The trailer for Star Wars Episode XI came out today, and it was very impressive indeed. There was triumphant music and people staring intently off into vistas and that thing where a person does a slow motion jump over a vehicle. That was pretty cool.

What there wasn’t, though, was anything cute and small and stupid.

Before we dive into this, I should say that our own Charles Curtis actually wrote a good and smart breakdown of the trailer and everything we learned from it.

Anyway, back to the critters.

I will fully admit to being a big dumb idiot, perhaps the stupidest boy, but when it comes to all of the Star Wars movies, and hoo buddy there have been a lot of them, I tend to sort of drift off with all the speeches about good and evil or high council meetings or whatever and wait for either:

1) People to start swinging lightsabers at each other’s faces or…

2) Small critters to pop up on screen that make me giggle.

Ewoks, porgs … it doesn’t much matter. I just like in these movies when there’s some small dumb thing running around. When the porg popped up in the last movie when Chewie was driving, and he let out that dumb porg battle cry, I clapped and clapped like a happy child. That was great.

But look at this new trailer:

Nothing small and dumb and adorable. Nothing. There is that one little round drone boi but he’s more of a robot than a critter, and for the sake of this article, I will not count it.

Anyway, yeah. Listen up, Star Wars makers: There’s still time to get some critters in there. And remember: Big dumb things, like Jar Jar Binks? Bad. Small dumb things? Good. Just make sure they’re small and stupid and we’ll be good. Everyone have a nice Friday.