Who are you?
Speaker 2:I'm no one.
Speaker 3:I was raised to do one thing,
Speaker 4:but I've got nothing to fight for.
Speaker 5:Hello. Welcome to Daily ish for Tuesday, October 20. It's eight degrees. Feels like five degrees with the wind chill and the rain and stuff, but this is not a weather podcast. But this podcast is brought to you by FeedPress.
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Speaker 5:That's patreon.com/ichris. Alright. Well, as you heard in the intro, if you're a a Star Wars fan, a science fiction fan, a movie fan at all, you're well aware that, Star Wars, The Force Awakens episode seven is coming out in in December here 2015. And just yesterday, there was a new trailer or the trailer, I guess. The other ones were teasers.
Speaker 5:I don't know how that all works. But anyways, a new trailer was released and, and it's basically a popular thing on the Internet these days is to do reaction videos to those people watching things. So they'll film themselves watching something and then have that video playing, you know, in a picture in picture thing. And, and actually it's it's more compelling, more interesting than you might think, especially obviously for a movie that you might care about like such as Star Wars. For me, I'm a bit of a I'm not like a hardcore Star Wars nerd.
Speaker 5:Don't have every single character or whatever. I do have a Star Wars poster on my wall. If you've watched the Daily ish videos ever, you may have seen it in the background behind me. And I love the movies and stuff, and I love playing with the Lego stuff with my kids and getting them all excited about it. But, I don't go into, like, insane levels.
Speaker 5:Not insane. That's that's disparaging. Meticulous levels of detail of, caring about every character's costumes and why they have this or that, why this one's red, why that one's blue, etcetera. But I love reading about all that stuff after the fact from other smarter folks, more educated Star Wars nerds than I. But I thought I'd do a quick little review of the trailer, just some comments on it.
Speaker 5:What's what's awesome about what the way I I feel anyways, way JJ Abrams, director of the new movie, has done is release stuff and given people glimpses of the movie enough to get them really excited about it without revealing the end goal and the end the storyline of the of the movie, which is so often what most movie trailers these days do is basically tell you the movie, here's what's gonna happen so you know you're you're safe going to it and no surprises really even, you know, comedy movies, the best lines are in the trailers, etcetera, that kind of stuff because they wanna get you in the door. Once they've got you in the door paying for the movie, paying for the popcorn, they don't really care after that. And they just want you to have a good time, but they need to tease you enough with enough of the movie so you aren't gonna be disappointed. So with the Star Wars trailers, it's, you know, it's a tough line that I'm sure they have to walk of, like, wanting to show fans that this is gonna be good, but also not revealing so much that everybody knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5:And I'm sure if you read enough, there's people who are doing research on all the trailers that have been released. The video game, there's a new Star Wars Battlefront sort of real time strategy game that's come out, and where you can play as characters and stuff in the movie. And there's the new Lego the toys for the movie from Lego are out. And so you can sort of do a bit of analysis of that and sort of probably cobble together all the stuff and and photos that have leaked, etcetera, and get a decent idea of what's coming. I don't really wanna know what's coming exactly.
Speaker 5:I'm I'm happy to watch the trailers and find out a little tease as as much as they wanna release to us, but I don't wanna know the storyline. I wanna be surprised and enjoy it when I go see the movie. So I love the way that the movie or the trailer starts out with very sparse, very minimal kind of like just scenes, the background, the soundtrack, that's what you heard at the very beginning of this episode is very minimal before any music really hits. Just a single sort of piano note sound effect note highlighting a few lines of dialogue. And John Boidega, think is how you say his name, is the main character.
