Ah ok. Confusion cleared. :)

I stopped watching teasers a long time ago... they're just useless, generating hype with a few seconds of - nothing?
Trailers are somewhat useful, since they can help you decide whether you would like to watch a movie or not... but I'm going to see this one anyway, so are you, so what's the matter?

Though, of course, I couldn't resist to see this one and I only have to say: I'm excited.

Just watched it and... i don't know. As a teaser i guess it's doing it's job, show a half dozen random scenes with no context that does feel a bit like the Star Wars universe, yet...

What's with the storm troopers? To my understanding they were leftovers from the clone wars, unless more of them were made regularly there shouldn't really be a huge number of them after the empire went down....

Then as mentioned, the laser cross guard because... why? the electronics would be damaged before the laser guarded against anything...



I'd almost rather see Disney do a really really good job of the Claymore Anime as a live action...

I totally know what you mean. Pretty much any of the Lego Star Wars videos are a decent parody / gentle poke of the movies/cartoons.

*hides in a game forum*

That was actually pretty good. With this being a teaser trailer and the movie being more than a year away, I was surprised to see some actual live action footage showing a few of the new actors, storm troopers, X-Wings, TIE Fighters and the Millennium Falcon! I didn't think we'd see more than a few still shots, text and logos.

please god no, make it stop :(

I'll give you the ball droid, but the cross-guard on the lightsaber? The cross-guard of a sword is the part between the hilt and the blade which extends outwards and prevents the other guy from simply sliding the sword down as soon as they lock to cut at your hand or arm, which is exactly what happened to Obi Wan in his first fight with Count Dooku. Also the original trilogy lightsabers had weight to them and acted like broadswords.

I find it mildly amusing a teaser has garnered such a strong reaction when its only goal appears to be to say 'There's a new Starwars movie coming, it will have lightsabers, and stormtroopers.' THAT'S IT. That's all it conveys. And yet people have dissected and criticized every single second. Including the black guy.

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You I keep.

I guess it's just that the cross-guard in normal swords was not made of additional blades. And while it might more sensible when you think of lighsaber duel from Episode IV, much slower, more knight-like, it just looks like something to slice your own wrists in all the later duels with all the ninja-jumping around and whirling the lightsabre around.

Exactly. And we already know all that. People wanted to ba amazed, awed, and what we got was just mediocre. What little was shown was very unimpressive. I would be more impressed if we got a 30 second teaser with nothing else then a close up of someone constructing a lightsabre, with some well wrtitten narration by Mark Hamill. At least that would be something special. This just looks so generic.

I mean just look at the Dark Knight teaser or the Star Trek teaser. They show basically nothing, but they convey a lot about the movie, and are memorable, unique. The new Star Wars teaser is literally "something (desert), something (ball-droid), something (girl on bike), dark side".

That was an interesting trailer, I am glad to see the good ol' Tie Fighters are still around.

That style of Lightsaber looked familiar, I thought I saw it in one of the comics a few years back?

Presumably, the Civil War isn't quite wrapped up yet. As to Stormtroopers, they were never clones, but regular recruits. Though, with all the previous expanded canon wiped, there's no telling.

Not hating on the film or anything... As I said: It doesn't look as bad as EP I-III. I just made the "n00b comment" because the lightsaber looks more like a lightningsaber with all that twitching on the edges (lasers don't do that).

And, yes, the CGI looks damn good for CGI. Horrible CGI is one of the main reasons why I hate the the prequels and the original "extended-special-enhanced-Greedo-shots-first" trilogy -.- The ball droid is a bit meh, but the X-Wings look REALLY good.

I thought the X-Wing, Falcon, and Tie fighters looked good.