Now that the dust has settled, the reaction videos have been posted, the painstaking frame-by-frame analysis has been done, childhoods have been mended and a whole galaxy's worth of parodies have been created, it's time to actually talk about that new Star Wars trailer. Yes, it's still called The Force Awakens. Yes, we're back on familiar ground, with Stormtroopers, lightsabers, desert planets, the Dark Side versus the Light, and the Millennium Falcon doing some rather impressive aerial manoeuvres whilst being pursued by what certainly look and sound like TIE Fighters. This initial teaser has certainly allayed a lot of fears (ie all the ones George Lucas implanted in his fans), but... Well, it certainly had a lot to pick apart, but what about what audiences didn't get to see in the 88 second preview of The Force Awakens? Obviously there are the rumoured elements that JJ Abrams and Disney are probably holding off on showing until the film hits cinemas (a whole year from now, if you can believe/deal with it), like the return of Darth Vader in flashbacks possibly played by an Irish wrestler or the fate of various returning cast members from the Original Trilogy. The trailer had the first glimpses of new characters, a hint at the new antagonist and a welcome return of John Williams' score, true. But there's a lot more the teaser could've included. In a lot of ways fans are just as in the dark about what The Force Awakens is actually going to feature than before it was released. What it did do is raise expectations all the more than they already were. Here are ten things, then, that the Star Wars trailer didn't have (and probably should've).
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
