Doesn't feel like Star Wars but I'm still gonna see it.
I have to agree with Jonah; this trailer has a completely different feeling. But hopefully that doesn't mean that it's going to be something bad.
Star Wars is precious to me because as a kid (when movies were available ONLY in theaters--if you didn't see them at the theater, you assumed they were gone forever), my brother and I would see the trailers on TV and every time, we'd stop what we were doing, totally hypnotized, and say, "WWWOOOOWWW...."
One day, my Dad took us both in the car and said he was taking us somewhere and we had to guess where. We kept guessing Grandma's house...
I will NEVER forge my Dad driving very slowly past (what seemed like) that giant billboard poster with Luke and Leia right on the front, and he pointed to it and said, "THAT'S where we're going." We were TOTALLY blown away because we had NEVER been to a movie before. My Dad took us to all 3 movies, and I remember him softly reading the "translation" of Jabba the Hut's lines to us in the theater. (In fact, the theater we went to was torn down many years ago, taking a piece of my childhood with it.)
I know the tickets for this new film will be sold out for months, but when the hubbub dies down, I want to tell my Dad, "I'm taking you somewhere... and you have to guess where..."
I just hope these movies are actually worth it. I loved the original Star Wars movies because:
1. They featured unknown actors who hadn't been typecast yet, so you could really "believe" their characters were "real". For instance... just think of all the movies and characters you'd be thinking of instead if someone to the equivalent of Tom Cruise had been cast. He would have been flashing that lightsaber and I would have been thinking, "SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!"
2. The humor was just amazing ("Will someone get this Walking Carpet out of my way!!!???") and what I loved most is that when I watched these films again as an adult, I appreciated the humor even more than when I was a kid.
Episodes 1-3 took everything I loved about the originals... and shot it to oblivion (just like the Death Star.) I'm one of those people who would like to deny that 1-3 were ever made!
But when I saw the part of this trailer with the mysterious robed figure resting (his?) robotic arm on R2-D2, I got chills. If that DOESN'T turn out to be Luke... I just might cry.