5. Wheres The Comic Relief?
I mean, it all looks very exciting, but without a stupid alien there to break the tension by falling over or electrocuting himself or saying something hilariously dim in a cod-Jamaican patois it just feels like Star Wars has lost its soul, you know? In all seriousness, theres usually at least one character whos there for a bit of levity. With so much po-faced mythologising and pseudo-philosophical gibbering, characters whose main impulse is to fall over or just generally blither around camply need to be in there just so the whole thing doesnt get bogged down in its own self-importance. Hopefully, this will all be left down to C-3PO rather than another faintly racist caricature in extra-terrestrial form, with BB-8 the spherical droid joining 3PO and R2-D2 to form a kind of robo-Stooges supergroup. It doesn't look entirely likely though, given that there are absolutely no gags whatsoever in the new trailer. This might well be a deliberate tactic from JJ Abrams, though; a statement that this is now as much his story as it is George Lucas's, in spite of how tightly tied this era of the galaxy is to the original trilogy's era.