Star Wars Episode IX Teaser!

I'm calling fantasy/force vision sequence on that bit. Really just a scene that exists to look cool in the trailer.


Also, they are going to need to justify the need for a hinged double lightsaber.


Also also, I get the feeling Rose is dead. She is no where in the promotional materials. I saw pictures of the actress at the D23 panels or whatever, but she is character that the trolls vocal fans hated, so she might as well be killed off to give Finn something to do. Also, then he can go meet up with that new character that's in the trailers that is a better fit for him if you really want to avoid race mixing to make sure you don't upset the horrifying racist man-babies vocal fans.

Sorry, I have concerns about Disney freaking out over the reaction to Last Jedi and it's making me pessimistic.

"Sith Rey" is definitely a rehash of Luke meeting "Vader" with his own face on Dagobah.

Step aside gender-flipped Anakin clone, this is my new favorite wild-ass theory, esp. now that we’ve got the dark Rey trailer stuff (though I agree it’s probably just a kewl for the trailer premonition type thing).

Also, I hope that Kylo is in fact a bad guy to the end, but if he isn’t and they do redeem him (and let’s be real, this is the kind of franchise that probably will), what if HE is the “rising” Skywalker of the title and all of our concerns that Rey becomes a Skywalker were a rabbit trail?

She's Palpatine's daughter lmao

What bugs me here is that Disney already had an episode of the canon-tv show "Rebels" which showed that one of the jobs of the Inquisitors was to find and capture force-sensitive kids.  So they are definitely shown to be randomly occurring in this universe. Meanwhile the old-EU did have Jedi families running around during the Old Republic-era so there is plenty of non-canon evidence of force-sensitivity as genetic.   But the whole "Skywalker Bloodline" thing seems dumb since there have been a whopping total of 4  of them , starting from Anakin being born out of the force, which would seem to be the really big deal, but which the movies have never brought up again. Not to mention that only like 2 of them completed their training. 

I'm sure there were plenty of kids that the Jedi missed (like Anakin) or whose parents wouldn't give their kids away to some weird space cult. And it seems like an untrained force-sensitive being could still make a living using some of their skills (such as Anakin and his pod-racing).


I remember reading about Disney making some sort of team to define all of the canon so its really sticks out to me that they are still pushing the whole bloodline thing when there's plenty of other explanations. 

Also, has no-one pointed out that Rey is wielding training-chopsticks as her red lightsaber? Because those are training chopsticks! 

They sold them at Daiso in the US and most Asian grocery stores I went to had them. 

Now that I think of it, a Jedi in the Clone Wars cartoon named Pong Krell had the same lightsaber model, but it should be noted that he had 4 arms and he was kind of a dumbass.

He's doing things because something something Darth Vader. Duh.

Beyond the obvious trolly “I’m a Trek fan, of course I liked TLJ’s approach” the two things I really liked were:

1. Ren behavior, going for full destroy the past, the-power-I-wield-is-the-future nihilism, which feels real to me wrt how stuff like the dark side and various imperial orders are depicted.

2. Showing that the whole model of the rebellion pretty much sucks from an insurgency pov (they act a lot more like the Confederates than they do like, say, the North Vietnamese, or even George Washington’s Continental Army, or if you want to go for contemporary relevancy the Taliban). I was looking forward to the First Order being defeated in a more sort of social-level story, as opposed to the few actors (incl. a literal princess) turning it basically a battle between two elites from different branches of a religious order. Star Wars, as a franchise, might not be especially suited for that kind of storytelling (and again my lack of investment in the franchise makes me less able to judge) but I liked the feint in that direction.

1. Definitely. The Imperials and the dark-side users aren't really trying to have a vision for the future beyond being in charge.

2.  Empire Strikes back made the exact same point. Even by ROTJ, the Rebels seemingly fielded everything they had and still were comically outnumbered and won by sheer luck as much as anything else.

I have long argued that Star Wars is really just fantasy dressed up in sci-fi trappings. This isn't to say that fantasy can't have real-world commentary, as much as to say that the space battles are simply stand-ins for sea battles and open-field battles where a scrappy force is able to defeat proper army and live happily ever all.  Both ANH  and ROTJ ended on these notes that everything was wrapped up and those notes then had to be undone by subsequent movies showing it takes more than a victory or two to win the war(and also because the story simply needed to continue). In general, even leaving out the force, the internal logic of Star Wars doesn't hold up under much scrutiny and the best stories in the franchise are often pretty broad and basic stories.

Yeah, its similar to "Lord of the Rings" where the books make it clear that there's been fighting going on all over the map forever, but for the most part it doesn't matter to the main story. 

So they just came out and bluntly said “last chance to see all your space buddies! Give your money suckers!” in the last trailer, eh?

I think it’s slightly interesting that they haven’t actually shown Palpatine in any of the trailers. Holding out hope that he’s only a ghost.

My theory is that Palpatine has been a force presence possessing or influencing Kylo Rey this whole time.