They showed us nothing.

JJ Mystery Box/John Harrison stuff for sure.

Also, didn’t match the trailer description at all.

I suspect JJ is playing a lot of leakers for fools with false information.

What’s Mortis? - 99% of the audience.

It seems like they might be combining both Mortis and Palpatine subplots into one. We have our confirmation that Palpatine is alive but on life support.

That C-3P0 scene? Heart wrenching. (reminder I'm deaf so My new macbook was nice enough to transcribe for me via the twitter app)

C-3P0 says, "Taking one last look...at my friends." Everyone looks on with sadness and you can tell R2 was like noooo don't go and C-3P0 all could do is pat R2 on the head. Heart wrenching. It's sad because for the almost past fifty years, we have grown to accept C-3P0 as our friend, family or brother or whatever and now we know that after December, the C-3P0 we know and love will be gone. I'm sure there will be more C-3P0 stories set in the future sure, but it just won't be our C-3P0. It will be a new personality living in the body of a friend we've grown to love all these years.

Rest in Peace, C-3P0.

Anthony Daniels, enjoy your retirement. You've earned it.

"what's mortis"...exactly.

look. not saying it's gonna be called that. not even sure if palpatine is palpatine or a third-party masquerading as him. I just passed off what I was given which somewhat aligned with Praxis' stuff but we have some info that obviously isn't the same.

so.

It's up in the air. It was decent though. Put out some feelers, maybe I'll hear something, maybe not.

the "throne room" is the same location where we see Dark Rey. you can tell by the rock formations.

it would match up with either a premonition, which i was told, a type of "shapeshifting", which I was also told the vision actually was and was misdirection. also Rey has the dagger in her hand in one scene.

from what I read about Lucas' original plans for the trilogy after I was given some info, this does seem to match up with it. originally Luke and "Kira", who was han and leia's daughter, were safeguarding some kind of entrance that would unlock this ancient sith or another. that's why Luke became a recluse. allegedly. I'm starting to doubt one of my sources (second-hand info), eh i ran with it, it happens. the stuff friki gave me I doubt comes to pass (luke fighting and chewie death).

some of the stuff I was given was in pre-production and could have been changed. it's a lot to take in. I'm taking a few hours to digest and then am going into disection mode.

Ki Adi, is it possible that Palpatine in order to lure Rey to the Dark Side, He shows her a reflection of her and tells her, "This is your future if you help me conquer the Galaxy. Please help me." Basically the same stuff as what he did with Anakin?

Food for thought.

From the official site:

Rey's journey continues and the Skywalker saga concludes in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,

“CONTINUES”???
Um... 10, 11, 12 anyone?

This trailer didn't reveal very much, IMO.

The shot that intrigued me the most was Rey and a helmeted Ren lightsaber-slashing that black statue thingy. That scene could certainly have taken place on an Imperial-controlled Cloud City. You see the same lighting pattern in that shot as you do in other Imperial structures, but the dominance of white could easily reflect a random location in Cloud City.

I dunno. Other than the space horses on the Star Destroyer thing the visuals looked incredible. But so did The Last Jedi's. I don't mind that it told us nothing - expected as much from Captain Mystery Box.

Then again editing on this trailer is a hot mess. The 3PO scene just felt out of place and contrived in the context of the trailer. I get what they were going for - they're pulling back on the punches and aiming for the slow knife twist in the gut. But that just doesn't work for me. Each movie in the PT had trailers with ooomph and fanfare. That just seems missing.

All you need to know about how JJ feels about TLJ was summed up in Luke's line: "Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi."

I thought it was a good trailer. It gave me feels, which is really all I wanted. I don't want this movie utterly spoiled for me. The visuals are striking but I expect that from JJ. He's really throwing the kitchen sink with nostalgic imagery and unifying the canon. That shot with all of the rebel ships was incredible. The only thing that was surprising was the limited air time for Kylo Ren. I think it's because his entire presence in this film is a spoiler.

Now we wait. Now we hope.

Come to think of it, that ability was introduced in Rebels. They were force-transported to the other side of Lothal, at one point, right? And she unlocked the WBW portal with her hand signs in the cave on AchTo if you want to believe that. So the door is open, I suppose.

I just noticed that the "cavalry" scene is happening on the hull of a Star Destroyer... I don't know how to feel about that.

In my mind, C-3PO isn't talking to Poe and Finn. As in ESB, when he "breaks the fourth wall" by saying "How typical" while trying to escape Hoth, he is speaking to us.

That's what my idealistic mind wants it to be, anyway.

Apparently according to Praxis 3.0, C-3P0 does survive the memory wipe - with R2 restoring his memory with a backup.

Sounds like Disney plans on keeping C-3P0 around for few more films or tv shows just with a new body actor.

My thought was, what if 3P0 wakes up after the mindwipe and is like, "Master Ani? Mistress Padme? Oh my."

I would love if he regained ALL of his memories and gives a narrative like in ROTJ. idk. It'd be really cool anyhow.

And see all the leak could be true, aspects of it could be true, some key details off, no one knows for sure. Just being completely objective for a moment. Let's try not to use confirmation bias like everyone else. I think MF is better than that. The way I put it is, the leaks have been given a lot of credence, but let's see how it all plays out.

Anyway, I'm just along for the ride whether or not what I was told is true or not. I wasn't even going to come out with it and tell people, just keep it to myself, but, then people started telling me things that were the same and I was like wtf. idk.

We'll see. It'll be a wild ride, that's for sure!

I wish I could get a mind wipe before TLJ!

Ki Adi, about these pictures.. I saw the pictures of "Kira" swimming in the throne room in 2017 right after TLJ was released. I believe it was the original intent of Lucas' trilogy to have "Kira" go down to Endor, and explore the Throne room to find something in TFA and the movie was originally going to open with Luke training Kira instead of in TLJ. The whole trilogy was going to be a race against the Sith to explore the force in depth and whatever the item that Kira finds in Lucas' version of TFA was going to be the MacGriffin. That's my theory.