Okay, thoughts gathered:
Until the effects shots hit, I thought maybe I was being trolled again by a fan film again. Something about the shots and the editing - maybe I'm too used to standard hollywood shots these days. Some stuff looked genuinely interesting, like one of the leads being a (soon to be) former Stormtrooper, and the various flight shots in atmosphere - Star Wars, film wise, has only really done space battles rather than aerial dogfights. But then there's stuff like.. a ball astromech, cross-saber, and that one shot of the pilot in the cockpit. Something didn't feel right with it.