Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 7 Questions The Trailer Didn't Answer
2. Whats Leia So Upset About?
Carrie Fishers face is contorted into a really intense kind of misery. Thats not the face of a princess whos just come out of the shops to find that shes got a speeding ticket on her land-speeder; thats real dread and grief. We can, of course, speculate as wildly as we want, but the fact shes grabbing Han might point to something terrible having happened to Luke and/or Rey (its widely held that Rey is likely to be Han and Leias daughter, as theres that scrap of voiceover in which Luke details his familys connection with the Force, before adding and you have that power too in the second teaser trailer). Or, seeing as theyre at a spaceport, it might well be just that having seen the new heroes ship leave to do some derring-do shes consumed with sadness that shes not quite as springy a chicken as she once was, and pain over the necessity of handing over the reins to the young bucks having been so integral to the welfare of the galaxy in the past. Shes always been one for getting stuck in when the going gets rough, so for Leia the simple realisation of her own encroaching mortality might be the hardest thing to bear.
