To watch or not to watch. That is the question.

I'm not going media Blackout for this one. I like star wars, but I don't go to it for thriller material. I don't really care if it's spoiled for me.

As for the lightsaber,  the "crossguard" looks more like flames, like it's almost a plasma vent instead of blades. The blade itself also seems rough-looking. Maybe this is a long-ago flashback with a more primitive lightsaber?

The Falcon maneuver was awesome.

I'm not digging the lightsaber at all. Talk about impractical...

Man it's been forever since I posted.

I wanna say, i love the new lightsaber in concept, not cause of the three blade thing, but cause it looks, different. it doesn't just seem like a fancier version of the telescoping one i can buy at wal mart, but an actual blade of Plasma.  One thing i don't get, and this is probably because 15 years of reading star wars books and comics and whatnot ruined me. is why people are confused by the fact storm troopers and an empire still exists. Yes, i know yay emperor is dead and all, but seriously? The empire was more than just a guy afterall.

I do like i won't know whats going on anymore, really in any of the series. As much as i lamented the death of the old EU because we were finally getting a series about the next generation of characters, i wasn't particularly worried anybody important would die because either it was set in the past and we knew the outcome, or Legacy told us X survived long enough to have a baby and X had yet to have said baby.

idk, i just like the better lightsaber graphic.

The new saber is actually pretty practical. With it, you can block attacks with the saber pointed at a forward angle, which probably expands your range of fighting motion.

Also, that's not Luke in the cockpit, that's Oscar Isaac's character.

I think it's funny how, after all these years, Steven Spielberg is finally directing a Star Wars movie.

I mean, JJ's touches are visible here (that upside-down shot of the Falcon, first and foremost) but the opening shot of the trailer + the shot of Daisy Ridley starting up the speeder are Spielberg-y as FUCK. It's a good look for the franchise. My only hope is that JJ restrains himself a little. There are some camera moves in the Star Trek films that are disgustingly flashy, and that Falcon shot toes that line. Not that this was ever a series known for directorial elegance, but JJ can sometimes be hyperactive and I don't think Star Wars works with that feeling.

I liked the trailer, though. It felt less like a commercial and more like a -- wait for it -- tone poem. It gives us nothing about the plot, but we get a sense of the film's tone and some neat visuals. I wish more trailers were like this.