Yup, Daisy actually said that. For a whole year we’ve been debating about who could have left Rey on Jakku at the tender age of five. But the answer had been provided for us even before the release of TFA in cinemas.
We’ve been speculating on whether she was left there by strangers, kidnappers, other members of her alleged family or people who were ordered to kill her. But according to Daisy, Rey was abandoned by none other than her own parents. Not one parent but both parents. This also means that her parents are totally aware of her existence because they were the ones that abandoned her.
This is the full quote:
“Rey’s parents left her at 5. We meet her when she’s in her late teens, early 20s.”
The full article is here. It was published on the 11th of December 2015
Well, the most important thing we can take away from this is that there’s no way either Luke or Leia would ‘leave’ a child of theirs to a life of misery and then completely forget about her existence. Therefore, there is no way that Rey is their daughter/niece
The Han – Finn relationship in the Force Awakens is so underrated in my opinion.
I mean, from the beginning Han knows this kid is lying. He may not know about the ex-Stormtrooper thing, but he knows he’s not Resistance.
And Han just doesn’t care. He finds him amusing, he looks out for the kid, he never judges him for wanting to flee from the First Order. Then there’s all of their interaction on the Starkiller planet. It’s just so fun to watch.
People love saying that Han instadopted Rey, but he picked up two kids that day.
Tbh, Han was probably just relieved when Finn had some sense, UNLIKE EVERYONE ELSE HE EVER MET.
I adore the fact that Han has like, detective-like smuggler instincts. Cause he canonically noticed that Finn was wearing bloody stormtrooper boots. But then he also read Finn well enough to know he wasn’t hostile. It’s just the cutest thing, that he pays attention to those tiny details. (Maybe that was one thing that drew him to Leia, no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t read her)
I love hearing people talk about how “all we ever see kylo do is throw tantrums. it’s pathetic and lame. I can’t take him seriously.”
Like… He had 2. Most of the film he’s actually pretty calm and collected. And by that I mean he’s constantly repressing everything.
Or is it not cool enough ‘cause he took it out on a console instead of a real person…
The fact that Kylo took his anger out on consoles instead of people just shows that he has more self-control then Vader ever did. And yet he’s still considered the whiny one….
What a scrub. Can’t even Force-choke his subordinates like a real Vader……
He’s a little bitch who can’t fight a girl not trained with a lightsaber trying to use it as a fucking spear while he’s actually had formal training. Episode 7 was an abomination
…Try again.
He obviously has had a good amount of training which I’m sure would include lightsaber training as well. It’s proven at the start when he stops fucking BLASTER BOLTS in mid air. Then he proceeds to fight against someone using the weapon badly who has no formal training in the ways of lightsabers or the force. It SHOULD have went more like anakin vs the kids in the prequels. They did it only cause hurr durr look how strong Rey is. It’s bad writing just to show how “strong” she is.
Idk who is responsible for it, but how powerful he is jumps back and forth through the movie. It’s all over the place. That and being fended off by Rey as the station is exploding firmly cement him as lame. It’s 100% not the tantrums. How can you take someone seriously when they’re introduced as well as he was then you neuter him and make him incompetent and useless?
Tldr: he’s pathetic and lame cause of bad writing, not the tantrums
If that’s your reasoning your understanding of the film and character is pretty weak. Kylo didn’t lose to Rey because he’s weaker nor is it because she’s stronger.
Kylo slowly loses his shit throughout the film, starting out calm and collected. Soon, everything starts going wrong. He starts having explosive outbursts. Not because he ‘didnt get his way’ but because he knows these failures were caused by his own actions. The first thing he did was let Finn go. And it’s all been downhill from there. All because of his ‘weakness’. His compassion.
By the time the snow fight came up, he was distraught from what he’d just done to Han. Say what you want but the fact that he was severely effected by it and horrified by his own actions is canon. It’s in the script. It’s in the novelizations. That doesn’t put people in a good head space.
Not to mention, he got shot beforehand. By something that should have killed him. Why do people conveniently forget this detail. He was fighting Finn and Rey while he was bleeding out. They were fresh. They haven’t been touched! They weren’t injured or exhausted.
