I watched Jedi twice last week and it just seemed weird that Luke takes off Vader's mask (at least two pieces) as the Death Star is fallling down around him, has his face-to-face moment with Dad, and then somehow, with super-Wookie strength, manages to lug his mostly-metal father and the mask out of the building. Then he gets to Endor and torches it. I had enough trouble with that, and now I'm supposed to believe that Luke didn't complete the torch job and dumped it in a landfill. Somehow, his nephew knew where it was, and made a mental note that if he turned to the Dark Side, he'd find it and make an altar out of it?

I recognize that it's a small nit to pick, but I just didn't buy it at the end of Jedi and now it's back.

Anyway, most of my colleagues already made the out-of-town run to see it over Christmas, so the NYE party was filled with discussion. (Did Mark Hamill really get $5m for that appearance?!) The kids at the party, about 8-10 of them and all under the age of 7, turned on Jedi and went around telling the adults to "shhh!" because they were completely into it.

 

KJIM, the "Rey is Obi-Wan's kid" is quite popular on the innerwebs. I like it.

 

There's a guide book that vaguely says that 3PO lost his arm "sacrificing another droid," and is quite upset about it.

 

Oh, dear.

 

Without knowing if they'll touch on it in the coming sequels, that's not that hard to offer up a plausible explanation:
1) Luke was able to use the force to lift Vader's body.
2) The metal/composite mask wouldn't burn entirely. I'm guessing a lot of Vader didn't burn through, since the rest of his body was encased in the same material. So, after the pyre burned down and there were still Vader parts left over, Luke buried what was left (including the mask). At some point he showed his nephew where his grandfather was buried as part of his Jedi training, perhaps as a warning about the lure of the dark side when Ben/Ren was starting to lean that way. It obviously backfired.

 

RIP Boba Fett. It would have taken the Sarlacc a thousand years to digest you, but natural causes got you in a tenth of the time.

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Apparently the book that will deal with it doesn't come out until next month. I remember seeing something that originally mentioned it coming out in December, but either that story was wrong or it got bumped back.

 

Well, you could always go with the theory that 3PO was getting torn asunder in all three movies during the original trilogy, so perhaps the red arm was just a spare part that they used to patch him together. I'm sure there's a different explanation in the EU.