Final Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Trailer Drops
October 22, 2019 by brennon
So, the time has come for the final BIG trailer for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker. There's little more to say other than make sure you give it a watch and enjoy...
I for one am very excited to see how this all ends. Say what you will about plot holes and all that nonsense...this is Star Wars. It has been a pretty long road to get to this finale and it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out and what the final note of this particular song is.
Beyond this and the end of the Skywalker saga, we can only hope that Disney starts to delve deeper into the history of the Star Wars universe. We've heard plenty of rumblings about Knights Of The Old Republic and I would love to see that come to the silver screen.
What did you think of the trailer?
"...it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out and what the final note of this particular song is"
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Needs a bit more John Williams music but I hope for big battles
From the looks of it there will be at least one big battle….
The producers seem to be including lots of ships of class that appeared in the OG trilogy, maybe Rogue One, plus Rebels,,, That could be the Ghost there before the Falcon drops in and obscures it…
Looks like a cameo to me.
What I’m really hoping for is a Firefly
Did you mean Firespray-31, the class of ship that Boba Fett’s “Slave 1” is from?
Or have I just trodden on your joke?
Nope, I meant a Firefly.
Actually, there have been a lot of little crossovers like that (when there are loads of startships of different designs). I find it not at all unlikely that something from a different continuity will be in the scene as an easter egg.
That’s pretty much how the Tommyverse was formed.
Serenity?
@brennon may the force be with you, right on about going deeper into universe.
Will be interesting to see, if they have managed to fill some of the big plot holes they left
They thing they will be trying to fill in the Luke plot hole they left.
I don’t recall a Luke plot hole.
Why he had become such a defeatist I believe was the basis of it.
I think that is one of the problems with the structure or format of the Saga.
Whilst it was initially based on the “Flash Gordon” serials, which for a particular serial had not much time, if any at all, pass between episodes, the time jumps between the “Star Wars” episodes give the people making the films a real issue…
Do they leave the characters as they are, even though a lot of time may have passed, or do they give them some form of character development…?
The opening crawl can only carry so much weight and Episode VII was, from memory, the first in the Saga to employ flashback to help cover the decades that succeeded Episode VI.
Some of the time gaps and character development are covered by the novels and comics/graphic novels. The time between Episodes IV and V is covered by a number of years worth of the “Star Wars” comic, published by Marvel.
I think once this trilogy is finished, more novels and comics will be published to cover more of the lead up to Episode VII and further up to Episode IX.
To enjoy the film the viewer shouldn’t need to do some revision by reading loads of books and comics. For a good writer, the passage of time between the setting of a film and its sequel shouldn’t be an issue. Star Wars is simply suffering from bad writing, plain and simple. They wrote a story so similar to it’s predecessors, using the same characters doing the same things and fighting the same villains, that if you watch it as a continuation of the previous films it completely undermines what happens in them. The new films feel more like a reboot than a sequel and nobody wanted a Star Wars reboot.
The problem here, as I see it, is not the time gap between the films but it is that they tried to write a continuation of the original trilogy rather than a new story linked to the original. Essentially they attempted to extend a saga that had already reached its natural conclusion simply to try and get those nostalgia dollars.
You said it better than what I tried to say below. This is exactly the issue!
Yeah- I’m very excited for the upcoming Star Wars series, where we just leave the Skywalker family behind.
I honestly think that the biggest issue is the political situation in the new trilogy- the “First Order” looks just too much like the Empire, and the way they “overthrow” the republic with a super weapon is so much less interesting and credible than Palpatine’s Machiavellian schemes.
I don’t know- he was super defeatist in Empire whenever he ran into any sort of setback. My friends used to call him whiny bitch Luke all the time.
I could see him progressing from the naive idealist into a jaded old man simply by seeing a few more failures. I imagine he didn’t give up on Ren immediately, but combine the damage Ren caused with his Jedi training with the history of the Jedi from the prequels, and concluding that training Jedi is bad for the galaxy makes some sense.
