SPECULATION OFFICIAL Rey Discussion Thread

Here's @Willybobo's speculation.
http://www.fakingstarwars.net/2015/12/29/speculation-rey-is-a-palpatine-skywalker/

 

She'll be the sister. Like Leia, Luke, and Vader in A New Hope, she was hanging out with her father and brother in the movie and didn't know it, that was written in later.

Driver also said that Episode VII would be about "loss" and "friendship". (September 2014)

http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=6130

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Just a though I have regards to Rey and her light saber creation. What if she creates a saber that has a clear crystal, with clear color, to represent a balance of both sides within her. You know they need to have a twist with light saber creation for VIII or IX. Thoughts?

 

Yep. Rey dresses like Han solo confirmed.

 

you mean transparent?

 

ok i made a picture of the sunset and rey, if you ask me its another clue.
In the scene with Luke there is one white sun and one red (light and darkside, Padme and Anakin).
The scene with Rey the sun is white and red. Of course Jakku dont have 2 suns like Tatooine.

 

A bit like Ahsoka's? I would be okay with that. I like the idea of creative new designs, especially when they serve a purpose (e.g. the crossguard blades which looked stupid until Kylo started burning Finn with them).

 

Off topic here: Weren't Ahsoka's white lightsabers for a purpose? Such as signifying she wasn't a Jedi anymore?

 

Guys - why did the film go to the trouble of resurrecting a lightsaber that was lost 35 years ago?

Rey will use the anakin/luke lightsaber.
Why is this not apparent?

The lightsaber literally called to her in the movie.

The filmmakers have even changed canon, so that objects can now contain force echoes. Just so this lightsaber can remind the audience of its importance to the saga.

but you guys want her to build a cool one, well, 'cuz darth maul and stuff.


I give up.

 

Also their conflict is over their grandfather's legacy, so really them being siblings adds nothing to the dynamic that cousins doesn't already achieve. It's not like Kylo was yelling "the Millenium Falcon belongs to me!"

 

My theory? The Awakening refers to the birth of the New Hope. The next Chosen One. and that birth causes an awakening in other force sensitives as well (IMO, when Kylo turns and stares at Finn during the village massacre, its because he senses the force stirring within him). I believe Rey was created by the Force as a direct counter to the fall of Ben Solo. Essentially, I believe the rise of Kylo Ren led to another immaculate conception in the form of Rey. I think her being Skywalker is a long shot. Not only does Luke not give a look of familiarity when he sees Rey, but that story decision would make Luke Skywalker into more of a bafoon than TFA already did. Luke leaving his child on a desert planet for over a decade is preposterous considering what happened to him as a child. although i could totally see that being the way they go as it seems like a very JJ Abrams thing to do.

 

@Chowdahead . well, you may not love TFA as much as i did, but at least we have similar outlooks for the character of Rey.

however, i don't think Rey was born chosen.
at least, being born chosen might not line up with the rise of Kylo Ren.
She was born 19 years before the film. He would have been 10 years old.
The Jedi massacre likely happened 10 years before the film.
and coincides with Luke's exile.

i do think the film is trying to show us that the force can act upon people and imbue them with abilities at a given point in time.
i think Disney is trying to, at least in part, get away from the Force being purely hereditary. and for darn sure the "midichlorians" thing.

not that The Force won't be special any longer. it will be special, and rare.
they simply want movie watchers to say "that could be" when watching the films, is all.
they don't want kids to think, "well. that could never be me. i wasn't born into this crap like Luke was."

just my humble opinion.

 

Guys guys guys.

What if the twist is not that she's Luke's daughter, but that she's Han and Leia's child, a child they thought dead, a younger sister that Ben Solo thought he had removed from the equation?

Only she didn't die, Luke saved her, hid her on Jakku, and put Lor San Tekka in charge of watching overher. Be a guardian angel but at the same time do not intervene, let her learn how to be a survivor. Let her learn how to unlock the Force herself. She was on the verge of it there in Jakku, the time was probably close for Lor San Tekka to reveal who she was and set her on her path, but her older brother beat him to it.

 

Why wouldn't Ben recognize her then? Or Leia, after coming in contact with her, via the Force?

 

An entire movie where no one recognizes her.
That's what i watched.

 

It's because she is Anakin.

This theory nailed it big time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starwarssp...poilers_theory_about_the_chosen_one_prophecy/

 

Ben did recognize her, after he read her mind. That's why he left the interrogation room in such a hurry, to talk to Snoke about the development.

Leia would not have recognized her because she would have thought her dead.

No offense to you personally, or the person who came up with it, but it's a ridiculous theory. It's a real stretch, especially because it greatly diminishes Anakin's sacrifice and status as The Chosen One. He is the one who brought balance to the Force, first by destroying the dangerously dogmatic Jedi Order, and then by destroying the dangerously ambitious Sith. Snoke and Kylo and the Knights of Ren destroyed that balance when they burned down Luke's new Jedi Order, an Order that would have been a much more balanced one given what we know about Luke.

What people are seeing about Rey's parallels with Anakin are just that: they are parallels. They are there to show she's a survivor, but also, at this point when we don't know her lineage, it shows that she has qualities in common with Anakin that at the very least would make her a great Jedi. If she's a Skywalker, these parallels become ways to show how she is a Skywalker.

Anakin has gone on to become one with the Force, and in fact Anakin's Force ghost was going to be in the movie, which to me is the greatest evidence against this theory.

 

Kai Lo Ren is already the continuation of the skywalker bloodline, via Leia Skywalker?