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According to Reddit User KNNL, It's obvious that Rey is Luke Skywalker's daughter.
Now you guys know that I have never been on the Skywalker camp ever since I first saw
The Force Awakens.
In this video, I'm going to discuss this post on the Reddit Star Wars Speculation board,
and basically take it apart, because I think KNNL's post has some pretty big holes in it,
and I just don't think that Rey is Luke Skywalker's daughter at all.
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Okay, so Knnl's post over on Reddit says:
I was never into the Rey Skywalker camp, but I was talking to some friends who are casual
watchers, and they all agree that The Force Awakens left it clear that Rey is Luke's daughter,
and don't understand why there would be confusion among the "hard core" fans.
I decided to rewatch The Force Awakens, trying to keep my mind away form bias towards some
speculations.
Long story short, what other meaning can you give to this line from Maz Kanata,"The lightsaber
was Luke's, and his father's before him.
Now it calls to you," other than it meaning that passing down that lightsaber is a family
tradition and it is now Rey's time.
Daisy Ridley was quoted as saying,"I thought a lot of was answered in 'The Force Awakens.'
Then after the screening, I went for a drink with my agent and everyone, and we were chatting
away, and I realized that oh, in their minds it's not answered at all!"
The thing is, folks: Like Kylo's parentage, it is not the big deal- there are bigger things
that come from this.
For example, right after Maz said that, the movie tries to make it extremely clear that
Luke had nothing to do with her being left on Jakku.
Maz says,"The ones who left you on Jakku, they're never coming back.
But there's still someone else who could."
Rey says,"Luke."
Maz seems to know all about Rey's background just be talking with Han Solo before Rey's
Forceback Vision when she asks,"So who's the girl?"
Daisy Ridley said,"But with answers come more questions, and there's definitely going to
be enough to keep people going for another two years!"
So yeah,--we've been focusing on the wrong things.
She is Luke's kid, and we're supposed to already know that coming out of The Force Awakens.
But there will be much more to this than just,"She's Luke's daughter, case over, lets go home."
I think that's why JJ got both of them to look so emotional at the end of The Force
Awakens.
Instead of leaving the cinema thinking,"cool, but who is her father?" he probably wanted
us to go into Episode 8 thinking,"poor things, something bad happened and they were separated
a long time ago.
He's even starting to cry just by looking at her again!"
Guess that didn't work so well.
So to sum up this post, I'm now with the Rey Skywalker camp.
I think they made it obvious in The Force Awakens, but we missed it because we want
another Empire Strikes Back twist situation.
Yeah...that's cute, but KNNL makes some glaring mistakes with their post--kudos to you, you're
on the "Rey is a Skywalker" camp with everyone else who is going to be in for a big surprise.
I'll say this, though--you can't be a "Rey is a Skywalker" person and a Reylo person
at the same time because that's just gross, right?
But seriously-- you based your entire post on that conversation with Maz Kanata--the
same conversation which made a lot of people think,"wait, Rey is NOT a Skywalker.
It's not Luke."
Maz says that the belonging Rey is seeking is in front of her, not behind her.
The people she's been waiting for on Jakku are never coming back, but there is someone
who still could.
Rey says Luke, so we're led to believe that Maz is talking about Luke.
Maybe Maz WAS actually talking about Luke--as in Rey is the one the lightsaber has called
out to.
Rey is the person who will find Luke Skywalker and bring him back into the fold.
This is Rey's call to adventure.
This is her embarking on her Heroine's Journey.
Maz is the wise old person here, and Han Solo was also a wise old person, but Luke is the
one who is really supposed to be her mentor.
It's funny how I see these speculations that completely overlook that model laid out by
Joseph Campbell and it's like...uhh, that's cute, but I don't think so moo-cha-cho.
Maybe you should go back to the drawing board.
Here's the other thing that gets overlooked by like...everyone.
Maz is foreshadowing an event that we actually see played out in The Force Awakens.
The belonging you seek is ahead of you, not behind you.
The people who left you on Jakku are never coming back, but perhaps there is one who
still could.
Who just left in the previous scene?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Okay, I'll tell you.
It was FINN.
Finn chose to leave with Captain Ithano and his crew to get to the Outer Rim and away
from the First Order.
Finn left Rey-- he was, for a time, her first real friend.
The first person she felt like she could trust.
Do you remember the hug Rey gives Finn in Starkiller Base when she learns from Chewie
that it was Finn's idea to come back and rescue her?
