Yeah, that would be like revealing two already established seemingly unrelated characters are actually brother and sister! Who pulls that out in the third film and expects to get away with it? đ
Hopefully JJ is smart enough to follow through on what he set up in TFA (and Rian expanded on) and doesnât feel pressure from fans to shoehorn in some random bullshit âexplanationâ that wonât stack up against the rest of the story being told.
Thatâs the conundrum here though isnât it. To a lot of fans Reyâs history with the Force already doesnât stack up with the rest of the story being told, namely the first six films. The Force semi-randomly bestowing Force powers on anyone considered âworthyâ, whatever that may mean, replaces the genetic lotery introduced by Lucas with a cosmic one, the net effect actually being worse overall imo, because aside from the fact, that you still have to be lucky enough to be born with the potential apparently, you now also just get the powers that go with that potential without earning them, or without going through what was once the inevitable temptation of the dark side. The latter is sadly reinforced by the way Ben Solo is presented in this trilogy thusfar, reducing him to little more than just a bad seed, a foil for Reyâs apparent innate goodness. Some may argue we didnât know much about Vaderâs motivations for falling to the dark side, but I would counter that with the observation, that in many ways Lukeâs journey delibirately mirrors his fatherâs from TESB onwards, highlighting the similarity in their characters to reinforce the idea, that Luke runs the risk of following in his fatherâs footsteps. This thematic connection between the main protagonist, and antagonist enhances both their characters unlike the somewhat contrived idea of âdarkness rises, and light to meet itâ, which turns Rey into a slave of destiny, a sock puppet of the light side of the Force.