I’ve just seen the trailer. So… another female hero? Why? We have a young chick as the lead character in the new trilogy. But the trailer seems … OK.
I hate that they simply use the nostalgic factor instead of doing something new. Hey look - the Death Star. AGAIN. Oh look - Star destroyers. I remember those from my childhood. Oh look - the boring woman from Episode 6 - I sort of remember her. I remember all those things, so I guess I have a reason to go see the movie it and buy some toys, sorry, I meant “action figures”, right?
Please be joking.
I had no problem with the Falcon being in TFA it was the plot similarities that annoyed me not the old kit or the really cool new characters (particularly the female ones what with it being the 21st Century and all).
The incident is mentioned in the crawl for the first film, Mon Mothma is in two films played here by the same actress as the chronologically earlier iteration.
I would be all for Caroline Blakiston being in a film between ROTJ and TFA it would make more sense than sticking rubber on Genevieve O’Reilly (born the same year as the series btw).
If they do something more with these characters (this is the importance of plot) It would only add value to a rather dull scene in ROTJ as on re-visiting that film we would see her as an actual character rather than an exposition tannoy.
It’s interesting that the dish is attached last on this Death Star but the station is built around it in ROTJ.