Today's big piece of Star Wars news is that Luke Skywalker's Twitter-dominatingly absence from the final trailer (and theatrical poster) for The Force Awakens was on purpose: speaking with the Sydney Morning Herald, when asked about the once (and probably future) Jedi, J.J. Abrams said "These are good questions to be asking. I can't wait for you to find out the answer... it's no accident." And everyone's treating this like it's a surprise. What?! Did anybody really think that through the entire process of editing the final trailer and getting it ready for release nobody, not J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy or the legions of tight-lipped workers at Lucasfilm, realised that they'd forgot the most important character in the franchise, only after releasing going "Oh sh*t, how did we forget about Luke?" Of course Luke not being in the trailer wasn't "an accident". We're less than two months away from the release of the most anticipated film of the millennium; nothing is going to be left to chance. It's like saying not putting the "I am your father" reveal from The Empire Strikes Back was pure dumb luck, or that Natalie Portman remembering to call the two babies in Revenge Of The Sith Luke and Leia was a lucky coincidence. Look, I get it - we're all super hyped for Star Wars and any news is exciting and needs shouting from the rooftops (as long as it isn't a spoiler, obviously), but can we please use a modicum of sense and assess whether something is actually news or just a statement of the freaking obvious? Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out in UK cinemas on 17th December and US cinemas on 18th December. And no, the date discrepancy isn't an accident.
