Rey should have been introduced as a Skywalker in TFA, but afterwards would have been too late.
Rey should have been revealed as a Skywalker in TLJ, but not afterward.
Rey could have been retconned into a Skywalker even in TROS, even at the cost of discounting TLJ.
Rey Random was always the best idea for the character in the end.
Rey’s story in TROS regarding her parentage and the Skywalkers was good enough.
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This trilogy was always going to come down to Skywalker vs Palpatine. Any other resolution would have been silly.
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"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
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"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
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"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
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*Labored Breathing*
Lane.....Bunny...*begins stuttering* W..Wat...Watson... *begins slumping to the ground* Fleck...Furiosa... Athos..Porthos...D'Artagnan...Howlett...Rogers...B arton *begins losing consciousness* Palpatine *summons up last bit of strength before slipping into the abyss* Rumplestilskin! *keels over*
"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
You're arguing with the wrong guy; I'm fine with the Rey could have been nobody narrative, even though they telegraphed Rey was likely Luke's descendant, they almost had no choice but to flip it (which became just as predictable).
Still, I actually love the scene of Rey's infinite "vision"; expecting to see some answer that suposedly defines who she is, looking back at her. Yet all she sees is herself, looking back at herself, gong to infinity.
That ^ is my favorite scene in the whole sequel trilogy. It's powerful and a beautiful message. It's what it should be*.
My split is with those pretending like Rey being a found nobody was some surprising or radical new paradigm shift in story
When the whole premise was already built off a random slave, found by chance in the desert. That's the main trope already built on, It's not new either. A bunch of twitters pretending it is new or saying it's new to them cause it's Rey now, doesn't mean it actually is new.
It's like the whole let's have a "grey Jedi" who walks both paths supposed "new" idea.
...What?
Did you even see the first films?
The whole premise is Luke doesn't follow the Jedi dogma- you must complete your training, no, his instinct is to save his friends, even though it leads to his failure, it leaves him with the most symbolic lesson, he wears it on his "hand".- You must kill him or we've lost, no he doesn't do that either, and doesn't become a slave to the Emperor and fear like his father did either.
How and why does he achieve this?!
**He creates and walks his own path, accepts his vision, recognized and no longer afraid accepts both halves of himself. Who came before doesn't and won't define him.
It's his own choices that do that. And by recognizing and doing so, transforms who he is, and with that act transforms (and saves) those around him (his father who had been hopelessly lost, seeing his son achieve an act and path he could never take, now finds a way to redemption)).
Again he did this by choosing and walking his own path- between the two halves/sides he recognizes as part of himself.
That grey path, was the story of Luke.
It's not new either. It just didn't have an easy tweet label, and giving it one now, with a bunch of fan articles agreeing with themselves, claiming it's some potential radical new spin, doesn't mean it's "new" either. It's not, why pretend it is?
Last edited by Güicho; 06-08-2020 at 04:24 AM.