[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The light saber was the best thing about the trailer, why is there so much hate going on?

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Originally Posted by Poison Shadow

Ehh. Personally I think that lightsaber looks really freaking stupid, like they're trying too hard to come up with unique designs.

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.

All in all...everyone needs to relax...period. What we got to day was literally a little over 88 seconds of footage, which told us NOTHING about the characters or the movie itself. Whether or not Abrams can pull it off remains to be seen, but the man has a midas touch and we just have to hope he'll give it his best attempt. He successfully revived the Star Trek franchise (I personally enjoyed both movies, the first a lot more than the second, but hardcore fans there will tell you that he bastardized and butchered it as well...) Hopefully he will apply that same amount of love and care to this franchise, and we will finally have the Star Wars follow up we have been craving for the last thirty plus years.