re: For everyone complaining about Rey's lineage

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There is nothing TFA that sets her up to be a Skywalker. Nothing.

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Did you watch TFA? Did I imagine the part where she’s an orphan kid on a desert planet that just happens to be really good at fixing droids and is an ace pilot who lives in a salvage yard that has the Millineum Falcon and when she touches Luke’s light saber she has visions of jedi training or something?

A lot of people including me just thought she would be a reworked Jaina like how Kylo is a reworked Jacen.



Oh well.

Because the Force Awakens specifically setup the mystery around it and told the audience it was a 'big deal'

And to people saying Ren was lying, Ren actually didnt tell Rey who her parents were, he got her to admit she's 'known all along' that her parents were nobodies

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Where was the gripe from Anakin/Vader's lineage? A complete nobody who was the greatest wielder of The Force? Why does she need a spectacular blood line?

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He wasn't nobody... HE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE!!!

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And to people saying Ren was lying, Ren actually didnt tell Rey who her parents were, he got her to admit she's 'known all along' that her parents were nobodies

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I think it’s still possible Rey doesn’t truly know her real parents.

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But thanks for confirming that you are not well-versed in SW. Now everyone can disregard your take on the latest movie

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Take a breath, nerd.

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Did I imagine the part where she’s an orphan kid on a desert planet that just happens to be really good at fixing droids and is an ace pilot who lives in a salvage yard that has the Millineum Falcon and when she touches Luke’s light saber she has visions of jedi training or something?

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None of that sets her up to be a Skywalker

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Come on, you are super smart. At least the light saber visions are "something." You can chalk everything else up to writers specifically making Rey "like Skywalker, but not Skywalker" to create the warm and fuzzies. But the vision nonsense is a massive massive problem.

They also put her holding a robot hand. Yes, there are a lot of robots in this world, but Abrams is not stupid, he knew exactly what he was doing.

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At leas the light saber visions are "something." You can chalk everything else up to writers specifically making Rey "like Skywalker, but not Skywalker" to create warm and fuzzies. But the vision nonsense is a massive massive problem.

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I thought it was pretty clear in TLJ - Rey is the Force's response to Ben Solo. Her light emerged as an answer to his dark - hence, bringing balance to the Force. The light saber vision was the Force revealing itself to Rey.

For all the bad stuff in TLJ, I loved that explanation. This is still a Skywalker story but this time it is Ben Solo's and Rey is his counterbalance.

This is why I commented earlier that even given the nonsense of TLJ there is still an epic way to end this Saga.

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Is it really that much of a crime to draw parallels between her and Luke without her being a Skywalker?

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If they stopped at everything but the robot hand and visions and she was literally just a parallel insofar as "she's a lowly day worker, trapped without parents searching for answers," yada yada, sure that's ok. But they didn't.

She doesn't have to be a Skywalker, but they could have made her somebody, maybe related to someone involved in the Clone Wars, but something where the visions make sense. Or they could make the case that ALL powerful Force users have a connection, or something. There are options.

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Maybe it just reinforces the notion that there is a connection through the Force between those who have that stronger connection?

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Eh, that doesn't hold water to the "Anyone can be a powerful Force user," kind of thing. They are democratizing the Force, but still trying to make Rey "Special," and it isn't working.