The new "Star Wars" trailer

Well, the remastered DVD version of ROTJ, which I believe is supposed to be "canon" now, showed celebrations with statues of Palpatine being torn down on Coruscant after the Death Star went kablooie, so word had apparently spread pretty quickly the Empire was kaput.

 

And for more recent Blu Ray, they added a shot of a celebration on Naboo with a Jar-Jar Binks thing yelling, "Weesa free!"

If the plot summary Dick posted is accurate, I'm done with Star Wars.

 

There was a press conference by Mon Mothma with a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign in the background on that day

 

You're such a softie

 

There's, like, 50 different versions of each movie now. Each one adds a scene here or there. It's beyond ridiculous.
In any event, it makes sense there would still be some splinter groups and holdouts once the dust settled, some of which would be pretty powerful. It's a fucking galactic empire. Entire planet systems could remain loyal to the Empire or its way of thinking.

 

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Maybe JJ will redeem the whole series by opening TFA with a graphic scene of Jar Jar's head getting incinerated by a light saber.

 

I can go to the theater 200 times a year and watch cool shit being blown up.

"Star Wars" was more than that. It's a story first, and a story with enormously ambitious scope.

 

I'm with you on this.
We've seen the crashed star destroyer in the trailers. I'm thinking when they come across it we see Jar Jar's feet sticking out from underneath like the Wicked Witch of the East.

 

I get your point. I just stopped worrying about overall scope after LOST. It cost me a lot of enjoyment over the years. Which was actually a tribute to how great the show was.

Now, if it's good, it's just good. The "Star Wars" part is mostly irrelevant to me, in that if it sucks, it won't negate any of the memories from my childhood watching the first three.

 

My wife is a goddamn saint. She knew how bummed I was to miss TFA this weekend, so she searched around and found a movie theater outside our usual viewing area that is premiering the film on Thursday. She bought tickets to the 7:30 show and got us a reservation for a steak dinner. Happy birthday to me!

 

I'm not worried about it negating my childhood. I just think it should be true to the original ending. Anyway, I tend to agree with you - if it's a good movie, I'll be satisfied. That seems to hinge on making this Rey character someone's whose arc I care about. I think Abrams should be able to do that - he certainly knows how to raise questions along the way that keep you engaged, though he's not so great at answering them. I wasn't a huge "Super 8" fan - I thought he failed to earn the emotional impact he was going for at the end.

This won't suck like the prequels, which were both badly executed, and also kind of doomed because we knew exactly where things were going, thus sucking all the energy out of the plot. I just don't want to watch an LCD Marvel action blockbuster with Rey, Finn, and Han Solo plugged into the roles of "The Avengers."