{"id":40965,"date":"2016-03-31T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=40965"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:01:41","slug":"star-wars-the-force-awakens-poe-dameron-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-poe-dameron-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"How Resident X-Wing Pilot Heartthrob Poe Dameron Survived The Force Awakens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/starwars7.asp?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/em><\/a> came out in December, there were several breakout characters, but none in quite the same way as Oscar Isaac&#8217;s Poe Dameron, mostly because of his lack of screentime.<\/p>\n<p>That lack of screentime is the clearest indicator that in the original script, Poe was supposed to die.<\/p>\n<p>After a crash landing on Jakku, and a mysterious, miraculous recovery, Poe shows up later in the film, a bit out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>So how did the resident X-Wing pilot of our hearts survive? Director J.J. Abrams and company discuss this in one of the upcoming Blu-Ray special features titled <em>Secrets of The Force Awakens,<\/em> but if you just can&#8217;t wait, here&#8217;s a teaser:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7CHf948D2qE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bless you Oscar Isaac for speaking up and keeping this beautiful, flirtatious Resistance pilot in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>It does raise the curious question, however, of what Poe&#8217;s overall presence and importance in this universe will be. It would be a travesty if Poe were not to be in the future films, but I&#8217;m sure he will be. The question is in what capacity? Many people, myself included, consider him, Finn, and Rey the new trio, and I can only hope that ends up being the case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> hits shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray on April 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Are you glad Poe Dameron survived? What do you hope to see of him in the future? Share your thoughts below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7CHf948D2qE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out in December, there were several breakout characters, but none in quite the same way as Oscar Isaac&#8217;s Poe Dameron, mostly because of his lack of screentime. That lack of screentime is the clearest indicator that in the original script, Poe was supposed to die. After a crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,390,389,3793],"tags":[3145,112,166,1640,1488,1329,91],"yst_prominent_words":[13308,11842,28851,5815,5812,30906,30905,12285,9147,27031,26598,6037,30907,5780,5779,5809,5808,5781,5811,5810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64344,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40965\/revisions\/64344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40965"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}