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Rey's Parents?

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' started by DBZMerciter2005, Dec 14, 2015.

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    But are we supposed to understand she has always remembered her past?
     
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    Yes but they don't. They don't met, they don't even know each other.
     
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    Lor San Tekka makes this all very interesting. He's in the movie so briefly, but has an important role. He's the first person we hear ( =all but reassuring us that TFA will reinvigorate our interest in SW with that epic opening line). And he mentions knowing Leia when "she was royalty." He can't be a random old dude.

    So, is it possible that he's somehow buddies with Rey's parents — watching over her for 20 years? Maybe, but who is he exactly. For her parents to trust him, he must be someone important. Is it too late for us to learn, now that he's dead?

    My gut says that Rey isn't a Solo. She didn't get a proper "reunion" with Han and Leia. Her meeting Luke felt a lot like a reunion, but there's the mystery of why he would abandon her. If he's the most powerful person in the galaxy, he should be able to protect her best. Not LST.
     
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    When Maz lowered her goggles for Rey, I interpreted her words as meaning that:

    In Rey's heart, she knew her parents were never coming back - but there was someone out there who could fill that space: Luke Skywalker was Rey's answer. I do not think Luke is her father, it was implied in this sequence that her parents were either dead or terrible people. They left her with Unkar Plutt as a custodian on a world where people are basically serfs - they are not nice people.

    It's obviously a big mystery, but I interpreted it to mean that Luke was in some way known to her - beyond the legend, unbeknownst to her - but not her father. He could be a relation, he may have known her parents, he may have even trained her and she had lost her memory (or had it wiped). I would prefer her to have some prior training to explain her picking up Jedi skills inconsistently quickly.

    Considering a lot of the major rhythms of the film, the beats and the bones, it does seem logical to assume Luke is her father. A lot of the movie going audience will assume - because Star Wars is about the Skywalkers yeah? But we have Ben Solo, so maybe that's enough. Like I said, I interpreted that exchange to mean her parents were either dead or not worth it, and Luke was her only viable option - destiny and such.
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    Lor San Tekka is apparently an old explorer/general adventurer with an allegiance to the Alliance/Republic. He was one of those out searching for Luke after his disappearance. During the Galactic Civil War he was a member of a Followers of the Force religion, who were not Force sensitive but who believed the galaxy needed the Jedi and sought out old Jedi relics and remnants as part of their faith.

    He seems to have some connection to Alderaan or the Alliance from that time from that royalty line in the film.
     
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    There's the brief flashback scene when Rey touches Luke's/Anakin's saber. She appears to remember things she had somehow forgotten. Or maybe the Force in the saber has a memory ie. maybe those were "the saber's memories", if that's even possible? It certainly is not outright stated that Rey would have ever had her mind wiped.
     
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    Bourne identity meets Star Wars SMH.......remember the old rumor about this trilogy being about the granddaughter of Obi-wan? Anybody think that scenario is still in play?
     
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    Nothing's totally 0, but that would be a pretty lame way to reveal it after Han's already dead and Leia was just "ok byeeeee" immediately after seeing her.
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    Thing is, the mom could be a former pupil.. who was secretly banging the teacher.
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    JJ said recently in an interview that Kasdan convinced him that he didn't need to spell everything out blatantly.. I think that was probably a reference to this? Since everything else was pretty obvious.
     
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    He is Solo, not Skywalker.
     
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    Maybe because we were told we would? This is from Daisy in a Hollywood Reporter interview last month.

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    Everyone wants to know who Rey's parents are. Do you know?


    Yeah.

    Will the viewer know after the first episode or not necessarily?

    Questions will be answered, absolutely. The main question will be answered.
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    If they hadn't acted like it was something we would find out in this film, I wouldn't care. But they were so shifty about it that it seemed like it was something to be revealed in this film. And Daisy outright said it would be, unless she thought that was dodging the question or they didn't tell her they changed it. She specifically says she knows who her parents are also.
    They could have said something to let us know not to expect the answer in TFA. Something like "That question will be explored throughout the trilogy." It isn't a spoiler to tell us something won't be answered.
     
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    Who are we to say what the main question is though. To Daisy, she's mostly been asked if she's Han/Leia's daughter so if that's the main question to get, the answer is given and it's NO.
     
