In case you deactivated all social media accounts or had your phone in airplane mode for the entirety of last weekend, Lucasfilm released a trailer for the latest in the Star Wars franchise — Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.
And the Internet collectively lost its mind.
Star Wars trailer
Check out our Storify curating the best of the Internet wigging out in merriment, but first, read a few thinkpieces on the subject:
- The best of the Star Wars Expanded Universe stories by Daniel Parisi
- Breaking down the Star Wars and Batman v Superman trailers by Zoë DiGiorgio
- The new Star Wars trailer, narrated by someone who’s never seen Star Wars by Hannah Lang
