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Post #1350737

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JakeRyan17
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Idea: A TLJ Edit to please everybody?
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30-May-2020, 2:44 PM

StarkillerAG said:

JakeRyan17 said:

“Who’s the girl” is a repeated line. Rey talks about waiting for her parents. The flashback focuses on her being left as a child. The phrasing “but there’s someone who still could” begs the audience to question “who?”.

Johnson just worked with what he was given.

None of that points to any sort of mystery surrounding Rey’s parents. There’s a mystery surrounding Rey’s incredible power, and Rey’s abandonment is a key plot point, but those two plot threads are not the same.

Also, when Maz says “There’s someone who still could”, she explicitly says that she’s not referring to Rey’s parents, but instead to Luke. Her whole speech is basically saying “Forget your parents, your future lies with the Jedi now.” I wish that was where they left it, instead of making Rey’s entire character arc about heritage and bloodline or whatever.

Rey mentions Luke, as if guessing who her parents are. Ridley even mentioned that she believed Luke to be her father when making The Force Awakens because of how that scene was structured. I think fans were the only ones that questioned her power, even Kylo states it as a matter of fact rather than questioning how an untrained girl could be so powerful, warning others that she’s testing her powers and will only become more dangerous. Her search for belonging is very tied to her parents throughout the movie, this is part of why she gravitates to Han and feels so angry that Kylo would kill one of his parents.