5) Forget Everything You Know!
As the daughter of Darth Vader and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker, the force is clearly strong with Leia, yet she fails to utilize this gift in The Force Awakens, aside from a moment towards the end when she senses tragedy from afar.
Abrams has revealed that this is because Leia chose to pursue a military career instead of training to become a Jedi, focusing all of her energy on becoming a General, so she could effectively lead the Resistance against the First Order. This makes sense, as it would be impossible to devote enough time to both pursuits and Leia has always made her fight against the Empire a priority, ever since the first trilogy.
However, this may have surprised fans expecting to see Leia wield a lightsaber in The Force Awakens. After all, the Star Wars universe has expanded far beyond the original movies, encompassing everything from comics and novels to video games. In this expanded universe, Leia is a full fledged Jedi who possesses mastery over the Force, but once Disney acquired the rights to Star Wars, they decided to ignore these new stories, declaring them as non-canon and therefore, simply ‘legend.’
As a result, no one aside from the filmmakers themselves have any idea what could happen next in the upcoming sequels. Anything can happen, but as long as Jar Jar Binks is revealed to have been an evil Sith lord all along, hiding true power behind his bumbling idiocy, then we’ll be happy.
