SPECULATION OFFICIAL Rey Discussion Thread

What do you mean by "clean?"

 

Not very odd. We likely won't see Rey's mom at all on screen unless it turns out to be Leia

 

Agree..

Just mention Mara is all we need

 

In the flashback Rey was taken to Jakku by her parents after the Clan was attacked by the KOR. Well, according to the MSW script anyway. So I would expect to see her, whomever she might be- but more so if she is Luke's wife because otherwise we will have no clue who she is.

To me, however, that whole flashback sequence was really quite long. I'd be surprised if all of it is in the movie, anyway. I guess I just wouldn't cut out the part where Rey is abandoned by her parents as that point seems rather critical.

 

Yes please on Mara Jade

 

from watching all the trailers lol.. /also Han makes most sense. Not Luke, he wouldn't break the jedi code, he was busy training then went in hiding... Where was the romance?

 

Just nit picking. Loved (most) everything so far. Somehow Rey's dialogue on the AMA clip sticks out to me - not ideal for ADR to draw attention to itself.

John's intonation sounded panicked and delivery a little out of breath. Daisy's delivery sounds too tidy (to me). Not a 'devoid of fx, distortion, phasing, noise' kind of clean but 'performance sounds clinical' clean. I know the audience needs to hear the dialogue clearly but listening to that particular take the character could be sitting down in small room delivering lines - not running for her life in the desert sun.

Skywalker MD mentioned Rey & ADR and I know some people have trouble with the cadence of Daisy's accent. Like you, I hesitate to blame the talent, the directors (producers I guess for most non-film audio) are accountable for performance and anyway there could be 10 different takes sitting behind each other. Seems odd though, nit pick...nit pick...nit pick

 

The flashback sequence does not say anything about Rey being dropped off on Jakku by her parents. That was something dropped on the podcast that a "source" told Randy (the host of the show). There is a lot unknown at this point about Rey's family. I don't think we will actually see Rey dropped off on Jakku. It will likely will be implied. The family Rey is waiting for is likely not her true parents. If Rey is Luke's daughter we liked won't see mom unless she is one of the clan and is cut down by the KOR then we might get a very short glimpse of her in the flashback.

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The flashback sequence is the part of MSW stuff that is the most unclear and likely the part of the film that my vary the most from what they think. We will just have to see how it plays out.

 

Depending on if it was released before Picture-Lock, it was most likely what wasn't a part of the finalized version and just what there was to work with at the time, it happens all the time so we should judge based on story and not quality until we see The Picture-Locked Version z

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I will be shocked to see a flashback because it doesn't fit into "The a Star Wars Norm."

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Luke wouldn't know the entirety of The Jedi acids, and being trained by ghosts sounds a tad farfetched even in SW terms, heck, Kenobi never directly trained Luke after he died, with an ALIVE Yoda training Luke, as reluctantly as he seemed .

 

I certainly hope so because even with context added I have a hard time seeing how the kind of circumstances described there would make for a particularly good backstory... There are so many other, simpler backstories, especially if it's gonna be revealed in one brief sequence via Maz's powers.

Sources here have said there is "definitely" a flashback to the end of the Bespin duel, something I think MSW hasn't brought up ever? It has me hoping/expecting some surprises with Maz's flashback sequence.

 

Any good character has flaws. That way we are shown how they grow and overcome them. We've seen Finns flaws, we've even know a bit of Poes flaws from the readers; he leaps before he thinks. What do you guys think Reys flaws are? Is she quick to anger? Reluctant to join the fight? I'd be interested to know what you guys think.

 

Luke's wife ok, BTW welcome to the cantina.

 

That may be true about where they got that info on Rey's parents- honestly I find the MSW site very hard to navigate so it's possible I don't know exactly where they got what!
Anyway, I agree about the flashback sequence being very unclear. Plus, the focus of it seems to shift- is it about Rey? The lightsaber? Both? There's clearly a lot that we don't know, but it does seem far too complicated for a technique that has not been used before in Star Wars. I think they'll leave out much of it, but given the comment (in that recent interview with KK) about the "Force Back" and the Knights of Ren plus the shot we've seen of them standing in the rain, I think we'll see where Rey is attacked and why she has to be hidden away. Maybe that's all we really need to see.

 

She is a hoarder thats why her profession is a junk scavanger, her trailer is full of junk and whisperkits (thats star wars for cats).

 

If she's a Skywalker then I would have to say impatience and quick tempered. That IS something I have to George credit for the prequels, the way he showed Anakin's impatience. That's a trait I had forgotten about Luke; because he was the exact same way!

 

I was going to say trigger-happy, but you have a nicer way of putting it.
Combining the Skywalker impatience with being left to fend for one's self could lead to a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. She went all medieval on that fellow in the marketplace, and he wasn't even a Stormtrooper. Wasn't he just after BB8?

 

Are you kidding? You know how much these new Astromech droids cost nowadays?!!! Shoot, Rey wasn't going to lose that money!!!

 

In this type of situation, they tend to not show the face of the character or just mention the character without showing them because they anticipate that they will want to cast someone famous for the part later on, but obviously if they have a famous person show up for a 2 second cameo, the audience is already clued in to their plans and it does take you out of the movie. The most obvious recent example is the mom in Ant-Man, who appears in a photograph without her face shown and in a flashback with her helmet on. Or Starlord's father who is briefly mentioned and who will probably be a big character in the sequel (and most likely is the role Matthew McConaughey turned down, so they are going for A-listers).

Not to mention, the studio gets more mileage out of the buzz surrounding who they will cast vs. the initial 'wow __ has a cameo in this movie' reaction.

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You can also tell which side has the most momentum based on the trends of the fake "i've seen the movie" spoilers on reddit since they tend to hop on the bandwagons. I think almost everyone was predicting Rey Solo up until the MSW detailed outline leaked, which seemed way too far removed from a Rey Solo scenario that wouldn't be eye roll inducing. Personally, the scene that kicked me off predicting Rey Solo was the Kylo/Han confrontation, which imo, if Rey is part of that immediate family, she should be in the scene with them and not hanging out in the back with Finn. A lot of stuff since then has added to it but that was the first thing that jumped out at me .

 

Except they might have changed Mara Jade's name to something else....

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Could be...I don't know either actress very well or if they are the same person. Only thing I do know is straight on Kate Fleetwood's face seems wider at the jaw line..but again I don't know. maybe the black on the sides makes her appearance different.

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Oh also as an aside if they show Rey being dropped off and also if indeed Luke is shown doing it perhaps his wife already dead...or perhaps when they show Luke and R2D2... Or even if Rey isn't part of that at all....if what people are referring to happened after ROTJ it is indeed not a flashback to quote Obi Wan from a certain point of view. If it shows...whatever or the battle of Jakku at the beginning of the film...then says 27 years later on Jakku etc. Just a thought.

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Here are two side by sides... As I said above not sure perhaps this lady is Kate Fleetwood...playing Bazine Netal.

 

I don't actually think that Rey was dropped off on Jakku by her parents.
Though that's wild speculation on my part.
Someone obviously dropped her off and then told her she would be picked up again.
Now, the question is: where these her parents, friends of her parents or someone else entirely who just wanted her complacent.

I'd think the last. Someone grabbed her, possibly with the intention to sell her to whoever it is that might have an interest in Force sensitive children and when the trail got too hot, dropped her off to pick her up later.
WHich obviously never happened, if the good guys perhaps caught up with them and killed them and never found out what happened to their Baby gurrl.

Also: WHOEVER START "MAH, BABY GURRL!" I hate you!!!!!!!!! I can't write about Rey, without that crap invading my mind