Poll: Should Rey have *just* been a “real” Skywalker?

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Pretty simple debate point: considering the entire ST in totality, as well as the BTS drama that it had to deal with regarding the writing of Rey... would it have just been better to have Rey revealed as a Skywalker in TLJ? Or to be introduced as such in TFA, but once that was over it was a bad idea? Or was it still an idea that would have worked, eve if revealed/retconned into TROS after TLJ poo-pooed the idea?

Or was Rey as a Skywalker or Solo always going to be an inferior idea? Do you think Rey Random really did carry some powerful connotations to it?

Or are you just cold on any of the ideas used for her?

(Please Note: I do kind of want to debate answers here, so feel free to offer a defense of your opinion... and please don’t be surprised it it gets argued about.)

I’m going for the “still a good idea even in TROS” idea myself - I just genuinely don’t think Rey gained anything from TLJ, and it still would have cleaned up a lot of the issues with her character the ST in one move to just retcon in some “certain point of view” line to explain the discrepancy with TLJ.

I also don’t find many of the objections to Rey being a Skywalker or Solo convincing in the slightest, particularly once honoring TLJ as a work of art is removed. All the supposedly egalitarian ideas of Rey being a Random are already expressed by Anakin and Luke’s stories, the hundreds of other Jedi we’ve seen, Han Solo, and even Finn in the ST itself. And if it seems predictable to limiting, then I feel like that has to be accompanied by a prognosis that Kylo is also a predictable and limiting character - if an argument against Rey being a Skywalker or Solo could also apply to Kylo, then a double standard can’t be allowed.