The… Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker trailer.

There’s something happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear…

“Star wars: The Rise of Skywalker?” The apparent complete absence of Rose from the trailer? SOMEBODY doing evil laughter at the end of the trailer (might be Palpatine)? Are they, like, retconning The Last Jedi here?

Yeah, I know: most of the people reading this are far less forgiving of the last two movies than I am. And I’m fine if they retcon it, or don’t retcon it, or break into a musical routine halfway through and then end the series with a dance-off. I’m just bemused by the trailer. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t quite this.

10 thoughts on “The… Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker trailer.”

  1. I’ve been burned before.
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    I *will* be waiting to see some reviews on this before I buy a ticket.

  3. I liked Force Awakens well enough, but I thought Last Jedi was way too long on extraneous plot lines and new characters.

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    My recipe for success of this movie is pretty much focus on Rey and Kylo Ren (and perhaps one or two other core characters), and tell a coherent story.

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    Also, don’t let a secondary and a couple tertiary characters hijack the plot for 30 minutes in the middle of the movie either, okay?

    1. Don’t forget all the token quatrary characters who had to get lingering screen shots to prove our virtue, and all the environmentally unfriendly plastics we used to make landfill, I mean unsold toys, I mean ‘collectibles’ through a program of corporate malfeasance, I mean ‘inclusion’.

    2. IMO, Finn’s a far more interesting character than Intense Girl and Darth Emo. Pity that they basically had to create a shaggy dog sub-plot to give him something to do in the last movie. But there you go.

      And apparently this is going to be the movie where they kill off Lando.

  4. Also, over/under on the number of times Mary Sue there is incorrectly described as ‘Fierce’ by pliant reviewers…. 8 billion.

  6. Now that we’re at the final movie, I at least know how to manage expectations for Lucasfilm 3.0. There will be fun space-ships and explosions. I go in expecting nothing more.

  7. It’s dead, Jim.
    The franchise died with The Phantom Menace. It just took a long time for the dinosaur to stop thrashing.
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    I briefly held out hope that The Mouse would resuscitate it, especially when the first trailers were straight out of “A Splinter in Mind’s Eye”.
    Alas, it was not to be.

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