.J. Abrams, please get John Williams for Star Wars: Episode VII

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[Perdogg]

J.J. Abrams, I hope you’re reading this. I know you love to collaborate with Michael Giacchino. He’s done some great works including the Medal of Honor theme, Up, Star Trek and Ratatouille. With Star Trek, it was okay that you went with Giacchino, since the Star Trek franchise has had many different composers over the years. Star Wars music, however, is synonymous with John Williams. He already struck out when it came to who was going to compose the Man of Steel movie. The winner went to Hans Zimmer, the same guy who took over Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy from Danny Elfman. Mr. Williams even expressed interest in composing the new Star Wars film.

[allmendream]

The Terminator movies created a time loop. Where did Terminator/Skynet technology come from? It came from study of the first Terminator sent back in time. Miles Dyson didn't invent the technology so much as he reverse engineered the technology from the Terminator to create Skynet.

There was a (bad) movie called “Time Rider” where a motorcycle racer gets accidentally sent back in time to cowboy days - where he romances a woman and gives her the medallion his grandmother gave him as a child. That woman ends up being his own grandmother (he is his own grandpa).

Now where did the medallion come from? Nobody ever created it, the earliest it entered the timestream was when he was sent back in time on his motorcycle; and the latest it was in the timestream was right before he was sent back. The movie was very forgettable, but the paradox of the medallion stuck with me and I was reminded of it when watching Terminator II.

[al_c]

Ack ... I forgot about the hand thing.

I remember Time Rider! So lame.

[allmendream]

Not just the hand - but some chips from inside the head! That is where Skynet technology came from! No human invented it - they reverse engineered it from something sent back in time - to create the computer that sent it back in time!

Yes, Time Rider was SO lame - but the paradox of the medallion was exactly like Skynet technology - it was a time paradox that nobody ever created!

[allmendream]

Another one I just thought of - Dr. Who. (SPOILER ALERT)

Amy Pond names her daughter Melody Pond, after her best friend growing up also named Melody. Melody Pond becomes the timelord River Song (Pond = river; Melody = song). River Song goes back in time to grow up beside her own mother and IS her best friend Melody. She was named after HERSELF. Where did the name “Melody” come from? She was named Melody because she went back in time and inspired her mother to name her Melody.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

The whole Ewok thing was ridiculous, and I was a bit annoyed and puzzled by it as a 9-year old in the theater. Lucas was getting weird and punch-drunk by the end of the trilogy, anyhow, and the Ewoks were a symptom of it. He needed a real director to reign in his excesses (like he had in ESB with Irvin Kershner).

BTW, I recall reading that the Ewoks were supposed to represent the Viet Cong defeating those “oppressive American capitalist-fascist pigs.” Who knew bloodthirsty Commie totalitarian devils were so cute and loveable ?

Yep, Lucas intended to parallel Vietnam by having the primitive (read Vietcong) Ewoks defeat a more "technologically advanced" enemy in the Empire...a metaphor for us. Oh, he also initially based the Emperor on Nixon. Just shows you his politics are about as good as his ability to write romantic dialogue.