That was because for the first time, someone CAME BACK for her.
Finn is the person who came back.
Did Maz not say,"Perhaps there is someone who still could come back?"
That was foreshadowing Finn returning.
He accidentally made himself a big deal with the Resistance because instead of cutting
and running, he chose to stay and fight to save Rey.
The other point that is missed-- this whole thing about it not being important about how
Rey ended up on Jakku.
The "poor baby, they've been separated."
In the novelization for The Force Awakens, there is a line in the Forceback vision when
we see Rey as a little girl.
In the movie we see and hear her saying,"Please, come back," but what is only in the novel
is a voice saying,"I'm coming back for you sweetheart, I promise."
Now if you've only seen Vincent Vendetta's Reylo video, you might be under the impression
that it was Kylo Ren, but that's wrong-- it is a male's voice, but that was most likely
her father's voice.
I mean, if we're going with Rey being 4 or 5 when that happened, Kylo Ren would have
been a teenager, training somewhere with his uncle Luke Skywalker.
We should also note that Kylo Ren and Rey never met before The Force Awakens.
Leia and Rey never met before the Force Awakens...I have a pretty strong feeling that it would
only naturally follow that Luke and Rey never met before The Force Awakens.
So what's the next excuse?
Luke and Rey's mother conceived a child, but Rey believed her step-father was her real
father, is that it?
Well that's about the only way Rey could be Luke Skywalker's daughter, but that sort of
negates the whole "Luke is looking at his long lost daughter, Rey, and he has tears
in his eyes."
I don't think Luke had tears in his eyes at the sight of Rey because she's his daughter--because
she's NOT his daughter.
He doesn't know who she is.
He sees this girl.
He recognizes that the Force is strong with her.
Maybe he was able to sense everything that happened in The Force Awakens.
He sensed the Awakening in the Force--that cosmic tremor that coincided with newfound
abilities in Rey, and maybe anyone else with a dormant attunement to the Force.
This girl shows up and she's extending this lightsaber to him, his lightsaber and his
father's before him.
He's remembering that time in his life when his father nearly killed him when he attempted
to fight Vader after finally receiving some Jedi training from Yoda-- this is after being
humiliated in previous duels against Vader.
You'll have to read the new Star Wars comic books if you don't know about those previous
fights where Vader owns Luke.
All these memories...and then everything that has recently happened.
Why Luke exiled himself on Ach-To.
The painful reminder of how his nephew, Ben Solo, the one he believed to be the Chosen
One, rose up, killed the other Jedi, and joined the First Order to bring a new reign of terror
on the galaxy.
All these mixed up emotions, the demons that Luke is fighting within his mind.
His becoming disillusioned with the Jedi, the Force, with who he has tried to be--with
everything.
Luke's tears are from dealing with his own darkness, and that doesn't necessarily mean
"the dark side," it just means he is experiencing his own personal "darkest night of the soul."
This is something I've touched on in previous videos, but I don't think I've used that terminology.
So sorry y'all.
I don't think Rey is a Skywalker, not for these reasons listed.
If someone wants to disagree with me, that's fine--but don't give me a really weak reason
for why you think she is.
I know Daisy Ridley says it's obvious to her who Rey's parents are.
At one time, she said they aren't anyone special.
For me, this eliminates Luke Skywalker.
I will say this much-- I don't think you can put a lot of stock into what Daisy says regarding
Rey.
I say that because there are scenes that we never see in the final cut of the film.
Just look at the video on how Finn's lightsaber scenes were cut from the final version of
the Force Awakens.
Had we seen that version and I go on about how I think Finn might eventually end up as
a Jedi, no one would disagree with me--he was supposed to go on a rampage with Rey's
lightsaber for like half the movie.
So I think that part of Rey's Forceback vision where her father says he'll come back from
her was filmed at one point.
I think we were going to come out of the movie knowing exactly who Rey is and where she came
from--but it was removed.
I guess JJ felt that it did not progress the story forward the same way other things, like
Maz going to Ach-To to give the lightsaber to Leia were not necessary to move the story
forward.
So yeah--those are my thoughts.
I don't think KNNL did their homework.
I think they let their friends convince them to jump on team Kyra Skywalker, so that's
that.
What do you all think?
Do you think that Rey is a Skywalker?
If you do, let me know why you think she is in the comments below.
I promise not to make fun of you...not in public, but I'll probably call you all kinds
of things in my head.
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