We’ve waited a long time for this… we’ve fallen for a number of hoaxes saying that they were ‘official trailers’ only to find upon clicking on them that they’re just fan made things using snippets of the older movies, but finally the first official Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer has been released!!!
I don’t really know enough about Star Wars canon to tell you exactly what is going on here, but what it seems to suggest is that much of the movie will take place on the sandy desert planet of Tatooine, the home planet of both Luke and Anakin Skywalker.
We have stormtroopers preparing for battle and a rogue stormtrooper on the run. One thing we’ve had pointed out is that seeing as this movie will be based 30 years after the destruction of the Deathstar you’d likely expect the stormtroopers to have been disbanded, but apparently not.
A Sith Lord cloaked in Black walks through a snow covered forest before unleashing the coolest looking broadsword lightsaber hyrid looking thing we could ever have imagined. The identity of the cast has been quite closely guarded, but something about that Sith Lord made me think ‘Benedict Cumberbatch’. Also, I wonder whether the voice over is him too… hmmm… *edit: on the third watching of the trailer my girlfriend said, without any prompting: ‘is that Benedict Cumberbatch’ (other people are saying Andy Serkis).
We are told that both the light and dark sides of the force have awoken – we wonder whether that means more of the population have gained the force, those who already use the force have unlocked new ways of using it or that it has grown stronger with the next generation. Until we see some real force usage we can only speculate.
We are treated to a number of impressive CGI battles featuring some familiar ships (Millennium Falcon!), some of new design, oh and it appears that droids don’t walk or wheel around anymore either, they… well, what do you call that?
Like most J.J. Abrams trailers we are left with more questions than we have had answered, but we’re left feeling more confident than ever that this isn’t going to be another disapointment, well… not to the extent of Episode 1 anyway.
Enough from us though. What do you guys think? Has it got you excited? For those who are more in the know about Star Wars canon than I am: let us know what’s going on here!