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    But she was asked if we would find out who her parents ARE
    Not whom they ARENT
     
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    Exactly bang on. As long as the story has Kylo, there will be skywalker lineage in it. Not saying she is not Lukes kid though, it is most likely. As all the spoilers have shown us this last year, the most likely theories with the info we had we pretty much bang on.
     
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    Having just seen the film about an hour and a half ago, I personally do believe Rey is a Skywalker, and the daughter of Luke.
    She is unnaturally powerful in the Force, exceedingly so for someone with no real training; the lightsaber (that belonged to both Vader and Luke) calls to her like no other; she also has many of the reoccurring talents of the bloodline of the Chosen One, she is a gifted pilot and engineer.
    To the question of why Luke would abandon her- he tried founding a new order of Jedi for the galaxy, and his own nephew of his blood brought it all to ruin. He even sent himself into self exile because of it all.
    He probably thought she would be safer from the First Order-and perhaps Luke himself- if she were somewhere secluded and cut off from the troubles of the galaxy, much like he was as a boy, somewhere she wouldn't become embroiled by the Force, in either its light or dark incarnations.
    Even at the end of the film, when she's holding the lightsaber to him, he looks wary and begrudging about potentially training her in the ways of the Force.
     
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    Maybe to her it was obvious? Or it was obvious in the shooting script but was cut back in the final film?
     
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    My guess is that Luke definitely was and will again be a father figure for Rey, just as Han came to be during the movie. But there are different ways to go with this.

    Maybe Luke is literally her biological father, in which case we'll all want to know who the mother was, and how she came to be on Jakku. I can already imagine it: just as with the Plagueis speculation, there will be a very passionate Mara Jade camp, and a vocal anti-Mara Jade camp. Many of us will remain more or less neutral (since there won't be sufficient evidence one way or the other until the movie comes out), but we'll read and maybe participate in the threads.

    On the other hand, maybe Luke isn't her biological father, in which case we'll want to know who her parents really are, and how, again, she came to be on Jakku. The main reason I find this to be a possibility is that it would make for a stunning twist, which is a hard temptation for writers to resist: when pulled off well, they grab audiences like few other plot developments can. Personally, I find this the most intriguing possibility, mostly because there are just so many possible ways to spin it.

    One thing seems certain: she isn't a Solowalker. It would be crazy for Han and Leia to have spent so much of the film grieving over their lost son, without also mentioning his lost sister. Say what you will about their screenwriting skills: Abrams and Kasdan aren't so inept as to have left this detail unaccounted for in the writing process.
     
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    I tend to agree, but the whole thing about them being a secret could play into it.. Kasdan and especially Abrams aren't beyond major plot holes.
     
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    WRONG! She IS A SKYWALKER!
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    Rey beating Kylo is proof that she IS a Skywalker and the REAL CHOSEN ONE! NOT ANAKIN SKYWALKER! Rey will bring balance back to the force and defeat Kylo and Snokes.
     
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    It is impossible to say who her parents are at this point, but I did notice that Rey pushed EVERY Obi-Wan Kenobi button from ANH. British accent; Hermit on desert world; distantly embroled in the greater thing (my assumption for Rey); Important droid carrying vital information ends up at her doorstep; Uses Jedi Mind Trick; Sneaks about on her own in the baddies' lair; Battles the dark knight at the end. Although her force stuff were more remenicent of Luke's journey, Rey reminded me more of Kenobi (not only in the general stuff outlined above, but with small gestures and snippits of scenes throughout the movie, albite, primarily when she's on her own at Starkiller Base). Right now, my money is on her heralding from Kenobi somehow, the simplest explanation being that she's his grandchild or grandniece or similar. That said, it is impossible to be certain with what little we currently know, but at least she pushed the right buttons for me to be a Kenobi.
     
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    I'm leaning towards the Luke is her Dad theory. She was only four by the looks of it when she was left on Jakku. Who's to say her mother didn't leave her there temporarily and get killed before anyone knew where she was? She may never have met Han and Leia at least since she was a baby as they probably didn't pay lots of visits to the Jedi acadamy, I actually have a feeling Kylo knows who she is and didn't want to tell her - or Snoke - he wanted to train her and overthrow Snoke.

    My other theory, my leftfield outsider theory, is that she's the daughter of Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren. The way she charged at Kylo with the Sabre reminded me of Ezra in the last episode of Rebels.

    (BTW, didn't she have a Padewan braid in the vision?)
     
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    The actress playing young Rey is Cailey Fleming. She apparently "performs ages 5-8" as of 2015.
     
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