I never thought it could be done… but they’ve actually succeeded in making a major new Star Wars movie look *dull.*
The only to interesting things here:
1: A chunk of a Death Star sitting on a planetary surface… presumably either the moon of Yaavin or the forest moon of Endor. The latter would be my guess… and it would actually be lice if the desert scenes were *also* on the now-former forest moon. Because having a 160-kilometer-diameter space station explode directly overhead and rain down gigatons of high velocity toxic waste, charged magic batteries and a bagrillion citybuster warheads is just exactly the sort of thing that would utterly trash a planetary environment.
2: Palpatine is back in some fashion. Presumably force ghost, presumably lurking around that trashed Death Star.
#1 is kinda interesting, but it of course raises questions. Considering the scale of the Death Star, that chunk of it shown probably extends well above the sensible atmosphere of the world it’s sitting on. It seems unlikely that a structure not meant to sit on a planetary surface, that got kerploded by the detonation of a reactor powerful enough to make laserblasts that themselves can blow up a planet, and then fell a couple hundred miles out of the sky, would be in even that good of shape, rather than just a flattened smear of metal on the ground.
#2 Seems like a lame attempt at fan service.
I suppose my apathy about this first look trailer means I’m a sexist/racist, because that’s the only possible reason why anyone would ever be unimpressive with this sort of thing these days…