Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Let me add some if I may...

Points in favor of Sith:
1. Samuel L. Jackson

Points in favor of Jedi:
1. Everything Lando
2. Nien Nunb's laugh
3. "IT'S A TWAP!!!"
4. Original non-CGI scuzzy puppet Max Reebo band
5. Carrie Fisher Bikini Edition

I recently got Mrs. Viking to watch the original trilogy and she loved Jabba's dialogue, and I suppose Huttese in general which she declared to be, "a third random English words, a third laughing like Santa Claus and a third fake 'bumpa gumba wagga wonga,' sounds."

Max Reebo is the premiere jizz musician on Tatooine!

The Second Death Star didn't have a similar vulnerability! They were able to blow it up because it was incomplete, meaning they could literally just fly right to the core and shoot that from the inside (as opposed to Luke finding one critical exhaust vent.)

Oh and one point in Jedi's favour - this part of the soundtrack:

He's such a gross old man.  When Return of the Jedi was a new movie the toy company Kenner had some promotion where if you mailed in X number of proofs of purchase they would send you a limited edition Emperor action figure.  I saved up those proofs of purchase and mailed them in and you know what?!   Those sons of bitches at Kenner never sent me my Emperor action figure...and that's why I went to a state school instead of a brand name university.

But you would think if your first battlestation was destroyed by someone blowing up the core you would take at least some means to protect it first, even before completing the rest of the superstructure. Relying solely on a moon-based deflector shield and a legion of Stormtroopers when you know you are going to be attacked seems foolhardy at best. They should have hidden a second completed deathstar with the imperial fleet and used the other as a decoy.

"Anakin vs. Obi-Wan" is great just because it has that epic feel but also samples so much of the classic soundtrack in order to invoke all the feelings involved:

The whole thing really doesn't hold up to this kind of scrutiny. The shield is there so it can be active before it's fully completed. You can't just build these things right away, and it has to look somewhat vulnerable so that the Rebels will fall into the trap. But I mean, they could have just killed all of the Rebels when they first caught them instead of holding them hostage. The Ewoks by themselves wouldn't have been able to take down the shield generator. And it makes no sense for the Star Destroyers to be so far away. As soon as the Rebels are there the Star Destroyers should be coming on top of them and killing them. There's no point to dragging the thing out except for dramatic effect.

It's much clearer that these are kids movies in the original trilogy. You can't argue that as effectively with the parliament scenes in the prequel series. Most kids aren't going to be dissecting the battle tactics and strategies of the films, they're just gonna be excited by the action and drama.

ITS SO BEAUTIFUL

This has been me for the past hour

I also like the new (more) fascist direction for the stormtroopers with the modified red Empire logo.

To mix movie references--I need a DeLorean to take me to December 19, right now (right after I find out who actually won the 2015 World Series--no, it won't be the Cubs, no matter how well their season has started).

Have they said that the cartoons are canon for the new films? I know the post-Jedi EU is out but the more recent Clone Wars stuff could be interesting to incorporate.