Speaker 5:One of the a clone trooper guy who's obviously sort of struggling with who who he is and what he's fighting for and all that kind of stuff. And, Daisy Ridley, think, is the the other main character in the in the story as far as what we can tell. And she's then asking, a little bit later on in the trailer, she asks, is it there were stories about what happened. As you're probably aware, you know, episode seven is set after episode six conveniently enough. But it don't really know timeline of how long after is it and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5:And there seems to be a bit of, like, in the Star Wars universe, a bit of, like, everybody has a bit of a brain fart after every trilogy where they kind of forget everything that happened and a generation passes and there's no record kept of anything. Because there's a lot of stuff in episode four from episode three that was kinda like, well, didn't you? It's a bit of what's they're repeating a bit of history here where they, you know, don't the the current people, the current sort of generation that this the movie is focused on that one Luke, Leia, etcetera, and Solo are completely unaware that Luke would have been existent in existence. Luke and Leia were out there and Jedi and all that kind of stuff. And and it's sort of this mysterious thing when it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 5:Like, Luke was born in at the end of the third movie. And so it would be like, whatever, 20. So think like now, it'd be like sort of people's there's definitely people who don't acknowledge that World War two happened for example, and that's, sixty years ago or so. And so there's people who don't acknowledge it, but we'd still have an idea of it. And, so it's kind of as if something on that scale happened to everybody.
Speaker 5:They just get their brain wiped out, men in black style or something, and forget about all this stuff. But anyways, maybe she's from a different planet, different culture. We don't really know. Daisy Lee asks.
Speaker 6:There are stories about what happened.
Speaker 5:It's Han Solo who is the one who responded in this in the trailer anyways. It's true.
Speaker 7:All of it.
Speaker 5:The dark side. A Jedi. The real. And it's just kinda like I think for any Star Wars fan, it's this it kinda fills you with excitement and sort of those memory tingles of, the idea that all the hokey religion and spiritual gobble gobble gook stuff from the original trilly trilogy is this legend that we all got to partake in watching. It's a mystery from the past, and so we've all we all know it.
Speaker 5:Daisy Ridley doesn't the character she plays doesn't know about it yet, but we all know about that. And she's, you know, being, trained or or or educated on it by the character that we fell in love with in the first series, Han Solo. And the sort of irony or whatever of it being that he was the main disbeliever of any of it in that original trilogy. And now he's the wise veteran, almost the Obi Wan Kenobi character in this new series so far, who's sort of the link back to these stories that these kids have only sort of heard about somehow and and sort of rumors and whispers of. But, you know, maybe it's I would guess probably it's like the looking at it, it's, you know, propaganda and media and whatever elements.
Speaker 5:There doesn't seem to be much media in the Star Wars universe. There's no like reporters archiving thing. Maybe that's archivists maybe got wiped out in before the episode one or something like that. Anyways, historians are gone. But, yeah, they maybe the empire has has resurgent and they wiped out any memory of any record of anything to do with the Jedi just because they didn't want there to be any hope for people.
Speaker 5:So we'll see though. I'm it makes me excited. I got emotional watching it and just sitting here on my little 13 inch laptop watching it. And I know that, you know, watching the movie now like, I can anticipate watching the movie in the theater and having a very emotional reaction to hearing the the theme music hit the title scene, come up on the screen and stuff like that and seeing some of these characters. And and I just hope that, like I said, what we're seeing is not the best of, that there's still amazing things to be revealed when we actually get to see this movie in the theaters, and that they haven't sort of teased us with the best of it just to get us in the door.
Speaker 5:I'm optimistic that that's not the case, but as it is, who knows? So I'll leave you with the rest of the trailer just for fun. I hope this is this legal. I know it's like I'll put the links to this the trailer on YouTube, of course. If you haven't watched it yet, definitely go check it out.
Speaker 5:And I think that's it for this episode. Let me know in the comments to hit the discuss this episode. Are you excited about the new Star Wars movie at all? Did this trailer do anything for you? Are you upset, annoyed, frustrated, happy, sad, crying?
Speaker 5:What are you? Who are you? Were you there when it started? Okay. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5:Have a great day. Bye.
Speaker 1:Who are you?
Speaker 2:I'm no one.
Speaker 3:I was raised to do one thing,
Speaker 4:but I've got nothing to fight for.
Speaker 5:Nothing will stand in our way. I will finish what you started.
Speaker 6:There are stories about what happened.
Speaker 5:It's true.
Speaker 7:All of it.
Speaker 5:The dark side. A Jedi. They're real.
Speaker 6:The Force. It's calling to you. Just let it in.