Ever since the Force Awakens hit theatres at the end of 2015, the buzz around the Internet
has been about Rey and her heritage.
First fans were convinced that either Han and Leia were her parents or that she was
Luke Skywalker's daughter.
Last year this time, people were convinced that Rey was the Reincarnation of Anakin Skywalker,
claiming that Anakin wasn't really the Chosen One, or that he didn't get it right the first
time.
By the summer, fans were convinced that Rey was Palpatine's granddaughter.
Even a member of the Collider Jedi Council fell for that one.
Last week, a new fan theory came out from Jon Negroni, the author of the Pixel Theory,
and he's claiming that Anakin's lightsaber will answer all of the questions about Rey--who
she is, and where she came from, so let's take a look at it.
What's up Star Wars Fans?
My name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
I've had a few people request that I take look at what's being called "the Lightsaber
Theory," so I'm going to share my thoughts on Mr. Negroni's speculation in this video.
To briefly summarize the theory-- Jon says that if you pay attention to everything going
on around the Skywalker lightsaber, in the Force Awakens, you will realize that it is
the key to discovering Rey's identity, and everyone connected to Luke or the lightsaber
either provide clues or actually know who Rey is.
At the beginning of the movie, we see Lor San Tekka and the Tuanil villagers who are
members of the Church of the Force.
According to Jon, Lor San Tekka is possibly connected to Rey.
Because of the proximity to Nima Outpost, Lor San Tekka is possibly watching over Rey
from afar.
Additionally, the Millenium Falcon being on Jakku also serves as some indication that
Rey is equally connected to that ship.
Since both Lor San Tekka and the Millenium Falcon are on Jakku, Jon believes that Luke
played a part in Rey being brought to Jakku in order to hide her from Kylo Ren and the
First Order.
When we jump ahead in the story to the events on Takodana, we see Maz showing an interest
in Rey.
She asks Han Solo who the girl is, and they have a conversation that takes place off screen.
Jon says this is the directors way of showing that Han and Maz both know who Rey is, while
keeping the audience in the dark.
During this time, Rey manages to wander into the basement, find Anakin's lightsaber, which
is in the same chest that Obi-Wan Kenobi used to store the lightsaber in his hut, because
it was brought there by Luke.
Jon says that Maz Kanata set the whole thing up for Rey to find Luke's lightsaber and have
her forceback vision so that Rey could figure out who she is and why she was left on Jakku.
Now Jon says the events in the Forceback vision are not random.
Everything she saw involved the lightsaber, because the lightsaber was present during
everything in her vision.
She first saw the fight on Cloud City when Luke learned that Vader was his father.
She then saw Luke with R2 in front of a fire.
Now Jon says this event shows the destruction of the Jedi Order Luke hoped to rekindle.
Upon learning that Luke was passing on the lightsaber to one of his students to be his
successor, Ben completed his turn to the darkside, becoming Kylo Ren.
Jon says part of Luke's reasoning is because he sensed that Ben was being seduced by the
darkside, and possibly Snoke.
Kylo Ren destroyed the Jedi Order in an attempt to regain the lightsaber, and a missing part
of Anakin's heritage, but he had no intentions of actually harming his uncle, Luke.
This is why, in the vision, Kylo Ren strikes down one of his own men, who was attempting
to attack Luke.
Luke took that opportunity to escape with not just his father's lightsaber, but also
with the daughter of the fallen Padawan who was to succeed him.
He brought her to Jakku, in order to hide her from the First Order, should they discover
that a fallen Jedi had a child so strong with the Force.
So I want to start off by commending Jon on putting all of this together.
If he had put this video out last year, it probably would have been one of the top Rey
identity theories, but after the director commentary for the Force Awakens Blu-Ray came
out last November, some of these assumptions are not correct.
So Jon started out mentioning that, originally, the lightsaber was going to be the McGuffin
in the film-- this is true.
An early version of The Force Awakens was going to show that the lightsaber actually
contained the key to locating Luke Skywalker.
I talked about that in my video on Finn's lightsaber scenes being cut from the film.
In that video, I also talked about how the Forceback vision was going to be different.
It was going to tell the story of what happened to the lightsaber after Cloud City, and how
it came into Maz's possession.
Some of that still made it into the theatrical version.
The events in Rey's vision do not really make sense.
When we see Luke with R2 in front of the burning temple, it's not the same location as Kylo
Ren with the Knights of Ren.
The warrior killed was not a member of the Knights of Ren, but he's just some kind of
warrior.
I've actually said in several videos that I think he may be some kind of pilgrim from
a group like we saw on Jedha.
Now according to what was reported about the original Forceback vision, Maz was present
at that battle and she actually stole the lightsaber as she was collecting Jedi relics
for her personal collection.
To address the presence of Lor San Tekka, the Millenium Falcon, and Rey all being on
Jakku--well, it's easy to say that this is just a coincedence, but it's one of those
things where the Force works in mysterious ways.
Rey has been on Jakku for as long as she can remember, and I am starting to think that
if she wasn't born there, she came when she was still a toddler.
I don't think the Millenium Falcon has been on Jakku as long as Rey has been there, and
based on Poe Dameron's comic book, I don't think Lor San Tekka has been on Jakku longer
than 5 years.
It's my opinion that Lor San Tekka did not come to Jakku until after Ben's turn to the
darkside--and this raises the most important flaw to this speculation
Jon says that Luke brought Rey to Jakku after Ben's turn and the destruction of the Jedi
Order.
The Bloodline novel showed that Ben and Luke were travelling the galaxy together, meaning
Ben had not turned.
I believe Ben's turn involved him learning the truth about Vader--either way, Ben's turn
happened when Rey was 14 or after.
She was already on Jakku, so it's not possible that Luke brought her there after the death
of her parents at the hands of the Knights of Ren, or Kylo Ren.
Like I said, if this theory had come out before the "Bloodline" novel gave us any idea of
when Ben's turn might have occured, it would have been more plausible.
Additionally, there is no mention of Rey in that novel by Han or Leia.
JJ Abrams stated that Leia and Rey never met prior to their hug at the end of the movie--and
the hug was not because Rey is her daughter or because they knew each other-- Leia went
through a similar traumatic experience being tortured by Vader in "A New Hope," the same
way Rey was tortured and interrogated by Kylo Ren on Starkiller Base.
Leia was also acknowledging their connection through the Force that she sensed in Rey.
If you read the Junior Novel of The Force Awakens, there is actually a conversation
between Leia and Rey where Leia tells Rey how she considered undergoing Jedi training
with Luke, at one time.
So, I think Jon did a solid job putting together an entertaining fan theory.
For me, there are some glaring holes that make this not possible, but who knows-- it
could turn out to be right for reasons not mentioned in his video--but what do you all
think?
Do you think that the Skywalker lightsaber could be the key to Rey finding out who her
people are?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, and I'll be checking back to see what
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