It's sad to hear that there are fans not looking forward to TFA but I guess that's due to the nature of Star Wars fandom. We're all entitled to our opinions.

As for me this poster has me really pumped for the movie and I think it looks great, even if it's different from the usual Drew Struzan posters. If I'm gonna nitpick it is the overall color of the piece; the red on left is too strong against the blue on the right. Would've preferred if they blended in to each other more cuz as it stands it does look abit jarring.

As for the new super weapon it does look like a Death Star III at first glance but upon closer inspection its seems like a very different beast. I'm pretty sure this is Starkiller base as some here have already assumed because it looks like the First Order established their base on an ice planet and went on to build a giant death cannon into the planet itself. That's just mind boggling! You can't attack and destroy that thing like the Rebels did with the previous 2 Death Stars. This is something completely new but it plays heavily on the imagery of the Death Star because we know the FO is obsessed with their Imperial past.

With regards to Luke, I'm not really bothered that he's not in the poster because I know he'll be in the movie even though he might only show up in the 3rd act of the film but there's no doubt he is still a prominent part of the story. His brief apperance in TFA is probably a lead up to his major role in EpVIII and I'm okay with that. Besides if the latest rumors are to be believed a Skywalker will still be the main protagonist of the show, she'll just be alot younger and not a dude:)

Oh yeah, you're right... makes way more sense (not Kylo Ren's sword). Probably should've changed the angle of her staff in the poster.

Maybe the two weapons overlap like that to symbolize the sibling connection between Kylo & Rey Solo.

Just because something is non-canon doesn't mean it's gone. I can still read Rogue Squadron or Heir to the Empire. I can still play Knights of the Old Republic II or TIE Fighter. These works of fiction are still there for me to enjoy. The only thing being non-canon does is mean they won't affect newer stories, which I'm fine with. I don't need new stories referencing the Thrawn trilogy, that story was already told as good as it could be.

Also, I've read a lot of Star Wars books (though nowhere near all of them). I can't imagine anything post-Disney acquisition is as bad as The Crystal Star or Dark Nest. The old Star Wars EU had some wonderful stories, but it also had a ton of garbage.

I'd like to see, y'know, movies/games/TV shows etc in that setting rather than the grossly mishandled Disney version, I guess.

Aftermath was outright worse than Jedi Prince.

There is no way that Aftermath is worse than Jedi Prince.

And the setting has 30 years of material for it. That's a lot of stuff! And if you want, you can write your own stories in that setting to expand it further. But when Lucasfilm wants to make Star Wars sequels and the decades after the movies have already been filled with things like Emperor Palpatine cloning himself, the Suncrusher, Chewbacca dying, extragalactic BDSM aliens invading, Luke getting married to a former Imperial assassin, Leia and Hans' son turning evil and their daughter killing him, they have to wipe the slate clean.

Oh yeah, you're right... makes way more sense (not Kylo Ren's sword). Probably should've changed the angle of her staff in the poster.

Maybe the two weapons overlap like that to symbolize the sibling connection between Kylo & Rey Solo.

Ohohohoho

Right on the money dude

I feel so sorry for people who have got such a negative attitude to the new film without seeing it.

Regard of what it turns out like, I've had an amazing last year or so getting progressively more excited and hyped up for The Force Awakens, taking in ever tidbit of information as it's been released and looking forward to what it could be.

If it turns out to be terrible then yeah it'll be a real shame, but just the thought of it has filled my heart with joy for so long now that I'll have gained far far more than I could ever lose.

The anticipation of something is often better than the reality. You should learn to embrace that :-)

i'd rather be uncrushed than crushed

I'm sure it'll be better than the prequel trilogy movies, but that's kind of a low bar.

With Abrams, an avid Star Wars fan at the helm, I'm not too worried myself.

The Force Awakens could be worse than Attack of the Clones or better than The Empire Strikes Back.

Whatever is the case, I'm willing to bet money it will be better than The Crystal Star.

