Don't call her a scruffy looking Nerf herder, Carrie Fisher joins cast of "Star Wars Episode VII"

     To take a page from Yoda: expected this was.
     We know that Disney is doing its damnedest to get some of the original cast members on board for Star Wars Episode VII and now we've gotten some actual hard information that one of them has dropped their shields.  In an interview with Palm Beach Illustrated, Carrie Fisher (who played Princess Leia in the original trilogy) confirmed her involvement in the upcoming film.  In terms of her character's role however, all she'd say is that Leia would be much the same as before except older, slower, and less inclined to get up for the big battle.
     Fisher's exposition makes me think even more and more that Han, Luke, and Leia are going to be on the fringes of the next film and that the new trilogy will focus more on their kids.  As it should be. 
     Star Wars Episode VII hits theaters in summer 2015.