In that fight, Kylo was, was for a lack of a better word, a mess. Mentally, emotionally, physically…. He was not in great shape. He got cocky, and the he got reckless. He was all over the place. On top of that, he’s not out to kill Rey. That’s the defining factor for why Rey comes out on top in her first fight with him. HE’s not trying to kill her. But SHE is. That’s not to totally undermine Rey’s strength at all. She’s a scavenger. It’s canon that she’s had to fight to survive on some occasions. Doesn’t matter if she’s using the saber wrong, she still has an instinct. As a fighter, once you’ve had experience fighting with a weapon, it easier to pick up a new one you’ve never used and learn to handle it rather quickly.
Make no mistake, she is strong. But Kylo gave her that opening to fight back. He COULD have pushed her off that cliff edge, but he didn’t. He could have gone for a finishing blow, but he didn’t. The amount of times she turned her back to him in that fight is ridiculous. In the end he gave her that moment to connect with the Force. She took what Maz told and what she learned from being in Kylo’s head and used it then and there. She’s a fast learner. And she’s powerful. That doesn’t make Kylo a weak fighter though. They’re presented as equals. That’s the whole point.
In Snoke’s words: It isn’t her strength that’s making him fail. It’s his ‘weakness’. His compassion.
Kylo and Rey are powerful. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. This situation was not in Kylo’s favour at all. We were shown him possibly at his lowest. And I’m willing to bet the next time they fight, we’ll see Rey’s weaknesses in turn.
That’s not bad writing at all. It’s infinitely more interesting.
If being a male while being a complex emotional and conflicted character, who is strong with moments of weakness, is pathetic and lame you must think very little about 99.9% of people in general.
Early on in the film, we see Rey being adorable in her X-Wing pilot helmet. I remembered seeing the numbers “733” on her helmet on my first viewing.
But then I realized it wasn’t “733”, it was Aurebesh.
The supplementary materials, specifically the TFA Visual Dictionary and Rey’s Survival Guide, shed more light on this.
She finds a crashed X-Wing, it belonged to a squadron called the Yellow Aces. She finds a pilot helmet, belonging to a Dosmit Ræh of the Tierfon Yellow Aces.
She makes a doll of an X-Wing pilot by hand,
she enjoys wearing the helmet and, at least when she was younger, liked to pretend she was Ræh, X-Wing pilot.
”You can get a clue to what happened to these fighters based on whether the
ejection seat’s inside or not.” This will be important to my next post but I figured I’d mention it while we’re here.
She runs flight simulators scavenged from downed ships and practices them during her limited free time.
”THANK YOU YELLOW-4!!!” Now I know that you’re thinking, “sure, it says Yellow, but that doesn’t mean it’s Tierfon Yellow Aces.”
On the left you’ll see: Flight computer–capacitors and memory drive salvaged, 2 portions, transponder ID says fighter was Yellow-4 (Tierfon)
At the top you’ll see: “Canopy–missing (ejected)” “Cockpit–ejector seat fired” So we know Dosmit Raeh likely survived and, if still alive, is likely still on Jakku.
”Don’t miss the repulsor lifts–I scavenged a bunch of those for my
speeder.”
Rey used primarily X-Wing parts for her personal speeder, most importantly the steering and engines, indicating familiarity with
those parts.
These are all facts from Rey’s Survival Guide and the TFA Visual Dictionary.
Rey searches probably hundreds of downed ships, and dozens of X-Wings, so why
does this book keep mentioning this one? Why does it tie everything together?
And why on earth would you give this character the name Raeh if you
weren’t going to do anything with it? Well we’ll get into more of this later but for now the important thing is Rey taking the identity of Ræh from a young age, and choosing to use that name as her own.
When Finn (who also doesn’t have an actual name) asks her for her name she replies “I’m Rey”, not “My name is Rey”. It’s a tiny detail and much too little to be theorizing from but wouldn’t it be great if both Rey and Finn at that moment were using names they adopted, not ones they were born with? And Rey instead of saying her name is Rey, responds with a simple “I’m Rey”, because that’s the identity she’s chosen, she is Ræh. Also keep in mind that this happens immediately after Rey flies the Falcon, and is even excitedly telling Finn how she’s never flown like that before. She’s never felt more like Ræh, Ace pilot, than in this moment, and so when asked who she is, she uses the identity she took as a child, which now seems more apt than ever.
