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Vader is Luke's dad.

No international trailer?

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I sadly agree.

I do love all the interatmospheric (is that a word?) shots with the spacecraft.

Is the Japanese trailer a spoiler? If not it needs to be in the OP.

Yeah I don't want Chewie to die either.
I think either he or Han may die though. Peter Mahew can barely walk (they can easily recast though) and I doubt Harrison Ford is up for three to four years of filming and promotions.

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Is the Japanese trailer a spoiler?

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I won't say it was a spoiler but I honestly wish I hadn't watched it. It kinda gives away the first act. Unless I'm wrong, which happens sometimes. But I would suggest not watching it.

Looks like the Falcon has a new dish on top.

I think the story will be very similar to A New Hope w/o Death Star exploding.

I think Luke or Han dies.

I think Rey is Luke's daughter and Kylo is Han and Leia's son.

Also I think they will have nothing from the Prequels and no references to the Prequels.

Alright, here are some of my predictions.

First on what the Force Awakens means: The Force awakening will be a mass empowering event in order to create more Force Conscious people. The Emperor and Vader hunted almost all of them down during the Empire, and the Force is reempowering itself by creating more Force Conscious people. This is the primary start of the plot.

Now for characters.

1) Rey: Daughter of Luke, although Luke has gone into hiding. She's been raised by Han who sends her out to scavenge for him. While already Force Conscious, the Force Awakening makes her much more aware of it. She is completely oblivious that Luke is her father and Han will have to tell her.

2) Finn: A Stormtrooper who is hunted down once it's discovered he's Force Conscious. Rey saves him from the Stormtroopers, and he somehow gets Anakin's lightsaber, which makes Kylo Ren want to hunt him down even further. Finn also knows about the Starkiller Base, which makes him sort of like R2D2 in this version carrying the plans.

3) Kylo Ren: Son of Leia and Han. Kylo turning dark completely ripped Han and Leia apart. While initially not gifted with the Force, once it is awakened within him, he turns into the biggest badass in the Galaxy instantly having studied the principles of the Force his whole life. He's obsessed with Vader and hunts down Finn with a vengeance due to finding Anakin's lightsaber.

4) Han: He has turned into quite the drunk these days when his son goes over to the First Order, and has been instructed by Luke to go watch after his daughter Rey. He has since raised her from a teenager. Han now runs a junk shop of Jakku, but when word of Finn reaches him and his knowledge of what the First Order is up to, Han comes out of retirement and knows he needs to track down Luke. They find the Falcon (which is buried in the desert somewhere) and leave. End of the Second Act, Han is killed by his son Kylo.

5) Princess Leia: Now official head of the "Rebels". She's not a full Jedi but has some knowledge of the Force more so than in the original trilogy. She's now a highly savy politician. Not sure where to go from there.

6) Luke: Luke is in hiding now thinking that the knowledge of the Force is better left off gone. He trained Snoke shortly after the events of Return of the Jedi, and now lives in regret with Snoke and his nephew going to the Dark Side and wishing to destroy the universe. Luke won't come in until the very end, with some hints of him and R2.

7) Snoke: Luke's former apprentice who betrays and nearly kills him, and convinces a sizable portion of the new Republic to join with him, with Galaxy erupting into a new civil war.

Those are my thoughts, but I still feel pretty blind and did not watch the Japanese trailer since they tend to spoil everything.