imperialscum said:

I am not excited or anything. Still when the films come out I will definitely go see them.

I might warn people who are excited about them going "old school" with SFX etc. That doesn't guarantee that the films will have OT feel at all. It takes much much more than that.

It's an interesting point, and I do agree that going 'old school' with effects won't mean its going to blend seamlessly with the OT.

But its a start. The one thing about the PT & OT, is they LITERALLY look like 2 different movie franchises, as they look nothing alike. The PT is populated with CGI worlds, and the OT is populated with real locations. From what I have seen, Abrams is going back to filming on real locations. So from that point of view, they will atleast LOOK alike.

The key thing is the characters and story. If the public doesn't care for the new generation ST characters, the same way we didn't care for the PT characters, then the trilogy will be no different. Luke, Leia and Han are the hook that gets us back into the galaxy and in a sense, make us feel at home again. But when we walk out of Episode 7, we need to care about Daisy Ridley's character (most likely a Solo Daughter), John Boyega's character, Dominic Gleeson's characters, etc. Because they are supposedly the Luke, Leia and Han of Episode's 8 & 9.