(Credit and thanks to @harquinns for the beautiful gif at the start, and to @expelumos for the black and white gifs at the end, they were the only ones I could find that show that very important hesitation just before Rey says her line in the 4th gif, almost as if she’s about to say something different at first)
If rey and finn arent romantic why do reylos keep pasting kylos ridiculous face over finns? Probably because rey gives finn The Nala “Do Me” Eyes™. You know the look:
The Nala “Do Me” Eyes™ dont lie. Its canon, yo.
Rey knocks Finn over the first time they meet bc she thinks he’s a threat – same thing that Nala does when her and Simba reunite bc she doesn’t recognize him. Then they start circling around each other, squeeing … while Timon walks between their legs going huh? And guess who is going in circles around each other squeeing with….BB-8 rolling around them? Exactly…
also this is even more amazing when you go into extended canon
not only did rey grow up orphaned and isolated, but also dirt poor, working a thankless job for despotic boss in order to feed herself and sometimes not managing even that. if you read ‘before the awakening’ rey’s story is utterly fucking heartbreaking because it’s outright said that she has, on multiple occasions, gone so hungry she had trouble standing. despite this she loves building things so much that she’d rather keep the best stuff she’s scavenging for herself than exchange it for food. she built her speeder already several years before we meet her, so like, in her mid-teens and she’s very proud of it. she has a workbench in her home and she’s always tinkering with things. rey would literally go hungry to follow her passion.
finn is basically caught in the equivalent of an abusive educational system that’s forcing him in little boxes and teaches skills (which incidentally involve murdering civilians) at the expense of his humanity. not only that but finn is also the overachiever who’s constantly doubting himself. it’s fucked up but before he escapes the first order so much of finn’s thought process is ‘i’m always at the top of the class and they’re saying i have so much potential, so why do i feel like such a failure?’ finn rebels against the order by bringing out his humanity full force and holding it up to them. he’s such a giant fuck you to the system it’s incredible. if anyone is a rebel in this story, it’s definitely finn.
poe is so interesting because at 32 he would actually still be in the millennial age gap. he’s older, and by all accounts should be that disillusioned guy who understood long ago that notions of galactic peace and what have you are useless in real life. he should be that dude who embraced his cynicism and is maybe sort of patronizing towards these idealistic wide-eyed kids. instead he’s the opposite of all that, but that’s not really the point. poe, whose family fought to establish the new republic, wants nothing more than to do his part in rebuilding it. but at some point in the process he runs head-first into a wall of corrupt politics and shady business deals that would profit from a war. but instead of giving up and keeping his head down once he realizes what he’s up against, poe goes and becomes a leader figure in the resistance.
so basically you have three young people: one who works incredibly hard and is often unable to cover her most basic needs, but doesn’t give up on her passion; one who should have been broken by an abusive educational system, but instead broke the system by affirming his humanity at every point in the story; and one who didn’t succumb to cynicism and chose to act once he understood politics is always self-interested.
and the second they meet they do nothing but praise and encourage and lift eachother up, loudly and enthusiastically.
space millennials. my heart is so full of love for this story.
Thanks to Chuck Wendig and his new novel Aftermath: Empire’s End, we finally have canonized hamsters new Sequel Trilogy lore to analyze.
While several novels have been released over the course of the last year, Empire’s End is, in my opinion, the most substantial to date for insight into the direction of the Sequel Trilogy and its characters. Quite literally blowing open the “Jakku Mystery,” this novel also provides some additional insight into Snoke, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren and Gallius Rax’s fate.
As I masochistically subject myself to the slew of past and present tense that is Chuck Wendig’s writing, I will attempt to analyze the mythical lore of the Sequel Trilogy and in doing so, delineate that which is critical to the sacred canon. I will post the remainder of this meta under the read-more, as it’s very long and it contains spoilers.
This is a massive post but it’s very good. Every once in a while I find SW fans who are actually capable of deep analysis and that’s very exciting. Anyways these are great theories and you should read through this.
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