Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Presents New Hope

The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer premiered today, and the internet responded with a collective excited shiver and squeal. Now as we all sit in our sticky pants, let’s take a step back and think about what we just saw.

Similar to the first teaser trailer, we get a look at a desert landscape similar to Star Wars films of the past. This time instead of a confused (not clone? Maybe clone? They switched up the clone template for diversity?) Stormtrooper jerking awake in the middle of the day, we get a vehicle racing by a dilapidated ship. Context clues tell us this is probably Tatooine. The desert atmosphere, the scrapped ship, the general desolateness about the place. Immediately following we get about three seconds of darkness, which of course equates to about an hour of anticipation in a minute and fifty nine second teaser trailer.

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Mark Hamill’s voice rings like magic bells in our ears as Luke (!) begins to go through the force and his family history. We get a slow fade to a derelict Darth Vader mask as he dramatically says “My father had it” had being the operative word. Remember in the Jedi faith a Jedi lives on in spirit. We get our first shot of Luke (technically) as his robot hand reaches out to R2. He continues with “I have it”. Then “My sister has it”, with a light saber being handed over to what I will hereby excitedly guess is Leia (Carrie Fisher). And he ends his little speech with, “You have the power too” black out. Holy shit.

“THIS CHRISTMAS” flashes on the screen, followed by about 40 seconds of non-stop “this is what you wanted right?” action. So far, The Force Awakens is looking exactly as the title states. We’ll have the obligatory action scenes, an origin story full of continuity from the previous films, and a new villain. From what’s been released, it seems Adam Driver will be playing the new Sith lord. Though we haven’t actually seen him step into this role yet, we have seen new characters with the “Darth” look about them littered throughout both trailers. Ideally, Driver would come into the role with some sordid past that drove him to the dark side. Does this mean at one point he was a Jedi? Or had the Jedi training? Is he a son of Luke or Leia’s? Perhaps he was simply born with the force. Hm.

The new Imperial flag is definitely reminiscent of a Nazi look, especially with the way the Stormtroopers appear to be standing at attention to it. This is curious, as the end of Return of the Jedi gave us the impression that things were going to be ok with Darth and The Emperor Palpatine gone. Something has obviously gone terribly wrong, and just as A New Hope had a whole lot of set up, one can only assume that this new trilogy will contain at least a movie’s worth of buildup. We get several fly around scenes, which is awesome. Definitely Star Wars-esque. Stormtrooper fights, the tiny drone we saw in the first teaser, new lead characters falling and getting up. Lasers! And just as everything is coming to a head we get a glimpse of the Millennium Falcon dodging around space. Everything falls quiet, and the sweet sound of Harrison Ford’s 72 year old voice croons off screen, “Chewy”. Video comes back on screen with Han and Chewy standing at ready, “We’re home”. BAHBAUM!

Everything we’ve seen so far has been incredibly encouraging. Anything Lucas may have screwed up in Episodes 1-3 is irrelevant now. Though Abrams admittedly has a style about him that we’ll likely see being emulated on screen in both his Star Trek films and Star Wars films, I have total faith in his ability to create a new universe that holds all of our favorite childhood memories.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is due out December 18th.

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