{"id":28963,"date":"2015-04-16T16:37:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28963"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:37:12","slug":"feelings-on-the-star-wars-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28963","title":{"rendered":"Feelings on the Star Wars Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trailer for <i>Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens<\/i> dropped today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngElkyQ6Rhs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice.  I smiled while watching it, and seeing Harrison Ford at the end certainly filled me with some excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Enough excitement to go see it?  Perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing.  The <i>Star Wars<\/i> series has always been something I&#8217;ve <i>liked<\/i>, but not necessarily something that I&#8217;ve <i>loved<\/i>.  I had (and still have) a radio-controlled R2-D2 from the late-70s.  Otherwise, I didn&#8217;t have the toys, or the trading cards, or the comics.  In many ways, I came to <i>Star Wars<\/i> late, <i>after<\/i> high school, with Timothy Zahn&#8217;s <i>Heir to the Empire<\/i>.  I can&#8217;t say I grew up imagining myself on Hoth or Tatooine, playing with lightsabers, or fighting the Empire.  <i>Star Wars<\/i> was a nice place to visit, but I tired of it with a few years; Vonda McIntyre&#8217;s <i>The Crystal Star<\/i> may be the worst novel ever written by a Hugo Award-winner, Kevin J. Anderson sucked all the fun of <i>Star Wars<\/i>, and even the comics became interminable.<\/p>\n<p>The special editions I&#8217;ve never seen.  The prequels I did, two of them, anyway, and parts of the third at random moments.  I enjoyed <i>The Phantom Menace<\/i>, and I think it&#8217;s the best of the prequels because it&#8217;s the one with the most creative freedom.  Once it lays down the marker as the &#8220;start&#8221; of the story, it becomes a matter of lining things up to match up with the original films, resulting in <i>Revenge of the Sith<\/i>, one of the least surprising films films ever made that wasn&#8217;t based on previously existing material.  (It&#8217;s <i>Attack<\/i> I&#8217;ve not seen, though I did read the novelization.  The novelization contained a very interesting story that in the hands of a director like David Fincher probably would have been brilliant.)<\/p>\n<p>But I did love the first <i>LEGO Star Wars<\/i> game.  The second, not as much.  The third, not at all.<\/p>\n<p>The point of this is, <i>Star Wars<\/i> is something that&#8217;s been <i>in<\/i> my life, but not necessarily <i>part<\/i> of my life.  It didn&#8217;t fire my imagination as a child.  As an adult, it became a place of tedium.  My emotional connection to <i>Star Wars<\/i> simply isn&#8217;t strong.  So as I watched the trailer, I enjoyed it, but I also felt indifference to it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that feelings may change as we approach December and the film&#8217;s release.  As more is revealed about the film, something will entice me and excite me and I&#8217;ll want to go see it.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;ll just wait until <i>The Force Awakens<\/i> comes out on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing and hearing Harrison Ford in character as Han Solo, though, was nice.  It would be even nicer if there were another Indiana Jones film in the offering. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens dropped today: It&#8217;s nice. I smiled while watching it, and seeing Harrison Ford at the end certainly filled me with some excitement. Enough excitement to go see it? Perhaps not. Here&#8217;s the thing. The Star Wars series has always been something I&#8217;ve liked, but not<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28963\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Feelings on the Star Wars Trailer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[584,4044,4045,4043,4114,4042],"class_list":["post-28963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-wars","tag-george-lucas","tag-han-solo","tag-harrison-ford","tag-jj-abrams","tag-star-wars","tag-the-force-awakens","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}