The only things that looks "too advanced" in the PT are the blue balls with electric charges and the sonic guns/cannons, both of which don´t have a great range or do the same amount of damage that blasters and turbolasers can. Even though they look cool, there´s a reason most of the galaxy go for laser-bolts and beams.

And since we see Naboo and the gungans in ROTJ, I´m guessing what arsenal they have left, probably includes upgrades to their existing weaponry.

According to the Inside the Worlds of the OT book, the Empire kept a garrison there. And after the whole "stolen plans"-debacle they probably increased Imperial presence to prevent similar events.

2 minutes into the trailer and you se Anakin's and Obi-Wan's hands, mid-duel. Like they're trying to grab each other but they couldn't.


After seeing a scene from "60 Minutes", I conclude that the two Jedi reach a point wherein they try to force push each other at the same time. But they somehow reach a deadlock.

What do you guys think?

I was thinking along the lines of the Slave I weaponary: seismic charges and guided stand-off weapons. The CIS buzzdroids, too. Imagine those weapons in the OT space battles...
Maybe advanced ECM/jamming technology during the time of the civil war played a major role; therefore blaster weapons were the most reliable and effective weapons.

Not a major gripe, just a footnote.

To be fair, there are other weapons used as well in the GCW, the Falcon uses green/yellow-glowing concussion missiles to take out the "cone"-thing on the DS II generator, and two A-Wings fire several missiles at the Executor´s giant sensors. The TIE Bombers drop blue-glowing proton bombs, the proton torpedos can alter their path in flight, and there´s some strange, slowmoving blue bolts/fireballs in the Battle of Endor (thought these were burning fighters, but fighters on fire appear in the same scenes and look different so...)

R2 has cutters as well, you know.

Sure there are bombs/torpedos in the OT, too. But they always appeared to me to be rather sluggish, unguided, not "intelligent", and therefore not vulnerable to jamming. But a couple weeks back someone on the virtual edition board made a good point when he mentioned Lukes proton torpedos in the DS I trench, which turn on a dime (guided, it seems); something the weapons of the Slave I or the missiles during the battle of Geonosis don't perform. I always thought those OT weapons are unguided, but obviously I was wrong. Good to know.

OK, enough of that...

Ask the pilots of the Millennium Falcon...

Actually, that was the whole point of the DS-attack, getting the targeting computor to focus on the tiny opening and then let the torps fly and turn 90 degrees straight down towards the core.

I do like the targeting screens on the Falcon´s quadgun-ports, even if they aren´t flat (hey, space is rough, need rough, sturdy screens? :P)

And some of the computer animation is quite nice, even today. Tarkin´s display of the moon and Yavin slowly turning, Vader´s cockpit-display (which is mirrored in ROTS), hell, even the zoom and following black´n´white vector animation of the DS still works today (they only need to reposition the main laser which was above the equator).

it was awesome at the theater.

Great Trailer.

I cant wait to see it on the big screen.

I know my reaction was great, but what was even cooler was the reactions of my casual star wars viewing friends, they thought it looked amazing and would redeem the PT, so if a TRAILER can get non believers excited about star wars again, I think this movie is going to do some huge business.