That last ep on Empok Nor....the FO refueling station. The First Order is okay with Nikto as technicians?
I have no idea...who is supposed to be speciesist this week?

I did get a kick out of the technician suits. I was kind of hoping that was "Matt" sneaking around.

New thought...

Can Beskar steel repel the Darksaber? I'm not clear if the Darksaber had the same ability to cut throw almost everything.

The Incinerator Trooper was a great nod to The Force Unleashed.  And the fact that Gideon had his own squad of Death Troopers?  He's clearly got some status to merit an elite unit like that.

I agree that he probably has a Star Destroyer or some other capital ship(s) at his disposal.  Those troops probably weren't just hanging around on another part of Nevarro, because the bounty hunters guild would certainly have known about a garrison that size.

Based on what we saw in TROS?  Gideon might be in a league of officers much like General Pryde - officers who were closely allied with the Emporer, and seeking out Force sensitives at the direction of the Emporer himself.... even in the post ROTJ era.

I'll be intrigued to see how vast Gideon's resources are. Arriving in one single TIE makes him either a badass or a one-time Moff who is now scraping by.

Quote from: Jesse James on January  1, 2020, 06:56 PM

I figured Gideon has many many more stormtroopers than were there.  Just my guess anyway.

So, after watching this again the stormtrooper counts are really bugging me.  There's a slew of them in town with a vast amount of reinforcements when Gideon shows up.
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Yeah the amount of troopers that were finally revealed on the outside of the lava cave was bizarrely low.  IG could have dispatched all those without detonating himself so the story would have made a lot more sense if there were at least 50 stormtroopers standing there

There were a number of ships in the Rebel fleet that were some nice easter eggs.  The ones I found?

The Rebel troop transport definitely had me puzzled.  It looks like a U-Wing cockpit on top of a big box, almost like the main hold of the Eravana (Han Solo's freighter at the beginning of TFA).

People have noted that Han's TFA freighter does appear to be in the low center of the shot.

Also this dude on twitter and his commentators have done quite a bit of work ID-ing ships. My questions here are about ships they have not yet addressed.
https://twitter.com/AdmiralNick22/status/1186349220757786629

I'm nerding out on the ships in the Allied Peoples Fleet (as I am calling it). I’m trying to ID Sidon Ithano’ s Meson Martinet based on the unaffiliated characters listed in the Visual Dictionary. The Martinet is a subject of confusion from various sources, which is noted on wookiepedia. The only full image of the ship was from the Lego game, which may or may not be official.

I’ve noted a few others from the visual dictionary that fly the type of ships pictured. Does anyone recognize the three mystery ships circled in orange, light green, and light blue? I selected those as candidates for the Meson Martinet.

Nick, I totally misread your post the first time.  I thought you said IG-11 wiped them out.   

My point was that there were a ton of new top of the line troopers that showed up with Moff Gideon, there were not a lot of Mandalorians in the covert....safe to assume they were overwhelmed.

I'm going to assume that Gideon had 2-3 times as many troops when he arrived as were left for episode 7&8. I can't believe it was easy to wipe out that many Mandos.

Personally, I'd go with IMAX 2D over 3D....just because there's so much going on in several scenes that the #D could be really distracting.

Well I just tried the AMC imax.  As of now I can't tell a difference between that and the AMC Dolby screen right next to it.

Does it seem like Vader's helmet does anything in this trilogy? I'm assuming Palpatine was telling us that he "showed the darkness" to Kylo in what was assumed to be Vader. Kylo touches the helmet to try and mess with Rey while she's running the training course, but I assume the result is nothing more than the dyad connecting them. I aways felt weird about the idea of the helmet having any dark energy given Vader redeemed himself. When people say that Palpatine's return messes up Vader's sacrifice... I feel the helmet corrupting his grandson would have been exactly that. I don't agree that Palpatine returning affects Vader. Palpatine is an evil old **** and evil is as evil does. He returned in Dark empire and he returned here. If he had means to do so he would return.

I do like the idea of someone getting to surprise Palpatine twice only to have the second surprise backfire. The first surprise is the ability to transfer the saber from Rey to Ben. I appreciated the little slight of hand trick she does. The backfire surprise is that the life force of the two is enough to regenerate him, which it appears he did not anticipate.

Also, captain Sidon Ithano is present for the celebration at the end. He is listed in the visual dictionary  but it wasn't clear to me that was the connection. I'm hoping his ship the Meson Martinet is visible somewhere. Wookiepedia also claims that Quiggold is in ROS or maybe on set at least.