In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Finn has an important decision to make: will he ditch the group that took him in after he deserted the Empire? It hardly feels like a spoiler to say that of course he won’t—but according to Entertainment Weekly, the ex-Stormtrooper does think about it. Per E.W.’s new preview of the movie, Finn will also meet a fan, of sorts, who works as a mechanic behind the scenes for the Resistance: Rose Tico (played by Kelly Marie Tran). Once he sees that Rose idolizes him as a hero, Finn has something to live up to—or, at least, an image of himself that he can try to live up to.

This subplot—as well as a few other threads that have been teased from the Star Wars saga’s next installment—prompts another question: just how much of this film’s plot will be cribbed from The Empire Strikes Back?

When The Force Awakens hit theaters in 2015, some critics argued that the film borrowed too much from the original Star Wars trilogy, particularly the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope. Rogue One, by contrast, was praised for doing the exact opposite, adopting a tone distinct from those of the Star Wars films that had come before it. (As an anthology film, and not a part of the main arc, Gareth Edwards’s outing had the room to do just that.)

So it’s no surprise that as The Last Jedi nears its debut this December, curiosity is brewing about just how much it too might emulate the other Star Wars films—especially the second movie in the first trilogy, given The Force Awakens’s similarities to A New Hope. Last year, Adam Driver even indicated that the new film has a similar feel to The Empire Strikes Back—a comment that made waves online, forcing the actor to clarify that he did not mean the film mimicked Empire per se, but rather that it differed in tone from its predecessor, much like Empire did.

Yet these new plot details indicate that the similarities may run deeper than that. Finn’s spurned desire to leave his friends seems like an obvious parallel to to the character arc of Han Solo, who was also getting ready to zip off into space at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. Then again, Han had to settle a debt with Jabba the Hutt; it seems that Finn wants to leave mainly because things got way too real in the last movie, between Han getting killed by his son, Kylo Ren, and his own injury from a lightsaber attack. There’s also, so far, no budding romantic plot between Finn and any of the other characters, unless you enjoy reading very deep between the lines.

Director Rian Johnson has also assured E.W. that any parallels between the two films are unintentional:

“I just tried to kind of ignore that aspect of it and have the story take the shape that it needed to,” Johnson told E.W. “But look, Rey is off in a remote location with a Jedi master, and the Resistance is in a tough spot, and we’re intercutting those stories. By its very nature, there are some structural parallels. But these are new characters, they’re dealing with new things, and that ultimately is what defines the movie. So I think that’s going to be unique.”