Grey Warden

Ok, the wait is over.  You can all exhale now.

I don't get crazy over movies.  Why?- because they're just movies.  Same reason I don't get hyper over books, cds, tv shows, singers, actors, pro athletes, etc.  I'm a fan but never a fanatic.  The day you find me camping out for days on end to be first in line for something, you have my blanket authorization to shoot me in the head.  Take a screen shot of this in case you need it.

That said, there are certain movies I'm excited to see, even eager to.  Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies... heck, I may even get around to watching Guardians of the Galaxy and Frozen before the year is out.  Yeah, you read that right: I haven't seen either of them yet.  Why?- because they're just movies.

Geeks, Nerds, Fanbois and Fangurls had a collective orgasm on Friday with the release of the new trailer (I even know a couple of people who went to theaters just to see it),and I kinda feel embarrassed for you.  Reminds me of that poor guy from The People vs George Lucas who declared God never made anything that could compare... and he was referring to the trailer for The Phantom Menace.  Wonder how he felt after seeing the movie?

What can we expect from the plot of this new flick?  I dunno; since everything is pretty much speculation it's not worth the effort to comb through rumors and wild guesses, but something along the lines of passing the torch to the next generation would seem pretty obvious.  And a recently resurfaced interview clip with Mark Hamill might offer a wee hint of confirmation.

Mind you, he said that back in 1983.  Strong in the Force is this one.

Anyways, on to the trailer.

First thing you'll notice is... there's a black man.

The whole problem is, of course, that it's noticeable as this makes him the fifth one in the entire franchise (Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu, some rebel pilot, Captain Panaka and now this guy).  His appearance begs the question: since all stormtroopers are clones of Jango Fett, who the heck is he?  We also presume that he's on Tattooine, both due to a lack of originality and for re-establishing geek cred with the fan base.

Next, we have the latest in cute, cuddly robots.

In case you forgot, Disney owns the franchise now- lock, stock and Death Star.  Moving on...

Lightsabers have a new feature.

One site went so far as to call this a 'crucifix-design'.  *sigh*  This, my friends, is exactly what's wrong with geekdom- all the overthinking and reading waaaay too much into stuff.  Lightsabers are modeled from swords, hence the name. Swords used to have these things called handguards- guess what their purpose was?  Giving a lightsaber a handguard is so imminently logical you have to wonder what took so long?   And from there it ain't much of a leap to get some use out of it by redirecting some of that blade's energy through it.  But until I see it in action, what it can actually do... meh.

X-Wings operating in an atmosphere

Now this I like.  We've only seen X-Wings in zero-g space... and other than Luke only had Wedge Antilles come back for another flight, so I'm not too optimistic about these guys making it off-planet.  But it's a good look.

And finally...

Ah yes... the Millenium Falcon, pitching and yawing at full throttle through the upper atmosphere whilst dodging a swarm of TIE fighters.  What could be better?

So, what's the verdict?

It's still just a movie teaser trailer.  It's supposed to get you excited and interested in seeing the film yet not give too much, if anything, away.  Did it do that?  Ok, then- we're good.  And that's pretty much the size of it.  See ya in the spring when we get a full trailer... wonder what all this analysis and projection based upon almost no info will be worth then?