[Poison Shadow]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Personally, I like to think that it's this. Honestly though, there has been stranger weapons in the Star Wars EU. Plagius's lightsaber pike, Maris Brood's tonfa lightsabers, and Pong Krell's collapsible lightsabers were pretty wicked and cool looking, but highly impractical and dangerous weapons...especially Krell's. Those things were ridiculous...they were essentially lightsaber nun-chucks.

Also...I think it's because the trailer gives the impression that the tone of the movie will go with the current Hollywood trend of being edgy and really dark, where people are more in tune with Star Wars having a fun, adventurous and light hearted atmosphere. It's rubbing a lot of old school fans the wrong way. Some people prefer the original versions of Grimm's fairy tales, while others enjoy the sanitized Disney versions (and I'm not trying to be ironic there.) To each his own there.

Huh. I think you just nailed the reason I was underwhelmed.