Have you seen the new Star Wars trailer?

[thewayne]

I'm getting more interested.

One thing that's nice about having a mid-December birthday is that LOTS of awesome movies come out right on or around my birthday. It makes for some great presents.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/star-wars-force-awakens-trailer-2/

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge Abrams fan: he massively pissed me off, forgive the French, with Star Trek 2. He eliminated any concept of distance or time required to traverse it. He moved the Klingon and Romulan empires a stone's throw away from the Federation, and he made transporter range infinite. That's why I was not thrilled with him being involved in Star Wars. Aside from my massive disappointment with the prequel trilogy, I just couldn't see any good coming from his involvement. Lucas IMHO really blew it with the Force being bugs in your blood, he really should have kept it as a mystical thing because with it being a blood component, you're inviting human harvesting stories to make ubermensch.

When the first trailer came out, I was *meh*. I was slightly encouraged by little or no lens flare. The second trailer added a lot, both in sweep/grandeur and in teasing out a little more story. It has increased my 'I am intrigued' level a notch or two.

I am very curious about George Lucas. He claimed long ago that he had envisioned a three trilogy series from the beginning, and either that's true or he started A New Hope at chapter four to get people to buy in to it. I don't care. What I'm curious about is if he massively re-tooled his concepts for 7-9 after he saw how 1-3 were received.