Your feelings now/then with 1 year to go?

I'm filled with an emotion which morphs to and from anxiety/excitement with each piece of news.

I've been optimistic since the start, and i'm getting more optimistic as time goes on.. The practical BB-8 has me very hyped. I don't mind about the visuals as long as they're consistent.

 

I've always had an interest, at least since announcements were made. A year ago I was very excited, but everything was speculation and it seemed so daunting to keep up with everything. Come more recent times, particularly with the opening of The Cantina, my excitement got higher but then ebbed around October/November, in which I kind of stayed off the site and didn't think so much about Star Wars. I blame the rampant speculation with nothing to work with on this.

Come the teaser, and my interest in the film has ramped up higher than it ever has been. It's good to at least have something tangible to go off of, rather than just concept art and drone-photos.

 

My excitement has been going up and down. The most exciting day for me so far was the morning I woke up to find tons of leaked concept art waiting for me on StarWars7News.com! I swear that seeing Vader's burnt mask got me running around like a madman... My interest has always remained the same, I can't help it: I love Star Wars.

 

When the news first came out that there was going to be a ST I was excited. As time has gotten closer my excitement level has grown. This summer I introduced the Star Wars movies to my daughters and they fell in love with Star Wars. That is the one event that really escalated my excitement for the movie as now I can share that with them. They loved hearing the name when I picked them up in carline the day it was announced. It was great logging online and watching the teaser trailer with them when it was first released. Every time new information is released it is cool being able for the three of us to share in the excitement together.

 

After the OT cast was announced, I started to get extra extra extra excited I wanted them in TFA and i got what I wanted and I'm 200% satisfied.

 

I'm glad this thread was started. I love Star Wars, but I think hitting this site every day and night is giving me Star Wars fatigue. I want to be somewhat surprised in the theater. I think the recently released trading cards revealing the names did it. They look cool, but it just left me flat. The trailer looks great and everything seems on track, and so glad Kasdan is on board, but figuring out every little detail is somehow simultaneously exciting and depressing. I don't mean to say "I have a bad feeling about this," because I don't. I am, however, cautiously optimistic. Anybody else feel this way? I will say that I don't have nightmares anymore with Jar Jar and that terrible looking Yoda puppet from Episode I. Is there a therapy section on this site?

 

I was very upset to hear that Lucas was no longer considering a ST. When the rights went with Lucasfilm to Disney and they announced right away the ST was on I was happy that my son and daughter would grow up with Star Wars. Still it was with some trepidation, who was going to direct, would any of the OT cast return to pass the torch. I was praying that Joss Whedon would get the job. Recently I was looking at movie news and was grabbed by a Star Wars story and I started following and pouring over the rumors of the last year. Then after the trailer I began to get really excited that there was going to be a great Star Wars movie made. It looks like similar to Marvel they have a strong team with a great deal of collaboration by real fans.

 

I was the same then as I always was and still find myself that way today!

 

2 years has passed since the announcement and it's JUST ONE year to go. Hell yeah, I can't wait. I only know that I will cry like a baby watching the movie.

 

I have always had a level of excitement/anticipation for Episode VII specifically and the ST in general. The recent teaser has only heightened that feeling. I trust in KK, JJA, GL and the rest of TPTB to do a great job with TFA. Their respective resumes speak for themselves and I expect TFA to usher in a tremendous rebirth of the Star Wars franchise. I was a fan of the old-EU (Del Rey, not Bantam), but I have mourned that loss, and now want to read the new "canon" EU. If there is one thing I truly don't like it is all of the false rumors/spoilers and not knowing which is accurate or not. I just want to know the truth, and if I did it would not ruin my experience of, nor stop me from seeing the film(s) many times over. Beyond that I am very excited for the ST and have been since it was announced.

 

For some reason, the news that there would be a SW7 didn't reach me straight away... actually I think it took a couple of months beforeit registered with me, but initially I wasn't particularly hyped about it. The PT and CW had left me rather jaded about Star Wars - for the most part they were alright, but nowhere near as magical as the OT was for the child-me. I had come to terms with my SW being a thing of the past, a dinosaur that was revered mostly by dinosaurs. Then casual interest turned to optimism turned to obsession turned to greater optimism turned to a reawakening of my inner SW fan, that little kid who ran around quoting the entire cassette/booklet thingies to teachers and peers at school, and who had no time to do homework because there were Star Wars to be explored instead. Now I am scared shiteless that my hopes for SW7 are WAY too high, and I am going to have my heart broken by this thing. In other words, it is quite unlikely that SW7 is going to be as good as I have convinced myself it will be... So yeah, life is fantastic right now, but my inner child (and possibly also the outer man) might just have himself a little cry next Christmas, or thereabouts.

 

I have to admitt the Disney thing turned me off a bit at first, just for a few days. Then I realized I was an idiot. My fiance thought i had problems Before, now she's given up on me. She actually admitted the trailer was Amazing, though. That's from a woman who first saw Star Wars a year ago!

I just get more and more pumped for this Movie, and all the ones coming after it, the closer we get!