Rey Solo

firstly.. you are not an idiot my friend.

there are a lot of fans out there that think that Rey is a Solo.
whilst a lot of us think she isn't... until we know for sure, every single one of us is wondering who the hell she is. we don't know.

secondly.. you are not an idiot. felt so strongly about it that i thought i should say it again.

keep up the fight my friend. i do not agree with this theory.. but if you believe it, then keep fighting for it

 

When Leia is fiddling with Rey's jacket in TFA's novel, it's a very parental thing to do. If they were strangers, wouldn't Rey be thinking "Hang on! What the hell do you think you're doing"?

Leia felt it was so right and natural when she was doing it.

 

Then she proceeded to send her long estranged daughter off to the other side of the galaxy, without so much of a word?

That's very thin.

 

Who would Leia entrust more with a top secret mission of traveling to Luke than her own flesh and blood? Besides the novel of TFA explains why Leia sent a pilot to Jakku to meet Tekka and Korr Sella to the Senate rather than going herself. There was massive opposition from her senior officers of her going to Jakku and if she'd gone to the Senate, someone would've seen to it that she suffer an unfortunate accident.

If they weren't going to make Rey related to anyone, why didn't the producers go with someone of a different ethnicity???? Someone who couldn't possibly look like they could be related to either Leia or Luke??

 

If you have just met your estranged daughter for the first time in 15 years you don't send her packing to the other side of the galaxy without saying anything, that makes no sense. At the very least, you'd go with her.

The point is to keep you guessing, its misdirection. Your looking one way after TFA, then you get slapped in the face with reality in TLJ. Ethnicity doesn't play a huge role in is instance anyway, there were plenty supporters of Finn Skywalker at one point if I remember rightly. TBH I think rey could have been cast as Yoda's species and fans would still argue she's a solo, Skywalker etc.

 

The two mistakes Leia admits to making in the new canon are hiding the truth from Ben about who he is related to and then in sending him away to be trained by Luke.

Yet after finding that her long lost, presumed dead, daughter is alive and has returned to her, she does exactly the same thing with her?

And why on earth wouldn't Leia tell Rey she is her daughter? Why wouldn't she have immediately reacted: "my daughter! It is you!"?

And round and round we go...

 

Well, in TFA there were various examples of things that were unexplained or were "mistakes" - e.g., R2 woke up because the plot demanded it, Leia not hugging Chewie after they got back from SKB, BB-8 was originally accompanying Rey and Chewie to find Luke rather than R2 (apparently JJ Abrams didn't realize the emotional significance of a reunion between Luke and R2 until Rian pointed it out to him), etc. It would be funny if we find out later that, intending for Rey to meet Luke one-on-one, it never even occurred to JJ to explain why Leia would send Rey instead of going herself to see Luke.

 

Mistakes made by the characters in-universe NOT by JJ Abrams.

 

Your comparing a mountain against molehills there mate.

 

To all the partisans of this theory: what will be you reaction if Rey is NOT the daughter of Leia and Han next month ?

 

To me, it's basically about story telling. This is about Rey's journey, so why not send the main character. Doesn't have to be about blood family. She has shown abilities with the force. Luke/Anakin's lightsaber has called out to her. Han couldn't go, well because you know. Lea and Poe can't leave the Resistance right now because the FO knows they are there and will probably be coming. Finn is out at the moment. 3PO never really like flying. R2 is still a little groggy from his nap, so he couldn't go alone. Chewie is alone and needed something to do. Plus, Chewie kinda likes Rey. So why not send Rey, Chewie, and R2. It makes more sense to me to send the available main characters than some non-relevant LT. Joe Schmoe in my opinion.

 

Seeing as the majority here actually seem to be leaning away from Rey being a Solo, perhaps it would be more interesting to ask this:

What will your reaction be if Rey is revealed to be a Solo (i.e. the daughter of Han and Leia) next month?

