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'There has been... an awakening': Explosive Star Wars Episode VII teaser reveals new cast-members
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 28, 2014 | John Chester

Posted on 11/28/2014 7:56:09 AM PST by C19fan

It is maddeningly short, but the first official glimpse of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens serves as a fitting reminder that a galaxy far, far away is actually much closer than we thought. While returning cast-members Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are absent from the 88-second montage, fans are given a first look at the younger generation of cast-members to feature in this, the first of three planned sequels. Opening some 30-years after Return of the Jedi, the teaser kicks off with British actor John Boyega racing across a desert landscape dressed in full Storm trooper regalia.

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KEYWORDS: star; starwars; wars
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To: gaijin
AHEM

It also protected the troopers from very harsh environments as well as projectiles and kinetic energy weapons.[1] The armor significantly reduced damage to the wearer from a blaster bolt, but it could be completely penetrated by a more powerful cannon blast. The body glove allowed for operation in warm or cold climates, however it could protect the trooper from almost any environment -- from total vacuum conditions to the very extremes in cold and heat for a very limited period of time. The Imperial Army soon acquired the use of the armor in the later years of the Galactic Empire.
21 posted on 11/28/2014 9:17:29 AM PST by arderkrag (NO ONE IS OUT TO GET YOU.)
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To: gaijin

They couldn’t even save the stormtroopers from the stone-tipped spears and rocks that Ewoks were tossing at them.


22 posted on 11/28/2014 9:38:20 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: a fool in paradise

Lucas just wanted to remake the chariot race from Ben Hur, that’s all that was.


23 posted on 11/28/2014 9:39:40 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

Looks like the typical J.J. Abrams over-the-top action sequences that strain credulity (to say the least). Star Trek Into Darkness was horrible, both for the ridiculously impossible action sequences and the cringeworthy theft of lines from Wrath of Khan — perhaps the laziest screenwriting ever. Why is this guy so celebrated?


24 posted on 11/28/2014 10:02:21 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

The force was sleeping


25 posted on 11/28/2014 10:03:04 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Boogieman

I thought it was the “save the farm” bit from Little Rascals, Marx Bros’ A Day At The Races (done again as “the big show to save the production company), and the serials of the 1930s.

It’s more than just about a race scene. It’s a plot device.


26 posted on 11/28/2014 10:03:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: kingu

Thank you.


27 posted on 11/28/2014 10:13:02 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: C19fan

blah


28 posted on 11/28/2014 10:17:39 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Rodamala

That website is awful period, the sidebar might as well be pornographic. A horrible website.


29 posted on 11/28/2014 10:19:08 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: jmcenanly

I don’t think those moves so close to the surface are realistic, notice the X-Wing fighters are also barely above the water.

Star Wars: Battles 2 feet above the ground


30 posted on 11/28/2014 10:20:34 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: C19fan

Not hiding, just existing. It’s canon that the Empire didn’t just die with the Emperor, it just lost its figurehead. But it was a huge organization that ran with a lot of momentum and the war continued on in various forms for a very long time.


31 posted on 11/28/2014 10:26:04 AM PST by discostu (YAHTZEE!)
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To: montag813

Star Trek Into Darkness

One of the worst movies ever


32 posted on 11/28/2014 11:37:56 AM PST by Sybeck1
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To: discostu

The war probably got a lot worse after Endor, with hundreds of Admirals and senators vying for the emporer’s throne. I’m thinking it was like Game of Thrones, but with lightsabers.


33 posted on 11/28/2014 12:13:40 PM PST by christx30 (Freedom above all.)
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To: Kirkwood

The Empire stopped using clones some time after the clones on Kamino rebelled. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kamino_uprising
They recruit from humanoid races like Naboo, and Corellians. The Empire hates non-humanoid races.


34 posted on 11/28/2014 12:35:19 PM PST by christx30 (Freedom above all.)
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To: Sybeck1
Star Trek Into Darkness One of the worst movies ever

Did your jaw drop, as did mine, when Kirk and Spock echoed the pivotal Wrath of Khan lines? Was that not despicable?

35 posted on 11/28/2014 2:33:26 PM PST by montag813
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To: C19fan

Why is the dark side sword a cross?


36 posted on 11/28/2014 5:16:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

For me that light saber invokes Medieval era long swords with the long “blade” and hilt. Some geeks complained the lack of a cross guard on the light sabers meant a user could accidentally slice off their fingers if they lost their grip.


37 posted on 11/29/2014 5:46:47 AM PST by C19fan
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
i believe this is fake.

Fake but accurate. Like anything from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, details are sketchy, but as a historical dramatization, Star Wars is pretty faithful to the events as they are understood to have originally transpired. But now with more lens flare.

38 posted on 11/29/2014 5:54:12 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: GeronL

I noticed that the X-wings were raising spray and the Falcon was kicking up dust and showing a slight contrails, as you would expect from a real aircraft. It sholud look spectacular.


39 posted on 11/30/2014 12:56:53 PM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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