Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Dec 2015)

[RDKirk]

The first teaser trailer has been released:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOVFvcNfvE


There is already controversy on the web over the black storm trooper. But those who have really been following the story know that there had always been non-clone troopers, although the great majority during the Clone War had been clones.

The canon animated series "Star Wars: Clone Wars" established that actual purpose of the clone troopers had been a long-term plot by Palaptine to destroy the Jedi with Order 66. The canon animated series "Star Wars: Rebels" has shown that seven years before the events of "Star Wars: A New Hope," the empire has been training natural-born humans to be storm troopers as a full-scale operation for some time...and it explicitly shows that some of them are black.

Twenty years later (episode 4) it's visually clear (even given the suits) that all the clones are not identical. The new movie takes place thirty years beyond that, when the Empire has been dismantled, and if any remaining imperial clones are still alive, they'd be quite old.

 

[Bananagator]

I thought the trailer was good.

Are people really complaining about John Boyega being a Storm Trooper?
I was under the impression that people went to the imperial academy mentioned by Luke in IV to become storm troopers. Well, that would be the lowest rank, at least.
Plus, we don't know why he's a storm trooper. They might not even be storm troopers anymore. The clone army was used like 50 some years before this movie. Does everyone expect them all to still be clones?

The only thing that made me scratch my head was that light saber with the mini-saber hand guard. What purpose could that possibly serve

 

[Agnikan]

The only thing that made me scratch my head was that light saber with the mini-saber hand guard. What purpose could that possibly serve

You don't want to know.

 

[Bumble Bee]

My boyfriend was concerned about the forked lightsaber, but he said he is willing to accept it because it technically was part of the comics after the empire was destroyed.

 

[RDKirk]

I thought the trailer was good.

Are people really complaining about John Boyega being a Storm Trooper?
I was under the impression that people went to the imperial academy mentioned by Luke in IV to become storm troopers. Well, that would be the lowest rank, at least.
Plus, we don't know why he's a storm trooper. They might not even be storm troopers anymore. The clone army was used like 50 some years before this movie. Does everyone expect them all to still be clones?

Yep, yep, and yep.

The only thing that made me scratch my head was that light saber with the mini-saber hand guard. What purpose could that possibly serve [/QUOTE]

Yep on that, too. I guess it could come in handing in very close quarters when battling someone else highly skilled with a light saber.

I don't know what the title "The Force Awakens" could mean. I understand that all of the New Republic novels have been officially de-canonized, so there may be no "Jedi Academy" in this new future, but it's hard to imagine that Luke and Leia will just drop it.

Or maybe we'll see the title changed by next year to "The Dark Side Awakens."

 

[Maka]

I'm not a huge star wars fan but I do enjoy watching the movies and I'm looking forward to this one.

 

[NothingIsImpossible]

Many people are arguing about the lightsaber, the "black" stormtrooper, the overly CGI falcon. But people forget one thing. Thats the point of a teaser. Its to get people talking and guessing stuff. So it did its job well!

 

[Sistrin]

A robot riding a soccer ball! This will be awesome!

 

[Fangtastic]

You guys are funny. Trekies.

 

[Bananagator]

Just thought I'd bump this thread since the new/final trailer's out

What does everyone think?

 

[RDKirk]

We have Christmas Day tickets.

 

[nebulaJP]

Just thought I'd bump this thread since the new/final trailer's out

What does everyone think?

It looks great but the tone is very serious. I hope that the movie itself has more of the fun/light hearted side. The original movie managed to get 3-5 good laughs even though Luke lost his aunt, uncle and Obi Wan and Leia lost her entire home planet. I'm sure J.J. & co. know how important humor is to this series but I just hope they were all able to pull that aspect of it off.

 

[Sistrin]

I believe this movie will be as good as Star Trek Into Darkness.

Which isn't saying much.

 

[dgiharris]

i have purposefully NOT watched any trailers or read anything about the upcoming movie plot wise, etc. I want to watch it fresh and be amazed.

I just hope it doesn't suck ala Phantom Menace

 

[Sistrin]

I just hope it doesn't suck ala Phantom Menace

Because you are a fan I sincerely hope you get your wish.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I think it looks good but keep in mind everyone thought The Phantom Menace was a sure bet and look what happened. I'll keep my expectations in check until I've actually seen it.

 

[Sistrin]

I have an idea for the first Star Wars offshoot movie:

"In a world...where Jar Jar Binks sired children...lots of children because he is basically an amphibian...two Jedi try and save the Empire from...

The Children of the Scorn!"

 

[Bananagator]

I saw it this past weekend. I won't say too much, but I loved it

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[RDKirk]

Unlike Ep4 or Ep6, this was written with the knowledge of a guaranteed sequel.

With that given, it had freedom to do nothing more than introduce characters and very basic plot direction, leaving a lot of exposition to be gradually exposed in the next movie. If one wants to think of this as being an extremely extended trailer for the next movie, that idea works, too.

Abrams was in a situation of not pleasing everyone, so he took the least dangerous path. Hard-core SW fankids freak out over changes, so the safest route is to stay right on the beaten path. I think he realized that, and actually used Han Solo to voice it in this movie: "Just blow it up."