User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Force Awakens Trailer 2 - Fan Reaction/@comment-26320198-20150417083258

It is a very good choice to move away from the familiar planets, Tatooine, Hoth et.al. Replacing them with different planets with some familiarity allows more leeway to build drama yet keep it within "template", so to speak. It would've been a downer if they'd stayed on Tatooine, in a vast galaxy sticking to one sandbox would've been just plain dumb. Yes, the galaxy is vast!

I love the wide angle lens shot in the beginning of the trailer. One of my all time favourite movies is Lawrence of Arabia, some of the desert photography in it is still speactacular by any standard. The new Star Wars movie needs that grand scale, big shots, the first one is really close to accomplishing just that.

All in all, this is nothing short of a perfect trailer. It has a good promise that J.J. and his crew may just have pulled off what is (for many, many reasons) probably the most challenging filming challenge in movie history. That's all I need for now.