The internet is full of impressive amounts of very important news today, as per usual — Joe Biden’s “will he or won’t he” crescendo is reaching its apex, Canada elected its Obama, the CIA director’s personal email account was hacked, Gilmore Girls is coming back … but there is nothing, NOTHING, more important than Star Wars, so today let’s talk about the new trailer for The Force Awakens, less than two months away from release, which dropped during an edition of Monday Night Football featuring frequent Manningface. You have already seen it, so watch it again. And prepare for some analysis that will probably result in vast overinterpretation.

What is incredibly refreshing about this Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, the first to really reveal anything about the storyline of the film, is that it rejects the core narrative assumption of the entire original trilogy and the prequels – that is, the assumption of the viewer that this is a story about the Skywalker family drama, within the context of the broader battle over the Galactic future and the dying old ways of cockamamie religious beliefs (Gretchen, stop trying to make midichlorians happen, it’s not going to happen) – as an entirely false frame of what really matters.

Read the article “The New Star Wars Trailer, Analyzed” on thefederalist.com.