SPOILER What "Kira's" House Tells Us

I am going to say it again it makes no since for someone like Han and Leia to drop their kid off on a dangerous world because by the sounds of rumors they are in positions of power. Why would they need to give their daughter up? It makes more since in this scenario in my opinion that she is Luke's daughter or apprentice. If he is on the run he would want to keep her hidden and safe. So he drops her off on a planet that is either the planet he grew up on or one similar.

 

Hers my two cents. I think that Leia Jr is on this desert planet in her own exile much like Luke's as a part of training waiting for her master to return. She may have contact with Han and Leia while living of the land in the AT-AT.
All the while Luke gets kidnapped and that's what starts their quest. I think she will receive a coded message from Luke saying "insert villain name here" is after me. Get help from your mom and dad to stop him/her.

 

Good point. Maybe all of Luke's trainees are in exile due to being hunted but still carrying out training.

 

I am still firmly in the Ridley is not a Solo or Skywalker camp, I don't see the point in repeating my theory it's posted on the who's who in episode 7 thread. She's an orphan junk dealer who has (mis?)fortune to come across the driving item of the plot, Luke's lightsaber.

 

There's a lot int he rumors about characters that i'm finding hard to swallow. If we believe the rumors we are going to spend most of the movie just being introduced to these characters. With this character being an ex-stromie, that character being a defected tie pilot, this character living here and that one living there. It seems each characters will get their own slice of introduction pie too, I hope it doesn't turn into a jumbled mess.

 

Leia was introduced as someone Vader was after in the beginning of A New Hope.

Then Luke is introduced.

Then Luke's new mentor figure, Obi-Wan Kenobi. He fibs and withholds a lot due to a retcon in the next movies.

Then Han Solo is met with to get off the planet.

Etc.

Luke and Leia didn't know who their real parents or their sibling was either in A New Hope. Because they weren't scripted that way, but later on were--they were the offspring of once royalty and a Jedi later turned Sith.

Ridley's character may not know much about the universe or even where she actually comes from either. She can discover it as the audience discovers it. It's possible, though annoying. I'd rather they not go this way so hard if it were up to me.

Daisy was hired for her looks as well as talent. And I'm not talking about "pretty". I suspect it's a brunette Caucasian female in all that concept art (and a white guy in some of it) that was made before she was ever cast in the movie because the people that have seen it keep assuming it's Daisy's character. No one has said anything to the contrary. In the open auditions there was a significant group of caucasian brunettes with passing resemblances to Carrie Fisher that were being sought out and brought in for callbacks. Daisy and John may have been plucked not from the open auditions but directly from their agencies, but I've felt since the announcements they are as much "Rachel" and "Thomas" as Crystal and Pip are.

Awfully big coincidence, huh?

Shmi Skywalker

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Padme Amidala

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Leia Skywalker / Organa

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Daisy Ridley (allegedly named or codenamed "Kira")

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Are you suggesting Ridley was cast as the "Rachel" character or Clarke?

With Daisy I'm assuming you're saying the "open to multiple ethnicities" was meant to be a misdirection. With Clarke it would mean we can't use the character traits and apply them to Ridley