Silver Jedi wrote: ↑2019-04-12 05:20pm
Some reactions as I watched the trailer:
- Of course another desert planet.
Eh, its a bit tired in Star Wars, but it fits the whole space Western vibe well enough, I guess.
[*]Does Rey not own a change of clothes?
Eh.
[*]Is that Rey's new lightsaber to replace Anakin/Luke's? Lol nope, she just fixed the old one. Also, they had to show us the gun Han gave her in TFA. Callbacks!
That is lame as fuck. And improbable. There is literally no reason to have her use the same saber other than as a fuck you to Rian Johnson (which is petty and unprofessional) and to give the die-hard OT fanboys who hate change a pat on the back (which is uncreative pandering).
Hell, even if you want to copy the OT, Luke built a new saber in RotJ. It was part of his becoming a full Jedi. So all they're doing here is diminishing Rey, unless she makes a new saber later in the film. Personally, I'd have given Rey a green staff saber.
Hopefully this is either a deceptive teaser (which is in keeping with Abrams' approach to marketing) or early in the film with Rey building a new saber for the finale, and they just want to keep the reveal hidden.
[*]What if Tie Interceptor, but with red greebles?
[*]Look, an a-wing!
Eh, pretty ships, not much more to say either way.
[*]'Memeber Kylo's mask that he smashed as a metaphor for character growth? Also good as new!
[*]Lando is literally wearing the same shirt from like 40 years ago.
Yup, this is looking more and more like a Two Hour Hate against TLJ/ apology to the hardcore OT fans.
"We're sorry, we won't ever do anything original again, we swear!" Pitiful.
[*]Is that one of the fucking medals from the end of ANH?
That would actually be a nice call back, if done unobtrusively and in a way that makes sense.
[*]Good thing they had some deleted scenes of Leia to use.
Yeah.
[*]The forest moon of endor is looking decidedly... un-forested.
[*]'Member the death star?
Eh, its just one brief shot. Can't really infer much about the state of Endor from that. Its not Mordor, at least.
If they do canonize the Endor Holocaust, I will be fucking livid.
[*]Bringing back Luke, Palpy, and calling the movie skywalker isn't exactly "killing the past", huh?
[/list]
Bringing back Luke means nothing. We all knew the moment he died he'd be showing up as a Force ghost, and that's in keeping with prior canon. No problem.
Palpatine is ambiguous, at this point, and Skywalker... well, we'll have to wait to see what it means.
But yeah, I think we better hope this is a misleading trailer, because otherwise Star Wars just made a high budget apology letter to the die-hard OT fans for daring to be creative.
So, I'm obviously not a fan of the fact that almost every shot in the trailer seems to just be saying "look at this thing from the previous movies we're gonna bring back!"
I also find it interesting that there are a bunch of OT characters in that trailer, but no Rose. If you count Luke and Palpatine, there are actually more named characters from the OT than there are from the ST in this trailer.
Shit, I just realized you are right. No Rose.
I
really hope Abrams didn't quickly kill off Rose. If he took the pandering to the TLJ bashers that far, I will denounce the film as racist and misogynist and refuse to recognize it (or probably the whole ST) as canon. I don't even care whether you like Rose. Quickly killing off the first major Asian character in a Star Wars film, presumably to placate the bashers, after her actor was driven off social media by racist and misogynist harrasment, would be an unforgiveably shameful act. Hell, that might be enough to get me to walk out of the theatre. And shout "Fuck JJ Abrams" on my way out the door.
Even excluding her from the trailer is pretty obvious pandering to racists and misogynists by Disney. Shameful.
Also, no R2. Is he still on Ahch-To hanging out with the lizard nuns?
Wasn't he on the Falcon at the end of TLJ? I assumed Rey took him with her when she left Luke.