JD : Its not that you have not got some valid observations to make, its just that the way you present them and phrase them can be a little too negative at times.
Yes this thread is filled with optimistic lightsiders and for a very good reason. Despite the huge amount of negativity over the rekindling of a much beloved franchise by Disney and particularly of JJA as director from some quarters , so far ,from what we have gleamed and glimpsed of the film, it looks as if they have managed to nail it squarely on the head.The trailers look superb.
There are certain things I dislike but I don't relentlessly keep on pounding on about them. The design of the pig creature, some of the names seem weak ("Snoke", too near to snake and smoke! "Captain Phasma" sounds like a character escaped from an Austin Powers movie for godsake!). But there are elements of the OT for which this is just as true for me, nothing but niggles really, the bulk of the OT is pretty much perfect otherwise excluding the somethings beginning with "E" . And overalll I am more thrilled by what I have seen of the new film by a margin considerably bigger than I ever hoped for!!!!
Yes, there is alot of rumour and conjecture at the moment about storylines. I don't buy for a single minute the lightsabre tumbling from space. The TESB one we see being handed over in the trailer is in mint condition, not a scuff mark or bit of burnt rubber anywhere on it. Looks like its been lifted from the Vaults incomparison to Kylo Rens antique ,which looks like its been run over, chucked into a landfill and dug up again. That batter example looks more like it could have fallen from orbit than the other. So lets just call that theory a cunning bit of misdirection.
There are literally dozens of alternatives. When Vader died, who took posession of all his things? Who is the mysterious force being in the trailer? When the Empire fell what happened to all the Sith knowledge and power that resided in the Emporer? There are hundreds of good storylines to pick from and I'd trust those making it to at least get a lot of choices right.
But we wil not know until we see the film and read the book and then its likely there will still be some unanswered questions. There are rumours that some of the recent pickups have been deliberate done to change key plot points. And there is still a huge amount of time to go but the whole publicity and merchandising effort will likely start to pickup strongly soon anyway, particularly on the back of "Jurassic Worlds" huge boxoffice.
And again remember, this sequel is being made by people who have wanted a worthy SW movie for decades and they are going for broke. Like us ,they have sat down and discussed at length, what they needed to do to make that film work and do so well, and to me it looks like they have got a huge ,huge proportion of it absolutely right.
So be of good cheer and lighten up a little.
