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'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer Now Available

I recognized a lot of familiar spaceships, classic stormtroopers and sound effects - basically an atmosphere, that I deeply missed in Star Wars 1-3...
 
Love the teaser.

Also love Apple getting it. The quality is much higher than you typically get on Youtube or Yahoo trailers (in 1080p) in my experience.
 
This could go both ways. The love for Star Wars despite everything is immense. Even amongst haters and the broken dreams the fantasy persists in culture. Star Wars keeps being incredible important and significant to pop culture.
 
I was hoping for more changes, to the ships and stuff. Think about how many changes there were to the various ships between the Clone Wars and A New Hope, and that was only 25 years or so. This is 40 years after ROTJ. I think there should be more technological advancement.
 
MNealBarrett said:
I was hoping for more changes, to the ships and stuff. Think about how many changes there were to the various ships between the Clone Wars and A New Hope, and that was only 25 years or so. This is 40 years after ROTJ. I think there should be more technological advancement.
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It only makes sense if you think of it as Episodes 1-3 representing a peak in the galaxies centuries long stretch of a more consumer-oriented peacetime technological trajectory, with considerable importance on a balancing of form & function that makes beautiful fast ships, clothing and weapons...

and then the soul-crushing hopeless oppressive militarization of the Empire (whether for 20 years or a thousand years as originally stated) sucked the fun and joy out of everything, derailed the aesthetics, smashed or repurposed everything beautiful as people do in wartime, and replaced it with armies of pure industrial machinery at ENORMOUS cost.

...such cost that a mere few decades later, everyone is still cleaning up the mess and trying to rebuild basic functioning society, & building neato designer weapons takes a back seat, so all they really have handy are the old warbirds yet.


...OR MAYBE, THEY'LL "REBOOT" THE PREQUELS, destroying the originals like Lucas claims to have done to the unedited Episodes 4,5,6, or simply considering them and the clone wars non-canon fanfiction, and finally create new prequels that actually make sense in the star wars universe, where the things look like they look in that galaxy, the empire was more than two guys' brief failed power grab, and did reign for a thousand years, not twenty, the galaxy wasn't taken over by flimsy android comics, the force is universal and not trivial because there are no midichlorians, Yoda is a powerful master of it that doesn't need a lightsabre, and not just a green bug that spins around and can barely lift a falling beam, ETC ETC ETC.

Disney spent a LOT of money buying Star Wars, once they make a few sequels and Lucas passes away and isn't around anymore, I'd put money on those horrendous, hated prequels being replaced by better ones.
 
For a moment there I almost thought it was actually going to be some sort of a parody teaser...
 
It seems to keep a dark atmosphere at least. Doesn't seem that it will be the barbie world people were afraid of. On the other hand, not much to see and judge...
 
MNealBarrett said:
I was hoping for more changes, to the ships and stuff. Think about how many changes there were to the various ships between the Clone Wars and A New Hope, and that was only 25 years or so. This is 40 years after ROTJ. I think there should be more technological advancement.
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Yes, like warp nacelles on the Imperial Star Destroyers and transporters and quantum photo torpedoes, ablative armor, cloaking device, and of course phasers. Throw in some pointed-eared wookies and your journey towards the Trek side is complete.
 
Well with this trailer and seeing a modern take on Star Wars and after seeing the trailer for Jurassic world, I CANT WAIT FOR BOTH MOVIES to come out
 
Can anyone here do me a massive favour and download it in a small size and PM me a dropbox link to it or something?

The reason is that I work offshore and our internet is achingly slow. So to keep it ok for everyone my company blocks access to youtube, iTunes and the rest.

I know it's a lot to ask for someone none of you know personally, but there are a bunch of star wars geeks on here who would be very grateful if you took a few minutes for this. I'll see if I can get you some free petrol/gas if you do :D

Thanks,
Alex
PS sadly, I can't live up to my end of the bargain re the petrol. I lied about that :)
 
JJ Abrams is very polarizing, and I really love his work. I'm sure he will actually make a great film.

I hated the prequels.
 
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