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I’d also appreciate a link. Thank you very much in advance!

thebluefrog said:

Darth Lucas said:

I wonder if it would be possible (or even a good idea) to change the twist into that Rey was a clone made by Palpatine to give his soul a new body. Might be able to be accomplished by adding a few Rey bodies in the tanks with the Snoke bodies.

Keeps the same energy as her being his granddaughter without having the question of who the hell did Palpatine hook up with. Also keeps continuity that her parents were “nobody”.

Rey being a clone would’ve been a far, far better plot point than her just being “a Palpatine.” It was really a stretch how they had to make Rey’s parents still be “nobody” yet still explain the granfather link.

In fact, having the Dark Side vision Rey actually be real and be a clone would’ve been far more interesting, too. Probably too hard to do with current VFX editing, though.

I finally got around to seeing TROS yesterday (I had been sort of dreading it), and I’m surprised there’s been so little discussion of Clone Rey on here. This was a popular fan theory before TROS was released. Though not a perfect storyline, it’s certainly logically and thematically more coherent than Rey Palpatine. More to the point, I think it was obviously the storyline that had been originally planned for the sequel trilogy. That weird opening scene with Palpatine talking to Kylo in front of a vat full of Snokes? It’s totally out of place and the Emperor’s cloning experiments aren’t followed up in the rest of the film. But to me it’s pretty clear that in the original version of this scene, Palpatine tells Kylo, “I created Snoke, and I created Rey too.” Rey originates as a Palpatine clone or a Luke-Palpatine clone hybrid (or whatever) in order to serve as a powerful vessel for the Emperor’s resurrection. The Emperor’s laboratory scene was actually supposed to be the moment for the big reveal.

So what happened? Disney execs felt that the Clone Rey backstory was too dark. It wasn’t Disney. So key scenes were re-written at the last minute to make Rey into Palpatine’s granddaughter. The result is not great. You can almost hear Adam Driver apologizing to the audience when he says “You are a Palpatine.”

If I’m right that Clone Rey was the original storyline, I don’t think it would be too hard to restore it, though it would take some new dialogue. The laboratory scene could be taken from the original and cut into the scene (as a flashback) where Kylo Ren tells Rey that she’s actually a Palpatine (Kylo’s lines would have to be changed, of course – fortunately he’s wearing his mask).

The ending would also improve markedly with this, and as per the discussion above, it keeps the idea that Rey’s parents were “nobody” while giving her powers and attraction to the dark side a clearer basis. I think a fanedit based around this idea should be seriously considered – and I for one am dead certain that Clone Rey was the original plotline anyway.