SPECULATION How important is it to you, that Rey is a Skywalker/Solo?

I want ReySky, or ReySolo, but I will be ok...as long as the story IS GOOD.

Kenobi, Palps, Chosen One reincarnation, Dark Side experiment...I'm game for any/all of it.

I do agree with Randomers that if she's NOT blood...she will in effect be "adopted" by Luke and carry on the tradition. And that can have some very interesting story dynamics as well..

The only thing that would suck donkey balls would be if she was truly "Rey Random", able to force pull, do Jedi-mind tricks, pilot, and defeat the trained grandson of Darth Vader (albeit injured)...just because girl power.



As long as it makes sense story-wise...I'm up for a good time.

 

I just hang around the Rey thread these days and I don't feel safe informing an opinion. I love Daisy as an actress and I love Rey as a character so it does not bother me what her last name is. I just want her to have a fantastic story. A story which is respectful to the trilogy and respectful to the character without agenda setting. I just want to see Daisy shine, not just in star wars but in all her projects.

 

She will.She is a natural.JJ Abrams notice that.Best choice ever....

 

It's not just about what the reveal of Rey's backstory does for Rey, it's about what it does to the other major and legacy characters that appear in the story.

 

ReySky or we riot!!!!!

Seriously, Random is the most disappointing outcome.

 

Agree to disagree.

 

I agree that u have the right to say what every u want though I think the name Rey Skywalker is just to right 2 be rong!

 

I hope she is a Skywalker. Would be a little disappointed if she is not, but as long as it fits the story I'll be happy.

 

It's somewhat important to me that she is neither.

I'd appreciate having an outsider thrust into the lives of the Solo and Skywalker families.

But like everyone has already said, I just want an intriguing story.

 

I don't know why they would say the ST is a "continuation of the Skywalker story" if she wasn't. But it's more important to me that she's related to SOMEONE we know from previous movies. Having her be this new character with some random parents doesn't sit well with me if she's going to be the main focus of an entire trilogy.

 

Imagine say if things were slightly diffrent. Say if in TESB meets but instead of an old fellow, he's younger, stronger & basically takes over the rest of the story. That's how I'd feel about a Rey Random.

 

One of the great things about discussing Star Wars is seeing how people's opinions and hopes for how these film pan out are shaped by our backgrounds in becoming fans.

I very much hope she will be a Skywalker or a Solo (although by seeing TFA surely a longer shot) pretty much because if she isn't it will run contrary to how I always viewed the state of the Star Wars universe during the OT:-

"That boy was our last hope"
"No, there is another"

For me that meant the hopes of the last of the Jedi at that point lay with Luke and Leia. That seemed like the real stakes at that time, not that some other Jedi could just pop up "randomly" elsewhere, within a generation. If the characters of Obi-Wan and Yoda, as written at that time, could even have perceived the events of TFA taking place without Rey being a Skywalker (and just being a "random") I don't think that dialogue would exist...

Going forward to the EU and subsequently the PT times that concept of Jedi being a dying breed itself seems to die out and force sensitives / jedi can spring up anywhere - the jedi purge becomes a more temporary issue. Yet Lucas still raises the importance of the Skywalkers by elevating Anakin's turning away from the dark side and destroying Palpatine as the eventual fulfillment of a longstanding jedi prophecy.

So, for me, if Rey "balances" Kylo, the ying to his yang, and it transpires that they are not cut from the same cloth then that seriously undermines both my feelings on the OT and what Lucas aimed for with the PT. If however they are related and opposed force-wise that still upholds the bringing balance to the force, whilst allowing the ST to exist without trampling over what came before.

Purely my own personal perspective though, as per my opening paragraph I appreciate it's all very subjective and that others may believe it just as important to them that she isn't a Skywalker...

 

Yes yes! To Daft Fader you listen!

Basically......

That boy was are only hope.

No. A random person will come in about 31 years.

 

Skywalker or not, doesn't excuse that force b******t. She's already running on girl power.

That's if you assume that Rey is another chosen one. She may just be Luke's protege and eventually his successor not his replacement.

 

I keep hearing writers asking themselves "what best serves the story" when making narrative decisions. I guess that puts me in the option 2 camp.

Obi-Wan doesn't care either...

Spoiler: Language Warning

Inside Valims head?

 

That's how I voted as well.

Any other reason that serving the story is simply a bad decision.

Fox made Mystique the lead of the X-Men films when Jennifer Lawrence became HUGE.
Problem is, Mystique is honestly a lame-ass character who was best used as a plot device like in the first X-Men flicks.
As a central arc, it forced her to the middle which sucked and made for a weak story.
Didn't help that Larewnce felt "better than" the X films and royally mailed it in for Apocalypse...

But when you make decisions for a star and not the story...

Fox then did it right by making X-23 a super bad ass little girl. Awesome empowerment and all that blast. But it was natural. It fit the story and made things better. It hit the right notes, a father and daughter...that's a special bond. Just ask Liam Neeson and all those guys he killed...

Paramount is trying to do it in the new Transformers and it looks forced and awkward. It's not for the story, it's for the "vogue" little girl empowerment movement.

Part of the problem with BvS was too many decisions were made to placate egos or silly things...not the story.

How this is still a problem, I do not know.

 

I sometimes wish that a franchise screenplay should be made to work well outside of the specific universe and then be further bolstered by some of the "fan servicey" elements and easter eggs (which I often enjoy - when they work and don't seem contrived). Maybe less - or at least the less obvious - is certainly more in the "fan service" arena IMO. Somehow I don't think my theory of adapting an already existing screenplay to a franchise universe would always necesarily work in the real world though.

The fact these franchises still struggle to reconcile a good movie with the pressures of moneyed interests and fan expectations probably shows it is harder to do than it might look. I once heard Hollywood (with it's obsession with broad appeal, focus groups and return on investment) described as "a speeding car with the driver's eyes firmly fixed in the rear-view mirror"!

Maybe there is no fix and we've just got to temper our expectations when we throw money at artists and just accept the inevitable odd dud? Reality bites!