Well, worse than Attack of The Clones isn't too hard. The Asteroid Chase redeems anything wrong in that movie.

Well, worse than Attack of The Clones isn't too hard. The Asteroid Chase redeems anything wrong in that movie.

With jj it's pretty safe to assume the worst.

Transporting from earth to Qo'nos, in one fel stroke he made Starfleet redundant who needs space ships when you can teleport 112 light years instantly.

I don't the movie that well (It's mostly a mediocre blur to my memory), but I'm pretty sure the Enterprise warped back to Near Earth before the Vengeance intercepted them.

... But if they were that close to Earth, how did the rest of starfleet not intervene?

Blegh. Now I'm going to be trying to remember how it went until I rewatch it, and Into Darkness was not worth a rewatch.

Well, the in the JJ Abrams 'verse, the only planet with humans on it is earth (although, to be fair, lots of other Star Trek movies pretend that all of humanity is located on earth - I'm looking at you, Star Trek: Nemesis). The only planet with Vulcans on it is Vulcan, the only planet with Klingons on it is Qo'noS (or Cronos, as it is in the JJ verse), I'd bet that there aren't even any Romulans on Remus nor any Remans on Romulus. And Starfleet consists of a total of about eight ships. And it takes about two hours for the Enterprise to travel from earth, through the neutral zone, to Cronos.

You sound prejudiced by your derogatory appelation of the director. Jar Jar Abrams as you put it. You are seeing him and his work in a negative light, prejudging the film. You say it is going to suck. So, unless you have seem more than anyone else, you ARE posting in a very prejudical slant.

Are we supposed to believe that a director who has consistently made mediocre films is suddenly going to make a good one?

Are we supposed to pretend he has no history?

Are we supposed to pretend his mediocre history is fact as opposed to opinion?

I dunno. Have you seen any of his movies? I mean, I know I've seen them, I just can't remember anything about them.

I had an open mind about TPM, and that looked better from pre-release material than TFA has so far.

Never again.

I liked the ships from The Phantom Menace better. And if that's the measure we're using, then, yes, The Force Awakens is looking worse than The Phantom Menace did at the same point in its release schedule.

Having said that, I'm optimistic.

this is not something people should be calm over

What do you care? You ever hear of ISIS? Tens of thousands killed before sundown. Nobody's killed people that fast since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Did you bat an eye, Tipperary? Did you join Amnesty International, Oxfam, Save the Whales, Green Peace, or something? No. JJ Abrams makes one Star Wars movie and you throw a hissy fit.

why the %#@#%@#& would I care about /other people/?

why the %#@#%@#& would I care about /other people/?

also, NOBODY should join Green "Peace"

Not caring about other people, I'm pretty sure, is a strong indicator of sociopathic tendencies.

Just saying.

it does worry me

Many of the problems with the Phantom Menace and the other prequels relate to the unfitting elements that were shoehorned by Lucas himself, against the advice of his team.

Seriously, could you imagine any other director that had the minimum amount of respect for Star Wars, creating and writing a character such as Jar Jar, or demoting the most charismatic evil guy in the saga into an infantile out-of-place kid first, then into a whiny teenager?

I only can think of people like David Lynch or Alejandro Jodorosky doing something even more unfitting.

Add to that, that when a director/writer happens to also be the most powerful person on charge of everything, they usually tend to listen to others' advice very little, and mainly listenting to his own, or his yesmen's.

Also, the worse books in the EU were basically written by the so called "hungry writers": writers that expected more of their careers than writing entertainment products for nerds based on characters and storylines made by other, more successful people; and still there were they, having to do that job for money.

It is precisely those books and videogames whose authors put really a lot of passion on as much as with any other works in their careers, the ones that reached high levels of quality and are still remembered and loved even today.

We cherish the Original Trilogy, but I think Return of the Jedi already has that stench in it that later Lucas applied to everything he did or redid afterwards. Something changed in Lucas around the end of the production of Empire Strikes Back.

