Star Wars Episode 7 Trailer 3 and Tickets

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Disney just wanted to give free reign to the filmmakers by rectonning it. The new ones go quite a bit into detail for the path set by TFA.

About Snoke, my personal theory is that he is an original Sith, from the Sith species that the fallen Jedi took over millenia ago. Could certainly make it all the more interesting. Darth Plageuis wasn't human at all as well. He was of the Banking Clan species.

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I understand why they did it. I even agree with it. The EU had way too much baggage and poor writing. It would have been a serious handicap to any director, although I maintain there's a mountain of money in a X-wing novel/comic based TV series.

That occurred to me as well, but he certainly doesn't resemble the red/black skinned depiction we have from the EU. He's notably missing the weird chin stuff. He actually does resemble the Muun a bit imo, but I really can't see them keeping something so specific from the EU. I wasn't actually complaining that a Sith was alien (can't forget Darth (?) Maul), but that an alien would be leading an exclusively human male navy of Empire soldiers. The PT clones and OT army always had a Nazi feel to them and that was part of why they appeared so evil. Putting an alien, even a possibly force sensitive one, at the top of the pyramid is a little puzzling. Maybe Finn (black) and Captin Phasma (woman) are meant to show the First Order is much more egalitarian? There was also an offhand comment about clones that I didn't quite catch.

PS: Giant plot hole. If the starkiller fired the first shots to destroy the new Republic, how did it have a spare sun for a second shot? Is this a mobile planet weapon?