The Star Wars Episode III trailer premiered on TV last night during The OC. I’ve purposely been keeping my hopes and expectations low for the last installment of the SW saga. But, after watching the trailer about ten times (I downloaded the trailer last night after watching the one I taped about three times), I have to admit that I am getting excited.

From what I’ve seen, the movie is going to be on the dark side (pun intended). The action/fight scenes looked incredible – at least one big space battle with X-Wing-like ships dodging laser blasts and flying around other huge battleships. The Jedi fight scenes looked great, too.

There’s a clip where Mace Windu and three other jedi enter Palpatine’s office and say “You’re under arrest Chancellor” while activating their lightsabers.

The Emperor/Chancellor says “Are you threatening me, master Jedi?”

Then we see Palpatine grab his saber and…

…leap to attack the group of jedi.

This got my heart pumping!

So, now I’m cautiously optimistic. It’s going to be a long 69 days until the premier!