SPECULATION OFFICIAL Rey Discussion Thread

We are all forgetting that padawans were cast if the agencies are to be believed. I still don't believe there will be a flashback. Not saying it won't happen but I will be shocked if it does.

 

The only problem I have with Rey being Luke's daughter is that it doesn't give either Han or Leia anything meaningful to do. For each trilogy's focus, you've had:

PT: Anakin Skywalker
OT: Luke Skywalker
ST: Rey Skywalker??

If the rumours of the Jedi academy are true, when would Luke have found the time to find someone, marry her, have a child, lose and mourn the wife and run an academy?

But with Rey as Han and Leia's daughter, she still is a part of that same bloodline but would give Han and Leia some focus now.

 

But there is no confirmation any of those things you listed are actually in the film. All that is just one guy's speculation based off very very vague shot lists and concept art.

 

Maz might still be then.

 

There is 30 years between movies and Rey looks to be early 20s. Lots of us have full time jobs and manage to have kids and a wife. Some people even serve in the military and manage to do it. I'm sure he took days off and vacations. It's not hard to believe he met a girl fell in love got married had a child and wife dies. It's not that much of a stretch. Plenty of time for that to happen.

 

Everyone's got a case of the giggles in this interview.

Then they show the trailer again and Ridley pops up and says:

 

I think the clues are in the trailers. Jakku is populated by survivors from the massive battle that took place decades earlier (I believe the rumour that MvS character is a former Imperial Captain or Admiral, or alternatively the former Captain of a Rebel ship).

For some reason plot-related Rey, as a young child, was on a ship in that battle that crashed, or was put into an escape pod (nice mirroring to the OT Droids experience) and is believed to be dead. Rey may or may not be a Solo or Skywalker, but it's not a stretch to suggest she is a daughter of Han and Leia. It's possible that the shot we see of Luke and R2 in the trailer, with his face hidden, is Luke on Jakku in the aftermath of the huge battle. Yes SW doesn't do flashbacks, but it would be possible to have a big scene early on with the battle setting the scene for Jakku. Losing a daughter or niece, and possibly other apprentices in the battle may be what sends Luke into seclusion (as rumoured). Then the story moves forward 20+ years later.

So, Rey is on this planet with assorted survivors, stranded, and it's only when Kylo Ren appears searching for Luke (last seen at the Battle of Jakku) that the plot kicks off. I don't think that Luke and Rey will meet early on, which is why I think the Luke shot we saw in the trailer is set in the earlier time-period. As a result of Kylo's violent attack in the search for Skywalker, Finn deserts and meets up with Rey. Poe seems to be involved as well, perhaps spying on Kylo Ren for Leia, gets captured and later escapes in the Tie. That would explain why we have seen Rey, Finn and BB-8 together in the trailers but not Poe with them, because he is left behind when Poe is captured. I did like the idea of Finn and Poe in a cell together, but don't see how that fits with what we have seen.

 

The only reason I disagree is that the battle of Jakku takes place a year after Jedi. Rey looks like she is early 20s at best. Further if she is 29 no one takes a new born into battle. Not even a Jedi.

 

Time and age get a little warped when space travel and different gravity is involved. I think we get a little picky about exact age in SW sometimes. I kind of felt like the PT almost subtlety showed this. Just an opinion. Could be way off, but had a good chance here to weigh in with that one.

 

She's currently 23. I seriously doubt her character is much older. Probably younger know how Hollywood works.

 

I think SW wants you to ignore relativity.

 

I still go back to that first picture they released of the table read and Daisy is sitting right between Ford and Fisher as she has to be their daughter.

 

By the look of her, I'd say they'll make Rey about 20.

 

Problem with that theory is the battle takes place a year after Endor. The Force Awakens takes place 30-35 yrs after Endor. Rey is around 19-20

 

Episode VII Rey = late teens
Episode VIII Rey = early 20s (about her exact age now)
Episode IX Rey = late 20s, almost 30 and entering her prime jedi badass ages.

Its a tried and true formula.

 

If Rey, after missing for years while stranded on a remote planet, suddenly decides it's time to leave and randomly runs aboard a ship that belonged to her father and was parked just a short distance from where she lived, that will push believability beyond the point of breaking.

It's hard enough to accept that a young woman that is capable enough to survive in a harsh environment all by herself, would not have been able to get off Jakku long ago. But add in that she just happens to escape in (steal) her own father's ship and we move into criminally preposterous territory.

On the other hand, it would be perfectly logical for Han Solo's daughter to have his old ship nearby if she had gone there intentionally, and the ship was given to her so that she could leave when she was ready. It would also be perfectly logical for that ship to be parked relatively nearby where she was living (say hidden in plain sight in an old junkyard), and that when she needed to get off world, that she would run specifically to that ship.

There are any number of reasons she might have gone into seclusion by choice, and any one of them would take the coincidence out of the first series of events in the film.

For Rey to be completely unaware of her parentage would mean that almost everything that happens to her in the first act is the result of over-the-top coincidences.

That's why I tend to believe that while her identity might be unknown to the audience and other characters she interacts with at the outset of the film, it is not unknown to Rey herself. It would also explain why, once she joins with Han Solo, he would drop everything he was doing to accompany her on her adventure.

 

The plot is cleaner if Rey and Han are already aware of each other. Instead of discovering she has a dad, discovering she has a mom, and then discovering she has an uncle, and also discovering that she has a crazy brother. That's a lot of blast to cram into one movie (and in addition to the coincidences of BB-8 coming to her with the lightsaber, Finn coming to her, the Falcon just hanging out in town, etc.)

It's even more far-fetched for her to be Luke's daughter. Then the story becomes she discovers she has an uncle (if Han and Leia are together), she discovers she has an aunt, she discovers she has a father, she discovers mom is missing or dead, and she discovers she has a crazy brother or cousin.

 

Withe the title of Episode VII, what if somehow Rey turns out to be even more powerful than anyone could know? That could be one reason why Kylo is so nervous after probing her mind.