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

This is deep thinking.

As if a story can be good or not for such a detail.

 

Rey being the granddaughter of Palpy serves no purpose other than to humanize Palpatine, why do such a thing?
It would make the wonderfully evil Emperor sympathetic, boo I say

If Rey's identity will be profoundly satisfying then it could only mean she's Luke's kid.

 

This issue is absolutely tied to the story to come. Moving forward is more interesting than having this family issue over and over again.

It depends of people, we talked about that a lot but Rey being Luke's kid is throwing the lore under the bus to satisfy an audience.

Not sure this is how you build a good story. It would mean you have not much to tell just copy / paste the OT.

 

Disney has said that the Star Wars is about the Skywalker Family. If Rey is not a Skywalker, then she is less central of a character of this story and it's main theme's and direction will be more about Luke, Leia and Kylo.

I did not get the feeling that Rey's Role would be a supporting one, rather that her role is central to the Trilogy along with Luke, Leia and Kylo.

Rey is most certainly a member of Anakin Skywalker's family.

 

Your insight serves you well.

 

What if as a consequence of what happens to both Rey and Luke she is called by him "daughter" and essentially becomes a Skywalker?

 

So where's the point of secrecy ? And by all means forbid the actors to talk about that ?

I mean, they spoiled it even before the movie was released ?

 

Because people talk about it more like this.
This thread is 300 pages long.

I'd bet the episode thought to have contained Rey = Kenobi hints was probably one of the most watched Rebels eps.

 

Little Rey was played by Cailey Fleming from Mississippi. She doesn't have an English R.P. accent, her accent doesn't match Daisy Ridley's.

Pablo Hidalgo, Lucasfilm Story Group:
“Aren’t 40% of the Rey parentage theories dependent on accents being genetic? ” (April 2, 2016)
“I don’t think accents are inherited.” (January 18, 2017) “[Then where do accents come from?] The accent faerie?” (January 19, 2017)
“[I’m worried I’m going deaf, young Rey is speaking in a British and not American accent right?] Does she have enough dialog to hear it? The actress is American because the bit was shot very late in the US.” (November 11, 2016) “[She says ‘no, come back, no!’ I’d say maybe enough? What you think?] Not if she’s shrieking it.” (November 11, 2016)
“[Young Rey has no accent, did she learn her accent from Unkar Plutt/Simon Pegg?] That’s remarkably plausible and thought out.” (January 22, 2017)

 

And this makes me speechless.

 

That they would feign secrecy just to drive interest and hype?

 

No, the Rebels episode thing especially when there was nothing in it.

 

Oh of course there's nothing there. But the mere THOUGHT that something might be drove hype for that episode through the roof.

That's brilliant marketing by the Mouse and LFL

 

Rey's memory...can't consciously recall from when she was very little
Rey's first name...not originally Rey
Rey's last name...not originally blank/nothing
Rey's accent...not originally space R.P. English

Gee I wonder what the story reason could be for such ideas.

 

I think the story has a coherent logic which only operates on information provided by the other 6 movies. An audience should be able to identify Rey's parentage by means of reference to the stuff which happens in the enclosed space of the movies. Otherwise, nothing would make sense. Not only did Episode VII provide enough information to determine who Rey's parents are, when it is combined with the attributes of the main characters of the previous movies (Anakin, Luke) it becomes even more clear for the audience. If you use the Skywalker attributes for a new character and then decide that character is not a Skywalker after all it would indeed all be a red herring. It would also nullify everything we were intended to know about Skywalkers in the previous movies.

 

i just asked someone in the office to slap me for saying this.. but i don't disagree with you my friend.

going into TFA and the talk of 'a new trio' and snippets of 'passing the baton' here and there.. i certainly expected things to go that way.
For the first 40+ minutes of the first viewing, i maintained that thought and believed that Rey was a (fantastic) brand new unrelated character.

it wasn't until she found the light saber that i changed my mind. I know that we all differ with these scenes - and for that we can certainly thank JJ, as that's his bag.. it's what he does.

Where i am currently is that Rey's real name is a secret for a reason. Whether she is a Skywalker/Kenobi/Palpatine/Smithers.. whatever, it seems to me that between the film and things said before and after TFA.. who she is, is important.

Daisy recently said that she thought it was 'obvious' who Rey was from the film. I'm not against the idea of her being a brand new character, but that's just not something she would say if who Rey's parents are isn't a big deal. She of course knows the truth... so she is seeing TFA vastly differently from us minions, but even so i'm not getting how she could be unrelated to an existing family.

I agree wholeheartedly that her character is strong enough to be unrelated to anyone we know, and i 100% believe that the story would still be awesome if they veered away from the story of Anakin.

I just don't think that's happening in this trilogy. I think Disney are dipping their feet in slowly with Star Wars, and they will stick to the Skywalker family soap opera until episode 9 is done.