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[Sirus]

EDIT: To be clear, the teaser has the following things tha I find (hilariously?) awesome.

Spoiler: Actual spoilers (click to show/hide)

Rey doing backflips to fight tie fighters in melee
BILLY DEE, HEYOO
C-3PO.... basically surfing some kind of land craft, hanging onto a mast?
Is that Kylo Ren killing bad guys?

Spoiler: Spoiler responses after seeing the trailer (click to show/hide)

That TIE pilot must have been suicidal or something, that's literally the least effective way to attack someone on the ground when you're in an air-and-space-superiority craft.
Okay, I'm admittedly stoked about bringing Lando back. It could be awful...but it might not be!
Dunno about surfing, looks like he's just riding some sort of repulsor vehicle (like the skiffs in RotJ) and hanging on for dear mechanical life.
"Killing". Kylo's weak-ass lightsaber can't even cut through cloth from the looks of it, much less the dude wearing it. Lightsaber-resistant materials do exist in canon but they tend to be somewhat more solid. Also considering that Kylo's basically made himself Overlord in the last movie, I'd hesitate to assume that anyone he's fighting is a bad guy - and even if they are it doesn't at all mean that he's a good guy.

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I dunno. I know Palpatine came back for a while in the EU but it wasn't exactly the best thing to happen. I'm not at all certain how any chunk of Death Star II survived the explosion, especially one as friggin big as the piece we see near the end is (gotta be Endor, right? Wouldn't make sense for the Emperor's spirit to be lurking on Yavin). Unless that's supposed to be some new Sith ruin or whatever.

[Dunamisdeos]

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That actually looked to me like Luke's hermit-planet, but I could be wrong.

Also there is no way in hell that Billy Dee could make Star Wars worse. If they manage that they have broken cosmic cinematic law and I'm fairly sure reality will collapse or something.

In the EU, I believe Palpatine came back via off-site clones. It was poorly handled.

Anyway, my prediction is that, in the same way Anakin was heavily implied/confirmed in the comics/books to have been created via Plageuis'/Palpatine's efforts at life manipulation, Rey was created by Palpatine near the end of his reign. He died before he could use her in whatever nefarious plot he intended, hence the TLJ mirror scene showing no heritage. Kylo is a whiny bitch of a Sith and is making things up. It also explains the laugh at the end of the trailer, and her ridiculous almost-non-canon ease at using the force. Maybe Palpatine's ghost shows up to drop some truth bombs.

OH GEEZ I fixed my spoiler tag lol.

I am looking forward to this though, a lot that could go right.

[Teneb]

Spoiler: New Headcanon (click to show/hide)

Snoke was Darth Plagueis all along

[Telgin]

This trailer definitely has my attention, but I also agree with Dunamisdeos' earlier assertion that this could very easily be mishandled.

I'm also kind of surprised that they're explicitly labeling this as the end of the saga.  I know they'll probably continue to make side story movies afterward, but I'm surprised they weren't leaving themselves open to the possibility of Episodes 10-12.

[Teneb]

This trailer definitely has my attention, but I also agree with Dunamisdeos' earlier assertion that this could very easily be mishandled.

I'm also kind of surprised that they're explicitly labeling this as the end of the saga.  I know they'll probably continue to make side story movies afterward, but I'm surprised they weren't leaving themselves open to the possibility of Episodes 10-12.

I'm glad they are calling it the end. Even if the movies were perfect in every way, there's only so far you can take one particular story. Star Wars is a big universe, and having everything be about Skywalker is a waste.

[Madman198237]

I would hesitate to want the people who have done this trilogy to do anything more with Star Wars, abysmally handled as it has been.

Spoiler: on a more trailer-centric note (click to show/hide)

Palpatine's laugh, immediately after Luke says "no one's ever really gone", is probably intended to mean something. A Force ghosty kind of something. A "the dark side gets to interfere if we light side ghosts get to interfere" kind of something.

[Egan_BW]

Light and dark is an arbitrary distinction, after all~

[Reelya]

Before I get negative on it though, Lando is back, and Billy Dee is playing him. Woop woop!!!

I was pretty grumped out at Disney Star Wars^tm and was on the fence about seeing it, but bringing Lando back tips it over into the gonna-see category.

[Kagus]

Doesn't necessarily have to be clones/resurrection or Sith wraith...

I mean, it looks like some ruins and relics are involved, so it's not entirely impossible that they're going to pull a holocron out of the galaxy's ass, and that it's just the imprint of Sidious laughing.

And yeah, Sidious was an ambitious little cunt, and he did say that he learned everything Plagueis had to teach... Could very well be that he decided to try his own hand at immaculate conception. Even though that kinda went against his philosophy, if I'm remembering correctly.

And I know it was a joke, but Snoke wasn't nearly paranoid enough to be Plagueis. Plagueis was a twitchy fucker before getting assassinated by his own pupil, I doubt the experience would have made him any more trusting.

[ChairmanPoo]

And yeah, Sidious was an ambitious little cunt, and he did say that he learned everything Plagueis had to teach... Could very well be that he decided to try his own hand at immaculate conception.

He already did. A (canonical) SW comic unveiled that it was him that got Vader's mother pregnant in the first place.

On the other hand I dont think he really learned all of Plagueis' secrets, not least because  after the fight with Windu he actually tells Vader that although only Plagueis knew the secrets of life and death, he was sure that between the two of them they could figure it out.  AKA: the claims during "The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis" about his apprentice AKA him learning all of DP's secrets are basically a sales pitch, because when push comes to shove he admits that he wasn't the phenomenal student that he claimed to be and that he killed his master before  he could figure out how to cast "raise dead".

[Rolan7]

I would hesitate to want the people who have done this trilogy to do anything more with Star Wars, abysmally handled as it has been.

Spoiler: on a more trailer-centric note (click to show/hide)

Palpatine's laugh, immediately after Luke says "no one's ever really gone", is probably intended to mean something. A Force ghosty kind of something. A "the dark side gets to interfere if we light side ghosts get to interfere" kind of something.

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I'd have to rewatch the end of Clone Wars cartoon, but I'm pretty sure force ghosts don't work like that.  Powerful light-side users get to accept death yet come back in an advisory role.  Dark-side users try to cheat death, like Plagueis.  Ghosts vs lichs.

He might still come back as a ghost, but I think he'll be more... palpable

The title is confusing, though.  I feel like they spent two movies establishing that this wasn't a Skywalker story anymore, what gives?  Does Kylo Ren come to his senses and take his mother's last name, as part of a redemption arc?  literally royalty, not to mention magic hero-general, just saying

[Teneb]

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I'd just like to remind everyone that the old EU had Dark Side force ghosts.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Honestly, I do not want to see this movie. I really don't want anything to do with any new SW products any more.

Its so frustrating to see the direction the franchise has headed in. It's not even "playing it safe" bad, it's just bad bad.

[Kagus]

I hate sand.

[Dunamisdeos]

I still feel that way, but am not yet far enough gone to rule out the possibility of seeing this if it looks good enough. It'll have to look really good for me to go see it in theaters.

Anyway there are lots of examples of Dark-side force ghosts in various side media. SW: The Old Republic, the MMO, has a plethora of them (though they are supposed to be comparatively rare to light-side ones).

Holocron is a distinct possibility. Probably as likely as a force ghost, really.