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Rey understands Chewbacca

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' started by perrymoon, Jan 21, 2016.

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    Sorry guys if someone pointed on this already.

    I found this curious. When Finn and Rey meet Chewie and Han, at the very first talk, Rey answers chewie.

    Chewie: ROOARRRRHGHGHG
    Rey: "No, it's true! We are the only ones on board!"

    And Finn tells Rey: "You can understand that thing?"

    Why does Rey understand Chewie? Is it a hint to her past? Did she know Chewie? I think you may need a long time to understand a Wookie, and we haven't seen any of them in Jakku. Rey seems to have quite a solitary life as well, so even if eventual wookies visited Jakku, it doesn't seem like she would have learned the language.
     
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    Maybe she met some wookies on Jakku.
     
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    The Force. She doesn't even realize that she is tapped into it. It's the same way she understands BB-8
     
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    There is a hammock in Rey's cabin in the AT-AT, it looks like chewie's belt. That means she had contact with wookies maybe at the spaceport and learned it there.
     
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    The best scene was when Finn and Rey are rejoined on Starkiller. Rey is happy that there is a rescue party. Chewbacca does a "mweehhhhhhhrrrrrrrrr". Finn asks Rey: "What did he say?" Rey replies: "That it was your idea....". She hugs Finn, Finn smiles. Awesome scene.
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    i read somehwere that she learned the wookie and droid language on Jakku with the people/aliens/droids coming to Niima outpost and her work for Unkar.

    But be careful Chewie understands you too ;)
     
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    Translator microbes, duh. Oh, wait, wrong series...

    I just figured it was due to Wookies passing through Jakku or being in the employ of Unkar. Or... well, since it's been a thing before they may have even been slaves of Unkar, given the relative lawlessness of the area.
     
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    This
     
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    In Aftermath, one of the character says something along the lines: No one is born on Jakku. Everyone just ends up here.

    Basically, Jakku is not just junkyard of ships, it's junkyard of humanity and aliens - a melting pot. If she wanted to live there and communicate, she had to learn more than Basic Standard. Who knows how many species of different aliens she had to deal with. Maybe there is a Wookie scavenger on Jakku. ;)
     
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    You have a GOOD point there BUT she ALSO understand BB-8 too.I think that she had been at Jakku for a long time and she learn many languages to me.Don't be surprise if she understand Ewoks too...;).
     
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    *ding*ding*ding*ding* New Theory: Rey is Chewie's daughter! Pretty obvious, given her hair color. Scene prediction for Episode VIII:

    Chewie: "ARGHROOOARAGGH"
    Rey: "No, that's not true! That's imp-...wait, how is that even possible??"
    Chewie: "ROORGAAARGHR"
    Rey: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

    Yeah.
     
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    The signs, people.
    I have a feeling Ep. VIII begins with it being established between the two of them that Rey and Luke are daughter and father. She knows Chewie before she 'meets' him, and remembers everything at Maz's castle.
     
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    I'll assume that Chewie and R2 stay for awhile. However, I wonder how R2 will get up the steps to say hello to Luke? I guess Chewie will carry....
     
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    Or if the droid doesn't come to Luke, Luke can go to R2. He just needs to walk down the steps to the Falcon. How hard can that be? :p

    Or Chewie flies the Falcon to that spot where Luke was standing at the place at the end of TFA and opens the hatch and R2-D2 flies to Luke.

    Or he just can fly. Like he did in AOTC and ROTS.

    ;) WHen there is a will... ;)
     
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    Yub-Nub? LOL.
     
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    This can be seen in third world countries where tourism is the main business in the country. For example, in Phuket, Thailand the people there speak Thai, English, Malay, and usually some dialect of Chinese. The vendors and tour guides who can speak the most languages can make the most money by appealing to the widest base of customers. Rey would do well to learn as many languages as possible in order to trade with the various species coming through Niima Outpost.
     
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    Isn't Canon that R2 have little jets that allow him to fly a little? wait the forgot about them in episodes IV,V and VI, maybe he will remember in VIII or IX
     
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    I think George mentioned the jets broke years ago
     
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