Will Rey turn to the dark side?

+1. Well said.

 

I'd love to see Rey go to the Dark Side like Bastilla Shaw did in KOTOR, eventually it will be fine cause Benno (who is redeemed since Snoke betrayed him in favour of a more powerfull Rey) manages to reach to her and together they overthrow Snoke.

 

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JJ never sed it.

 

Indeed, he never mentioned it.

 

George Lucas said that Star Wars Saga is based on the Skywalkers and J.J ABRAMS Said that Rey is not a Skywalker. If this is all true then Ben may turn to the light Side and Rey will become seduced like Anakin all over again.

 

I think no, she stays on the Light side, tempted of course she will be...

She has a good heart, she is compassionate, takes care for the others, she doesn't care for power and wealth.

She would be in fact a perfect Jedi if only Luke didn't decided to close this school .

 

I hope not but I also don't think that she will be a real jedi because of Luke who seems to turn away from the old ways of the jedi.

 

Please post a link. You are claiming JJ said something no one else has heard. It is pretty much the biggest question in the trilogy so far.

Either way I doubt she is turning.

 

For me, in order for Rey to go to the dark side, Kylo would have to go back to the light side. With that being said, I find that impossible. Kylo has done the one thing that even Vader couldn't do, kill his family member for the dark side of the force. Kylo is basically irredeemable in my opinion.

So in conclusion, no, Rey will not go to the dark side.

 

I believe Rey will end up in the middle With Bendu and Ahsoka.

 

Its becoming more and more clear/obvious that Kennedy has an interest in pushing/presenting women and minorities in heroic roles in Star Wars.

There is NO WAY IN HELL the first female lead in Star Wars history is going to turn evil.

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AHsoka isn't in the middle.

 

Bendu is in the middle the middle is the only thing he talks about. Ahsoka left the Jedi because she didn't think they were truly living up to their ideals. Saying she's "in the middle" is a stretch.

 

Yeah but to me Adam is the natural darksider. There is just something dark and kind of creepy about him that made him the perfect actor for Kylo Ren. He does the intense, dark, brooding, tortured soul thing SOOO well. So well in fact that I don't think I can buy him as a good guy.

Seriously, picture him as a good guy interacting with Finn or Poe or Chewie in any sort of light hearted way? (I mean they have to ride around on the falcon at some point and have interact right?) That picture is just awkward in my head.

 

Rey needs a character arc, and a good character arc will involve her being put under some traumatic and emotionally challenging strain. 'Being tempted by the Dark Side' is the Star Wars metaphor for this kind of challenge. People say Luke was tempted by the Dark Side in the OT, but this is a kind of metaphor for his struggle to understand who he is. He feels blind hatred for this man who killed his mentor, whom he thinks of as pure evil simply intent on destroying him. But then in TESB this view is challenged: Vader doesn't want to destroy him, but offers a version of what Luke wants most - to become a powerful warrior, a force to be reckoned with. It seems to Luke that his only choices are to destroy Vader or to become what he hates. But then he chooses neither option and finds a third way: to use Vader's attachment to him to re-ignite something noble in Vader.

All of this can be called 'being tempted by the Dark Side', but it's so much more complicated than "Will I be bad or will I be good?" If Rey's story is going to be compelling, it's going to have to be similarly complex, and at the end of the day, we might end up saying she was 'tempted by the Dark Side', but again, this will just be a kind of metaphor for her character's journey.

 

You might be right from a story stand point, but they aren't going to do it or go that way.

Rey was created as a Mary Sue for a reason, they take the time for to push Finn's hand away when they are running from Tie Fighters for a reason. The Rogue One lead is a women for a reason. The Rogue One writers made those tweets they did about the nature of the Empire and Rebellion for a reason. We are getting a line of toys and cartoons aimed exclusively at young girls for a reason.

Kennedy (And maybe co.) have a message or agenda they want to push. You can like it, not like it, agree or disagree with hit - but its becoming more and more obvious its there. Taking the Flagship character of that message, the first female lead, one they went to some lengths to make look as strong as possible in the movie (many would say to the characters detriment) and turning her into the villain of the movies just isn't going to happen. Rey is going to be pure White Hat, always right, always on the good side of things. She is going to be a very protected hero.

 

People keep saying that KK has a 'political agenda', but I think this is misconceived. When studios only considered casting action movies with male leads, and relegated women to sex objects and love interests, this too was a political act. It didn't seem that way, because it was the norm. This is the slyness of political ideology: it masquerades as something which is apolitical by being presented as the norm. Then, when people suddenly deviate from this norm, it looks like *this* is the political act, while conforming to the norm still tries to masquerade as the apolitical act. But again, the norm was political all along.

 

I just think that having Rey go full dark side would be a bit of lazy writing and lack compelling stories.

Let Ben stay evil. In fact, let him grow to the most evil dark sider we've had in Star Wars.

Make him irredeemable by the end of this trilogy so in the next trilogy we can have the redemption of Ben.

That would be much more compelling, to me, that "Darth Rey"

 

No one cares when a women is cast as a lead in movie - actin, sci-fi whatever. There is along history of it. Look at my post again, the very fact that Rey is the lead in the ST isn't an issue/the issue or the reason I'm pointing this out. Its the sum of all their casting and business choices to date. It is becoming/has become obvious there is an agenda or message they are interested in pushing through this property. You can have whatever opinion of that message/agenda you want - good, bad, agree, disagree, somewhere in the middle........ But its there.

That message will not allow for moral ambiguity or weakness in the character (again - thats why she ended up a mary sue in TFA) that was their first and flagship woman/minority hero. Rey is going to go through the ST as a strong hero who is always in the right, is morally sound and not conflicted. The way they handled her in TFA and the way Jyn was handled in Rogue One are the indications of this.

 

Look, I'm all for stronger characterizations in characters across the board. But "Mary Sue" is such a buzzword, and hardly applies to Rey anyway.

Let's not forget her initially rejecting the call of Luke's saber, or her wanting to go back to Jakku.

Was her development rushed. Yeah, I'd say so- and I'd prefer better in the future (for everyone in the cast, really).

The problem with singling Rey out as a "Mary Sue" in a movie where most characters were underdeveloped (and many more were far more "Mary Sue-like" than her is that it, intentionally or not, comes across poorly.