{"id":7759,"date":"2015-10-19T21:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7759"},"modified":"2015-10-19T21:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:43:03","slug":"the-final-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/19\/the-final-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already on any of the six million other websites that are linking to it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYA3WNdO4Bw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;m still not sure what I think, even after watching this three times in a row. The music is nice, if a bit elegiac (we&#8217;re going to lose someone we care about in this one, I&#8217;ll bet you). JJ Abrams seems to have exercised some self-control with his irritating lens flare schtick, so there&#8217;s that at least. It was great to see the old <em>Falcon<\/em> cutting through hyperspace again. And it&#8217;s interesting to hear <em>Han Solo<\/em> of all people solemnly acknowledging the reality of that hokey ancient religion. But the final line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Force&#8230; it&#8217;s calling to you&#8230; just let it in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or does that sound like a meta-message aimed directly at the skeptical fanboys? And if so, is it an invitation spoken from a position of confidence or does it betray some opening-night jitters? Are the filmmakers saying &#8220;Come back to the galaxy far, far away, guys, you won&#8217;t be sorry,&#8221; or are they begging us to remove the chips from our shoulders before we enter the theaters? I guess we&#8217;ll find out in a few short weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already on any of the six million other websites that are linking to it: Honestly, I&#8217;m still not sure what I think, even after watching this three times in a row. The music is nice, if a bit elegiac (we&#8217;re going to lose someone we care about in this one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}