The Broken Lore of The Force Awakens (Part 1)

From the opening crawl until our first glimpse of sand. Join us for the first installment of our The Force Awakens diagnosis. We won't lie about your chances: the situation is looking a little grim.

Narration recorded in partnership with THE WARDROBE (IG: @wardobestudionz).

#00:00 INTRO
#03:29 Part 1: Opening Scrawl
#13:03 Part 2a: Dark On Both Sides
#24:51 Part 2b: Shuttle Stability
#28:12 Part 3: A Real Imitation Astrodroid
#41:09 OUTRO

[KoalaTContent]

5:57 Luke "I think I died, and then she stole Uncle Owen's farm, and then started using my surname." It's actually offensive that this is the official lore

[senturian]

lol, it's fun that you found written records of them really not caring about anything except how cute it would be

[censortube]

The Force Awakens killed Star Wars for me, it died when Rey was showing up Han Solo in his own ship and Luke skywalker was a coward who left his friends

[Smartcoughdrop]

Imagine if BB8 was legitimately worse at his job as a droid than R model droids, and people made fun of Poe for that, but because he like BB8 so much he was willing to mod his x wing to fit a smaller droid.

[lampshade]

To be fair, calling it “The Third Order” probably wouldn’t go over well

[庫倫亞利克]

"I was horrible, Obi-wan."
"Don't worry Luke, I had the same nightmare as yours last night."

[GELTONZ]

For me, Star Wars fell off a cliff in that opening text crawl and I've been screaming "EXPLAIN THE FIRST ORDER!" ever since. Like...we don't even need to go beyond that. How did the Rebels defeat the Empire and become weaker? How did the Empire lose and become stronger? AND DON'T QUOTE OBI-WAN! That doesn't apply here! Without explaining how we even got into this situation, nothing else makes sense. This is not an ignoreable plot point!

[smashstuff]

I was accused of nitpicking when I pointed out at Galaxy's Edge in Florida, the moisture vaporators were surrounded by puddles of water. My point was that Disney didn't understand SW. All they knew was moisture vaporators looked like a Star Wars thing, so just throw it in. The fact that the disastrous Star Wars hotel shut down proves my point.

[FriendlyDarkwraith]

A neat idea would have been if the manufacturer of the Imperial Interrogation Droid also created the BB unit as a PR move to improve their company's image in the post-Imperial era, hence the overly manipulative and cynical attempt to appear "cute". It'd also explain why the Not-Empire uses the same type of droid, and why both styles of droid share the same basic spherical design. In fact, it's like you took one of those interrogation droids, stripped out the repulsors and just slapped a miniature R2 head on top of it.

[jcurses]

"...I think I died, and then she stole Uncle Owen's farm... and then started using my surname... I don't think I'll sleep again." 😂😂

Those were my thoughts exactly by the end of RoS.

[kapitankapital]

I think the big problem I have with the First Order (and the sequels in general, although TLJ is noticeably less guilty of this) is that there's nothing new kit-wise, it's all just derivatives of OT stuff. The idea of the Imperial style faction being the underdog would be a great opportunity to give us some new ships or troops more fitting of their role, like a flotilla of smaller picket ships rather than ships of the line. Or an evolution of the Tie Interceptor that gives them a fighter which can compete or even defeat an X-Wing. Seeing an enemy who has learned from the Rebellion and is actually deploying their tactics against our heroes would have been an entertaining new twist, and would have sold a lot more reference books...

[MendaciousCat]

I can’t believe that Luke is so powerful that his absence was the single reason the first order was able to be created. Instead of, y’know, a galactic republic

[Christian-enlk]

I never get tired of people taking pot shots at J.J.

[TheEyez]

31:18 - Every little hatch on R2-D2's body offers possibility!

- Lando Calrisian enters the chat!

[artizzykk]

I LOVE going to the theater to watch a movie only to be thrown into near pitch black scenes where I can barely see anything

[SamM-glzc]

While most people were celebrating The Force Awakens, the moment they Killed Han Solo, and then when they land, Leia brushes right past Chewie to hug Rey, I knew they had killed SW. I had no idea that they were going to do the job so thoroughly that TFA would be by far the best of the three 😂😢.

They excitedly killed one of the goldenest geese of all time.

[TheSpartan]

I appreciate the use of the expanded universe as canon. A fellow true-believer.

[justanotherguy]

You know you're in for a good time when the bread circus talks about lights and robots for 40 minutes straight

[Reishadowen]

That dream sequence was great, had me doubled over laughing. Nice one.

[serpentinious]

Imagine watching BB8 roll back and forth trying to get the right tool hatch into a position where it can actually use it and still be close enough to reach the thing it's trying to interact with.