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In this episode, I will be going over the The Last Jedi trailer
and commenting my own thoughts on it.
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First off I am gonna go over this trailer strictly on my own thoughts and reactions.
I have not delved too much into anything as I am also a fan and would like to avoid spoilers
so I can also be surprised when the film comes out.
Alright let’s get into it. Now this looks interesting!
We see Kylo Ren looking over what appears to be a factory or base.
You can see the AT-M6 walkers loaded onto ships.
Now we see them in action. This battle is gonna be awesome!
I mean the battle with AT-AT’s on Hoth was one of my absolute favourites.
Now we can see Kylo Ren and some Stormtroopers, who bare an uncanny resemblance
to the Snowtroopers from Hoth.
Next we have Kylo in a very pensive shot.
We will see throughout this trailer that he has a lot of conflict which will probably
prove to be a main theme, just as it was in the Force Awakens.
Now in this first part we hear a lot of Snoke talking about discovering someone with raw
untamed power, something Luke also mentions after.
It seems as if Snoke is talking to Kylo to motivate him, but on the other hand he could
also be talking to Rey.
I mean after he says “something truly special” the scene shows Rey, but that could also just
be a coincidence.
Okay now this is very neat. We get to see an up-close and personal shot of Luke’s robotic hand.
Now this shot is very foggy and mysterious.
We see the tree, which is presumed to have some Force attachment, or to be some ancient
relic of the Jedi.
Here we see Rey inside what is presumed to be remnants of the Jedi temple on Ahch-To.
Rey’s voice-over has her telling us that something has awakened inside of her and that
she needs help.
I am going to assume she is speaking to Luke about her aptitude with the force and wants
training to be able to control it.
This scene is probably my favourite of the entire trailer.
Luke’s hand emerging from a pile of wreckage.
It then cuts to what I am assuming was his Jedi temple, now burning.
I’m gonna guess this is a flashback to when Luke’s Jedi Order was destroyed by Kylo Ren.
Now onto Luke’s voice-over.
I believe he is referring to Kylo Ren when he is talking about the raw strength not scaring him enough.
Perhaps as Rey’s training goes along he is hesitant and scared of her power, as he
doesn’t want to make the same mistakes he made when training Kylo Ren.
Back into Kylo’s self-conflict theme, we see him destroy his helmet.
This could be him breaking away from his Darth Vader idolization, especially when he says
“Let the past die.”
We then see him in his fighter about to attack his mother’s ship, he seems very conflicted.
This leaves us in suspense as to whether or not he actually ends up attacking Leia’s
cruiser or not.
In reality we heard that Carrie Fischer was supposed to have a big role in Episode 9 as
well, but after her passing away the plot may have changed to fix this.
So maybe Kylo Ren does end up firing upon it and killing his mother in an effort to
avoid his call to the lightside.
Now onto the Millennium falcon scene, this is very cool.
We see it going through a cave filled with what looks like maybe kyber crystals?
Yes, Space battles!
It looks like we could be getting more space battles in this episode, with Poe back behind
the wheel of an X-Wing.
Captain Phasma versus Finn.
This looks great, we don’t see too many melee battles that don’t involve at least
one lightsaber, apart from Rogue One of course, so that’s pretty awesome.
These creatures look badass, but this also resembles how the base on Hoth looked, especially
with a layer of snow.
Am I the only one that gets the feeling that The Last Jedi could have many similarities
to Empire Strikes Back, in the same way that the Force Awakens had many similarities to
A New Hope.
Now I am gonna assume Snoke is telling Rey to fulfill her destiny, although it could
also be from another scene of him talking to Kylo Ren.
Now if he is telling Rey to fulfill her destiny maybe this leads us to think about her backstory.
Maybe she was created using the force just as Anakin was.
We see Snoke using the Force against Rey, in a way that looks like torture.
My theory would be that he is trying to turn Rey to the dark side just as Palpatine was
trying to turn Luke in Return of the Jedi.
This scene is intense!
Here we see Rey talking to Kylo about having someone to show her where she fits in with everything.
Then we see him extend his hand out.
I have so many questions about this.
Does she join him and become dark sided?
Does she turn Kylo Ren back to the light side?
I definitely think there is more to this scene than meets the eye.
Anddd that’s it.
Alright my general overview of the trailer is that it was very exciting.
I feel they revealed way more than I thought they would.
It creates so many more questions about what is to come for all the characters.
I am genuinely more excited for this movie than The Force Awakens.
I think that the character development and plot of this one will be much deeper.
Anyways hope you all enjoyed my thoughts on the trailer.
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