For one: Which Skywalker does it mean?

She knows what’s coming, and she’s ready.

Here we see a familiar object.

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Anakin Skywalker’s lightsaber, then Luke’s…now it belongs to her.

She has clearly restored it.

“The lightsaber Rey inherited from Luke Skywalker lives,” Ridleysaid in the Celebration panelFriday.

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She’s also packing Han Solo’s blaster.

This isn’t the same ship.

His had a spider-like cockpit, while this is more a traditional TIE with the Silencer wings.

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We know what he looks like, but there’s something ominous in not seeing him.

(If it is him.)

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In contrast, Rey is unarmored, without a mask or helmet, and seemingly alone.

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Sprint

She starts to run, but not in fear.

Watchmen

Boyega’s Finn and Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron stand watch on a rocky outcropping.

Hard to know what’s happening here, but Finn is now armed with Rey’s staff.

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Pals

BB-8 has a sidekick, the wheelie droid D/O.

There’s a big brother/little brother thing happening between these two, and less of anAll About Everobot rivalry.

Hyperspace

Lando is back in the cockpit of his old ship.

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Smooth

Read the joy on Lando’s face.

What are the mechanical arrays scattered through this landscape?

Finn and C-3PO hang on in the back.

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It seems to be Carrie Fisher’s Leia holding it.

Here, Rey and Leia share a moment in the woods.

Tears

Yeah.

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The audience feels this one, too.

Heroes

Three droids.

And one badass Wookiee.

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Abrams revealed this film won’t keep the central characters separated.

They’re on this quest together.

Ruins

The focal lens of a destroyed Death Star rises from the ocean of an alien world.

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Is this the first one, or the second from Return of the Jedi.

And what are they seeking here?

As we hear the cackle of Emperor Palpatine, Luke says “No one is ever really gone.”

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That goes for the bad guys, too.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeris out Dec. 20.

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