Episode VIII Theories? (SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY)

I know Episode 7 is very mixed on this, mostly because of similarities to Star Wars '77, the overpoweredness of some characters, but that’s not the point of this thread.

To the people that actually liked VII, what do you think is gonna happen in VIII? I think VIII will be similar to Empire, but this time the training will be done on both sides of the force, and I expect some big revelation.

• Rey is Luke’s daughter.
• Snoke is Darth Plagueis.
• Luke trains Rey and there will be parallels to his own training from Yoda.
• We will find out a lot more about Kylo Ren’s turn to the dark side and the fall of the New Jedi Order and why exactly Luke felt the need to go into hiding and abandon Rey. (I think clearly Snoke/Kylo were looking for her given his interest in her in TFA “What girl?!” etc.)
• Kylo will continue to struggle with an inner conflict between the light and dark, his killing of his father having backfired to have the opposite effect of what he wanted, which was to put an end to the conflict.
• I think part of the reason Luke isolated himself was that he feared falling to the dark side himself. My personal theory is that Kylo killed Rey’s mother/Luke’s wife and Luke felt it would be too dangerous to try to take revenge, as that could lead him to the dark side like his father which would ultimately only be more harmful to the fate of the galaxy than the First Order. So he had to wait until Rey was old enough to find him so he could train her and make a play then. That’s why R2 did not light up and reveal the map until Rey was there. Luke told him to only show the map to her.
• It’s possible that ghost Hayden makes an appearance. It’s also possible that we have an extended flashback sequence for the first time in Star Wars to help clear some of these events up. Hopefully, such a scene would allow for us to see Luke and Han on screen together again.
• There might be more of these mysterious “Knights of Ren.” It’s possible that many of the Jedi Luke was training fell to the dark side, not just Kylo, and so these are like the new Sith except not bound by stupid concepts like the “Rule of Two.”

Double post

Lol overpoweredness.