That and his best victories were taking down Death Star I as a rookie pilot and redeeming his dad, which no-one else saw.
Any “and they lived happily ever-after” from the end of “Return of the Jedi” is usurped, which probably needs more explaining than they perhaps did in the new films than they have done so far….
At least for some of the audience, to help take the sour taste out of their mouths…. It has taken me quite a while to come around to it.
Perhaps they will cover it more in Episode IX.
The ‘fall of the Empire’ and happily ever after at the end of Jedi makes no sense anyway.
The way they portrayed the strategic situation in Jedi, it is hard to believe that destroying the Death Star even won them the battle
I mean, there was a whole fleet of Star Destroyers that the rebels felt hopelessly outmatched against. Those Star Destroyers were intentionally avoiding the combat in as much as they could because the Emperor wanted to fire his Death Star cannon. So why didn’t any of them decide that after the Death Star was destroyed, it was a good time to rally the fleet and win the battle (effectively wiping out the revel forces).
And beyond that, there is simply no reason why the galaxy spanning fascist regime should be completely toppled by the death of the Emperor, or the destruction of his brand new weapon. I mean, the military presence on those planets that’s keeping them oppressed should still be there, and their officers aren’t all going to resign their post to anarchy just because the chief is dead (yes, I’m saying that the original “Yub-yub” ending makes more sense because it has less finality).
But that’s all glossed over with the same hand waving as the rise of the First Order (which looks like it is probably formed out of the remnants of the Empire’s military).
If they hadn’t abandoned the Expanded Universe novels when the started work on Force Awakens it would have made more sense.
Seems I read a lot of novels and then the Hulk turned up to grab an infinity stone and created an alternate timeline.
I kind of feel like you’re wrong a couple times in that statement.
– The EU had a LOT more trouble making sense than the films (at least the main ones, the EU does make more sense than the Ewoks and Holiday Special).
The tradeoff is that a LOT fewer fans read all of the novels, and most fans that would have pointed out their flaws wouldn’t spend enough time to really read them.
But Luke turning into Jaded Old Luke is a WAY more probable arc than Luke deciding to turn to the Dark Side and serving Palpatine just for the hell of it (so that Leia could come back and save Luke). Just one example.
– Disney officially declared the end of the EU, but it was pretty dead long before that, when George Lucas made it all too clear that he had no intention of keeping continuity with any of them (in the prequels).
Disney may have burned the EU to the ground, but George Lucas set it on fire in the first place.
On the other hand, I feel like Disney has been mining the EU for ideas and characters (like they do with Marvel).
Admittedly it got a bit weird with the Yuuzhan Vong and the Solo kids got a bit weird in that arc, but some of the earlier fiction was good…
I feel they didn’t use Thrawn well in Rebels and he would have been a good villain for 7-9 movies as Heir to the Empire was one of the better storylines.
But I agree that some of the stuff was a bit average. Personally I found some of the one shot novels more interesting than the long arcs and if Disney hadn’t abandoned their plans of one shot movies after Solo, they were some good stories to tell.
And I miss Mara Jade…
Oddly, I kind of don’t think that Solo was a one shot film (the ending implied a continuing story- at least for Maul and Qira). It is more of a failed launch. If they do well with their television stuff, I wouldn’t mind seeing Star Wars go that direction.
I don’t think I’d have liked a film version of the Heir to the Empire- if for no other reason than it requiring a recasting of the three leads.
Thrawn would have worked as a sub-commander for the new films, and I think that would have worked quite well.
The Disney stuff is using a LOT of lore from EU sources. The Rebels series makes quite a few references to events from the Knights of the Old Republic series.
A long journey will come to an end. I am thankful but will miss it.
I was left disappointed by the last 2 as they could have done lots with the new trilogy story, but instead choose to basically re-hash the original story. I was excited for a new set of films, but with each new release I feel like I’ve already seen it without even going or whilst in the cinema watching it.
Can’t say i’m excited by this trailer at all, all 3 just feel too disconnected to the rest of the Star Wars universe for me. And that’s a shame, I wanted them to be a great success, but the story is too repetitive.
