{"id":10089,"date":"2015-10-26T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:29:06","slug":"thoughts-on-the-new-star-wars-trailer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/thoughts-on-the-new-star-wars-trailer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the new Star Wars trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGbxmsDFVnE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OMG, guys! The feels, THE FEELS!<\/p>\n<p>The new Star Wars trailer came out last week, and I have watched it at least half a dozen times every day since. It&#8217;s awesome. While I&#8217;m still ambivalent enough not to rush out and buy tickets right away, there are a number of things that I think look promising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The major characters from the original trilogy are all there,\u00a0but they seem to be more in a supporting role than the main one. The story has clearly grown bigger than just them.<\/li>\n<li>The gritty <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/UsedFuture\" target=\"_blank\">used-future<\/a> feel of the original trilogy is back, and it looks like it&#8217;s been done very well.<\/li>\n<li>The CG doesn&#8217;t seem to be overdone, like it was in the prequels. It looks like they actually built a set for the\u00a0<em>Millennium Falcon<\/em> and several other places.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s actually some blood shown\u2014not all the kills are\u00a0clean and &#8220;cauterized.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The attention to detail on stuff like the Star Destroyer wreckage is phenomenal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, this could still be a case where the trailer is awesome and the movie is awful. That seems to happen a lot these days. But still, I definitely want to see this movie\u2014the only question is whether I&#8217;m going to see it in the first couple of months when it comes out, or when it hits the dollar theater.<\/p>\n<p>I can still remember when Episode I: The Phantom Menace came out. There was a lot of hype, and a lot of building excitement, much like there is now for\u00a0Episode VII: The Force Awakens. All of my enthusiasm crashed when I saw the movie in the theater. Jar-Jar Binks, Midichloriens, way too much CGI, and a pedo-tastic love story\u2014yeah, it was a disappointment. Episodes II and III weren&#8217;t quite as bad, but none of the prequels were good enough to\u00a0be redeemable in my eyes. None of them lived up to the original.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know yet if Episode VII: The Force Awakens will live up to the originals, but it does seem that this is the Star Wars movie that we&#8217;ve been waiting for\u2014the one that we wanted and didn&#8217;t get back in 1999. So yeah, I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I love\u00a0John Boyega&#8217;s reaction to seeing himself in the trailer:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DajJXToUKrs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I reacted the exact same way after I saw the original Star Wars back when I was seven: jumping over couches flying my imaginary X-Wing, bouncing off the walls and freaking out from excitement. So it&#8217;s good to see that one of the new\u00a0actors is also a huge fan.<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I just want to say that I love the fact that we live in a world where the next Luke Skywalker can be a black kid (or a girl for that matter\u2014it&#8217;s hard to tell from the trailers whether Finn or Rey fills Luke&#8217;s\u00a0role). I\u00a0don&#8217;t say that to pander to political correctness or social justice in any way\u2014I just think it&#8217;s awesome\u00a0that the lead character is black, and the other one is a girl.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of Luke Skywalker, it&#8217;s telling that we don&#8217;t really see him at all in any of the trailers. So I&#8217;m going to call it now:<\/p>\n<p>Luke dies.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a hunch, not a spoiler. I have nothing to base it off of except the three Star Wars trailers and my own understanding of how story structure works. But based on that, I suspect that Luke plays the Obi-Wan mentor to Finn or Rey and dies just like Obi-Wan did.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0that&#8217;s my take on it. Definitely looking forward to Christmas this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, guys! The feels, THE FEELS! The new Star Wars trailer came out last week, and I have watched it at least half a dozen times every day since. It&#8217;s awesome. While I&#8217;m still ambivalent enough not to rush out and buy tickets right away, there are a number of things that I think look&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/thoughts-on-the-new-star-wars-trailer-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts on the new Star Wars trailer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-star-wars","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2CJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}