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Friend booked tickets yesterday for an afternoon showing on Thursday 17th December - taking half a day off work to go see it. Can't wait.

The complete absence of Luke Skywalker in all the trailers is pretty intriguing.. part of me was half wondering if he was Kylo Ren and had ultimately followed in the footsteps of his father but I guess that would be too huge a U turn :) 

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The complete absence of Luke Skywalker in all the trailers is pretty intriguing.. part of me was half wondering if he was Kylo Ren and had ultimately followed in the footsteps of his father but I guess that would be too huge a U turn :) 

He's got to have gone the same way as Anakin. The next three films will be the force growing strong and pulling Luke back to the goodies. I'll put money on it! ;)

Great trailer though.

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part of me was half wondering if he was Kylo Ren and had ultimately followed in the footsteps of his father but I guess that would be too huge a U turn :) 


From Wookiepeia The individual who came to be known as Kylo Ren was born some time after the Battle of Endor. Perhaps Mark Hamill is doing the voice work for the character and for some reason they want to cover that up so it's let slide Luke appears in the movie, yet doesn't even appear on the poster.

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Luke is pretty old by this point, I think he's just pulled a Yoda and is a hermit living with R2D2, someone has to teach the jedi ways to the new generation, and it'll be Luke, there's no one else left and it doesn't look like the princess took the time to learn anything either.

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If the movie is set 30 years after RotJ that puts him at around 50

It is, I'm sure it was said early on, so they can accurately account for the age of the original cast.   Luke is as old as Hamel is in real life.

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Movie timeframe puts the events of RotS at 19 years before the battle of Yavin (ANH) which makes Luke 19 since his birth is shown at the end of RotS however Hamill was in his mid 20's in ANH. Either way that should be nothing for a jedi wasn't Yoda 900?

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Theory:

In the trailer we see Luke reaching up towards R2. On what appears to be the same set we see a shuttle landing, storm troopers everywhere and the new sith doing a downwards strike with his lightsaber. This seems to indicate that Luke dies in this one. Then assume that the new Jedi was a storm trooper. He takes off his helmet in a panic and goes AWOL. What if he was on the landing party during the attack that kills Luke? Luke's force ghost attaches to him and leads him to escape and eventually find Han and Leia. This could lead him to awakening his force abilities and by the end of the movie he's in tuned enough with the force be able to see Luke instead of the just a random voice here and there.

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Theory:

In the trailer we see Luke reaching up towards R2. On what appears to be the same set we see a shuttle landing, storm troopers everywhere and the new sith doing a downwards strike with his lightsaber. This seems to indicate that Luke dies in this one. Then assume that the new Jedi was a storm trooper. He takes off his helmet in a panic and goes AWOL. What if he was on the landing party during the attack that kills Luke? Luke's force ghost attaches to him and leads him to escape and eventually find Han and Leia. This could lead him to awakening his force abilities and by the end of the movie he's in tuned enough with the force be able to see Luke instead of the just a random voice here and there.

Would be funny if Luke uses Obi-Wan's line from ANH "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful that you can possibly imagine.":laugh:

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He's got to have gone the same way as Anakin. The next three films will be the force growing strong and pulling Luke back to the goodies. I'll put money on it! ;)

Great trailer though.

I refuse to believe Luke could be turned to the dark side after defeating Sith Lord Palpatine. Kylo Ren is either a Vader apprentice we never knew of or just a new Sith character that idolizes Darth Vader. Luke will probably have a small role in this, maybe as an exiled Jedi master, like Yoda, or he dies. The girl is maybe Han and Leia's daughter that is the true Jedi to bring balance to the force once and for all.

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Luke, more than likely, went into a self-imposed exile to better study the force and to delay an "imbalance" in the force that would prompt another Sith attack. Similar to Yoda. The movie will probably follow a "search for Luke" vibe, which is great if you ask me. Otherwise, Luke would overshadow all other characters, because he's probably super powerful by now.

In addition, we've seen shots of Kylo Ren without his helmet on. He's definitely not Luke.

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I refuse to believe Luke could be turned to the dark side after defeating Sith Lord Palpatine. Kylo Ren is either a Vader apprentice we never knew of or just a new Sith character that idolizes Darth Vader. Luke will probably have a small role in this, maybe as an exiled Jedi master, like Yoda, or he dies. The girl is maybe Han and Leia's daughter that is the true Jedi to bring balance to the force once and for all.

He has to be someone to trained himself though. Look unstable the beam on his lightsaber is. To me that would indicate that he found information and did it himself instead of someone like Vader or Palpatine training him.

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Luke dying and pulling another Obi-wan type story setup would be meh, I mean guys, we've done that already why repeat the same thing again in the new movies?   If they reuse that plot device again I'll flip my table over.

 

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He has to be someone to trained himself though. Look unstable the beam on his lightsaber is. To me that would indicate that he found information and did it himself instead of someone like Vader or Palpatine training him.

Could be, or his training under Vader was far from finished and he has been traing himself ever since.

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