EW: The Last Jedi: Rey takes her first steps toward uncovering her family history

Yeah that's just one theory. This would not connect with that if she had dark side parents. There's still many ways for it to go, so I never hold on to one belief only.

 

Gee, I wonder why we do that?

Surprisingly absolutely nobody. LOL SMH. Anyway. One of the implications here (if Luke is indeed Rey's parent which I don't think he is now) is that good and evil seem to alternate skipping generations within House Skywalker.

Shmi - Good
Anakin - Bad
Luke - Good
Leia - Good
Kylo - Bad
Rey - ???

Well you see where this is going.

 

Great interview by RJ bringing up one of the most interesting topics.

 

I found this bit interesting: “There’s always room for bad people to make good decisions and vice versa. Again, that could be nothing to do with your parents and it could be everything to do with your parents.”

• Kylo's parents were good yet he chooses to do bad (antagonist).
• Rey's parents were .... and she chooses to do good (protagonist).

If Rey and Kylo are inversions of one another in this trilogy...ehhh, I suppose that might infer that Rey has Dark Side parents?

That, or maybe I should just stop reading into things and go and lie down.

 

I love watching these characters journey's plan out.

 

This says to me that Luke IS her father but she's not impressed with him and his reaction to her and how he treats her. She decides she has managed this far on her own, She doesn't need him as a father, only as a teacher' and this is the flashpoint / conflict between them through the Film.

'Ridley says Rey will ultimately find the answer - and discover that it doesn’t matter that much. It won’t change who she is, or at least who she wants to be.'

 

I think it is pretty clear now that Rey's lineage isn't Skywalker based. That story is Ren's. For Rey it is different and importantly so - as it shows how families can be created, that genetics are not all important.

For me the juxtaposition being set up is in Ren and Rey's backstory:
Ren comes from a family of light siders, heroes - but he turned his back on them.
Rey comes from a family of dark siders, but lives very much in the light and believes strongly in family.

The conflict will occur when Rey discovers who her family were and perhaps that Luke even destroyed them. And so her journey towards the Dark Side will occur exactly as Ren makes his way back to the light. They'll meet in the middle. Light and dark. Then what happens is anyones guess.

Personally, I hope they make out.

 

Finn has been programmed from birth. I wonder if that will play into things in TLJ? Change doesn't come easy and he doesn't wanna be on any side, so he must choose.

 

Well, when you put it that way....

I'm back to square one

 

I think she'll learn from Luke that having a dark side parent does not matter. Luke's father was Vader, but Luke and Leia remained good. Once she accepts that, she won't fear the darkness. Right now though she is in a very dark place and could channel that if she's not careful.

 

Ermaahgerd, the way you just put that beautifully (the bonding and understanding she and Luke will experience over both of their parents being Dark) makes me want her parents to be Dark even more!

 

So this proves she's not Skywalker? Woa 2 the Chosen Family.

Now Ep. 9 becomes predictable. Looks like Darth Emo survives this trilogy. Since he'll most likely be the only living Skywalker.


Then again we never scene a Wookiee pull arms out of sockets. Just saying. Oh & Plutt doesn't count, his grew back!

 

I think this article did gave us important information.Ok maybe its not fact but I have strong feeling about this:
Rey's parents are people of significance,they are not unimportant place holder characters,but "someone".
Since it will be strange to see retro scene which will explain Rey's parentage(lenghty scene about some people which never were or will be seen in the film after),I think we are very hot now that Rey's parents are known characters,or characters that will became known in TLJ.

 

I think one of the keys to Kylo and Rey is who is really Anakin's legacy.

Everyone thought that Luke should pass on what he learned to Ben. "That's sabre its mine." Especially Kylo. He was the heir apparent. He betrayed them all and is seeking a goal in line with Vader not with the redemption of that Luke brought to Vader. The force however is subverting all expectations. It seems to have chosen Rey, the sabre calls to her, brining Luke back falls to her.

Everyone is talking about Rey and Kylo as the balance of dark and light because they are oppositional parallels.
He's an aristocrat, she's a scavenge-to-eat peasant.
He grew up with any opportunity, she had to push for even the opportunity to live.
He seeks a destiny and power, she withdraws from it.
He has shunned his family, even betrayed them to achieve his goals, She has turned aside goals and any different life in order to keep a family that has been absent from her for years.

 

The more I read about it, the more I see Luke in the role of Snape and Rey in the role of Harry. Only difference is, Luke was supposed to watch over her, but had already given up because of Ben.

 

Yep I'd like that type of chemistry, It would show a new side of Luke, the loss of his order would play a part.

 

It would also connect with their implied relationship. She misses Han and Luke is making her feel unwanted. All she would need to learn is that he abandoned her and she would really be angry at Ren for killing Han at that point, as well as angry at him for her being left on Jakku.

One thing that keeps bothering me though is when she saw Ren stabbing that clan guy. If her parents were Dark, maybe he was killing them and her, but Ren stopped it since she was only 5/6. (he turned at 15/16, then they changed it to 23/24), and during that moment she escaped with her parents, who left her on Jakku and were then hunted down and killed most likely.

Luke who also left, could come back as Maz said, and her past and his are connected (him, Ben, what happened at the academy, the reason Ren was there when she was 5, etc...), so she could now find her belonging with Luke.

 

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Funny. That's all the proof I need that's she at least related.

 

I don't feel like anything in this article changes anything or does much more than some slight misdirection -

• We still have the filmmakers saying that her parents reveal will be "deeply satisfying" to fans.
• We still have Colin T saying that who she is will be revealed as important "to the whole galaxy" and has to tie up not just these 3 films but all 9.
• We still have JJ saying it was originally going to be in TFA but they bumped it to this film because one family reveal (Kylo is a Solo) was enough.
• We still have the filmmakers claiming this is the Skywalker Saga. And that Rey is the central protagonist.

The idea that her parents will be revealed as some random dark siders who Luke/Ben dispatched doesn't really jive with any of that.

Now, she may be a Kenobi, a Palpatine, a clone, reincarnated Anakin, a sith test tube on Jakku, or a secret Solo...or even still possibly a Skywalker.

But she's not nobody. They've built it up too far, for too long now, to have that be the result.

This talk of "it's important, but only to her for her own identity" is rubbish - they just want to fan the Random flames, so the reveal has as much punch as possible.