[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Skoob

I agree. The prequels gave us occasional gems of what I would call 'authentic' Star Wars, but we suffered through hours of insipid, insulting garbage to reach them.

It's said in some circles that J.J. brought Star Wars to Star Trek, and there is some merit to that. What I hope is that he doesn't pull the same antic with Star Wars. There's a lot of scuttlebutt that Han, probably the most important character in the entire franchise, is going to die. Does anyone else shudder at the thought of "Star Wars 8: The Search for Han?"

My biggest fear for the series is one that is glaring in nearly all of the Marvel/Disney MCU films...the villians will be disposable, and will not survive long enough for us to have any empathy for their reasoning as to why they do what they do.

Darth Maul. Count Dooku. Jango Fett. Boba Fett. Even Anakin Skywalker (who turned, and in a moment's instant...was Darth Vader.) Should I go on? Let's not even get started on the Marvel Villians, which has been a revolving door into a casket. At least the Fox X-Men movies have done that right...

And that death of Han rumor might have some clout to it...if you watch 1:45 into the trailer, you can see Rey shedding tears over someone's body. You can also see Chewie's bandolier in the shot, so we either have a dead Han, or even worse yet...a dead wookie on our hands.

Way to spoil that one Disney...I didn't even need to wait for one of those stories that over-analyze movie trailers from various outlets to spot that one.

You can also spot an un-helmeted and very frustrated Kylo Ren at the tail end of the trailer locked in saber combat...so, I'm willing to bet that shot happens about 9 seconds before he himself is decapitated.

I'll wait for the final film to pass judgement, but I would be lying if I said that I wasn't disappointed.

That score though...wow. That was an epic mix. That got me more pumped than anything.