Rey Solo

I think one question is relevant and deserves attention.

What is the only story in the Saga we all love that hasn't been told ?

 

It could be !

There is maybe not only one answer.

 

The introduction scenes of Kylo and Rey are symetric. One is coming from the light of his ship to enter the darkness of Jakku. He has a path from the resistance to the FO and the other is coming from the darkness of the destroyer ( the empire's wrecks ) to the light. There's a good chance, she's having the opposite path.

 

To be precise, the first scene of Rey had her descending deeper into the darkness of the Star Destroyer, salvaged something, and then went up and brought the things she salvaged up to the light. This is a religious metaphor - a savior descending into Hell and then saving the people there by bringing them up to Heaven.

Kylo's first scene is also a religious metaphor - a person going down to Hell, not to save others, but because he himself has made and would go on to make more wrong moral choices.

The respective scenes also have both Ben and Rey wearing masks. Ben used his mask to present himself as Kylo Ren, but underneath it is a Solo/Skywalker. Rey used her mask to work and appeared as just a scavenger on Jakku, but underneath it, is she also a Solo/Skywalker?

 

For me, it's a birth, it's an umbilical chord and the tunnel to the light.

Regarding the mask, she's the light behind the mask. She's Kylo Ren's awakening.

 

I resemble that remark!

 

We left Padme and the end of ep III saying to Obi Wan, there's good in him, I know there's good in him and this came back at the very end of the saga, Anakin told to Luke : you were right about me, there was good in me and this story hasn't been told.

What is the journey of the struggle between light and dark of the chosen one during all the events of the OT ? Whaat is the process who leads him to get to the light again and fullfill the prophecy ?

We saw the OT from the rebellion point of view, we didn't see it from the hero of the saga who had those two sides of himself ( Anakin / Vader ), for me it is this story that it is been told in another plane of existence only the chosen one can see.

Every spoil we have from ep VIII matches this view.

Rey will accomplish all the promises Anakin made to Padme ( When Rey has her vision she heard that voice : come back, come back which are the very last words Anakin heard from Padme ).

It will make Anakin and Padme the greatest love story of all time and it is absolutely something Disney can do.

 

And to figure out who's Rey, we have to figure out what were Disney's plans before and why this obsession for secrecy.

Because, if it really is the story of Anakin's grandchildren, it doesn't need to be that paranoiac about the plot, a 4th grader can find it.

BTW, if they went with this story, we're indeed in the Skywalker saga and Rey is somehow a Skywalker and Obi Wan is the father by his sacrifice and it matches obviously the line : If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can imagine, the dive in the dark awakes Vader's redemption and then Obi Wan's sacrifice matches the line : This will begin to make things right.

What went wrong on this galaxy ? Hell, the chosen one felt to the dark side. This is what I call something went really wrong.

Remember that the story plot is bringing balance to the Force and who did this ? The chosen One.

 

Rey is not a Solo, that is too obvious. It has to be meatier; I think it would be interesting if She was the orphaned daughter of Captain Phasma, could make for some really interesting story opportunities.

 

Rian's take on her parents:

Spoiler

"Take the question of who Rey’s parents are: If you get the information — oh, it’s that! — who really cares? I know a lot of people care, but it’s interesting as opposed to impactful. Now, what is my place in the world? Where do I come from? Where do I belong? O.K., I understand what the weight of that is. We could play with those questions and their answers to have the biggest emotional impact on these characters."

 

He's 100% right.

 

The plot is this.

And those words : It's the name of your true self, you've only forgotten explains why Rey was noone, hadn't even a face and that all those memories have to come back because Vader destroyed it all. When Vader killed Kenobi, Anakin died through love to give birth to Rey who is the process of his redemption.

Rey is a mix of Shmi and Padme because it was the very two beings Anakin loved before Vader destroyed it all.

Sorry for the off topic.

 

But the funny thing is that everyone can bring some clues to his own theory ( even if some are less documented than others ) but in all neutrality this is very much a Rorschach test.