[InsaneBaron]

...and the Jawas all bought a tropical paradise planet with the proceeds from salvaging an ISD and SSD.  Assuming their little hearts didn't all explode with glee when they first found the wrecks.

YAAAAAAA!

Comments:

1. Luke says, "The force is strong in my family... you have it too." Implying he's talking to a family member. In Revan's name, TELL ME Mara Jade is back!

2. Speaking of which, Kylo's mask looks like Revan.

[Sandwich]

I wish Mara Jade was in this, but that can't be who he's referring to... He's implying biological familial ties to Force powers, not marital. Unless you meant whoever Luke was talking to was his offspring via relations with Jade?

[jr2]

Pfft, guys, he's saying his biological family has strong Force powers, it does not necessarily mean he's talking to one of those members.  Could be he's talking to someone else who has Force powers, letting them know of it.  Perhaps.  I initially automatically thought that the helmetless Storm Trooper had Force powers and that was who he was talking to, but I'm not sure how that could make sense.

I'm not sure his wording is right for talking to someone with close ties to him.  He seems too... formal.  Like it's a briefing, sort of.  This is how I know what Force power is and this is it's history with my family, you have this as well.

[Colonol Dekker]

It could just be for the trailer?

[Luis Dias]

It's obviously his niece.

[Trivial Psychic]

Offspring of Ezra and Sabine? 

[Colonol Dekker]

Needs more female descended from shan bloodline.

[InsaneBaron]

I wish Mara Jade was in this, but that can't be who he's referring to... He's implying biological familial ties to Force powers, not marital. Unless you meant whoever Luke was talking to was his offspring via relations with Jade?

Yeah, that's what I meant. Could be completely off the mark, that's just the 1st thing that came to mind.

[deathfun]

Obviously his sister and him got it on for the sake of the force duh. Ultra force powers activate!

[perihelion]

I think I'm stating the obvious here, but those lines are also lifted in their entirity from the scene with Luke and Leia in episode 6 in the tree tops just after the Ewoks join the rebels.  The only difference is some of the original lines were deleted to make it seem more like a monolog.  I'm not even sure if the lines were re-voiced or if they are from 30-some years ago.

[Gee1337]

Did anyone consider that he was talking to one his nephews? Could be Jacen or Anakin.

@ perihelion, I think the lines have been revoiced for the film. From the interviews I've seen with Mark Hamill, he seems like a pretty easy going guy and I don't think it would have taken much to convince him to do the lines, plus I wouldn't be surprised to see an actual scene with him saying them either!

[Phantom Hoover]

They can't practically do Mara Jade in anything but cameo, since there'll be no room for any significant backstory. And then what's the point of that cameo when they're very explicitly rejecting the EU's version of post-Endor events anyway? Same goes for Jacen and Anakin; they're really just excess baggage for a new film.

[Sandwich]

The EU isn't rejected outright as an automatic "not happening". They said they reserve the right to canonize any parts of the EU that they wanted to.

That said, I think it actually is old Luke speaking to his niece/nephew (via Leia + damn-well-better-be-Han) rather than a child of his own. He did the whole "the Force is strong in my family" speech when revealing to Leia that she's his sister, and thus has latent Force talent as well, so it's highly likely to be a grandchild of Anakin Skywalker one way or another.

Also, during that speech, when Luke mentions the Force being strong with his sister, the scene is of what looks to be a female hand giving a lightsaber to someone else - Leia to her child before dying, perhaps?

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Don't care much for the new look stormtroopers. Armour looks like its made of cardboard.

So you're saying they look like stormtrooper armour?

[Sandwich]

Didn't they have glossy armor in the first teaser trailer released a while back? I seem to remember the dropship scene with the stormtroopers lined up being all dramatically lit and shiny lensflarey...

[Gee1337]

I'm intrigued by the expanded universe being rejected and a little bit confused about this as well.

I've read the Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Academy Trilogy, Courtship of Princess Leia, New Rebellion, Truce at Bakura and the graphic novel "Dark Empire". I even read the childrens' novels was when I was 11 (can't remember what they were called though). In the foreword of Dark Empire, I believe it was Kevin Anderson who wrote that everything written for Star Wars had to be canon.

Also, no back story would really need to be written for Jacen, Jaina or Anakin. It already exists in the novels and if people really want it then they can go and read them. When Qui Gon first appeared in Phantom, there was no real back story for him as well as a host of other characters. They just rolled with the characters and went with it.

Drew Karparshyn wrote books based around the Mass Effect universe and the events in the book were mentioned in the game, but did not go into great detail. I think that if people read the Star Wars EU then there experience will be a lot richer when EpVII arrives. I know my experience of reading the books around Mass Effect greatly improved my experience when playing the games.

[Scourge of Ages]

It's just that there is sooooo much stuff in the Expanded Universe, much of it not great...

And it was always a policy that while the EU writers had to stick to canon, and what they wrote became canon, the films always had priority in canon-ness. The new films' rejection of the EU doesn't necessarily mean that they're calling it all null and void, just that the writers and director aren't going to read through every novel and comic to fit Ep VII into the canon from the books. And they shouldn't.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if the characters in the movie were the same as the ones from the books. But I won't be disappointed if they aren't, either.

Think of it like the Star Trek reboot. The old stuff is still there, and still matters, it just doesn't affect the new stuff.

[Deathsnake]

Maybe you should take a look at this!!!



and....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMgjkZLNTVg

HYPE!!!! I wait for this more then Episode 7! Rebels against Imperial Troopers - NO JEDI!!!!! YEA!!!!!!

Next year in Cinema : December 2016!

[Colonol Dekker]

Blocked by Disney stormtroopers.

[Deathsnake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_c2n9e3cYg

!!!