REYLO - Potential Evidence For & Against

Totally different circumstances. That was father and son. And I wouldn't characterize them as being "good pals."

 

what about that Father and Son barbeque they had at the end of....oh...nevermind. [snert]

 

Lol! Love it!

 

I don't see where is the difference.

 

Rey has already been tempted by the Darkside. She already knows how easily it took over her and controlled her actions.
It IS obvious in the movie (although some people still refuse to believe it) that in the snow duel when she strikes down fallen Kylo who is without his weapon is a big dark side moment for Rey. (It also is explicitly confirmed in the novelization as well.)

The newest #6 of the TFA Marvel comics even shows Rey with amber "sith" eyes. If the ground did not collapse and there was a chasm formed at that moment she would have used the dark side to kill him and her path to the dark side would have began...




It is not far fetched to imagine that with this and maybe future experiences with the Force (and in particular the Darkside) she will find a lot of common ground between herself and Ben Solo and will find empathy for what has happened to him. Because she will understand how vulnerable one is to the Darkside and that even if one is not inherently evil they can still do evil actions under the influence of the Darkside.

Yes, killing Han was an irreversible deed, but it simply doesn't mean that Ben Solo cannot change and transform and that this deed that we already know he most probably regretted immediately will/should forever influence his destiny. So even Han Solo's murderer has a chance to change and to be given a chance. That's simply what SW essentially stands for.

Whether there will be romance of course is not clear at this point, but is there a potential for it, absolutely. One very important reason for why there might be a potential romance set up are the visual clues - the bridal carry, the gentle way he talks to her, the absolute awe/admiration with which Kylo/Ben looks at Rey, but not incidentally (which was confirmed by JJ in the TFA commentary), they deliberately made Adam Driver to look like a prince. They could have made him just look normal, but no, he had to look like a prince when Rey sees him for the first time. That is not set up randomly and many picked up on that, mainly women did, which is telling. The end game may not be a romance, but someone deliberately and purposely made a certain portion of the audience start thinking and speculating there might be, so there's that.

One may not see it at this point and of course it is deliberately ambiguous, and at this point there certainly is NO SUCH relationship present at present, but one thing's for sure, these two will have a very interesting relationship going forth. (Also lines up with what JJ said in the TFA commentary).

 

oh unfortunately they're out there, muddying the dialogue ~ hahahaha

mostly they seem to be proponents of Dark Rey who see the pair as Sithily ruling the galaxy together (heterosexual variation on the Kylux ship?)

to each their own fantasies, but yeah, that's never going to happen. : o p

 

To understand Kylo you have to know why he killed Han... there is a hint of this in the commentary .... John. B already said there would be a romance and its not Rey and Finn and it may not go the way you expect it to ... they are dropping hints ,, JJ has , Daisy has and John B. has to try to prepare the audience. Before you move to the romance you need to know why he killed Han

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Do we know the character yet ? he is mostly still hidden from us in many ways... first you have to know why he killed han...

 

(Let me go ahead and put my tinfoil hat on.)

As far as I know there is nothing in the novelizations that confirms that Rey's anger and aggression have anything to do with her absorbing it from Kylo.

There is the TFA Lego game though that has an interesting explicit dialogue where Kylo urges her on to use her anger and strike at him. Here:

It is though, highly debatable how canonical the Lego game is at all, even if it's voiced by the actual actors themselves...

In the Lego game he also tells her that she can rule the galaxy and command armies. He doesn't say with him, but one can imagine that Lego Kylo probably thinks in these lines... And as to ruling the galaxy together the official SW Facebook page reportedly has had this post several months ago:



But who knows, he might offer her to rule the galaxy together as siblings (very improbable at this point), as cousins (a bit strange) or as lovers (exactly just as Grandpa Anakin offered to grandma Padme on Mustafar).

I'm not saying I personally take any stock in all that necessarily, but it does exist.
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Here is what the TFA storybook says about Rey's looking back. (In it, she looks back before Chewie shows up.) In the movie she looks back before getting on the Falcon. In either case, she looks back for Kylo.




Whether she looks back out of compassion/concern is of course debatable. But, it is I think evident that she is very conflicted about him as it is.
A valid explanation easily could be that she might just be looking back to see if the guy she wanted to kill will survive and possibly be a threat again.

(I have half-joked before that her slicing his face was on purpose as she was angry with herself for being attracted to and liking it earlier.)

One thing I think we can be sure of is, that when Rey looked into Kylo's mind, she saw more than just his one fear of not being as strong as grandpa. How much and what she saw in his mind is yet to be determined and I think, we can speculate, will most probably be formative as to how Rey will feel about him going forth...That, and the new information Luke will most probably give her about his nephew and the story of what went down.
Whatever its nature, the relationship they already have is not entirely black and white and going forward a lot of further development will surely happen.

 

Anakin always lived in fear, the fear to lose his mother, Padme, Ahsoka, the fear to fail and I don't see why the jedis were supposed to change the rules to please Anakin because he was a liar and a coward and moreover a cold blood killer.

 

I was figuring out a way to articulate this... well said!

 

yep: whether it's meant to be a subtle ploy in expectation management or they're trying to play bait and switch, the merchandising and other promotion feels like it has been gently pressing its own quiet little agenda.

you and i seem to see kinda eye to eye on most things in this thread ~ why'd you give me a clouded rating?
i'm just curious because my post was so neutral. not sure what i said to give pause or offense.

 

As long as there is no similar role in the ST like the embarrassing little priest, I am fine with that .
..and the last sentence of Rey should not be:"..oh your hands are cold..".

 

This. The Jedi were not blameless in their own fall. The Council's actions wrt stuff like faking Obi-wan's death, throwing Ahsoka under the bus, and betraying their own teachings by sending Quinlan and Asajj to assassinate Dooku despite the Jedi Code forbidding intentional killing, regardless of the harm Dooku was doing to the galaxy, was a major blow to Anakin's trust in them. He had every reason to distrust them. It's easy to believe that Anakin, who was always a little messed up in the head and in a bad mood wrt the Order, could be swayed to a cynical view of the Jedi by Palpatine.

The LEGO depiction of the fight is really intriguing. At the beginning, Kylo says "It is you" to Rey, as if she has confirmed her identity to her. I don't think the LEGO games are strictly canon, but I would be shocked if the Story Group let TellTale write original dialogue for the game without permission. It confirms that Kylo knows or suspects Rey's identity. But who, precisely, is she?

 

it's not original dialogue, it comes from the script/novel. God help me for summonsing Hidalgo, but he suggests (for whatever it's worth) that Ren's referring to the awakening. this makes sense within context of the scene and Ren's behavior throughout the book as he puzzles through making the connection between "the girl" and "the awakening". other people may have other interpretations, but frankly, this is probably the one that makes the most sense.

 

I have my troubles with black and white judgements for both the grandfather and his grandson. Both of them have not been born evil. They both made their wrong decisions not without reasons. When someone would try to harm my family I would do what I would have to do. If someone at the worst time of my life (the teens)would have tried to destroy my picture of my most beloved grandfather I would have turned away from him and I would have trusted someone with the opposite opinion instead. What I try to explain is, I cannot understand phrases like "never forget or forgive" or "kill the jerk" or "whiny/emo blabla". Talking like this seems not very mature and less wise.
Simple answers or judgements are often not that accurate if we risk a deeper look inside..