 

It would destroy TFA because it makes no sense at all, I've explained it here:
https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet.com/index.php?threads/rey-solo.52391/page-111#post-426524

 

That would literally be my reaction. Rey Solo makes no sense at all.

 

If she is a Solo I will be furious. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever after TFA. I highly doubt that will happen anyway, it would be one of the biggest brain farts imaginable.

 

this'll be my reaction. mostly because i'm not all that chuffed that there's a snowball's chance in the netherworld that it'll happen.

 

If Rey's a Solo, my reaction will be...



But if she's a Skywalker (which is what I'm hoping for personally)...



But honestly, I will be happy either way because I really want Rey to be the granddaughter of Anakin Skywalker. I just think Rey being Luke's daughter works a bit better, but if she's Han & Leia's daughter, I'll be satisfied

 

The question I have is will I like the way in which they tell that Solo story and if they did the correct thing by making her a Solo for the wrong reason.

 

Even though I believe Rey is a Skywalker, I've always supported Rey Solo as well and would be content with either one. One thing that I do think is worth noting is that, if Leia was supposed to be at the forefront of Episode IX the way Han was in The Force Awakens and Luke is in The Last Jedi, perhaps that fits in with the idea that she's Rey's mother. Rey is established as a character who's searching for her family and trying to find her place, so it would make sense that her mother is the person who is focused on the most in the final film of the trilogy.

In regards to Kylo Ren, I'm 100% positive he will be redeemed. I love Adam Driver in the role, and I love the character, so personally, I think it would be refreshing if he was forgiven/redeemed and lived, as opposed to dying the way Vader did. When Kathleen Kennedy did that interview on The Star Wars Show and said they were looking at continuing the stories of Rey, Finn, Poe, and BB-8 past this trilogy, I think she deliberately did not mention Kylo Ren because his fate is up in the air. I'd like to see him redeemed, not only because it would be different and because I love the character and think there's a lot of depth there, but also because it would be fulfilling for the characters of Han and Leia, being that he is their legacy (especially if Rey is not their daughter).

 

In the case of Leia not hugging Chewie after SKB, JJ Abrams had admitted that it was a due to a mistake on his part. Rian Johnson had said that he had to come up with the reason as to why Luke was staying put on Ahch-To and not helped the Resistance against the First Order, which means that JJ didn't have that backstory. Given this track record, it's POSSIBLE that the reasons Leia send Rey to find Luke instead of going herself had not been thought through by JJ either.

There were several symbolic hints and foreshadowing of Rey being a Solo in TFA, e.g., (1) Rey sitting at the pilot seat of the Falcon and becoming the partner of Chewie after Han's death (seemingly "inheriting" the Falcon and Chewie), (2) Kylo's words to Rey that she would have been disappointed in Han as a father (a textbook example of foreshadowing where the words spoken in one context could take on additional meaning to the audience in hindsight), (3) the seemingly parallel journeys of the Falcon and Rey - both ended up on Jakku in the hands of Ungar Plutt,and when Han found the Falcon he also found Rey, etc. So if Rey turned out NOT to be a Solo, I will go back to these symbolic hints in TFA and asked whether they could be interpreted alternatively to make TFA and TLJ a coherent whole symbolically, or are they just red-herrings and miss-directions? If it's the latter I will be disappointed. If it's the former I will be excited, for it means the film-makers have been skillful in coming up with a story coherent in both plot and symbolism, even though Rey ended up not being a Solo/Skywalker.

If Rey turned out to be a Solo, then I will be looking to see if they have come up with a good explanation as to why Rey was left on Jakku and why Han and/or Leia didn't recognize her 15 years later.

Either way, what I will NOT do is to be furious and give up on Star Wars. I will just accept that mistakes/inconsistencies in storytelling are inevitable for a saga that spans 40 years in real time with multiple authors. (BTW, I am not impressed by the ability of the Story Group, not after watching SW Rebels and the Force of Destiny episodes.)