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Just who the hell were the Knights of Ren
- Thread starter DragonSJG
- Start date
Wasted potential.
They actually could have made great villains but they never did anything with them in the TLJ, until 5 mins before the end, where they decided to make them generic bad guys just there to be killed off straight away.
It would have been great to see them turn up throughout the trilogy as mini bosses for Rey and the gang to overcome but nope, nothing.
They actually could have made great villains but they never did anything with them in the TLJ, until 5 mins before the end, where they decided to make them generic bad guys just there to be killed off straight away.
It would have been great to see them turn up throughout the trilogy as mini bosses for Rey and the gang to overcome but nope, nothing.
I'm starting to like the cut of this Ren guy's jib lol
Be careful, Jedi man.
implying I would not want to have a beer with vader? wtf?
"I wanted him to read like a charming Darth Vader. A Vader who is charismatic and who is appealing. That's why [Ren's] skin is burned and he sort of looks the way that he does. He's embracing the seductiveness and the damage that the dark side does. Darth Vader, as impressive and imposing and terrifying as he is, is remote and cold and distant because he has the suit surrounding him. Whereas Ren isn't hiding behind it. He's someone you could have a beer with, in theory."―Charles Soule
They were a mystery box.
If JJ put any more thought and effort into them, they would stop being a mystery box.
So that's why they have no thought or effort put into them.
If JJ put any more thought and effort into them, they would stop being a mystery box.
So that's why they have no thought or effort put into them.
If I'm willing to have a beer with that guy, I will rethink my life and take up death-sticks instead.
Seriously beyond stupid. What a terrible movie. I don't think I've ever eye rolled harder during a movie more times than when watching TRoS
I always thought Jenny Nicholson's theory that they were assassination robots created by Ben Solo, and his first droid was BB-8 (she even went so far as to say the BB stood for Ben-Bot).
Sequel lore was good right after TFA, then people realized there are no plans for anything beyond the movie they exist in because Abrams is a hack and Disney is stupid for giving each movie and its story to different directors.
Sequel lore was good right after TFA, then people realized there are no plans for anything beyond the movie they exist in because Abrams is a hack and Disney is stupid for giving each movie and its story to different directors.
In Duel of the Fates it was revealed that the flashback from TFA (raining scene) is when Kylo and the Knights of Ren killed Rey's parents
You will drink this Bud Light. Pray I don't order you a Miller Lite.
I like how Rian was like "I don't know what this is" and then JJ was like "neither do I actually." And then I was like "it doesn't matter. Please stop."
remember that boy band music video shot of them on top of a mountain in Rise?
remember that boy band music video shot of them on top of a mountain in Rise?
Wait... So Kylo Ren wasn't their leader? He was just a member of the Knights of Ren? And the main guy was a just some weirdo with a burnt flesh fetish? and they worship lightsabers?
No, the weirdo was their original leader, who tried to recruit Ben Solo in. Ben Solo killed him and took over instead.
yeah my point is more that it's very stupid for a character called ren to have a sword that he calls "the ren".
not that i envy the comic writers who had to come up with this stuff with nothing to go on
A super low-rent Darth Sion, basically.
"I wanted him to read like a charming Darth Vader. A Vader who is charismatic and who is appealing. That's why [Ren's] skin is burned and he sort of looks the way that he does. He's embracing the seductiveness and the damage that the dark side does. Darth Vader, as impressive and imposing and terrifying as he is, is remote and cold and distant because he has the suit surrounding him. Whereas Ren isn't hiding behind it. He's someone you could have a beer with, in theory."―Charles Soule
Just a waste of space that jobbed immediately to Kylo.
Lmfao I love this video.
Lmfao I love this video.
At least that gave us the lightsaber teleportation scene, one of the only good ideas in TROS
A bunch of worse than clown goons.
They don't even carry lethal weapons. When Kylo tries to save Rey unarmed, all they did were hitting Kylo with something akin to plastic sticks.
Anyone with a wooden, metal bat would have killed Kylo with a bonk. Jar Jar was deadlier.
They don't even carry lethal weapons. When Kylo tries to save Rey unarmed, all they did were hitting Kylo with something akin to plastic sticks.
Anyone with a wooden, metal bat would have killed Kylo with a bonk. Jar Jar was deadlier.
But they're the post-series direct-to-dvd Toku villains that are just a kitbash of whatever suit parts they had laying around.
I read the jedi academy trilogy as a kid. Whoa it was 27 years ago! My tastes as a 12 year old probably weren't that refined!
You aren't kidding about the Dune books; I haven't read any but he's got at least 10 of them. I don't know if I wanna read an excerpt from any of his star wars books now though, you got me nervous. I just remember that in one of them han and chewy get set back to Kessel as punishment and they get rescued. I was hyped cause Kessel only is briefly mentioned in the original trilogy
Yeah, Kevin J. Andersen's writing was always terribly corny and ham-fisted. Timothy Zahn's writing is amazing through and through.
The funny thing is that I didn't notice how bad Andersen's writing was as a kid. The Jedi Academy series was one of my favorite series growing up, and was one of the first "big" books I just ate up. It was one of the series that got me over that "holy shit, that book is thick" thing that stops a lot of people from reading long books.
All the contrived plot points and stilted writing just went completely over my head at the time because i didn't know what good narrative looked like.
So just who the hell are these guys? They look cool and all but what's their deal? They just show up in the last movie to die and we know nothing about them.
This is a very "we're the guardians of the galaxy" group pose.
Fitting that so many are saying "Who?" in response to it.
In my headcanon, the knights of ren are the bodyguards that rey and kylo killed in The Last Jedi in the throne room.
Ep 9 was just a bad dream that I want to forget.
Ep 9 was just a bad dream that I want to forget.
They were set up in TFA to be some Nazgul-like unit but in TROS they just, like you said, show up and die because I guess Abrams didn't care much for them?
They also has a stupid Halo 4 Didact "read the comics to learn about them" type of informational buildup which just shouldn't happen with a mainline Star Wars movie.
They also has a stupid Halo 4 Didact "read the comics to learn about them" type of informational buildup which just shouldn't happen with a mainline Star Wars movie.
Kylo became their leader when he killed Ren. They were literally just a bunch of thieves and killers. Dark side users who traveled around the galaxy like pirates doing anything they wanted.
They become Kylo's henchmen pretty much, but they kinda forgot to use them in the movies until the end and it's.... done