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En Sabah Nerd
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I find this trailer more tantalizing than Force Awakens!
Re-telling a famous story in an engaging fashion is no small challenge. Call it the Art of the Re-Hash. 'Force Awakens' was successful because it essentially re-hashed 'New Hope,' giving us a fresh glimpse of old favorites and laying groundwork for some new, unresolved plot threads. Which is going to be more profitable going forward - continued indulgence of fan demand for nostalgia, or something completely new? 'Rogue One' looks like a brilliant way to balance the demand for another re-hash while adding new spin and hopefully some surprises. I suspect that it will succeed where the Abrams Star Trek reboot failed, because it avoids the worst decision, which was to throw canon and continuity out the window.
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Well written post and I definitely agree that TFA was a very good re-hash. By overall giving us something very familiar it drew us in and then added those new elements to allow for (hopefully) more independence in episode 8. I think some people are way overboard on the whole "7 was just a remake of the original" point, sticking with a winning formula is better than boring politics and awful romances.
The AT-ATs and seeing classic Stormtroopers did score this trailer points for me and I hope it is genuinely good because as the first non-episode SW movie it has to show that Disney wants to expand the story and not just cash in. Maybe Rogue One will finally be the movie where the on-screen Stormtroopers are "precise" and deadly.
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