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Ranking The 11 Shots From The Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

After weeks of speculation, the first footage for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available for viewing. Was it worth the hype? Did it make us turn from the comfortingly dismissive cynicism of the Dark side toward the fanboyish optimism of the Light? The consensus: yeah, pretty much. Which is a little surprising, considering how little of a trailer it actually is. Unless Abrams plans on breaking up every other shot with a black insert, just half of the 88-second trailer has any actual footage in it. At only 11 shots long, is there much of anything that we can infer about the new movie’s plot, or how good it’s going to be?

5) The Droid Who’s Looking for Something

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Nostalgia Bait: 60/100

Neat New Stuff: 50/100

This one’s a double-whammy of “hey, remember this?” Sure, a droid bleeping and blooping passed a scrapheap makes you think of R2 and C-3PO being purchased from the Jawa junk sale at the start of A New Hope. But the design of this little guy is more influenced by the prequels, with his tiny, bowl-shaped head and rotating spherical body.

Like everyone else in the trailer, the round claptrap seems concerned about something, but setting aside two seconds for a droid amidst an epic conflict means it may yet have some importance. It’s part of what makes Star Wars Star Wars: the lowliest creature (even a robotic casino camera stuck to a FIFA football) can have an impact.

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