Luke Skywalker's Wife?

We have to deal with the fact that some people are never happy whatever.

 

Agree.

 

The way I see it if I were Luke, I wouldn't shut myself out completely to love. I get why the old Jedi ways didn't allow themselves to take on a wife and have children of their own. But what's the use of not having any children and not be able to pass down the teachings of the Jedi? Sure Anakin destroyed it all from a certain point of view but his story was different when he had to hide his relationship with Padme from the Jedi. If the Jedi didn't shut themselves out completely to love and been blinded by following the code so faithfully, Anakin would not have had to hide anything and been vulnerable to being seduced by Palpatine in the first place. Whether or not he tried to do his duty to follow the jedi code, Anakin already was having a hard time keeping those he cared about from dying, especially his mother. If I were him, I would have tried to follow advice to save my wife whether or not the Jedi council could be any helpful. There being a Jedi code to begin with, to me, is just a guide in case one found themselves straying off the path of the Jedi ways but it doesn't necessarily mean that they had to follow it to a T.

When we get to TFA, the Jedi code - if there is one still to follow but just because one existed before his time doesn't necessarily mean that Luke has to follow it to a degree. And I hope Rey doesn't trap herself where she decides to shut herself out of love for someone and possibly start a family of her own someday. Luke and Rey are compassionate individuals, depending on how you look at them. Luke had compassion for his father and believed the only way to save him and bring him back to the good side was through love. Rey is compassionate for others but while she was hesitant to help BB-8 and then Finn, she begins to actually care about them. When she meets Han and even though their time spending to get to know each other was short, Rey considers him as a father figure she never had. Seeing her reaction to his death hits her to the core when she screams no and has tears in her eyes. Goes to show she really cared about Han and it'll be a loss that will take time to get over. She shows compassion for Finn even towards the end before she departs to find Luke.

As for love, well I dunno...depends on what happens in the next two episodes. It'll be interesting though. Rey was an emotional wreck after witnessing someone she felt close to getting murdered in front of her. Her line when she says "You're a monster!" strikes me because that is how she feels about Kylo, especially when he says "Han Solo can't save you now." It is hard to tell at this point if Rey will feel any kind of compassion and or love for the man who was once Ben Solo. I think Ben is too far gone to be redeemed by Rey and I can't see her doing that for someone who killed his own father in front of her when Rey looked up to Han as a mentor/father figure she never had. I bet at this point, she is more disappointed with Ben than what Ben said to her about Han being a disappointment to her in the interrogation scene. But that doesn't mean she should cut herself off on love. I'll be fine if she doesn't have a love interest but never say never, right?

 

The thing is, one of Rey's BIGGEST character traits is her desperately wanting/needing family, love, companionship, and a place to belong. Because she's never had it. It's why she latches onto Finn, Han, Chewie, BB-8, and likely Leia so quickly. They represent what Maz was telling her "the belonging you seek is not behind you, it is ahead." So to turn around and force (no pun intended) her to voluntary give that all up and be alone just to be a "proper" Jedi would just be depressing, and regressive to her character and the franchise as a whole.

Luke has little to no reason to believe in/follow the "no attachments" rule, and Rey even less (as in ZERO). And one of the things that I want to see out of the ST is a new JO that is more flexible, does things differently, and is guided more by whatever knowledge Luke and/or Rey gain on their journey's.

Plus the idea that she can be an awesome Jedi doing awesome Jedi things, and helping people, while also having a family (and yes perhaps even children in the future, if she wishes) is something that kind of appeals to me. It's something that we haven't gotten to see much of, a Jedi with a stable home/family life, and it'd be refreshing imo. And while they don't NEED to go here imo, if they CHOOSE to, then they've laid a solid foundation for it between her and Finn.

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

Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most important and powerful women in Hollywood right now. She's also been married for almost 39 years and has two children. And society has pushed the idea, for the last few decades at least, that women can have it all. You CAN have a successful career AND have family if you wish, and KK is living proof of that (though certainly not the only one).

So I could also see her wanting to push that idea to young women/girls with Rey (not sure 100%, but I could see it). You DON'T automatically have to sacrifice one in order to have the other.

 

Exactly! That is how I feel when it comes to Rey and her future. She can love all she wants without having to sacrifice the other. I hope Rey does eventually in the long term finds that belonging more as she progresses further in her life. I hope we'll get to see how she'll come into her own and teaches her family (if and when she eventually does settle down) what she has learned through Luke.

 

Being a jedi would imply that you would have the exact same behaviour with your own family than a with a pirate or a perfect random.

This kind of wiseness is not easy to reach.