In my opinion, I don't think JJ Abrahams can do a worse job than Lucas did with the prequels. He is not all powerful in LucasFilm, he does listen to many others' advice, and most importantly, he is a fan of Star Wars.

If anything, I fear Episode VII will be too much a homage of Episode IV-VI and not original enough.

Everything revealed so far seems to lead in the direction of VII being an "inverted" version of IV, in many levels and layers.

Ahhh nostalgia....

Like that early 48k Spectrum game that you used to play on a Sunday morning that you loved...

Like the old Flash Gordon black and white show that used to be on that your dad used to watch...

Like those early Doctor Who episodes...

Like those early Star Trek movies...

They look really good through rose tinted spectacles, but not so good against what we have to play with today.

I for one am very happy that a fellow fan is at the helm and I am really looking forward to sampling the next trilogy.

Look at it this way, if you dont come away liking it, you've got 30 years of expanded universe to delve back into.

Pretty sure it's not a case of pretending (although there's an argument I've seen that places the blame with writers rather than Abrams), but let me argue that angle for a sec here:

Say I don't like any of his past movies. Is there then any precedent for me to like this one? Is there anything in the material we've seen that makes this somehow different than his previous movies?

Should anyone who dislikes his past movies waste time assuming this one will be different? I can tell you right now that enough people dislike, let's say, ST09, Into Darkness, Cloverfield, MI:3, etc that finding mediocrity precedent even if it's a case of opinion should still put a significant percentage of people into a camp that can look askance at this film and be right to do so.

why the %#@#%@#& would I care about /other people/?

also, NOBODY should join Green "Peace"

You should care, so that the hate can flow through you. Soon your journey towards the Dark Side will be not exactly complete but at least somewhat closer to completion...maybe.

I was worried about JJ taking the helm but I've reserved judgment until the premiere. It looks like it can be a decent movie. It might even be good as a SW movie. TPM was a very highly polished turd, so of course it 'looks better' than what we've seen for TFA. The new movie seems to have actual heart and real movie magic and looks like someone cared instead of overdesigning and making all the same mistakes again and again like George did. ROTJ showed us how TPM was gong to play out but we never saw it coming. We don't know how TFA will go, save extrapolating from JJs other works...it could be awesome, it could be an unpolished turd. Or it could be ok, or anywhere in between. Mathwing can't predict this one.

why the %#@#%@#& would I care about /other people/?

also, NOBODY should join Green "Peace"

You should care, so that the hate can flow through you. Soon your journey towards the Dark Side will be not exactly complete but at least somewhat closer to completion...maybe.

Good. Good!

Speak of ISIS, speak of GreenPeace, speak even of strongly indicated sociopathic tendencies.

With every passing second you make yourself more my servant!

It is inevitable. It is your destiny.

I go to sleep for eight hours and miss everything

I don't like jj I have never seen him make anything good, average at his best and outright terrible at his worst.

After in to darkness I have no faith he`ll deliver a good film that honours star wars even if he is a fan.

I haven't prejudged the movie, but I have the director.

See I hate his Trek films as a huge Trek fan. His Mission Impossible is probably my 2nd fav though, and I liked Super 8.

But this is different. This isn't him rebooting or having people work on it that never even saw Star Wars (like he did with Trek). It's Kathleen Kennedy and Lawrence Kasdan and him. Two people way into the family already and from the OT, and a new guy who is a huge fan. It's a continuation guided by love and respect for the material. They never really had that for Trek, so you can't really compare it.

The first teaser was very JJ. His style and look. The second trailer sold me. It's the most Star Wars thing we'd had since...SOME things in the prequels (before Rebels came along with their Vader ep and was the best Star Wars since ROTJ)

His first teaser was an out right lie altered to look more exciting than it actually was, which does not inspire any confidence at all.

His first teaser was an out right lie altered to look more exciting than it actually was, which does not inspire any confidence at all.

What's this about? Have I missed something?

It's just the falcon flying along the ground but they used editing tricks to make it look like it was doing a loop.

But there's so much tfa news finding the site that reveals it is proving tricky.