SPECULATION Is Luke Rey's Father? - The Evidence For and Against

Her name is Kira. Remember me when you learn the truth in episode VIII plebs

 

I understand what you mean about the difficult questions being raised. In terms of Rey being Luke's Daughter, In TFA it has been set as both a very possible and a very unlikely thing. That being said difficult question don't mean impossible. Also think about this ... Twist. How many times in a story has some been sold to you and then you find out that was completely wrong. Or in a tv murder show, when you're trying to guess the murder and you're wrong until the very end. Such is the case with Rey Skywalker. There is enough evidence for and against to guess wrong either way.

 

Rey being Luke's daughter is definitely a possibility. The problem is with the execution of the backstory. I only see two possibilities that really work. The first being that Luke knows he had a daughter but she is assumed dead at a very young age (that way she has no idea Luke is real). The second being Luke had a child he was unaware of. Once again his would reasonably allow Rey not to know that Luke is not a myth.

By making her random it opens up tons of possibilities about her backstory. The sagas are about the Skywalkers and with Luke in it and taking a prominent role it still is. That is not to mention Kylo. That being said, at some point the saga films will have to move away from the Skywalker brand or I fear they may start to become stale. By making Rey a new character you have a new bloodline that all the new legions of SW fans can latch onto like we did when we were kids and take SW in new directions as far as stories go. She would still be a link to the Skywalkers of she becomes a great Jedi trained by Luke.

I will be ok if she ends up Luke's daughter (or Han and Leia's for that matter). I just hope that if she is it is done well. I have faith in the Story Group and am interested to see how this all plays out.

 

If Luke in unaware he has a daughter and Rey doesn't remember her childhood, how do they recover memory they don't have ?

 

We don't know what she remembers of her childhood. We do know she has no clue Luke is a real person. Just because she doesn't know who her Mom is. She could tell Luke about what she remembers and he could put 2 and 2 together when he realizes he had a relationship with her mother.

 

I think this wont happen because people are modelling Ep VII with the former episodes and I think this trilogy is gonna take different steps. No family twist, no redemption, all those things have been already made. JJ took some ANH stuff because there was a long time since the last movie and people needed to get their marks back but this trilogy will be much different.

 

They could also search their feelings and the force to get a clue then have a DNA test. lol. Must be a med droid somewhere.

 

I hope so. I'm just stating the two paths they could reasonably go if they make Luke her father

 

Obviously these two paths are unlikely, it's not very creative.

 

Luke could be her dad and we might not find out till episode XX. He may lie to her or hide it from her like OB1 did as well.

 

Mark Hamill wont last so long.

 

Luke could end up in a suit with a rebreather and any actor could be Luke like his father before him.

 

I think we both agree that there is a lot more creative freedom if they go with Rey Random

 

On some levels yes. But excluding the possibility of one story is also constricting on creativity. I would also like to to add that you could argue Making Luke her father would need more creativity given all the questions that brings. making the plot believable and not cheesy would take a lot of creativity. Honestly I would like it if She was Luke's daughter, but I am open to her being a random player. I just feel that that would be a little anticlimactic if they but all this mystery around her and then she is just another person, not related to anyone or have any significance to previous plots. Let me clarify I don't think she has to be a blood relative of someone to have significance. but I do think that there needs to be something that sets her apart profoundly from any other character if she is going to be just another character in the Galaxy with out any relation or tie to older characters or stories.

 

I don't think Luke is Rey's father.

One very interesting note however, is when Rey finds Luke's saber in Kanata's castle.

Maz says ''Whomever you're waiting for on Jakku, are never coming back....but, there is someone who still could''

Rey says ''Luke''

Is Maz implying that Luke knew her? or was on Jakku? because she is basically saying someone is coming back, meaning they've been there before.

 

Luke has been missing. The whole point to the movie to this point is trying to find Luke to bring him back. Maz is encouraging her to seek out her destiny. She is telling her not to go back to Jakku and waist her life waiting on people who will never come back for her but to accept her destiny, take the saber and find Luke. Luke can come back from hiding out, train her and help save the Galaxy.

 

How would Maz know if Rey had ever known Luke or not?

 

Exactly... one of the more annoying aspects of the debate about that scene is the idea the Maz knows more than we do. There's nothing in that scene to suggest that she knows Rey's parents. Maz is a force user who recognizes the force in Rey (and maybe in Finn).