In this series of videos on Rey’s vision, we have looked at past fan theories that used
her vision as proof that Rey was previously one of Luke’s acolytes, and possibly even
his daughter, who ended up on Jakku after Luke’s order was destroyed by his nephew,
Ben Solo, who became Kylo Ren after his turn to the darkside.
We looked at why Rey was called by Anakin’s lightsaber and identified it as Rey’s Call
to Action to begin her heroic journey in the same way Luke was called to action by Obi
Wan Kenobi in A New Hope.
We also determined that Rey’s vision was likely a combination of her possessing psychometric
abilities, similar to Jedi Master Quinlan Voss, and a force induced vision of possible
past and future events, as Force sensitive beings have been known to have.
The question remains, what are we seeing in Rey’s vision, and what does it all mean?
Hey Star Wars fans.
This is another Urban Acolytes video, and my name is Prince.
In this video, we’re going to conclude this 3-part series on Rey’s vision.
If you haven’t seen the other 2 videos, make sure to go back and check those out.
So let’s look at Rey’s Vision now that we’ve established how she even had the vision
in the second video in this series.
So the first thing you need to be made aware of is this— there are 3 different versions
of Rey’s vision.
The version in the novelization and the junior reader are different from the version in the
movie.
The version in the book “Rey’s Story,” which tells The Force Awakens from Rey’s
point of view, contains extra details about the movie version of the Force Back vision.
I could raise some additional questions about the differences in the vision, but for now,
I’ll stick to the movie version and only include a few details from the books when
appropriate.
So let’s go back to Cloud City.
The novels all mention a boy who is in the corridor with Rey during the fight between
Vader and Luke.
Now the audience is seeing things from the boy’s perspective when Rey is walking towards
the camera, so if Rey is seeing the boy, we, as the audience, are unable to see him.
Now questions have been raised about the identity of the boy.
The truth is we don’t know who that would be.
Just based on the nature of psychometry, this would most likely be someone who came in contact
with the lightsaber.
If it were a young Ben Solo, we would not know it if he was shown—because we don’t
know what Ben looked like as a boy.
The same can also be said about Luke Skywalker.
If it were Anakin—well, people who have seen Episode 1 would identify a young Anakin
Skywalker, but the truth is that in Episode 7, we only see one boy and that was Finn.
So if it were Finn in Rey’s vision, we have to ask why she sees him as a boy—but it
IS interesting that Finn will later come to possess the lightsaber—and it is also interesting
that the lightsaber plays a part in Finn accepting his heroic journey.
The floor collapses in on Rey and we see Luke Skywalker with R2-D2.
Now the novelization says that it appears that Luke is at a burning Temple.
We have no idea what this event is or when it takes place.
Earlier we were lead to believe that it occurred 15 years prior to the Force Awakens.
The reason people thought this is because in “The Art of the Force Awakens,” there
is a line that says Luke is wearing a different outfit on Ach-To because Michael Kaplan did
not want him to still be wearing the same robes he wore 15 years before.
So let’s say this shot is of Luke 15 years before Rey finds him at the First Jedi Temple.
We only know that Luke and R2 are possibly at a satellite Jedi Temple that is either
on fire or they are in front of a fire.
It is possible that Luke already has other students and they are exploring the galaxy,
seeking out these Jedi satellite temples.
The “Bloodline” novel actually confirms that Luke has been mostly unseen since the
end of the Rebellion as he has been seeking out students and exploring Jedi ruins in his
efforts to possibly rebuild the Jedi Order.
If this shot is of Luke from 15 years before the Force Awakens, Ben has not yet turned
to the dark side.
As of now, we don’t know when Ben actually came to study with Luke, but he would have
been about 14 years old.
The next thing we see is the warrior being stabbed through the back by Kylo Ren.
Now a number of people believe that Rey is being saved by Kylo Ren, but this is actually
not the case.
Rey, as a remote viewer is possibly seeing this event from the perspective of someone
else who actually was present, or she is just reacting to the event, as a remote viewer.
Think of this as the same way that Bran Stark is able to remote view events on Game of Thrones
with his greenseer ability.
Rey is actually seeing a battle that either occurred in the past or will occur in the
future.
See this is where things get a little fuzzy because psychometry shows someone the history
of an object and the history of those who possessed the object—but Force visions can
allow people to see into the future.
Either way—what I think Rey is seeing is actually Kylo Ren after he joins the Knights
of Ren.
I believe this was actually a Pilgrim settlement of people who follow the Church of the Force.
I believe that Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren were searching for the location of Luke
Skywalker and the First Jedi Temple—and this is what ultimately led Kylo Ren to Tuanil
Village at the beginning of Episode 7.
Now I should note that the novels have the vision of Luke and the vision of the Knights
of Ren in reverse order—after that, Rey sees a battle that takes place on a snowy
planet and there is a lightsaber fight during the battle.
We don’t see this part of her vision in the movie version.
The next thing we see in the movie is a young Rey on Jakku.
The novel says that Rey hears a voice saying that they will come back for her—and she’s
begging for them to stay.
Pablo Hidalgo released a picture of the early script, and it is revealed that it was a male’s
voice telling Rey that they will return.
So this is a correction from something I said in a speculation video about Jyn Erso being
Rey’s mother, as I believed, at the time, that it was a woman’s voice Rey was hearing.
Now what we see on the screen is Unkar Plutt holding Rey by the arm as a ship leaves Jakku.
We’re led to believe that this ship is Rey’s family—or whoever it was that left her on
Jakku.
Pablo Hidalgo tweeted out that the ship from Rey’s vision was supposed to have been used
in an earlier shot.
When Rey is cleaning her scavenged items, she looks at an elderly woman who is also
a scavenger.
The symbolism is that Rey is looking at herself if she stays on Jakku—however at that same
time, the ship from her vision is departing Jakku.
So it is possible that Rey sees the ship in her vision—but that ship may only represent
her sense of being left on Jakku with the Blobfish, Unkarr Plutt—because we actually
learn from Rey’s Survival Guide that she was not always with Unkarr Plutt.
She actually had several caretakers before she became old enough to survive on her own.
As for the rest of her vision—well, it’s her inevitable confrontation with Kylo Ren.
It marks the event where she will truly learn to trust the Force to guide her actions—and
that is the only reason she was able to defeat him in combat.
Rey allowed the Force to guide her actions, and Kylo Ren’s connection to the Force had
been weakened when he killed his father, Han Solo, on the bridge.
So that’s my interpretation of Rey’s vision.
I realize that this does not really answer any questions.
If anything, it should actually create more questions.
How did Rey end up on Jakku?
Why is Luke with R2 in front of a fire, and why are Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren slaughtering
people?
How much of what we’re seeing the past or the future in the vision of the Knights of
Ren?
Another question we should be asking is if Rey’s unique abilities extend beyond psychometry
and for how long has she been using her force abilities without her knowing?
I hope all of these questions will be explored as we get deeper into our story in Episodes
8 and 9.
So now I would like to hear from all of you.
How do you think Rey ended up on Jakku—and who do you think her parents are, since it
really appears that she is NOT a Skywalker?
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After that, I’m going to be catching up on my reviews of Star Wars Rebels—so if
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