ST Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma) in Episode VII

I just hope that there is more color in this movie than the drab brown we have been getting; not that I am complaining. I am grateful for the photos we have gotten, like these cool grass covered spaceship hangars, but I hope we see some larger population centers like Coruscant. It is looking more and more like EP VII is a remake of EP IV. Too early to tell though; maybe I am just getting too impatient.

 

This supposed to be a Rebel airfield and she's not wearing your usual fighter pilot outfit, may be she's not been to wardrobe yet and its run through. May be she's wearing that jacket over her actual costume and all you're seeing is the lower half of her actual outfit, and thats if its GC anyway. There's just too many possibilities to judge anything just yet.

 

Yeah I know; it makes sense in a military environment. I am just worried about JJ going too minimalistic with the movie as a whole. I tend to worry too much.

 

I doub't the popcorn trick is: masquerading as your own handmaiden.

 

I have to say, I thought that was pretty clever. IMO, it was executed better in the novels (TPM, AotC) than the movies.

 

It`s either luck or skill.

 

if it is her it may not be a rebel uniform, it reminds me of Dooku's outfit without the belt and cape. Which could tie into the aristocratic thing as she could be a Dooku descendant or from the same planet as Dooku.(Dooku would have worn typical Jedi robes up until he left the order, he then takes up his noble title after he leaves the Jedi and thus would were typical Serrano noble garb). The old EU only explored Dooku's background sparingly, one book, Yoda: Dark Rendevous, and it showed a little bit of his homeworld in the TCW. While the guy that may be Adam Driver definitely is in a Rebel/New Republic flight suit, maybe this is all from some type of battle like hoth but on a grassy plain, Christie leading imps and Driver as part of a rebel/new republic force fighting them in speeder or starfighters. If so we may get new Imperial Walker designs which would be awesome

 

If the hood isn't part of the normal chrome trooper outfit, maybe it's actually for their leader? I could totally see that trooper taking her helmet off to reveal Gwendoline...

 

Didn't she reveal herself the EXACT same way in GoT?

 

Yes, it would be cool to see GC as a female Stormtrooper in Episode 7, especially since we saw no female troopers or Imperials in the OT or PT. I do think the chrome trooper design would be cool, but have no idea if this pic. is legitimate....in any case, a chrome trooper is a great idea. The new Stormtroopers should look different enough from previous films to be unique, but at the same time look similar enough to ST's to still be at least slightly familiar...

 

How do we know we didn't see any female troopers in the OT?

 

True. However, if there were female troops in the OT, it wasn't obvious. Women have an obviously different build than men, so IMHO their armor would have to conform to their shape. That being said, there are some tough body-builder type women in the real world whose build may at times look similar to a guy's - so, I guess anything is possible...

 

Even female body builders have a feminine shape.

 

Men have different builds too but all storm-trooper armor shapes are identical (I think..?).

Of course the answer is because they're all Temeura Morrison lookalikes so we know none were female. However, if the stormtroopers recruited regular people by the time of the OT, they probably selected only those of a certain height/weight/build. I don't get the sense that the storm-trooper armor is malleable enough to accommodate different body types. I imagine Luke had alot of space inside when he donned his on.

 

We also need to remember that we have only seen a tiny pocket of an Empire that spanned entire systems. What we have seen may not speak to the entire organization. I think that Rebels is going to do a good job of filling that out.

 

"Aren't you a little TALL to be a Stormtrooper?"

 

^^ Good post.

Also, watch IMPS. You see quite a few female stormtroopers in that, and they wear standard armor.

 

Good to know - Thanks. I've been finding out a lot of Stormtrooper armor in this thread. Have no idea how it does or doesn't fit onto people other than what I see in the films; I've always wanted to get a Stormtrooper outfit authentic to the movies, but haven't investigated this too much since I'm sure it'll cost a lot of $....

Re: the height issue, I'm puzzled by Leia's, "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" line in ANH - i.e., if Luke fit into the armor perfectly (as he seemed to) & even though he was a little shorter than Han, didn't that just mean that the Stormtrooper he was took the armor from was also "short"?!

Re: GC, I can see how her height (6' 3") may lead you to believe she's a guy (only if she wears armor, of course!) - the thing is, if the rumors are correct & she's the Stormtrooper commander, then she will be very imposing & tower over most of the rest of the troops....

 

I think originally Stormtroopers were all supposed to be clones. Now, with Rebels, they're taking it in a different direction.

 

Thanks - I knew about the Clones in the PT, but my impression from the Marvel EU (which isn't canon, I know) is that the Stormtroopers came from all over, and at least some of them were forcibly conscripted from the various planets the Empire took over.

That being said, Lflm. was ingenious in the OT by not showing us any Troopers' faces, so that we didn't know either way what they looked like; I think this was symbolic of their being members of a faceless, unrelenting army - i.e., they could have all been clones...

And, this is a good reminder that I need to see Rebels...

 

Makes me wonder if the first time we see her, she'll be covered up and voice disguised. And we won't see it's a woman until later in the movie. As the first female trooper we see, it would be a sort of reveal.

 

Gwendy will probably be revealed in her opening scene after she does something tough and badass while in disguise. I don't see them dragging her gender reveal for a good portion of the movie.

 

Maybe the chrome troopers have a separate leader who is not Gwen Christie. But she was said to have been seen practicing with a light saber, wasn't she?

The chrome trooper leader may be outdated concept art. Or it might just signify a costume change for Christie.

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