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Okay, I’m going to have a really hard time with this. Because Entertainment Weekly seems to have confirmed (they’re stating it baldly, in an article filled with other revelations) that the lightsaber we see handed off in the 2nd trailer for The Force Awakens is indeed being put in Leia’s hand, and it really is the lightsaber Luke lost in his battle with Daddy during The Empire Strikes Back.
That lightsaber should be at the bottom of this:
Or should have fallen tens of thousands of miles to the possibly entirely surface-lacking center of a gas giant planet.
I never believed it in the old Expanded Universe when it was recovered, and I won’t and don’t believe so now, unless I get a VERY good explanation. What do YOU think? Is it believable? Have your say in the comments!
Meanwhile, with the pictures that Entertainment Weekly has been allowed to release, the pieces of Jakku’s action are starting to come together. What follows is either based on officially released information, or my own pet guesses (and NOT on spoiler-ville stuff out there, just limiting to the facts as presented.
This:
Should lead to this:
Which *could* lead to this:
And finally, to this:
And this:
Now, we just need to know what Poe Dameron has to do with this, because that jacket:
Winds up on Finn at some point:
Still a ton left to learn!