Rey Solo

/didn'tNeedFIFY: you now turned it into a passive construction with a horror-gerund; syntax and punctuation were proper.
capitalization, though, well...oh well : D

@McDiarmid: why is it important to you that Rey is Han and Leia's kid?
can she not be a titan just by herself?
and especially: why would they go to all those lengths and not do something similar for Ben?

 

but don't you think other people have other ideas of perfection?
this may work for you, but it doesn't work for me. it's not perfect for me at all.
certainly "perfection" is subjective here.
my idea of perfection is Rey is adopted into this family as a total outsider to help clean up the OT heroes' mess.
is my idea of perfection less valid than yours?

and again: why didn't they hide Ben? did they just not care?

 

not much of an argument, but okay ~ good luck!

 

This. Everyone has a different take on perfection. For me the perfect outcome for Rey's parentage would be that her parents are gone for good, killed by our hero Luke Skywalker.
Rey Solo makes the least sense to me.

#ReyRandom #LetNewFamiliesShine #BenIsTheLastSkywalkerSolo

 

With Daisy saying Han is not Rey's father, Pablo talking of one child only as the new canon for Han and Leia, joking about Ben and Rey being twins 10 years part, saying this trilogy's Skywalker is Ben, plus Rey planned as a Kenobi from the start, Rey Solo just does not add up.

 

And still people don't get it...

 

They don't lol. 1+1=3. Of course who knows what info they put out is to just mess everyone up. I know I'm messed up but hey that's easy for me, but some in this thread are going to be spot on and I'm leaning toward @NinjaRen , @Lady Rey , and @FN-3263827 for sure. Many others have some good points also, I can't wait to find out who her parents are that's for sure.

 

I do not find it appealing if Rey is a Solo or a Skywalker. Do I have any other suggestions, No, not something that hasn't been brought up, i admit that. But making her a Family member of one of those families is simply to easy in my opinion. The only thing that appeals to me right now, is if Rey is of an unknown (can i use the word) origins or Family, or a Kenobi. Again if they want to continue the saga movies with the Skywalker family, without Rey being a straight up 100% Skywalker, then Ben needs to turn to the light and survive the trilogy, or atleast a good part of the saga. I couldn't see him continue the saga and still be a villain without another Skywalker in the Picture, if they want to continue the Skywalker stories.

 

Speaking about this sequence, this is from a professional critic:

 

You mean lets the Force in.

 

If only that first blow of Rey's had been a little higher then a lot of these debates would have been neutered.

 

When did Daisy say Han is not Rey's father? And where did we hear that Rey was planned to be a Kenobi?

I have some major doubts that she's a Solo (even though, like I said, that was my initial theory and it wasn't until very recently that I gave up on it), but I do still suspect she could be Luke's daughter. Some of the background regarding her name gave me some very good clues. (I can go into it more if you want, I explained it in some posts in the "Is Luke Rey's father? Evidence For and Against" thread, so I can see if I can find those and post them here.)

However, I'm also pretty sure that her mother is dead and/or out of the picture, and that Leia kind of assumes that motherly role. I think that, if Leia and Rey have any interaction in The Last Jedi, it will kind of expand on this.

 

Daisy said it in an interview "What I found funny is that I was the child. and I'm like people were so presumptuous and like your Han Solo's daughter and I'm like; How do you know? Have you seen the film? Clearly not, because I wasn't. That was a funny one."

The Kenobi thing was a new interview on the 18th. I posted it in the general news, rumors section.

 

FWIW I think TPTB can still make almost any Rey lineage story work without taking anything away from the character or previous film scenes. As long as the timelines work out all that's required is for us fans to concede that scenes shown so far in TFA are only "snapshots" of character interactions and to not cling to our favourite theories so tightly.

I also find most arguments against Rey Solo that fall under the 'that major character wouldn't have done that' category are kinda weak and myopic. We know character motivations are tied to the plot and those decisions are in the hands of the storytellers.

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Anyway there's probably worse things to be arguing about - like the plausability of plot secrets being revealed by vague comments from the mouths of professional actors under NDAs!

 

I do remember that quote from Daisy, but I didn't think much of it because I assumed that was meant in the context of The Force Awakens only, meaning that she still could be a Solo, but just wasn't revealed to be one in The Force Awakens.

The Kenobi interview is extremely interesting, though! Thank you for sharing that because I don't usually check there! I've always pretty much dismissed the Rey Kenobi theory, mainly because of how Obi-Wan handled situations in The Clone Wars and Revenge of the Sith in particular. At the time, Jedi were not allowed to be married, and because of that, Obi-Wan told Satine that he would've left the Order for her. He wouldn't have remained a Jedi because it would've been breaking the code, and that was my first sign that I couldn't see him ending up with someone. Also, considering a Jedi being involved in a forbidden marriage is exactly what led to him losing his best friend and all of his fellow Jedi, plus plunging the entire galaxy into turmoil under the reign of Emperor Palpatine, I can't imagine he'd be super keen to become involved with a woman.

That being said, between what the guy in the podcast is saying and that video regarding the music, I am a little more open to that theory being a possibility (I still highly doubt it, though). I don't know why people involved in the film would tell anyone anything. I thought Rey was the only character whose identity was established from the beginning and was never changed, but those comments make it sound like Rey either is definitely a Kenobi and they just chose not to emphasize it so much in the first film, or that she was a Kenobi in early drafts and that idea was changed. Either way, it sounds a bit suspicious. Is this guy reliable? Just because he says someone from the production team told him that doesn't make it true.

Regardless, thank you for posting all of this new information! It's very interesting!