Star Wars teaser: Four things that changed from the original series

Many did not like what  J J Abrams, director of the seventh installment, did to the light saber either. True, it looks more like a glow in the dark replica of a sword from Game of Thrones, but we haven’t got to see a Jedi duel yet. And we can only hazard a guess what the head of R2D2 was doing on a what looked like a space metallic football.  Also, it did deviate from the tradition of giving the movie title an episode. Ideally, fans would have loved to call it Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens.

The teaser was too long to be even called a teaser. A good chunk of it was stormtroopers-fade to black-Millenium Falcon-fade to black. But there is no denying that it has set our redundant tailbones waging when the voice-over given by Andy Serkis of Lord of the Rings fame goes: “There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? The dark side … and the light.”

We at The Indian Express hope that the trailer will have more to show than a bunch of X-fighters, Tie-fighters pew-pewing across the cosmos.