The Star Wars Episode IX Trailer Is Out!

Robbie is in Chicago at Star Wars Celebration so he could witness the trailer live. But since he is in an arena with spotty Wi-Fi and is likely a puddle of a person right now, I am on blog duty until he gives his DEEP dive of a two minute trailer. His instant reaction to the trailer was about what you’d expect.

Now it’s no secret that I hated The Last Jedi. I thought it was drawn out, lots of the things that happened didn’t make sense as a fan of the franchise, and there were a few super cringey moments. I even said that I think that it ruined the previous Star Wars movies for me because of where everything went. But I sincerely hope Episode IX absolutely crushes and makes a lot of what I didn’t like in TLJ into necessary parts to wrap up the story absolutely perfectly. And based on that trailer (fuck teaser, that was a full grown trailer), they are on the right path. Yes I know that it’s almost impossible to make a movie with Star Wars’ magnitude and resources look bad in a trailer. But I was all in once I saw Lando riding dirty next to Chewie like he did while taking down Death Star 2.0 in Jedi.

Seeing Rey in front of a piece of broken Death Star gave me goosebumps

My body takes the goosebumps back if this isn’t a piece of an old Death Star

And her backflipping on a TIE was typical Rey badassery

Watching Carrie Fisher on screen made me think of the sound Robbie let out while being surrounded by thousands of people.

I imagine he looked something like this while wailing like an extremely wounded coyote.

While I got choked up thinking about this potential being the medal that Chewie never got for helping destroy the Death Star which he deserved and him not getting one is more of an injustice than anything the Empire ever pulled.

And of course the title reveal as PALPATINE LAUGHS IN THE BACKGROUND!!!

Teasing the return of the true big baddie from the OG trilogy and nailing the title is one way to get people disappointed in The Last Jedi refreshing their computers while waiting for the advanced tickets to go on sale because we are filled with a new hope after the Disney empire struck back and appeared to give us a return of the Jedi level movies we grew up loving.

A much more thorough (and accurate) breakdown of this trailer will be coming from Robbie later today as well as a discussion about the trailer, Celebration, and all things Star Wars on a special Friday episode of My Mom’s Basement with Robbie, KenJac, and myself.