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DominicCobb
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Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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9-May-2019, 3:49 PM

Omni said:

DominicCobb said:

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

You said she won the cosmic lottery. Lotteries are random. That means she was randomly chosen. That’s what that word means. And whether she was “chosen” or not is completely debatable.

Touché, but considering how virtuous, and perfect she is, I take back the cosmic lotery statement, and maintain she was chosen to be the hero:

“Darkness rises, and light to meet it.”

She is thus her destiny to be the defender of the light, not by choice.

That’s still your interpretation. It was someone’s destiny to defend the light. She made the choice to be that someone.

Hello! Do you think that the “awakening” Snoke felt in TFA happened in more than one person? Rey states in TLJ “something inside me has always been there, and now it has awake”. My interpretation is therefore that the force chose her, in a somewhat similar way it chose Anakin in the PT.

Maybe what you say is true, that the awakening happened in more people, “someone’s destiny to defend the light”, but it’s harder to support that claim than it is to support the claim that she was chosen. There’s been no evidence that the awakening of the light to match the dark happened in other people. Even Snoke in TLJ identified said awakening as her.

Anyway, food for thought.

Well it’s very open to interpretation. I think there’s a few ways you could look at it. That’s one way, sure. Another way is yes, the force awakened in many people (the end of TLJ could potentially support this). The way I tend to look at it is that Rey, in conjunction with her being in the right place at the right time, tapped into the force which then awakened in her. So kind of like there was this pent up force potential in the world and she grabbed onto it (when? I would say when she made the daring escape with the Falcon). Of course the light has always been there within her, as it is with many others who I would say have the potential but don’t find the situation or the strength to tap into it.