Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer - 13 Easter Eggs & Secrets You Probably Missed

13. Parallels To The Force Awakens

Star Wars The Last Jedi Trailer Rey
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The trailer opens with Rey, who is training with Luke on Ahch-To. She pops up onto our screen clearly panicked, and gasping for breath.

It's a familiar image, because it's very similar to how the first teaser for The Force Awakens opened: with one of the new heroes (on that occasion Finn) suddenly appearing, shocked and breathing heavily.

Star Wars The Force Awakens Finn
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There are other similarities too: the Millennium Falcon in a chase/fight sequence with TIE Fighters (which almost look like they could be from the same scene, were it not for Jakku), themes of the Dark Side and the Light in voiceover, and the Resistance ships flying in formation across the surface of a new planet.

Going slightly beyond that first Force Awakens tease, and there's also the broken Kylo Ren mask with Vader's breathing, which very much echoes the shot of the Vader mask in the second teaser.

The tone of this trailer is noticeably different, but it's interesting that it does follow its predecessor in quite a few ways.

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