Official Info Episode VII teaser trailer - it's here!

I consider ROTS the most dark, serious SW film. I actually don't even consider any of the PT to be light films, even the glossy TPM.

But you're talking like a diehard fan. I'm not talking from that perspective. Teasers aren't made for diehards. Like it or not, among a large swath of the casual fans and general movie going public, there is a pervasive idea that the PT was silly and juvenile. This teaser seems strategically designed to basically say the OT is back and the grown ups are finally in charge.

I don't like the perception of the PT, because it had some very adult political and emotional themes, but that doesn't change the general perception.

 

Not at all. I'm surprised that people are saying "it's too early" or "we haven't seen enough" to say that Abrams's influence will be obvious in the shots. Sure, we haven't seen much, but almost everything we have seen is pure Abrams.

 

I think the whole sentiment of "The OT style is back and PT style is all but gone" is a bit of a misconception. A big OT fan who disliked the PT would want that ideally, and a pessimist PT/saga fan would be under the belief that, due to outspoken disdain for the PT, such a style would be left in the dust

I believe it's a result of wishful thinking and paranoia, respectively. I admit, I was rather apprehensive that the ST would end up that very way, but from what I can pick up from the teaser, it seems very much like its own thing. I could not imagine something like ships skimming the water and creating that beautiful mist in the OT (No, I don't mean due to technical limitations) nor does.... Ball Droid look like something from either trilogy

 

That's the problem with them as seen in the trailer, the opponent's blade sliding down would cut right through the mini saber handles. If the L shaped juncture was all saber then you could trap the other blade and disarm your opponent with the cross hilt.
Which would be a really cool move to see on film!

I don't know anything about resistant metals in the SW universe though. Been a SW fan since '77 but never got much into the EU literature.

 

I'm a little torn, but let's be honest... We haven't really seen anything, relatively speaking. I do think, however, R2-D2 should have been shown rather than the "Ball-Droid". He's a VERY familiar character that would have drawn in any casual observer who didn't know what was going on.

We AREN'T casual observers and we don't even know what's going on. Outside of the Falcon and a hybrid-lightsaber, this trailer kinda could've been about any sci-fi movie to a casual viewer.

But then, I'm of the mindset that the original cast needs to have a big presence in this trilogy. Otherwise this is not very different from Star Wars Rebels, in my opinion. A familiar storyline and environment with all-new characters. That's not really what I'm looking for. I want to see the story of the CHARACTERS I grew to know and love not the ENVIRONMENT.

But, I'm still optimistic.

 

By the way, was I the only one who initially (for a split second) thought that voice-over was Yoda? Granted, Yoda after a carton of death sticks, but Yoda.

Do we know who that is?

 

Speculation has been ranging everywhere from Serkis to Gleeson to Driver to Max von Sydow... heck, people are even claiming Cumberbathch

 

Are you having conversations with, or reading reactions from, people who aren't die hard Star Wars fans that have endless convos about this stuff?

Because the trailer reactions outside of boards like this seems to be getting a lot of play for getting back to the "real" Star Wars.

 

I honestly neither know nor am bothered by most other opinions. They're simply opinions and I've no right to alter or condemn them; I was simply stating my opinion based on what I have seen

 

Ball Droid is classic Star Wars Muppet humor.

 

I actually thought it was Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn...but yeah, who knows?

 

Neeson needs to be in the sequel trilogy in some small capacity. Just sayin'

 

What I imagine is that what we have here is a former rebel who was involved in an exploration op, to the ruins of some tomb, that went wrong. His entire squad was wiped out but he survived because he is a force sensitive and only discovered as much at that very moment. The ghost of some Sith Lord (who is buried in the tomb) talks to him and offers to give him more power than he thought possible and blah blah blah (the usual Sith spiel), under the condition that they cohabit the same body. Our mystery man agrees and is led to a coffin in the tomb containing some Sith scripture and, you guessed it, the lightsaber. Of course, due to its age, it needs some repair, so the mystery man goes attempts to get it functioning again, but does so imperfectly, hence the fluctuating blade we say in the trailer.

That's just the way I'd write it if I worked on this movie. I wanna hear your thoughts on his origins.

 

Hopefully we get force ghosts in this. That would be epic fan service.

 

I wouldn't even call it fan service. It feels like a natural progression of the story that had been set up in the six previous films. If we don't get Force ghosts (and beyond) at some point in the sequels, I'm going to be utterly confused.

 

I don't think its that old. We don't have a protosaber here. Anyways, there are few metals that can without continuous pounding from a lightsaber, except for the blade of another lightsaber.

 

True. It needs to happen. What if the force ghost we get is Luke himself? That would be an interesting twist. Not a good twist, but an interesting one.

 

I agree. I think we need to see Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Anakin again. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense any more.

 

Can also be the fact that it was built by a self-taught force user.

 

Ah, good catch. I was sort of just making a lens flare joke in general though

 

I just realized that x-wing pilot is Oscar. Isn't it?

And who is the narrator? Definitively? It does sound like MVS.

 

I haven't read anything here.
Can someone answer the following questions without describing anything:
What existing SW music was used in the trailer?
Does it actually show new footage? Yes or No.
Was there a Disney logo at the start? Yes or no.
Was there a Bad Robot logo at the start? Yes or no.
Did it name new characters shown? Yes or no.