Rey Solo

Yeah, I think she's Kylo's sister. There were just too many clues in the movie:

Spoiler: Why I Think She's Rey Solo

1) The cave scene with a woman with Leia's hairdo.
2) Kylo connecting repeatedly with Rey telepathically. I think that Snoke was lying about doing the connecting for them.
3) Both Kylo and Rey having equal Force power.
4) Plus, Rey is not in love with Kylo. She loves Finn. It was VERY obvious in the movie when she told Chewbacca to tell Finn something, and then Finn was the first person she hugged when the resistance was reunited. Finn was very obviously in distress about where Rey was.
5) I think that Kylo was lying to Rey about her parents. I think that "junk traders" refers to Han's profession. I think that Rey was lying to Kylo about who her parents were, too.

 

As I mentioned earlier, I abandoned the Solo line of thinking, but your thoughts are interesting. My response to your points.

1-I had that initial thought to that shadow as well.
2-I can't remember, but didn't they have a connective moment late in the film, after he left the scene?
3-Doesnt indicate a family relationship one way or the other, but I think it would be more compelling if they did.
4-I don't think that is relevant.
5-I suspect Kylo was lying to manipulate her, whether that means he doesn't know or he does I cannot say.

 

After watching the Force Awakens I really wanted to subscribe to Ray being Kylos Twin/Sibling and despite it being a little floored from casting alone, I wouldn't of minded if they had ham-fisted their way down that path in The Last Jedi.

After watching TLJ I too felt like Kylo was lying and there were lots of things prior that felt like they were hinting at a family connection...but now on reflection, i'm not sure. I do think that Ray has been created to be a totally new character. When Kylo mentioned Rays heritage and her "not belonging in the story" or however it went, I believe that just confirmed that this trilogy is the last of the Skywalker line and its approaching the end.

The scene with the little boy at the end, to me reaffirms the end of the Skywalker heritage and hints at the endless possibility the galaxy has with the telling of new stories. There is a theory that scene acts as a possible avenue for Johnsons new trilogy but I highly doubt it. I think if anything with Ray being a 'nobody' paired with the ending scene just sets up a platform of Ray continuing her journey in the Star Wars universe out side of this trilogy. Disney has made it no secret that they plan to continue doing films for years to come and I see this as the first building blocks in developing things past episode 9.

 

I really wanted to come here and admit, proudly, that I was right or wrong about Rey Solo. But I'm still realing at the amount of terrible moments in that film

RJ, I want to flog him. And LFL for greening lighting all that cheap jokes it what should have been classy SW moments.

 

Do you have a BDSM fetish, by any chance?

 

I don't think Kylo has to be lying in order to necessarily be wrong. It could be a Snoke manipulation. Or Kylo could in fact be seeing only a part of Rey's life after she was dumped on Jakku. She may have been abducted from her real family then left on Jakku. If these losers will do anything for money, someone could have just given them $ to take Rey in. Then this couple eventually sold her off when they needed more.

 

Oh jeez the state of this thread.

 

A couple of things I did notice is that, correct me if I'm wrong, is in Rey's "hall-of-mirrors" scene where she asks to see her parents, we see two shadows (one tall and one short) and as they get closer they merge into one. You had Han (tall) and Leia (short) so two parents, and then Han died which made it one.

Also, the way Ren told Rey about her parents was almost like he's talking about HIS. It's like saying "You want to know about your parents? Fine. Your parents were nothing but a couple of lowlifes who didn't give two cents about you so they gave you up."

Plus, the way Leia talked about Rey having the homing beacon so she could find her way home was said with loving affection and the way she rested her hand on top of Rey's at the end??

 

Well I was wrong about it being revealed in The Last Jedi. How subversive. Perhaps they think they needed 4 years for the reveal like it took 3 years for Luke to get his reveal. Perhaps they've put Rey on the Leia ROTJ reveal track instead of the Luke TESB track. I still think what I've posted before has value but a lot of opportunity has been squandered with this movie and the loss of Carrie Fisher. I'm not going to press the issue as the rest of the movie beyond this aspect left a lot of bad taste in my mouth.

 

ROTFLMFAO

 

So you still think Rey is a Solo? Come on... The movie showed and told you the truth. Rey is a nobody and she even admits it herself. It would be bad storytelling to change that and make a twist out of it in IX.

This scene was there to show her (and the audience) that she never had parents. She was her own parent. Therefore the two shadows became one.

 

It is useless to speculate, there is no speculation to be done in this trilogy.

We made the plot ourselves because there is none ...

 

Omg this thread needs to die. Its as plain as plain can be, She isn't a solo. Stop trying to subvert two films worth of reaction and information.

Rey's parents were scum, not han and Leia.

 

People still want this trilogy to make sense, don't destroy their hope, Rey being the daughter of 2 nobodies would be a terrible plot hole, she either needs to be skywalker or Rey's mother is Schmi 2.0

 

The level of cringe in this thread. No. The level of desperate bargaining in this thread. HE'S LYING! Sure, maybe. But then so is Rey. She tells him that they were nobodies. The whole point is that she's always known but wasn't able to face the fact that she was unwanted. She believed that they would come back all while knowing that they wouldn't.

Burn this thread down jfc

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Really?

So a jedi can only be born from another jedi, is what you're saying?

How convenient for the old order of jedi who were literally not allowed to procreate. Creating new membership must have been hard.

 

Do I really have to explain this? Of course an ordinary jedi can be born from anyone, but we have been explained the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the origin of Anakin and Rey so far has demonstrated a completely unprecedented affinity with the force, far superior to Anakin's...

 

She was born as the Force's answer to the darkside in Anakin's prodigious heir. Thus she is just as strong as he is.

She is his mirror image. The light to his dark. The nobody to his space-nobility.

 

What Kylo Ren claimed contradicted the Force vision in TFA. He was trying to turn Rey to the dark side and verbally abusing her and called her nothing to get her to turn. There still is no last name given for Rey or the names of her parents whoever you think them to be. Compare that to Jyn Erso where there's plenty of elaboration both in Rogue One and the Catalyst novel about her parents. Compare that to Ezra Bridger where also the audience is given far more complete information.

 

If she was born by the force as an answer for the sake of consistency she needs to have an origin similar to Anakin, not the daughter of 2 nobodies from Jakku.

 

Bad analogues. Rogue One is a solo film, so they didn't really have a choice but reveal all and Ezra Bridger has had multiple seasons with multiple episodes to explore his past.

He wasn't abusing her. He was echoing her fears. She believes that she's a no one (she says so herself) and that she doesn't have a part to play in the story. Those are HER thoughts, not his. I saw it as him trying to reassure her but in a tragic way. He was telling her that she could move beyond her situation and join him, someone who still cares for her. What he's saying is "I know you think nobody cares for you and that you're a nobody but I do so please come with me"

Besides, revealing her to be a Solo would be the dumbest thing to do considering both her "parents" are dead. Han and Leia are gone. There will be zero emotional payoff in revealing something like that without the actual parents present.

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Why?