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In that location's a new international trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens out today, and it showcases new scenes and events that weren't in the North American trailer released several weeks ago. It may also have explained a plot indicate in the motion-picture show, though this last is speculation on our function.

The new trailer is configured similarly to the sometime, but nosotros see new shots of Leia, of Tie Fighters streaking over the desert planet Jakku, and a few more than scenes of Kylo Ren'due south unusual new low-cal saber. Ren also threatens Rey directly in 1 scene of the new trailer. C3PO and his replacement blood-red arm are likewise seen for the beginning time. Nosotros also glimpse Finn, Rey, and R2D2's kid-friendly replacement, BB8 all together on Jakku.

Pay attention early, when Rey says "I know all almost waiting. For my family."

Minimally founded speculation to follow

One of the events heavily implied past both the various trailers and the rumor mill is that Han and Chewie abandoned the Millennium Falcon on Jakku for an unknown bridge of fourth dimension and an unspecified reason. I e'er institute this difficult to believe, since the New Democracy won the Battle of Jakku, and the boxing itself took identify 30 years earlier The Force Awakens. Why would Han leave the Millennium Falcon — a ship he clearly loves just brusque of life itself — behind on an conflicting planet for years, possibly decades?

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Rey's respond could hold the cardinal. She's clearly being set up in shots that recollect Luke'south moisture subcontract ancestry on Tatooine, and in this trailer, she says she "knows all near waiting. For my family." Han's conclusion to leave the Falcon makes a lot more than sense if we assume that he did and then to ensure his daughter had a style to escape Imperial spies or pursuers. The Falcon wasn't just fast — it's heavily shielded and well-armed for a freighter its size, and more than capable of outrunning Imperial capital ships.

Rey, Finn, and BB8.

Rey, Finn, and BB8.

If we run with this hypothesis, much of the residue of the trailer starts clicking into place. When Kylo Ren talks most finishing what "you" (Darth Vader) started, he's referring to the extermination of the Jedi. The Star Destroyer nosotros see in orbit around Jakku is his, and the boxing scenes on the ground in the first trailer are part of the effort to find and execute Rey. This, in turn, would explicate why Han and Chewie return to Jakku as part of an effort to protect / rescue Han's family.

In that location's ane more than tidbit that seems to point in this management. At Comic-Con this yr, the Star Wars team showed off a reel that included this scene, at the 3:17 marking.

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That's Rey and Han settling into the Falcon's cockpit, side-past-side. Rey is in the co-pilot's position, where Chewbacca normally flies. The implication is that she'due south familiar enough with the Falcon to wing it, and Star Wars historically makes it clear that flight the Falcon isn't exactly the easiest thing to practice.

If this theory is true, it makes me experience ameliorate near the general direction of the picture show. Star Wars was at its best when it framed galactic events and g battles between skillful and evil through the lens of individuals struggling to make a divergence, even at a local level. One reason the prequels fail was considering the character framing was so terrible — it was difficult to care, even a fiddling, almost Anakin's Skywalker'due south struggles with sand or the nature of trade embargoes and Separatist movements.

Yes, The Force Awakens is most the ongoing struggle between the Calorie-free and Night sides, the Imperial Remnant, and the appearance of a new breed of Dark Jedi — but framing that struggle against Han's attempts to protect his ain family? Smart move. We'll meet what happens. Hopefully the other scenes in the trailer — a Death Star-like device destroying a planet and some type of Strength-powered interrogation — don't recall A New Promise to the bespeak of slavish imitation. Gamers looking frontward to Star Wars: Battlefront will be able to jump into the fray in a matter of days, while the pic itself is only half-dozen weeks abroad.