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:shock: :D
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Is this the movie that's supposed to cover the Rebel Alliance's acquisition of the Death Star plans?
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The teaser seems a little generic at times, and some of the effects a bit unpolished, but God, seeing Spoiler
ISDs and AT-ATs and the Death Star and all back in the movies is kind of awesome.
Also, another female protagonist, but one who seems somewhat different, personality-wise from Rey. A bit darker, maybe.

No sign of Vader yet, but maybe they're saving that.

Edit: And yes, I'm spoiler tagging for a teaser. Don't want to spoil the joy of seeing it for yourselves.
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First actual teaser (don't you just love teasers for teasers? :roll: ) has been released!



I'm rather impressed by what I see so far. I've somewhat warmed to this particular story being told, for nothing else except it being set just a few years (even months?) before the original movie and seeing a return to the OT era with updated effects.
Yeah, I've always taken the subtext of the Birther movement to be, "The rules don't count here! This is different! HE'S BLACK! BLACK, I SAY! ARE YOU ALL BLIND!?

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I'm disappoint enough with EpVII to skip this. Which sod's law means it's probably going to be awesome.
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Crazedwraith wrote:I'm disappoint enough with EpVII to skip this. Which sod's law means it's probably going to be awesome.
Why? Its not like its the same people making the two films. Different director. Different cast. Different group of writers.
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Because I'm not interested in Disney's Star Wars?
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Based on one film?

It hardly seems fair to judge these filmmakers' work on someone else's work.

I mean, if you don't want to see it you don't want to see it, but basing that on VII... well, I'd give it another film to determine if VII's problems were with the people making Episode VII, or with Disney's approach to Star Wars in general.
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The camera work looks better than Abrams' version, that's for sure. The Camera actually seems stable in all action scenes so far.
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As a matter of objective fact, the single greatest shot in the teaser is:

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That, colleagues, is an ISD-1. Not an ISD-2, no. That would be lazy. That's a fully realised fucking Mk 1.
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I was rather shocked yesterday when I ran across an ad for the teaser trailer to be released today. Seriously? An advertisement for the advertisement?!

Oh, and, yes, I'm looking forward to this. Spoiler
Though I had to re-watch that bit where she's throwing down in melee with Stormtroopers: had to make sure she had a weapon in hand and wasn't merely bitch-slapping the one on his knees.
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Vympel wrote:As a matter of objective fact, the single greatest shot in the teaser is.
You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.
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Well that looks pretty sweet.

Was that a Grand Admiral strutting around in his white uniform?
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I rather wish they had done this film first. This looks to be something that would please a larger selection of the fanbase in many ways, Though I wonder what it will do with the plot of Rebels? I had previously wondered if the Jedi from that end up dying to protect the Death Star plans.

The trailer certainly looks interesting from what we see. I liked that it used variations in imagery that we are used to, showing Rebels running towards AT-ATs rather than away and showing the classic Star Destroyer defending rather than attacking.

One issue I wonder about goes back to Vader's line of dialog from ANH, There will be no one to stop us this time". It makes you wonder who stopped them last time. While the Jedi are a reasonable suggestion, as I mention above, another possibility is that it was political. Something like the Imperial Senate giving opposition to the military. Showing whatever this is would be an interesting issue.

I wonder if, wild speculation Spoiler
The character we see bowing down is a former friend that becomes an enemy who our heroine faces in the finale. I suspect when she is wearing an Imperial uniform she is actually undercover rather than turned as the trailer suggests. If that really was a plot point, there is no way they would spoil it this early.
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Personally I would say that it tried to be the opposite of the prequels in every way possible, both good and bad. While it was certainly enjoyable, I don't think it actually had the same level of depth as the prequels.
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Eternal_Freedom wrote:Well that looks pretty sweet.

Was that a Grand Admiral strutting around in his white uniform?
Exactly what I was wondering and going to post about :P

This looks sweet. I'm still not 100% on the whole 'making Star Wars movies that aren't actually part of the trilogy' bit, but if it's going to look this good... then hell yes I can deal with that.
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Vympel wrote:As a matter of objective fact, the single greatest shot in the teaser is:

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That, colleagues, is an ISD-1. Not an ISD-2, no. That would be lazy. That's a fully realised fucking Mk 1.
That does look rather magnificent, I love the shot of the superlaser focusing dish being lowered onto the main superstructure of the Death Star as well. Upon rewatch, looks like we're getting some cool-looking ground combat as well, which was hardly explored in the OT if memory serves correctly.
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Chimaera wrote:
Vympel wrote:As a matter of objective fact, the single greatest shot in the teaser is:

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That, colleagues, is an ISD-1. Not an ISD-2, no. That would be lazy. That's a fully realised fucking Mk 1.
That does look rather magnificent, I love the shot of the superlaser focusing dish being lowered onto the main superstructure of the Death Star as well. Upon rewatch, looks like we're getting some cool-looking ground combat as well, which was hardly explored in the OT if memory serves correctly.
Fucking magnificent!

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Looks like this is going to be amazing.

PS. what's the main visual differenec between an ISD1 and ISD2? I always thought they looked very similar :s
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There's a different superstructure on top of the bridge tower for one, and the eight heavy turrets on the dorsal flanks are different. On a 1, there are six twin-mount turbolasers and two twin-mount ion cannons (all very heavy ones, naturally) while on a 2, all eight are eight-gun barbette mountings. That' the two main differences IIRC.
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Even I am impressed by that ISDI. Game on ILM.
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Eternal_Freedom wrote:Well that looks pretty sweet.

Was that a Grand Admiral strutting around in his white uniform?
Maybe, his rank plaques are the same as a fleet Admiral like Piett in the TESB, but with one less rank cylinder (in Saxton's hypothetical that'd make him one step above fleet admiral) but it's not the Grand Admiral Insignia.

He's got dark trousers so he could also be an ISB officer like Yularen but it's unclear.
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I've looked at a bit of preliminary scaling; it's possible to easily establish that the death star is over 70 km across, but I can't see any way to derive an upper limit value, so I'm not sure if they're going with the EU 120 km or the original 160 km diameter.
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Vympel wrote:As a matter of objective fact, the single greatest shot in the teaser is:

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That, colleagues, is an ISD-1. Not an ISD-2, no. That would be lazy. That's a fully realised fucking Mk 1.
I wonder if this is actually one of the last shots in the film, Devastator taking off to hunt down the tantive IV.
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