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so did the star wars trailer play before Spectre or no?

 

Hey did you guys noticed that Rey says in the Japanese Trailer "Waiting for my Family": Skywalkers? Love Stars? What do you guys think?

JJ Abrams last week did a Q&A and George Lucas asked him: "What happens with Darth Vader's grandchildren?" And JJ smiles and responds "I don't know, why don't you tell me, you are the one who created all this s·hit!

I hope Rey to be Luke's daughter, she looks like a young Shimi Skywalker (her grandma) and I hope Kylo to be Han Solo and Leia's son.

 

I think she's a Skywalker, all right, but which Skywalker is her parent isn't that clear. One thing I've been thinking about this theatrical trailer is the scene where Han is leading Finn and Rey into Maz's Castle. If he didn't know exactly who Rey was, why would he take them there? He obviously recognized her on the Falcon, or earlier. That to me means she can't be some random kid. She's related to him somehow.

But if someone has another idea why he'd take them to see Maz, that is, he didn't do it deliberately but for some other reason, I'd like to hear it. Could it be that it's Maz who figures out who Rey is, and it was just coincidence that brought Han, Finn, and Rey to Maz?

 

I guess Han took Finn and Rey to Maz' place because of the following:
1. Finn and Rey had Luke's light sabre, which Han recognized.
2. Han had not seen Luke for a while and had no idea where he was. The kids only heard of Luke from stories, so they didn't know where he was either.
3. Han believed that Maz may be able to figure out where Luke was located if she could take a look at the light sabre.
4. The kids realized that the light sabre was important somehow, and so they were reluctant to just hand it over to Han.
Therefore, Han had to take Rey and Finn along to see Maz.

In my speculated scenario, Rey need not be Han's daughter, or if she was, they may have been separated for such a long time (involuntarily separated when Rey was very young) that they no longer recognized each other.

 

Thank you for responding. That makes sense. It's just that this idea of the lightsaber being like a puzzle, or code, is new to me. Where did that idea come from? How could it lead them to Luke? He didn't even make it, Anakin did. Or at least Anakin was the original owner.

 

The rumor about Luke's light sabre and the search for Luke was first reported by Devin Faraci a year ago. Later this rumor was elaborated further by MSW, but as expected a lot of details are still missing. A caution/reminder that it could all be red herrings and misinformation put out by JJ and company.

 

Maybe they actually end up learning the truth of Darth Vader and that's why KR is also looking for it, which is something completely unexpected and shocking. Because of this, The Skywalker DNA is encoded into the light saber and if A Skywalker wields the lightsaber, their ultimate power will awaken inside of them. KR isn't A Skywalker so he is in for a major surprise. Finn wields the light saber but he isn't exactly a major match for Finn. Only Skywalker DNA can unlock where Luke is. Luke senses it and he realizes what's going on and guides the owner of the light saber to him.

 

I totally buy the KoR wanting the saber because of it's relevance to Vader but the rumor about it being the key to finding Luke seems a bit iffy to me. Mostly because of the potentially weird exposition that would require to explain Luke recovering it from Bespin and encoding something inside, then losing it + explaining the reason he's gone missing in the first place. Gotta wait and see how it goes tho, lol.

 

It's possible that there's nothing special about the light sabre in reality, but Kylo believed (mistakenly) that it would reveal something about Vader, while Han believed (also mistakenly, perhaps out of desperation) that it would provide a clue to Luke's location.

 

Thanks for your answers, @Force238 @AstromechRecords @IrisBest , I really do appreciate it.

So basically, there have been several rumors that the lightsaber is somehow coded and/or traceable, but all of this would be entirely new for the ST. In other words, I didn't miss anything from the other movies. This is a new idea invented for the ST.

Huh. That feels contrived to me. Movie VII revolves around a concept that has never been put forth before, in all the movies with all the previous lightsabers?

I don't know if it's true, but I kind of hope that it isn't. The plot is already complicated enough with new characters, planets and weapons, never mind the old weapons having new properties. That's a major retcon, in my book.

It reminds me of......
dare it say it....

Spoiler

Midichlorians

 

These are my thoughts pretty much as well. And since it does seem Luke's location becomes known by the end of the movie, maybe there is something in the lightsaber that's decoded... Only other explanation I can think of is Luke either sending out a message (maybe he felt Han's death and contacted Leia) or perhaps Leia's known all along where he is and she simply sends Rey to him (this almost seems like the simplest option heh).

 

Honestly, I might join you in that assessment! This movie would be extraordinarily complicated if very many of these subplots were true... I'm sure some are. I wish I knew which ones.

 

I STILL think that Luke will show himself by the time 85% of the film is finished...maybe he tells Rey to meet him on Skellig if she accepts her true destiny.

 

I'm sure people must be getting sick of edited FA trailers by now, but after seeing that Apocalypse now shot in one of the recent trailers I couldn't resist. It's not great, but I've seen worse.

 

There are so many pages to go through and if this has been posted before, then, I apologize. A lot of people have been saying this shot is Finn's Fighter going down to Jakku and it might be. It looks to me it might be the snow planet that this fighter is falling to. Notice all the clouds and the snow covered land? On Jakku you wouldn't have a lot of clouds like this due to the lack of moisture and I haven't seen any clouds in Jakku's sky in any prior shots. Anyway, it was something I noticed.