[StarSlayer]

Yeah looks like its the real deal.  Not quite a fan of how the strike foils work on the new Xwing but that's a pretty minor gripe.  I hope the new sabre type means a western style of sword fighting.  Most cross guard technique involve using it as a blade trap, of course when your blade cuts through pretty much everything that emitter bit looks like it might get lopped off if you're not careful.  Overall looks pretty cool for what we've been teased with.

[zookeeper]

Well, that lightsaber design sure is unbelievably and incredibly stupid and bad-looking.

[Luis Dias]

actually it's about ergonomics in light-saber design

[Luis Dias]

a meme awakens
https://twitter.com/DustinMSandoval/status/538363376489865216

[AdmiralRalwood]

Most cross guard technique involve using it as a blade trap, of course when your blade cuts through pretty much everything that emitter bit looks like it might get lopped off if you're not careful.

This is my only real problem with a cross-guard lightsaber as well; a cross-guard lightsaber sounds like an incredibly useful variant of the concept, but in most situations it seems like that emitter would just get sliced off and you're left with no protection whatsoever. It would be much more sensible if the cross-guard blades were generated closer to the handle, so there isn't a large enough gap for the opposing lightsaber to slip through.

[swashmebuckle]

I always thought lightsabers basically stuck to each other so they couldn't slide perpendicularly along each others blades which would make a hilt totally useless but whatever it's visually stupid anyway. What really bothers me in this trailer is all the camera work that looks like it would be more at home in a Marvel comics movie.

[Colonol Dekker]

Make a light sabre chainsaw and I'm on board with the new stuff.

Also.......here's a random thought, say back in the day. Many years ago, if George o'lucas had the funds and production capabilty he had when he made the prequels. Would 4 5 and 6 be as bad as them?

[Grizzly]

Depends on how you look at it. 4 5 and 6 are mainly the result of Lucas's lack of experience and therefore a willingness to let others give suggestions. This would have not changed depending on how much funds he had.
That being said, he would not have had many funds, as he was inexperienced.

[watsisname]

a meme awakens

Not ridiculous enough.



THEEERE we go

[swashmebuckle]

A New Hope was the only one Lucas directed in the originals, and it actually had a big budget for the time ($11 million). I think that outside of a few special effects shots that were unachievable due to technical limitations (stuff he redid in the special editions) he basically got the movie he wanted in terms of what money can buy.

[Colonol Dekker]

Like an alien musical number?

[Luis Dias]

All you haters and cynics: this trailer was awesome, the camera work was awesome, the special effects were amazing, teh x-wing swooning was heart-breakingly amazing, the falcon was spectacular. Anyone who disagrees with me is a curmudgeon whose emo views should be lambasted and then forgotten on the spot! I have spoken!

[Colonol Dekker]

What does valerianesque mean?
 

[Luis Dias]

Comes from Valerian, a famous comic book from the 60s, one of the inspirations for Star Wars. I loved it when I was a kid. This was his ship:

[An4ximandros]

I get the skinning feeling I wont like it. Something about the CGI is rubbing me in all the wrong ways right now... I cant quite put my finger on it. It all feels so... false; the prequels had this, but not as much.

[Colonol Dekker]

Too much.....fidelity?

[Luis Dias]

Someone who goes out their way to say this trailer special effects are worse than the prequels... Jesus Christ.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Like an alien musical number?

When did Lucas go back and add a musical number to A New Hope?

[Colonol Dekker]

Someone who goes out their way to say this trailer special effects are worse than the prequels... Jesus Christ.

I'm not slamming any of the new, or bold,  or newold effects.

Like an alien musical number?

When did Lucas go back and add a musical number to A New Hope?

ROTOJ.

[Scourge of Ages]

Dat Falcon...