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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Final Trailer

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Glorious!

It's so fucking Star Wars and that's a great thing. Love the entire look.
 
Dennis said:
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If that guy in the back doesn't hit anyone with that damn mace/cleaver, I will be really disappointed.

I wonder if all those guys are mandalorians.
 
The only thing that bothered me was that Adam Driver's voice was too obviously edited or mechanized, not sure what the right word is. It just seemed like you could hear his normal voice and then the computerization on top of it, rather than just sounding like a singular voice.
 
I think it makes sense. You have a republic. It's convereted to an empire. It is solid, it exists for 15ish years before the rebel alliance even becomes a real thing and then over the course of 6 years or so the empire loses 2 death stars, millions of people, tons of ships, and loses the top of the hierarchy. There would be chaos. People would be reaching for power, more wars would be fought.

Like I said earlier the outter rim worlds thought Jedi were just a myth, nothing from what we know or have seen makes what they say in the trailer not a plausible chain of events.

Scrooged said:
It's also implied that the Empire had been around for a long time. Remember, the timeline from ROTS and A New Hope is only 20 years.

Prequel Trilogy
20 years
Original Trilogy
30-40 years
New Trilogy

So it's even more unbelievable that everyone forgot about the Jedi by the time A New Hope happens. I mean a high ranking official in the Empire thought it was a fairy tale ffs.
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I don't think so based on what I said above. Sure on coruscant they would probably know of Jedi b/c they have the temples there. Families would know of them. Especially where the wars were fought. But plaes like Tatooine and Jakku? Not as likely.
 
I grinned my way through the whole trailer. Dat John Williams! I'm still so happy about the casting of Finn, and how much Rey is used in advertising. If you told me when I was a kid that a female character would be front and center on a Star Wars poster in the usual hero spot, I wouldn't have believed you.
 
Had to watch this trailer five times back to back before I could take a break to text people and check here. Whoo boy. Outside of the teasers I haven't followed anything about this movie so I'm stoked to the high heavens. Two months left...
 
IAmRandom31 said:
Forgetting about Jedi is just what people in this galaxy do.

In New Hope the Force was thought of as an " ancient religion " by the higher ups in the Empire. And that was just 20 years or so after the clone wars.

The timeline is a bit funny though when you think about it. Obi-wan is not close to old in Revenge of the Sith, but 20 years later he is a very old man who can barely even fight anymore. The people don't talk about those events anymore and think of Jedi and the Force as ancient legends.

So naturally, 20 or whatever years after the end of Return of the Jedi, that time is told only in tales around the campfire.
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The prequels screwed everything up. The Force was supposed to be a mystical thing that a small number of Jedi could fully utilize. Making it something thought of as an ancient religion is interesting because it makes it mysterious. But no, Jedis were all over the place just 20 years before the OT because reasons.
 
demosthenes said:
I think it makes sense. You have a republic. It's convereted to an empire. It is solid, it exists for 15ish years before the rebel alliance even becomes a real thing and then over the course of 6 years or so the empire loses 2 death stars, millions of people, tons of ships, and loses the top of the hierarchy. There would be chaos. People would be reaching for power, more wars would be fought.

Like I said earlier the outter rim worlds thought Jedi were just a myth, nothing from what we know or have seen makes what they say in the trailer not a plausible chain of events.
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But straight up Tatooine KNOWS about Jedi. Fucking Watto in the prequels even says basically something about "Jedi Mind tricks don't work on me". Clearly if some low-level Junk Dealer on the ass end of the galaxy can reference Jedi in normal conversation they're not at "Mythical Status"

Scrooged said:
The prequels screwed everything up. The Force was supposed to be a mystical thing that a small number of Jedi could fully utilize. Making it something thought of as an ancient religion is interesting because it makes it mysterious. But no, Jedis were all over the place just 20 years before the OT because reasons.
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Honestly I always thought way back before the prequels that the reason there were so few Jedi wasn't because only a small number of them could use the force, but because whatever the "Clone Wars" were (which back at the time seemed way different) devastated their numbers and left so few of them left.
 
Dennis said:
Does seem a little.....far fetched.
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I mean, its not like they have facebook. This universe is HUGE and not everyone planet hops. Think about something happening in the 'old west'. In 30 years after like a bandit was captured or something, he'd be legend for sure.

Also it's much less far fetched than the huge jump that happened between the prequels and the OG in which the whole universe went to shit in pretty much the same amount of time.
 
I'm a 42 year old, cranky fart who has a general displeasure for the world and most people in it. This made me feel like that 7 year old boy, full of wonder, who's first movie in a movie theater was The Empire Strikes Back. My dad took me behind my mom's back (she thought I'd have nightmares) and I will never, ever forget how larger than life it all was. Vader, his breathing, Luke, Yoda, Lawd, I just can't handle the feels.

PS. Seems the trailer also crashed most of the internet.
 
I said this on an earlier page, but maybe what they're doubting isn't whether Jedi ever existed, but whether they continued to exist after they were all killed during the Clone Wars. This would align with the 'Dark Side' comment, because people would still be in the dark about that aspect of things, but they would know about Jedi in general as a historical matter.
 
Its not that weird that the Jedi were regarded as myth even in ANH. There were barely any Jedi left at the start of the prequel trilogy and even fewer by episode 3. Think of how many planets there are in the galaxy . The number of people who had ever even seen a jedi would be so low it may as well be zero when compared the galaxy's population of sentient beings.
 
Ferrio said:
...maybe that *is* the new death star? Best way to keep it hidden, make it look like a snow planet.
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Yeah it fits with the poster! Although I think it's not a death star hidden as a planet but just the main super weapon and a few trenches (Cost reductions lol).
Anyway, amazing trailer! Lots of potential! But trailers are deceiving, The Phantom Menace trailer was also very exciting!
 
ExVicis said:
But straight up Tatooine KNOWS about Jedi. Fucking Watto in the prequels even says basically something about "Jedi Mind tricks don't work on me". Clearly if some low-level Junk Dealer on the ass end of the galaxy can reference Jedi in normal conversation they're not at "Mythical Status"
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Not in the Prequels. But now they are. Especially after being slaughtered. Also Rey says they've heard stories. They just find them hard to believe. Like others have stated it's been about 50 years since Jedi have been public.
 
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