I”m with you there. Force Awakens had some serious issues, not the least of which was its Mary Sue main character, but I at least had hope for the rest of the new trilogy, and the same goes for Rogue One. After they sacrificed any semblance of plot to turn the movies into SJW-pandering garbage with Solo and The Last Jedi, I gave up on the new trilogy entirely. At least now we have an ending to this, so I can hope they’ll do something good with it.
I think this trilogy was doomed to suck, because they gave her too much power too soon.
There was no room for her to grow (save a few terrible training scenes in the second one) and she most definitely did not fall.
Practically everything was given to her.
There is something inconsistent about the way Jedi are portrayed in the Lucas films.
They talk as if they’re absurdly powerful, such that the whole universe revolves around them. But they show it to be a useful set of little tricks.
We are told that “the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the force.”the Emperor still spends two thirds of the Galactic budget to build a Death Star (twice).
Obiwan and Yoda talk as if Luke is so powerful that he gets to personally decide the fate of the galaxy, but then he doesn’t even contribute to the Battle of Endor (if Luke had chosen to side with Palpatine, or if he’d been killed, Lando would still have blown them up).
Other Star Wars writers have mostly sided with the things we’re told rather than shown- which is why force powers are WAY more powerful when George isn’t at the helm (contrast Luke vs. an ATAT walker with Kanan Jaris vs. an ATAT walker- and Kanan is presented as an average Jedi). Let’s not forget that Maul is so powerful with the force that he can survive being divided in half.
In the EU things got really out of hand. Luke can wave his hand and wreck ATAT walkers and Palpatine can summon ‘force storms’ that devour solar systems, etc.
How is Solo an SJW film? I mean, it doesn’t even pass the Bechdel test.
Solo’s problem is more like “This film doesn’t justify its own existence” and “Do you want to watch someone impersonate Harrison Ford’s Han Solo?”
i would love to say i’m excited for this but i’m not. i will still go see it on release day probably but i don’t have any expectations after 7 and 8, it’s probably for the best, this way if it is amazing it will be a nice surprise but if it’s not then i won;t feel so let down.
Yeah, I had a lot of friends with high expectations for The Hobbit series. At the time I thought “There isn’t even one film worth of material in that book, so this is going to seriously suck.”
Turns out that I’m the only one who appreciated the adaptation (oddly, I’m also the only one who read the appendicies enough to know that the White Council’s battle with Sauron was way more important than Bard shooting the dragon).
Wow. Are the literally going to flog a dead horse in this film? I saw this trailer yesterday. I don’t think the problems with the franchise stem from concentrating on the ‘Skywalker Saga’, as it has become, nor on returning to old themes or repeating narrative arcs, i think they stem from a seemingly crowdsourced script, a lack of imagination and, consequentially, an inability to give the films any relevance and depth. I think the problems are here to stay.
It’s Disney.
It’s Star Wars
Businesses of that size play it safe, because they know they’re going to get paid either way.
And with Solo not being the hit they wanted it to be there is no doubt they are going to play it even more safe … and it kind of shows in the trailer.
It’s a literal checklist of cool stuff in Star Wars :
– epic space battle scene
– duel between good and bad
– character foreshadowing his death or the death of his loved ones
The worst part is the total lack of plot.
All we know is that there will be a duel between darth emo and his sister (again).
Bad stuff will happen, the characters will save the day and someone is going to die (or at least thinks he will).
You mentioned horses. Did you see the bit of them riding spacehorses along the outside of a star destroyer? This is going to suck to a whole new level!
as opposed to furry space teddybears defeating armoured elite storm troppers with sticks and stones?
Might some of the problems also be that we no longer are children watching what in essence are childrens movies?
But I must admit the charge of the wooly cavalry is a bit …far out.
Even if they are children’s movies, to which i strongly disagree, it doesn’t mean it has to be crap.
I vaguely remember thinking the teddy bears, not to mention sticks vs. guns, were stupid when i watched it at the age of… 6 i guess, and i seem to recall that at the time Return Of The Jedi was considered the worst of the three films.
