[ SECRET POST #2891 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2891 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Final Fantasy XIII]


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[Cross Ange]


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[Wentworth/Prisoner: Cell Block H]


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[Grant Morrison]


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[Amy Jo Johnson/Power Rangers]


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[Pacific Rim]


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[Star Wars: The Force Awakens]


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[Parks and Recreation]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I LOVE the prequels so what disappointed me most about this trailer is just how similar everything looked to the original trilogy. Not that I want everything to look like the prequels, but having something original would be really nice. The aesthetic is too similar and I'm afraid it's going to be a nostalgia trip for middle-aged fanboys.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, it was good that it showed that they had some of what worked in the original series. But I agree that it's equally important to see whether they're going to be able to do something new with that, or just, yeah, faff around with nostalgia bullshit. No way of telling just yet.

I don't think it would make sense for them to look like the prequels that much, just in the sense that there's so much time intervening - we're going in the opposite direction time-wise, I just don't see what the justification would be for using that aesthetic again. (I also don't necessarily share your feelings about the prequels but w/e)

[(Anonymous)]

No, no -- I DEFINITELY don't want it to look like the prequels but when you compare the first prequel film (TPM) to the first original trilogy film (ANH), things in the universe looked so different -- the yellow/chrome Naboo star fighters, Padmé's way of dress vs Leia's, the more romantic/ostentatious style of the PT vs the more rugged/industrial style of the OT. TPM took place about 30 years before ANH. And in the new film, it will take place about 30 years after ROTJ. And yet…things look exactly the same. The stormtrooper armor has only minor differences. The X-wings look the same. Daisy's character is dressed just like Leia was on Endor.

There were a few new things -- like the Ball-droid and the lightsaber -- but it felt really rehashed to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah! that's fair enough then, point well taken

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I was thinking that this trailer looked WAY too similar to the prequels for me. Or at least, that it's doing the specific things that made the prequels not good, in my book.

First off: back to Tatooine, AGAIN. Disastrous choice. The first Star Wars film created this vast universe that had an epic sense of scope. That started shrinking in ROTJ, and by the end of the prequels their universe was small enough to toss a frisbee across.

Second: more Stormtroopers? Really? How does that even... WHY DO YOU THINK THE STORMTROOPERS ARE WHAT PEOPLE ARE COMING BACK FOR?

Third: Christ on a cracker, that lightsaber. The sin of the prequels was expanding on the wrong things, doing bad fanservice that was only ever skin-deep, and a big part of that was "Oh, you like lightsabers? Well, what about a DOUBLE lightsaber?" So now we've got Abrams going "Oh, we won't be making that mistake again. Instead we have a TRIPLE lightsaber!" I don't know what to say to that, except this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/