What’s up Star Wars Fans?
My name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
It’s not too hard to guess from the title of this video, but I’m going to tell you
exactly why the Rey is Shmi Skywalker theory is wrong.
If you haven’t heard of the latest iteration of this theory, it appeared on the Star Wars
speculation boards over on Reddit, and it was posted by a user going by the handle,
Darth Corleone.
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Okay, I’m going to share the Shmi Skywalker is Rey theory straight from Reddit, and then
I’m going to tell you why it’s wrong.
Plagueis and Palpatine's quest for immortality involved using the Force to control time.
They discovered time travel was possible by accessing the world between worlds.
Palpatine manages to do it, and while traveling 75 years into the future, he senses a being
more powerful in the Force than anyone he's ever encountered: Rey.
So in TROS, Palpatine appears out of the Force-Time vortex and takes Rey back 75 years into the
past... to about 10 years before the events of TPM.
Rey manages to escape from Palpatine, but knowing Palpatine would surely find her, she
cuts herself off from the Force like she saw Luke do on Ahch-To.
She takes Luke's last name, and in a twist of irony, she ends up a slave on a desert
planet, just how she started out.
She accepts that she's stuck there, and the last shot of the saga reveals a pregnant Rey/Shmi
looking out at a twin sunset.
So all the speculation about Palpatine using the Force to create Anakin is true from a
certain point of view.
He used the Force to bring Anakin's mother from the future.
Who is the father?
I don't know, maybe Ben/Kylo?
That's for the audience to decide.
So that’s the theory— I guess there are people who are fans of this theory…that’s
cool.
Here’s the thing—with all of these fan theories that give these Star Wars fans a
happy lightsaber in the pants— it’s always based on a statement that isn’t true, and
then some other stuff that they have to make up.
It’s like “I’m going to say this thing that’s not true, but I’ll make it true.
Let’s take that false statement and assume these other things happen as a result.”
That’s literally how every Star Wars theory works—and it’s why they always end up
being not true, and real bad.
For real— if any of these theories are good, it’s because you can’t pick the false
statement.
With this one—the very first line is false.
Look, it says “Plagueis and Palpatine’s quest for immortality involved using the Force
to control time.”
That’s not true.
Plagueis was on a quest for immortality, not Palpatine.
The Sith are all obsessed with physical immortality, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily
their quest.
Palpatine literally sought unlimited power— the path to unlimited power involved the final
secret of the dark side of the Force— it was a secret Palpatine and Plagueis learned
together.
Plagueis wanted to use it to become immortal, but Palpatine wanted to use it to basically
become a god, by controlling the full power of the dark side of the Force.
I would not necessarily call gaining access to the World Between Worlds some Sith ritual
to release the full power of the dark side when the only person who actually was able
to gain access to the World Between Worlds was Ezra Bridger using the Force and solving
a puzzle that involved the Ones from Mortis.
We’re supposed to believe that Palpatine used the World Between Worlds to save himself—and
then Rey time travels to Tattooine where she gives birth to Anakin Skywalker, who is actually
her love child with Ben Solo?
Yeah—this makes everyone liars.
It would mean that Anakin is not the Chosen One.
Look, the Prophecy of Mortis, the Prophecy of the Chosen One was that a being conceived
by the midichlorians would be born to bring balance to the Force and defeat the Sith.
Anakin brought balance to the Force and he defeated the Sith.
Now if the Sith manage to come back— what does that have to do with Anakin?
I mean there’s also a prophecy about the Sith returning, and as I’ve said in other
videos—these prophecies aren’t always specific—they can be timeless and apply
to other situations.
If Rey cuts herself off from the Force and changes her name to Shmi—why would she live
out the rest of her life as a slave?
Why would she allow herself to be captured and tortured by sand people?
I mean, you want me to believe that Rey is just living in Tatooine as Shmi Skywalker
and no force ghosts ever contact her?
Oh—you didn’t know that Force Ghosts exist outside of Time & Space?
Go back to one of my first videos—this was before we ever knew anything about the World
Between Worlds.
See, the Force is strong with me—I tried to describe a place outside of time and space
that turned out to be EXACTLY what the World Between Worlds is.
I posted that video in January or February 2016 in a video about Yoda appearing in episode
8.
I know that cognitive dissonance is a real thing.
Someone who thinks this is a good theory will say that I haven’t debunked anything.
It’s cool— if you want to believe this would actually happen— do you— but even
if you didn’t catch the stuff that Darth Corleone made up, or got wrong— it still
doesn’t make any sense.
Also—one more thing that needs to be made clear— Palpatine did not create Anakin from
any point of view.
I don’t care what you think that panel in Vader #25 said— It’s basically a dream,
or a vision— it’s not to be taken literally.
Even Leland Chee said not to take it literally.
The only point of view that Palpatine created Anakin was this— all the stuff Palpatine
was doing to enact his plan, that created the conditions for the Force to strike back
and cause the Chosen One to be conceived.
That’s it…Palpatine didn’t cast some dark side magic spell that caused Shmi to
get pregnant.
Palpatine was not secretly Anakin’s father.
Palpatine did a bunch of bad stuff, and the Force decided “oh, it’s time for the Chosen
One to appear.”
That’s it.
So like I said…this Rey being Shmi Skywalker stuff?
Bad theory…I mean why do people have a problem with new characters being introduced to Star
Wars?
It’s like everyone has to be related to someone else.
If you really need to watch something where all the characters are related to other characters,
stop watching Star Wars, and go look at Days of Our Lives.
Everyone is either a Horton or a Brady…and if they aren’t, they’ll marry a Horton
or Brady—or find out they’ve secretly been a Horton or Brady the whole time.
If you want “the Star Wars of Our Lives” hey man…have at it—but it’s ridiculous
that we can’t have new characters.
Like Finn is either related to Lando or Mace Windu because those are the only black characters
with major roles in the saga.
Poe has to secretly be Han Solo’s kid because his actual parents were retconned into Return
of the Jedi 30 years later.
Rey has to be the first Skywalker because a new character being the hero for a new generation
is apparently too much for some people to handle.
Anyway—that’s all I’ve got to say about this theory.
Like most of these theories, it sucks.
For real…it does.
Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
And if you feel some kinda way about it— I don’t know, cry in the comments.
I drink fanboy tears and I know things about Star Wars that the fanboys don’t.
I guess that’s just part of being an Urban Acolyte.
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