Work was abandoned whilst Gerry and I watched the trailer 3 times, don’t tell Warren
I think the problem with films apart from the originals is that they tried to make them deep and meaningful and sadly moved away from the space opera feel they once had
Not going to lie, visually it looks fantastic and it does well to hit you in the feels. Sadly, I’m failing miserably to get excited, thanks entirely to The Last Jedi and Solo.
Disney made some serious mistakes, amongst which they decided to ignore George Lucas’ recommended rough story arc for this trilogy, gave the second part to a director who relishes in being divisive, who subsequently threw J.J.Abrams story arc in the bin and made Solo, a movie that pretty much nobody wanted.
To rescue this trilogy it needs to knock it, not just out of the park, but into orbit.
“A long road to this finale”
It’s a finale that we didn’t need. Return of the Jedi ended the story perfectly. It had a happy ending and the sequels felt contrived from the outset.
Star Wars has become like the Matrix. It’s a much better story without the sequels.
Looks fantastic an the Emperor is back to mix thing’s up from the rumours I’ve heard.
J.J. Abrahms movies a mediocre at best and Star Wars these days is such an empty product.
Considering how badly TLJ was my only exitement stems from my curiousity on how the will
salvage the trainwreck.
Or whether the wreck will get bigger
I’m kind of hoping that Disney goes further forward rather than backwards with it.
Mind, I loved playing Knights of the Old Republic, but you could do the same thing with a New Republic instead (or maybe a New New Republic, as it were). I mean, the films are certainly setting up a return to the Jedi order.
But it is all just Star Wars without Skywalkers, and the stagnation of technology over the course of thousands of years that is required for the Old Republic era to work strikes me as very strange. Why not just set it a little in the future instead?
Film series not really helped by the fact that Rougue one was excellent and good Star wars.
Both ‘clone wars’ and ‘rebels’ went deeper into the Star Wars universe than any of the movies ever did.
And after the previous movie I’m not exactly expecting anything from Darth Emo or his sister (surely that is the ‘big secret’ ?).
Both of those TV series do have the advantage of way more time to do so, along with the services of Dave Filoni, who is George Lucas’s apprentice.
Of course they do.
That’s why a movie needs someone who can understand the limitations of the medium and still produce an effective story.
The entire plot of the last Star Wars movie could have spanned a complete season (with room to spare).
It didn’t work as a movie plot because too many things had to happen with zero chance for the plot to breathe (and it would have made the deus ex machinas less stupid … ).
Heck … now that I write that I suspect that they used the plot for a tv-series and compressed it into a single movie.
So….. a couple of things to mention.
0:08 Rey running through a forest deflecting shots from a training remote. Why bother? Wasn’t she already the best ever without any formal training?
0:16 She can force-jump now. Handy.
0:17 And lands in a completely different scene. Impressive. At least she appears out of breath.
0:20 Finn on the lookout for his plot. It has remained elusive for 2 films now but he is a tireless hunter. Such wasted story potential.
0:24 Rey still running through the forest. She appears to have given the training remotes the slip. Lightsaber still out though. Didn’t Unkar Plutt teach her its dangerous to run with scissors. Bad (foster)parenting.
0:28 Resistance has been restaffed. And Lando’s back. Hope they explain where they’ve been up till now.
0:30 Rose Tico! Why has she not been jailed for reckless driving resulting in the deaths of nearly all the Resistance wave 1? Meriadoc Brandybuck in the background. I guess they’re recruiting Hobbits now. Maybe to try and leach some superior-trilogy-mojo off them.
0:33 Resistance troops flee in the background as our heroes watch, unconcerned, as someone badly parks a Corellian Corvette. Poor leadership qualities.
0:40 “People keep telling me they know me.” Do they? Why?
“[but] No one does.” How could they? You’ve had almost no character development in the past 2 films.
