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First off, you know you want to see it again, right? Here you go:
All right, that should tide you over for a while. Just long enough to scroll back up and click “play” on this bonus-length episode of the podcast, where your humble host Allen Voivod breaks down the trailer for you, shot by shot! Here’s a quick summary for you.
1. Shots of Rey scavenging inside a huge ship, likely a crashed Star Destroyer. We hear the voiceover of a suspected Maz Kanata saying, “Who are you?” Cutting to Rey walking toward the sunset with BB-8 trailing as she says in the voiceover, “I’m no one.” The she watches thoughtfully as a transport takes off, and she’s not on it. Very similar in tone to the start of Luke’s journey in A New Hope.
2. Starkiller Base, and the troops are getting lectured again. Then we see Finn taking off his helmet, and saying in the voiceover, “I was raised to do one thing, but I’ve got nothing to fight for.” The latter part of that is while his Special Force TIE Fighter has been struck and is spiraling toward the surface of Jakku. Then we see him walking through the desert, cresting a dune to look down on a village that is likely where Rey will be found. Definitely evokes A New Hope and Ben, Luke, and the droids overlooking Mos Eisley.
3. Kylo Ren’s turn. Giant red-orange glare (and lens flare!) outside his window. Then we get a close-up of his mask as he says, “Nothing will stand in our way.” And then, as he’s holding the melted Darth Vader mask (at a different angle from the shot in the 2nd teaser), he says, “I will finish what you started.” We see Kylo appear to be torturing Poe, then a cut to a stand of trees being blasted by laser fire.
4. Cut to more shots of the Falcon evading TIE Fighters, as we hear Rey say, “There were stories about what happened.” Which raises the question of whether they know about the Battle of Endor on Jakku, or are they just to remote to get the news, or has the First Order become powerful enough that the stories are being quashed again?
5. As Finn and Rey look at a holomap, Han Solo tells them, “It’s true. All of it.” And they speed into hyperspace. (It works!)
6. Kylo in the rain, saber lit, with six other baddies dressed similarly and armed, though no others with activated lightsabers (if they have them in the first place).
7. X-wings flying across the lake. Another angle on this as compared to the first and second trailers, and we see that it’s taking place at the pirate castle on Takodana. The First Order troops are on the ground, getting themselves shot up. In voiceover, Han says “The dark side.”
8. At the Greenham Common set, where Poe pats Finn on the shoulder (as shown in a Twitter teaser last weekend) and Han says in voiceover, “The Jedi.” With the implication being that Finn is or will be a Jedi, if that’s a conclusion to which you want to jump.
9. Now we have more Takodana dogfights, and an explosion cuts to another one, this time on Jakku, toward which Finn and Rey had been running, but when whatever it is explodes, they have to pull up short.
10. Cut to a brief shot of Han, Rey, Finn, and BB-8 approaching the entrance of Maz Kanata’s castle. And that could be ME-8D9 (“Emmie”), the red robot greeting them, who is a protocol droid used for less-than-legal conversations.
11. We see Luke and Artoo in the shot from the 2nd teaser, as Han says, “They’re real.” With the flying embers, the cut to the landing of Kylo Ren’s ship in the torched village makes you want to think that Luke and Kylo are on the same planet, but I’m guessing there not. We see Phasma strutting around, and Kylo making the downward sword swipe we saw in the second trailer.
12: We have Rey raising her face into bright light – she’s on the snowy forest planet, and she’s crying. There seems to be a body in front of her, but it’s difficult to tell who – or what – it is.
13. We see Finn, Chewie, and Han with their arms up as captives, but they slowly lower their arms because of something they’re seeing that we can’t. The voiceover picks up again, and the suspected Maz Kanata says, “The Force. It’s calling to you.”
14. While that’s being said, we also see BB-8 in the astromech slot of an X-wing that’s part of a bing dogfight happening at Starkiller Base. We also see Poe’s face, which is a shot from the 1st teaser.
15. We see First Order troopers coming off a shuttle, ready to fight; then Rey with a blaster in a forest, firing as much as she can; then Stormtroopers getting shot up by X-wings; Kylo doing is favorite Force push move; a fast Falcon with a fiery tail; an exploding control room of some sort, with a poor mouse droid right in harm’s way; Leia and Han hugging, which was my favorite of this whole video; and finally, Finn and Kylo about to throw down in the dark of the snowy forest.
16. The voice, which had been building to a crescendo, drops off a cliff into silence as we hear Maz say, “Just let it in.”
17. And the world gets chills, as the fanboys and girls wipe tears of joy from their faces. 🙂
The podcast is much more thorough, but that being said, did I miss anything here? What do you think about the trailer? Have your say in the comments below!