As you may have noticed, the third trailer for Episode VII came out last night. I might be excited because I have a paper due tomorrow, but, instead, I am writing this to share how AWESOME it is.

Even if the movie isn’t great, we will always have this trailer.

I have brought together all three trailers in this blog and will now explore what we have learned from each.

Trailer 1: In Which We Are Introduced To A Sweaty Stormtrooper And A Lightsaber With A Controversial Hilt

Someone with a cool, deep voice (probably voiced by Andy Serkis) is a bad, bad villain.

There is a desert planet (which other sources name Jakku, and some theorize is a renamed Tatooine. What’s the beginning of a Star Wars Trilogy without good ol’ Tatooine?)

Diversity!!!!! A black stormtrooper? Are there other non-Caucasians in here, who are not dressed up as aliens? Maybe!

Robots are really good at riding on soccer balls. Hello BB8.

The Empire is still going strong, and has updated their stormtroopers to have sleeker, shinier armor

X-wings haven’t been updated, but look cool flying over water and creating a nifty spray-tail

There’s a booty-kicking girl in the movie, and she gets to ride a clunky speeder-box-thing

LIGHTSABER! With a hilt!…?! Is that cool? Is that ridiculous? I don’t know… but, somehow, I love it.

The Millenium Falcon doesn’t need anything to still be cool, but loop-de-loops are fun.

Wait, we still have to wait another year for this? (At the time)

Trailer 2: In Which We Hear From Our Old Friends Luke, Han, and Chewie

The Jedi Theme always makes me tear up a little bit

We’re still on that desert planet – where there’s a CRASHED STAR DESTROYER next to a CRASHED X-WING – awesomeness abounds

We get a small glimpse of Vader’s burned helmet, along with Luke’s voice over

We get a glimpse of R2-D2, and a cloaked person with a robot hand – who, I hope, is Luke

A female-looking hand passes a lightsaber to another female-looking hand. Wait, is one of those Leia’s hand? Has Luke gone missing? Is that Luke’s lightsaber?

X-wings fly again, and fighter pilots have fun

There are lots of cool spaceships, explosions, lightsabers, and sweaty people

That’s a lot of stormtroopers, and they look well-maintained. That Empire is looking healthier and healthier, which is not good for the rebellion

Shiny Stormtrooper!

Rey (Daisy Ridley) holds out her hand to Finn (John Boyega) – that’s the third shot of hands in this trailer

The Millenium Falcon is still cool.

The Millennium Falcon is even cooler when Han Solo and Chewie show up – and the world cheers. (My Dad let out a, “Yeah!” when he saw that part.)

Trailer 3: In Which We Get A Brief Peak At A Bunch Of Characters, And Then Things ASPLODE!

We get a brief one-line teaser about Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) – the first is no one, the second doesn’t believe in being a stormtrooper anymore, and the third is a crazy bad dude who’s got an obsession with Darth Vader’s helmet.

Rey gets the Boushh Leia treatment in cool desert-scavenger gear, and the robot-soccer-ball is her buddy

The Millennium Falcon is still cool – I am so excited for SPACESHIP BATTLES!

 

Han Solo. Always cool.

Finn and Rey get to hang out with Han Solo on the Millennium Falcon, but, apparently, no one talks about The Force and the Light and Darkside anymore. Hopefully, that clears up any discussion of midichlorians.

Hyperspace has more lens flare when brought to you by J.J. Abrams.

Lightsabers look cool in the rain.

Finn and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaacs) become friends, including a bro-slap on the shoulder

Han Solo takes Finn and Rey to some old temple place-thing with a walking robot

The Empire now has shinier Lambda Class shuttles to go with their shinier stormtroopers

There’s that shiny stormtrooper again

Someone dies somewhere rainy and Rey is really sad about it.

Han Solo and Chewie get caught as prisoners, again.

BB8 is an astromech droid – which means he can help fly a spaceship, and win at soccer.

Lots of things explode and lasers shoot everywhere (this is essential for a good Star Wars movie)

Han Solo and Princess Leia give each other a hug.

We get our first real glimpse of Finn with a blue lightsaber, and he fights Kylo Ren – without his hood and mask on (that looks like hair to me).

This trailer was awesome.

However, there is a significant of look, which is most obvious when looking at the official movie poster. Where is Luke? We know Mark Hamill was in the movie, and had to grow a beard. What is Luke up to? They can’t just have Luke grow his beard and then be killed.

I am excited, though, that there’s a girl at the center.

• What are your thoughts about the Episode VII Trailer?
• On a scale of excitement (1 = No! It’s impossible! Jar Jar’s in this movie! I’m going to jump down this bottomless pit over Bespin, to 10=The Millennium Falcon showing up for the first time in the trailers – pretty much Woah!) how excited are you for Episode VII?
• Who has the most awesome viewing arrangements for watching Episode VII? (I’m still trying to figure mine out – due to the complications of Finals.)
• What color would your lightsaber be?

If you could bring back one obscure character/object/creature/thing from the original trilogy into the new one, what would it be? (I’d go for IG-88, the assassin droid).

(Ok. Now back to our regularly scheduled homework).