{"id":1017,"date":"2014-12-02T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:22:38","slug":"star-wars-episode-7-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Episode 7 Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the teaser hit on Friday, I&#8217;ve had people (usually very excited) asking me about my reaction to the trailer.\u00a0Oddly, I&#8217;m feeling rather ambivalent.<\/p>\n<p>First, for reference:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMOVFvcNfvE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first time I watched it, I actually thought it was another fanfilm trailer mashup. JJ Abrams is delving really hard into the old Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the first trilogy &#8211; something the people creating Star Wars media seem to be doing since we saw the Y-wing bombers in the first season of\u00a0<em>Clone Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the teaser made me smile and thrilled me a bit &#8211; namely, the trio of X-wings skimming the lake (I don&#8217;t even mind the new design) and the\u00a0<em>Millennium Falcon\u00a0<\/em>evading TIE Fighters (presumably over the sands of Tatooine). Some of that is probably nostalgia for the golden years of LucasArts gaming:\u00a0<em>X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs TIE Fighters, X-Wing Alliance<\/em>, or even\u00a0<em>Star Wars Galaxies\u00a0<\/em>before it shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the rest of the teaser did almost nothing for me. The (presumably) Sith Lord&#8217;s lightsaber design didn&#8217;t bother me (though it was why I first thought it was a fan trailer, not the real deal), and the new droid looked ridiculous. The rest of it looked pretty much like I expected a Star Wars teaser to look.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m getting cynical. The past fifteen years of Star Wars productions has been very hit-or-miss across the board, from movies to television\u00a0shows to gaming. For every good production it seems like there&#8217;s been two terrible ones. Maybe JJ Abrams is the guy who will turn that around, but I&#8217;m reserving judgement until (at minimum) I get to see a full trailer.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe someday, when\u00a0<em>Shattered Expanse\u00a0<\/em>is a multi-billion dollar media enterprise, I&#8217;ll be in a position to comment and actually have something to say that people will listen to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the teaser hit on Friday, I&#8217;ve had people (usually very excited) asking me about my reaction to the trailer.\u00a0Oddly, I&#8217;m feeling rather ambivalent. First, for reference: The first time I watched it, I actually thought it was another fanfilm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/?p=1017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-general","category-personalthoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cropped-villagers-21.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52rlt-gp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingunderduress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}