Some thoughts on the new Star Wars trailer Part 3
So that is my mind state as I watch the trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: the Force Awakens. Sure it looks cool, seems to have Stormtroopers, has a distinct lack of dopey racist CGI cartoon comic relief (DIE JAR JAR BINKS DIE!), and the Millennium Falcon. (Trooper image courtesy of the Star Wars t-shirts category) However I have been burned by this license so badly in the past that all the subtle clues that I missed in the Phantom Menace warning me of impending suckage receive laser focus. A three pronged lightsaber? (that one saber and two mini bite sized lightsabers, in case you wanted to carve your turkey or something) A droid that looks like a yellow and white soccer ball with a Roomba on top of it? A jet bike that looks like a flying refrigerator? Why does that pilot still have the Rebel Alliance symbol on his helmet? Shouldn’t the Rebel Alliance formed an actual government and either taken the old Republic symbol or just come up with a new one? Then there is the uber ominous quote. “There has been an awakening. Can you feel it?”
The whole thing really feels of trying too hard. Star Wars and ESB had no pretensions of being anything other than a fun story in space. With ROTJ Lucas decided he was making the epic of the century and ironically created the worst of the three as a prelude for the worst ever. However I think I need to get into the specifics of this trailer down on this screen to really think about it.
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