What�s up Star Wars Fans, my name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
If you haven�t heard, a picture of box cover for the Snoke Throne Room toy set leaked this
morning, and a few people are wondering if it just gave us a major spoiler for the final
act in The Last Jedi.
Before I get into that�I just want to say that if you�re new here, I make videos on
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Okay, so I first found out about this toy set from my bro Geekdom101. He posted a video
on his second channel, World of Geekdom, where he weighed in on this potential spoiler.
Now I haven�t watched Geekdom�s video because I didn�t want it to influence anything
that I might say over here, but from our brief conversation this morning, I�m under the
impression that he thinks this actually could be a spoiler.
I�m going to say that I disagree. I think it�s just a toy set from something that
could potentially be in episode 8�meaning Snoke�s throne room. I don�t think that
we�ll see Finn, Rose, and Rey fighting storm troopers and the Praetorian Guard in Snoke�s
throne room in the third act of the movie, though.
If you haven�t seen the Live Star Wars Chats that I do on Sunday afternoons, then you might
not have heard my thoughts on what I believe will happen in the final act of The Last Jedi.
If you want to go into episode 8 completely spoiler free, you may want to tune out for
what I�m about to say�5,4,3,2,1� okay, we good?
Now I can�t take full credit for what I�m going to tell you. I got this from my big
sister, Tricia Barr, over on my favorite Star Wars Podcast, Fangirls Going Rogue. If you
don�t know who Tricia Barr is, well, she�s helped write at least two Star Wars encyclopedias,
and she�s one of those people who tends to get information from Lucasfilm before that
stuff is made public.
So what Tricia said in the last podcast was that Episode 8 is not going to a rehash of
Empire Strikes Back� it�s actually going to be the mirror, or the opposite of Empire
Strikes Back. So think of how Episode 5 started out on Hoth.
The Rebel Alliance was gathering all of their forces on Hoth to pool all of their Intel
and possibly make a full on assault to take down the Empire. Of course that meeting did
not occur. The Empire came full force to actually retrieve Luke Skywalker, but they dealt such
a heavy defeat to the Rebel Alliance that everyone was sent fleeing in different directions.
For more on that besides what was in the movie�you can read Lost Stars and Battlefront:Twilight
Company to get those events from a different perspective.
So think about how in Empire, everyone is together�even our group of Han, Leia, and
Luke. They all scatter� Han and Leia leave in the Millennium Falcon and Luke goes to
Dagobah to seek out Yoda. Eventually everyone comes back together at Cloud City, but think
about what happened there� Han is captured and frozen. Luke is nearly killed by his Father.
Now think about episode 8� everyone is actually scattered. Poe is off doing his thing. Rey
is on Ach-To to bring Luke back into the fold. Finn is in a coma. We know that the movie
will have these three strands� the bigger story of the New Republic, the Resistance,
and the First Order which will probably involve Poe and Leia. There will be Finn�s mission
with Rose to find this slicer named DJ so they can infiltrate the First Order. There
will be Rey�s story with Luke Skywalker. So everyone will start out scattered.
Eventually�they will come together in Act 3 on Crait.
Now Crait has ties going all the way back to the Rebel Alliance. It was a Rebel Base
that was abandoned just before the Battle of Scariff that we saw in Rogue One. The mining
operations taking place on Crait are helping to fund the Resistance.
So think about this�Empire Strikes Back started out on a white planet covered in snow.
The Last Jedi will end on a white planet covered in salt. There will be a battle on Crait between
the Resistance and the First Order, but I don�t believe anything will happen involving
Snoke or his throne room. I believe that, just like in Empire Strikes Back, the Resistance
will be meeting with potential allies to come up with a plan to take down the First Order.
I think this is when we will see everyone come together, Rey and Finn will be reunited.
Leia and Luke will have their reunion. If you look at a picture of Leia from the BTS
trailer, it looks like Rey�s head is in the bottom corner of the shot.
We also need to think about how Palpatine is presented in the Original Saga when we
start talking about Snoke. Palpatine did not participate on Both. I don�t think Snoke
is going to be too involved in the action. Could we get an idea of Snoke�s abilities?
I think that�s possible. There was a comment from Rian Johnson in Entertainment Weekly
about �him being a force of nature,� but it wasn�t clear if Rian was talking about
Snoke or if he was talking about Andy Serkis� performance as Snoke.
So for me, based on what I think will happen in episode 8, I don�t believe this toy set
is giving anything away. I don�t think Rey will come into contact with Snoke in Episode
8. My thoughts are that if we see Snoke�s throne room, it would be in Finn�s arc,
or when we see more of Kylo Ren�s training.
But those are my thoughts. I don�t think this toy set is spoiling anything, but what
about you? Maybe you think it IS giving up part of the story�so if you do, let me know
what you think this is showing us down in the comments below, and I�ll be checking
back to see what you all have to say.
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