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

Well, for a general audience, the Skywalker origin still can be surprising, as TFA led us to think that she's not Luke's daughter. She knows Luke as a legend and she calls him by name. It all can be another 'rhyme' to the OT. In ANH the audience was told that Luke's father's dead. In the next movie: surprise, he's not. We can have it the same way in the Ep8. TFA: Luke's not her father. Ep8: surprise, he is. For hardcore fans it'd be obvious of course, for general audience - not. However, i don't know if i was happy if it were the case that's why i voted 'Undecided' in that poll.

 

There's a few reasons why I don't believe she is Luke's daughter.

First one being- Way too obvious. That kind of a lack of surprise element within this trilogy is not winning.

2nd- I believe whomever left Rey with Unkar Plutt did so by selling her, since no one in their right mind would have left her with such a ruthless trader. She may have even been traded for the ship she saw in her force vision leave.

Lastly, I believe that lightsaber 'calling' is not necessarily a family calling but more so to 'the chosen one', A.K.A- Anakin, then as Yoda and Obi wan discuss 'The last hope' Luke, Then Yoda says 'No, there is another'... Leia? Maybe. We do see in the trailer, from a now deleted scene in The Force Awakens, Leia receiving the Lightsaber from Maz Kanata.

If not, then Yoda may have meant, while seeing a force vision from the future ... Rey.

 

If it was Luke's daughter, they would have let her with Lor San Tekka not Unkar Plutt. They're on the same planet.

 

But then you will be actually suprised if she is a skywalker I'm going to hang out in the Benicio Del Torro thread now. #notthrawn

 

hahaha ~ surprised? no. irritated? probably. Rey's parentage has become like a bad rash.

good luck with the #notthrawn. i got no pony in that race either and i'm staying out of the viii threads for the most part.

--- Double Post Merged, Feb 17, 2016, Original Post Date: Feb 17, 2016 ---

i think i said this before, but i had the exact same experience:
i was convinced she was Luke's daughter, but after watching the movie all those preconceptions fell apart.

 

I'm going to turn it into the official Spanish fan fiction thread. Del Torro is a faun. I called it!

 

Not that is type casting. "Is it like I a look like this a villain I must play ze villain?"

 

if he wasn't into men, i'd say he'd be a good candidate for Sinjir Rath Velus: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sinjir_Rath_Velus

but i'm just grasping.

 

he got frisky in his old age? hahaha

 

This is getting ridiculous. Every time a character appears he had to be linked to somebody. Snoke, Plagueis. Finn, Lando, Rey, Luke, BDT, Thrawn. As if the galaxy ended 30 years ago.

 

This is all IMHO of course, but the way I see it...

While it is WAY too early to call it, I don't think Rey is Luke's daughter. There is NO plot twist material in a big reveal of Ray being Luke's daughter; at best that will spark a wave of shrugs - "ok, so what?" Obviously LFL/Disney is being ambigious and mysterious about Rey's background, but there is no reason why Rey has to be Luke's daughter. Actually, it is almost as if 'they' refrain from stating outright that she isn't just to leave the "she might be Luke's child" in as the "obvious" option, only to shockingly reveal she descends from someone else later.

All the "ST continuing the Skywalker story" and "You have that power too" hints are, IMHO, directed at/realized by Ben Solo. HE is the descendent of Anakin, the chosen one with the force bacteria count off the scale.

My guess is,
either, a) Rey's backstory is completely unrelated to anything else, she's just some force sensitive girl that heard about/trained under Luke and has potential (although this is not very satisfying story-wise);
or, b) she's a descendent of Obi-Wan <-- this is my guess, as to me Rey pushes ALL the Kenobi-in-ANH buttons in TFA;
OR, c) she's someone elses child entierly - someone we don't suspect, like... I dunno... Palpatine or something. That would be VERY strange indeed, but good writers can make anything work. (Still, my money is definitelly on "Rey Kenobi").

 

Uses jedi mind tricks, hears the voice(s) of Obi-Wan during her vision.
Ding-ding-ding
She's a Kenobi.

 

also, accents are hereditary. hahaha