Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Major Questions From The New Trailer

5. Why's The TIE Fighter Attacking Stormtroopers?

The part of this new Force Awakens trailer that's most reminiscent of the Star Wars films that came before it isn't the appearance by R2-D2, or the familiar John Williams score, or Luke Skywalker chatting about Jedi powers in voice over. No, it's a very short look at a scene where havoc is being wreaked aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer, the landing bay full of Stormtroopers being blasted to pieces by laser fire. It looks a lot like similar scenes from A New Hope, Return Of The Jedi and €“ shame though it is to admit €“ the climax of The Phantom Menace where a young Anakin Skywalker accidentally crash lands in an enemy ship. What sets is apart from all of those it that it doesn't look like a Rebel attack. No, that's a TIE Fighter that's attacking all of those poor defenceless Stormtroopers where they live. What's going on there then? A hi-jacked TIE Fighter, perhaps? Some powerful Skywalker Force powers levitating and operating the ship from a distance? Or is this the moment that Finn betrays the cause/sabotages the Empire from the inside? Or might it be mixed up in that mysterious Chrometrooper, the shiny black Stormtrooper in the cape whose allegiance is unknown but probably...bad?