I'm really scared that the new Star Wars will be fan service to the extreme. At least with the prequel trilogy, Lucas wanted to tell his vision. I can admire it, but it fell flat and ultimately shouldn't have been made. With the new sequels, they're really just doing it because they can. Lucas didn't give a ****, for good and worse. I'm afraid Abrams & Co. will give too much effort catering to us -- the fans -- and just rerelease the same things we've already seen. Regardless of whether we love the original trilogy or not, do we really need to see it again? What's the point? Just leave it be.

I sure hope he/they isn't/aren't, but from the looks of the trailers and what's been said about the film it seems like they are playing it incredibly safe. N O S T A L G I A is the worst thing you could build a film upon. It's cheap.

This is all just speculation from my side, of course, and I hope to be proven wrong. I've got my tickets and all, so I'm dumping money on this none-the-less. It wouldn't make sense not to see it.

I believe most of the marketing for this films is to capture the nostalgia of the OT generation, but I think the film itself will be far more creative than it may look on the outside. I think we are looking at a movie that will do the same thing that Star Wars: Rebles has done; take the style of the OT but tell a new story within that guide line.

wow you sure told me there!

I get what you guys are saying and I might be alone with this opinion of the whole thing, but personally I don't want to see "Han Solo, Leia and all the old characters". I don't want to see a new Star Wars film that does "Star Wars the way it was when it was just called Star Wars". I've got those films on my shelf already, and they're called A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. People always make such a big deal out of how pointless the prequel trilogy was because the story didn't need to be told, but as soon as Disney decides to do fifty-five follow-ups everybody goes ape, naively thinking they are being commissioned out of respect for the fans or something. [/pessimism]

I don't want to see Star Wars exactly the way it was. I want to see Star Wars be of the same quality that it was. And it seems they J.J Abrams is doing his best to incorporate the elements that would seem "nostalgic" and add a new spin on things. For example, the new X-Wings are black because they blend in with space. It would be so easy to be just like "HEY DO YOU LIKE X-WINGS?? WELL HERE YOU GO!!" but instead they thought "What else can we do with the material?" and they've added more cool stuff that we'll remember in years to come, because they came from The Force Awakens and not any of the originals. Additionally, Han Solo isn't just going to be the character we loved in the original movies. Harrison Ford has stated that in The Force Awakens he is a more layered character, one that you can tell has seen things in the 30-year time span. So while there are things that everyone will obviously recognize, they're not there for the sake of "HEY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS??" and they actually serve a purpose.

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I have to say, I find Finn's floppy lightsaber and facial expression strangely disturbing.

Leia's the funniest though.

It's very interesting how he worded it, though:

"I think the fans are going to love it. It’s very much the kind of movie they’ve been looking for."

Lucas has had a long and complicated relationship with the fans, and he honestly got tired of people hating him after the prequels and changing the originals, so basically he's saying "Abrams has given the nerds what they wanted."

Which I am obviously okay with.

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