Significance of Kylo Ren's Rey Freak Out

Oh I believe he knows who she is. I truly do believe they were students together at Luke's Academy if not cousins to each other. It would add weight to Kylo Ren being a failure in the Skywalker family, his cousin, with the light side of the Force is more powerful than him with the dark side. Rey being the daughter of the powerful Luke Skywalker while Ben is just the son of his sister who rarely used the force and didn't have the potential like Luke or Anakin did and his father couldn't even use the Force at all.

He clearly is jealous of Rey, the fact she with little training could snatch the Skywalker lightsaber from Kylo and her essentially kicking his *** (although it can be argued he was in a weakened state from the Bowcaster shot and from being hit the the lightsaber a few times previously) and could use the Force like she did against him when he tried interrogating her and he knew her powers were coming in and that she had to be stopped.

 

i think Ren has sensed that there would be an Awakening within a certain individual in the galaxy, and that he maybe had visions of a female being that person. So when he hears "a girl" he knows its not coincidence. I believe Rey is the Chosen One, created by the Force to counter Ben Solo's rise to the Darkside. The Yin to his Yang. I believe he has foreseen such an Awakening taking place.

 

The bolded part is where I disagree on, since it's pretty much been established that Anakin was the Chosen One.

 

The novel seems to suggest he has a theory as to who she is that is confirmed near the end of the film

 

He knows she's the awakening.

 

In the book, Ren actually says, "It IS you." He knows who she is at the end.

It's driving ME nuts though...aagh!!!

Who is she?

 

My theory on this is that something happened to Rey that caused her to have her memories wiped and dropped on Jakku, similar to what they did to Revan in Knights of the Old Republic. Her touching the lightsaber triggers her memories whereas Bastila thought that Revan touching his old mask would restore his memories

 

He needs A Xanax .

 

I think that he was the one that hid her or abandoned her on Jakku. So when the guy mentions a girl from Jakku he freaks out. He is confronted with his first failure against what defeated his grandfather, sentimentality.

In the vision Rey sees Kylo kill someone right infront of her which some have said resembles one of the knights of ren. Perhaps after he kills the voice of dissent the others agree to his seemingly callous idea of selling her to someone on Jakku. In the biblical story of Genesis his brothers plot to kill him but one has the idea that its just far so instead they sell him into slavery.

 

I agree...maybe Ben (Kylo Ren) did not have the heart to kill her in cold blood and instead secretly left her on Jakku...

 

The answer is either on the cutting room floor, or in johnsons script. I doubt JJ "saved" a reveal. Nothing else seemed to be "off limits". If he felt he had to save R2 for the end as he did, or he'd upstage somebody, then he probably just didn't have the room for " my name is Rey, and I'm _____".

 

Oh yes! "the girl I've heard so much about." I get the feeling Ben has said that before but years ago when she showed up at Luke's academy with this amazing ability to learn the force through observation.

 

It could also mean that she was specifically told to lay low when she was dumped on Jakku, and now she's making all that noise so half the First Order knows about her. I don't think that was Kylo's plan, it endangers both him, her, and Luke.

 

Yeah I think personally that Kylo might have potentially thought she was dead which is why he became like that...

 

Just to specify, I was thinking more about Kylo or his people telling her to lie low when she was dumped on Jakku. Kylo's original plan seems to have been to hide her from both Luke and Snoke. Now she messes it all up and he flips out.

 

Wait so wahat do you think the orginal plan may have been to cause Kylo to flip out so badly ?

 

In the context of the film, I didn't get the sense that he knew her. His comment struck me as a more general "what girl, who is interfering in our plans now" type of deal, especially since he'd been told that Finn was likely involved only like 30 seconds earlier. And when they meet later, he never acts like he knows her personally. His interest in her seemed more "general" to me, like "who is this girl who's been such a nuisance" or something like that, And when he's interrogating her, he somewhat dismissively/condescendingly calls her a "scavenger."

But it's always possible that they might do some kind of "reveal" in the next film, we'll see.