I still won't be going to see Episode IX, but I was always intending to watch the trailer. As has already been said, it looks like JJ once again is leaning very heavily on original trilogy nods and tips of the hat for this new film, and whilst it literally cannot possibly be any worse than TLJ, I'm still really struggling to summon up much enthusiasm for it. JJ has the unenviable task of righting the Star Wars ship after the wreckage left by Rian Johnson, but has only one film in which to do it.
I must say though, I think the title is terrible. I would have preferred something like 'Star Wars - A New Rebellion'. Instead, 'The Rise of Skywalker' is not only a clumsy attempt to link the film to the OT, but the title is also clearly meant to be ambiguous, but really isn't; which Skywalker are we meant to think they are referring to, since Luke was inexplicably and completely needlessly bumped off for no apparent reason at the end of TLJ? Is the Skywalker of the title a brand new character we haven't met yet? No. Will it be Luke returning from the dead somehow? Highly doubtful. Or is it going to turn out to be Rey? Obviously yes.
Including the name Skywalker in the title smacks of desperation to me, as does finally bringing back Lando (who should have been brought back alongside Han, Luke and Leia in Episode VII, if Disney had even half a brain). Doing it at long last now is far too little too late, in addition to being very insulting to Billy Dee Williams. Showing Han's medal is a classic JJ tactic, just as bringing back Luke's (i.e. Anakin's) saber was in TFA (and without explaining how it got there - another typical JJ move). Including broken bits of a Death Star (even though as I recall it, both of them were blown to tiny pieces in ANH and ROTJ, with no huge chunks of flying debris raining down on any planets that I could see), and the implication that Palpatine may be returning in some way (which is nothing short of insulting to every fan's intelligence), are all very clear and deliberate attempts to realign the new film with episodes I-VII (but mainly the OT, of course), and to clearly distance itself from the clusterfuck of TLJ.
Lastly, we should also not forget that Rey's (i.e. Luke's and Anakin's) saber was wantonly sliced in half in Rian Johnson's effort, and Kylo's mask was smashed to pieces as well, and yet both of those items have either been repaired or are shown being repaired in this new trailer. And as such therefore, I did have to snigger a little to myself as I thought the strap line for this new trailer could almost be, 'Let the past live, resurrect it if you have to'! :lol:
