

Lucasfilm released the second trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Monday evening. It shows that—like every Star Wars movie—the next edition will be filled with space battles, lightsaber duels, and campy dialog.

The trailer makes it clear that Rey will be the central character of the upcoming movie, set to release December 15 with tickets widely available now . Rey's training by Luke Skywalker and maturation as a Jedi appear to be major themes.

For anyone entering the Star Wars universe for the first time with this latest trilogy (wait, why?), the new trailer hints at obvious parallels to The Empire Strikes Back. In Empire, Luke ignores Yoda's warnings that his training isn't complete and rushes off to save his friends, leading to his hand being chopped off by Darth Vader.

"I've seen this raw strength only once before," Luke Skywalker says in the new footage. "It didn't scare me enough then. It does now... This is not going to go the way you think."

The trailer also hints that Kylo Ren—who embraced the dark side of the Force and killed his father [spoilers] in Episode VII—tries to recruit Rey to the dark side.

"I need someone to show me my place in all this," Rey says near the end of the trailer. The new teaser then cuts to a shot of Ren holding out his black-gloved hand.

While the trailer provides a lot of hints about the plot and major themes of Last Jedi, much of the initial Twitter chatter has been about this new Chewbacca sidekick:

The new creature is apparently a Porg, which according to a fan wiki is "a sea bird species native to the planet Ahch-To, where Jedi Master Luke Skywalker made his exile in the years following the Battle of Endor." It remains to be seen if the Porg will be beloved by fans or—possibly more likely—if the creature will be the new Jar Jar Binks.

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