SPECULATION Rey was Han & Leia’s daughter in Duel of the Fates

And we have to remember, it was an early DOTF script. A lot of would have changed.

 

yep.
personally I think them being siblings is somehow worse(?) than her being a Palpatine but not by much.
At least with her being a Palpatine and everyone but her knowing apparently, our heroes seem more or less inept rather than just awful and abandoning and forgetting a small child.

 

Maybe she's Rey Palpatine and Collin Trevorrow just refuses to acknowledge that it was his idea all along now after the mixed reactions.

 

pretty sure CT has said Palps wasn't in any version of his scripts.

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I think there's a lot of leaping in that conclusion and it probably was a placeholder name or it's her name because she lived under the Solo/Organa's and didn't have a last name as a working class child. Or something.

 

I agree - if Rey and Ben are siblings, it basically blows up the ST.

It would mean that, when Ben says “Han Solo is the father you never had,” he is saying, “Your actual father is the father you never had.” (?)

It also means that Han and Leia are presumably the ones who abandoned Rey on Jakku, which is kind of... horrible.

 

That’s an interesting take. Honestly, it’s more than likely just inconsistencies in the script, but I’m not entirely sure. There have been so many discrepancies about how the script development for these films generally goes, so I’m not sure how much Colin Trevorrow was consulting J.J., Rian and everyone at Lucasfilm during the script writing process. I would assume the scripts are generally a collaborative process during the writing, rather than having the screenwriter(s) finish the script and then have Lucasfilm check it for any continuity errors or things of that nature.

I believed Rey was a Solo for the longest time –– I was convinced that she had to be Han and Leia’s daughter, but honestly, as so many people online pointed out to me, Han and Leia would never abandon their daughter like that and there really was no justifiable explanation for them leaving her behind and then not telling her who she was when they were “reunited” if she was actually their daughter.

The “Rey Solana” thing always threw me off, too. It just seems so... painfully unoriginal if it’s not intended to be an obvious allusion to her connection to Han and Leia. If she were taking on Solana as her surname, it would make sense as paying homage to Han and Leia. But if I remember correctly, Kylo tells Rey that Solana is her last name right before he dies in the Duel of the Fates script, so apparently it’s supposed to serve as a sort of extradiegetic tribute to Han and Leia for the audience, but it’s just an in-universe coincidence that her last name is a combination of the last names of the people she saw as parental figures in her life.

While The Rise of Skywalker is FAR from a perfect film, I’m generally really happy with what we got, and it’s far better than what Duel of the Fates would’ve been. (I also think there were some great ideas in Duel of the Fates that would’ve been really interesting to see fleshed out on screen, though.) So, honestly, my gut feeling is that these are all just issues within the script that weren’t cleaned up? Initially, I was under the impression that Colin left the project because they couldn’t figure out how to rewrite his script without Leia, but considering she really doesn’t have that big of a role in his version of Episode IX either, I’m guessing that Lucasfilm just wasn’t satisfied with his script and thought it would be easier to scrap it altogether because of the continuity errors. I’m honestly not sure, though.

Your theory does, however, raise the question of whether the whole “Rey was always intended to be a biological nobody but a symbolic Skywalker” thing was actually always the plan or not.

 

No you're not crazy. DOTP has a wider scope, but it's derivative, does not follow TLJ, the time line makes no sense and we would have gotten a completely different Rey and Kylo.


I came across as posting on another forum about George Lucas main ideas for the ST, and to my suprise much of it actually was used by Disney with some tweaks.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/10/21005059/george-lucas-star-wars-sequel-trilogy-plot-characters

So instead of getting George's copy and paste idea of two wholesome kids (or the Solo twins). We have Ren who is the rebel and the grandson and instead of Rey being the granddaughter of Anakin she turns into the granddaughter of Palpatine. Now that the films are done you see how everything just fit into place.

 

Oh and it just came to me. Instead of having the two protagonists be Anakin twin grandchildren. We have Rey and Ren as 'dyads' in the force two that are one. Just like twins. .