Star Wars Episode VII News: Week 51

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2

IT'S OUT! It's finally out. The second trailer for The Force Awakens has finally dropped and it looks fantastic. Time for a step by step analysis.

     The Lucasfilm logo appears onscreen, with familiar music playing in the background, straight from Return of the Jedi. That's great news. It's hearkening back to the original trilogy. Then again, the first trailer for The Phantom Menace also featured that music. The scene fades in, and it pretty much starts the exact same way the first trailer began, with a desert pan, but there's a crashed Star Destroyer and then Mark Hamill narrates and everyone watching freezes, because Luke Skywalker hasn't spoken in 36 years. He says, "The Force is strong in my family" while a pan reveals the ruined helmet of Darth Vader on a pedestal with his breathing in the background. So Luke puts his robotic hand on R2D2 and cops a feel, but Artoo just looks at him and takes it in stride because that's just classic Luke. Then Luke's lightsaber that was in Star Wars is handed to someone, presumably Leia. That's pretty weird, considering Luke lost it along with his hand in TESB when it fell into a gas giant. So anyway, he says something about how his father, himself, and Leia all have the Force, and then he says "You have it too" and he's obviously talking to one of the new cast members, probably Daisy Ridley. Then THIS CHRISTMAS flashes on the screen with that music still playing, X-Wings on a lake, montage of lightsabers and explosions, and a bad guy, clone troopers(?) and space battles, weird, shiny stormtrooper suit, more explosion, and the main actors can't seem to close their mouths. The Millennium Falcon is being chased by a TIE fighter through a wrecked Star Destroyer. Then, fade in to Han Solo and Chewbacca. The dialogue is like this:

"Chewie, we're home."

"UHHHHHSDFSDHTJYUTYDHBGF"

And cut to title. Show's over.

     The shock is setting in. There's a new Star Wars movie that is coming to theaters. That never really fully registered with me until now. I've now seen the original cast in a Star Wars movie, and now it's sinking in. It's real. Luke will be in the movie, contrary to some rumors, and wait a minute WHERE IS C3PO? THIS IS AN O
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