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

I'm still on the dark side theory

Having Kylo and Rey as cousins will turn the galaxy in a sitcom.

 

http://www.slashfilm.com/kathleen-kennedy-interview/2/ (December 17, 2015)

 

If anything, her being his daughter makes for a new and potentially interesting dynamic. We've done the traditional student/apprentice dynamic, TWICE over TWO trilogies. Been there done that basically. What we haven't done, is to have a parent/child Jedi dynamic. And it'd be an interesting one if done well.

Plus the problem with making her parents completely random, potentially, is that the audience has no emotional connection with them. We've never seen them before, they've never been referenced or hinted at, or anything like that, and the audience has no real reason to care about them or their fates as of yet. And if they're already dead, then there's even less so since they weren't apparently important enough to leave alive for the first movie even. So you need to build that connection from scratch, especially since REY doesn't know them herself either, and if that's the case, then they made it all the harder by essentially wasting the entire first movie. Because they told or showed us NOTHING related to these random parents. And if they say, wait until half way or even 2/3 of the way through Episode VIII in order to get to that, then instead of three movies to do this, you have like ONE, maybe one and a half. And given that there will most likely be multiple other plotlines/arcs that need resolved as well, you've made your job even harder still.

So basically I think that if they wanted to make her "Random," then doing it the way that they did in TFA was a mistake on their parts.

And really comparing it to Luke and Vader is, flimsy right now. It's a very different situation.

 

I thought the way that Star Wars Rebels handled the Ezra's parents storyline was completely terrible.

 

Yeah they could have done that better. And ironically, that's also proof of what could go wrong with the "Random" idea, if they don't execute it well.

 

Let me say why:

Spoiler

one episode, all of a sudden, hey we found Ezra's parents! Oh, and they were alive during all of the last season but they were in space jail and we didn't show them! Uh oh, by the way, they were killed off off-screen! And now they visit Ezra as Force ghosts or some crap that is not explained very well or fit the canon. Oh well.

 

Funny, I don't recall every waking moment of her life being video taped and put on the internet, but I do recall page after page of baseless speculation and far-fetched theories based on over-analyzing the most minute details over and over again.

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ok.

 

Interesting point. This mind interrogation seems to work on the strong-minded unlike previous mind tricks.

I agree and assume her to be a Skywalker too at this stage. But I do think the contrarians have a solid point when they mention how many heavily featured characters in the soap opera and promotional materials aren't Skywalkers.

 

I've said this in another thread a few minutes ago but keep Luke Skywalker "Luke Skywalker" and go that deep into him as I believe that we should be making a NEW character like that in the future without being so crazy about it .

 

Thank you Moral Hazard .

 

This is one of Pablo Hidalgo's favorite punching bag topics of mocking in addition to mocking Snoke/Plagueis.

https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet....lker-children-of-solo.3211/page-2#post-258962

 

I can't understand what he's getting at half the time, but the past hour he seems to indicate that the person Rey was waiting for on Jakku is not Han or Luke. That Maz wouldn't say that the person she's waiting is never coming back when he could be upstairs (Han) and it can't be Luke because she was talking about two different people, one who is not coming back (Rey's parents?) and one who might (Luke).

 

The whole conversation has kind of degenerated into gibberish. I can barely comprehend what he's trying to say and not say. I'm trying to think of a way to make a note of it without messing it up.

Pablo Hidalgo: "I think what Maz says to Rey about the belonging she seeks says a lot. But I guess that requires believing Maz." (March 4, 2016) "And that the person she's waiting for is never coming back. Would it make sense if Maz meant someone who's upstairs?" (March 4, 2016) "Oh, I was addressing Daisy's claim of it being obvious...." (March 4, 2016) "But, as far as Luke goes, Maz says the person she's waiting for is never coming back. But there is one who still might." (March 4, 2016) "So, yeah, two separate people in Maz's words." (March 4, 2016) ) "[is this person never coming back or ?] Maz seems to think that. How much weight do you give her words?" (March 5, 2016)

The only thing I think we're supposed to get is that Maz is trying to convince Rey that her ultimate belonging has nothing to do with family, it's instead with the Jedi. The Jedi are where she belongs. That's why Rey goes to Luke at the end of the movie instead of running back to Jakku to wait for her family.

 

And Pablo said something to the effect of...if we even believe Maz. So I think it's likely that Maz doesn't even know who Rey's parents are. Nor does she care. But she's encouraging her to follow the path of the jedi.

 

Star Wars is poetry that rhymes dontcha know, so Rey will be a Kenobi whose mentor is a Skywalker. The films will still be primarily about the Skywalker family, Luke will be in all three and take centre stage from now on. Six films for Luke and six for Anakin.

On the other hand, Ahch-to means big or great(Vietnamese) Brother(Hebrew) and is an anagram of achoth, another Hebrew word meaning blood sister or female relative.

 

Daisy has stated she knows who her parents are... this was after she read the script for episode 8.

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Not sure about this claim. The polls on the two major threads about this question the majority is firmly in the "Rey is Luke's daughter" camp.

 

Looks like Han is out as Rey's father

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/daisy-ridley-opens-up-harrison-7498996#ICID=sharebar_twitter