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NeverarGreat
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The Force Awakens: Starlight (V1.1 Released!)
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30-Jul-2018, 12:02 AM

Indeed.

On another note, I was thinking about Rey in this movie and how she has so much power, and it made me think back to the Original Trilogy. After Obi-wan dies, claiming that he will be more powerful than Vader could possibly imagine, he then doesn’t really do anything except talk to Luke for the rest of the film. I have thought the possibility exists that it was Obi-wan who guided Luke’s hand in taking out the Death Star, and in many of his feats with the Force in ESB, since he later claims that he ‘cannot interfere’ with the Vader duel. This implies that he could have interfered with other things, and now we learn in TLJ that a Force Ghost can indeed interfere in the physical world in dramatic ways.

So my idea for TFA is that Yoda (and maybe Obi-wan) is guiding Rey throughout the movie, directly influencing and augmenting her power.

It may not be as crazy as it seems - after all, one of the interpretations of the ST so far is that Rey has been chosen by the Force to counterbalance the darkness of Snoke and Kylo Ren. This is problematic if your view of the Force is one of a passive energy field only activated and guided by people. Enter Yoda, who was unable to contact Luke after he closed himself off from the Force and was forced to find someone else to rescue the ancient texts and pass on the 20,000 year legacy of the Jedi. And it would make sense that Rey would never see Yoda, since one hypothesis of Force Ghosts is that they are not visible to anyone who didn’t know them in life.

Since this is only a preliminary idea, I’m open to suggestions as to how this could be hinted out in the edit (if at all) - maybe have some ghostly Yoda echoes in Rey’s visions perhaps? Some specific sound effect linked to Obi-wan or Yoda when Rey is accomplishing her feats of Forcery? Or should it be more subtle?