0:45 Kylo should have checked the weather before he came out. Awkwardly turns his lightsaber around. Looks dangerous, you could slice your own leg off dude. Did Luke not tell him you can just stop pressing the button when its not needed and it turns off? Bad teacher. Although its already covered that he’s a bad teacher so i guess this is actually consistent.
0:49 Iceberg ahead! Wait, no reflections, is it actually some sort of comet, or ice-moon?
0:53 Overly spiky throne. Maybe Sheev has renounced the Darkside and instead turned to Chaos. “Long have i waited.” Hope they explain why he waited this long. Doubt it.
0:57 So that’s how you wash a star destroyer. Hope they closed all the windows.
1:00 Wow! That’s a lot of Resistance/Rebel/New Republic ships. Why are they in such tight formation? Is there not a lot of space in space anymore? VCX-100 in there. Is it “Ghost”? They probably won’t say. Wait, is that a SF-17 bomber in there? Shit! Get away from it now! One stay shot will cause it to explode and take out the whole fleet around it!
1:03 All the main characters in the same room. Unusual. What’s that on the dashboard? Maybe its a flux capacitor? Just add 1.21gigawatts and go back and stop this trilogy before it starts. Please.
1:06 Kylo and Rey fight. Kylo leaves himself wide open but Rey strikes past him to hit his lightsaber instead. Maybe she just really hates red sticks? I suppose one did just appear from nowhere and killed Han whilst Han and Kylo were hugging on that bridge on Starkiller Base.
1:14 The droids have been taken to a dark workshop. Dismembered droid parts are hanging from the ceiling and scattered around. Goldenrod gets his head opened up and a little gremlin starts poking around in there. BB8 must be bricking it thinking he might be next. Poe just seems impatient to get on with it while Threepio is trying to have a last moment. Probably meant to be poignant but seems a bit cruel. RIP C-3P0 i guess.
1:28 Stormtroopers running one by one to get shot down. Why doesn’t the whole squad just stay back at a bulkhead or door and volley fire down the corridor at the charging Resistance. Seems like fairly basic tactics to me.
1:31 A nice hug with Leia. Rey keeps watch for those murderous red sticks.
1:35 Sand-skiffs and moisture vaporators. Is this Tatooine? BB8 launches a big yellow smoke cloud. That’ll definitely stop the ships that are pursuing them. For about 2 seconds.
1:39 Finn seems happy. Maybe he found his plot.
1:40 Awkward moment for Chewbacca as Lando reconnects with his old flame, the navigation computer.
“How would that work?” (Qi’ra to L3-37) “It works.”
1:43 Text-“The saga will end”. Didn’t it already though. In 1983. Space-horses! BB8 can keep up though. Are they on a star destroyer?
1:47 Text-“The story lives forever”. Some stories do. Some get de-canonised.
1:49 Finn goes for a jog looking for a plot. Probably shouting to Rey, maybe she’s found one he can have.
1:50 Rey and Kylo team up to kill something. It explodes/crumbles in a weird way. Also everything seems too clean and white. Probably a dream or force-vision.
1:53 Space-horses again. And yeah, they’re riding along the outside of a star destroyer. “Helmsman, rotate ship 90 degrees to starboard”. Watch them all slide off unless they’ve got magnetic hooves.
So many star destroyers. Remember when one was terrifying and three could blockade a whole planet? If Palpatine had this many, why hasn’t he used them already?
1:58 The Emperor looks down on Rey and she’s backing off as if he’s getting closer. Does this mean that his big spiky throne has legs? Probably. Sounds stupid enough to fit right in.
So, that’s just a couple of things i noticed from this trailer. I expect the film to be bad, but i’m kind of looking forward to it in a weird, masochistic way, just to see how bad. I’m also sure that it will be visually gorgeous and the special effects will be fantastic. And that will be enough to please many people and make lots of money for Disney and therefore they will call it a success and start looking for another franchise to violate.
Not sure rotating a star destroyer 90 degrees would work as it generates a gravity field… australians don’t fall of the bottom of the earth…
ticket ticket ticket – i got one – germany 18.12.