The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers

Spoilers: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

(1/21) > >>

raidem:
I realize this board is for discussion about Dresden Files.  There however is links between DF and Star Wars in the role of hidden familial relationships and ongoing allusions to the Star Wars universe within the Dresden Files.  So, going forward any discussion about the movie and speculation concerning it will be spoiled and I ask that you include spoiler tags too to safeguard the errant wanderer that doesn't get the clue in the title.

So, here goes my theory:
(click to show/hide)Rey's parents are Luke Skywalker and Vice Admiral Holdo

From what I've gathered about Holdo's backstory is that she and Lea met each other in their coming to age journey where they became friends and Holdo later joins the resistance out of this friendship.  Holdo comes from a planet, that the expanded universe literature states Luke went to early on after the defeat of the Empire.  So, in the literature out there, we have some connections between Luke and Holdo via Lea and proximity at least when it comes to Luke visiting her planet.  I could see Luke devoloping an attraction that blossoms later on into something more and then going on unaware that he had sired a daughter.  Holdo though would obviously have known, if in fact she is the mother.  If we go by Rey's flashback's in the first movie, it seems someone left her on Jakku and they left on a well maintained transport that left the planet.  I'd say from this flashback, it seems Rey was left on Jakku around the age of 6 or so.  Perhaps Holdo learned about something happening with the Jedi Temple that Luke was teaching at, it's destruction and warping of Lea's son Ben that convince Holdo she needed to protect her daughter by 'stranding' her elsewhere or placing her under the protection of the force sensitive who Kylo later kills on Jakku, and who had the partial map to Luke.
*(There seems some peculiarity with Rey being able to fly the Millennium Falcon so ably in first movie, I wonder if perhaps she has some stored knowledge imprinted on her psyche, etc that she has unconscious access to.)

Now, to the expanded universe novels.
Luke marries Mara Jade who has crimson hair. (Holdo uses dyed hair often out of some early on rebelliousness and/or quirk of personality; so it could line up with a similarity to Mara Jade's crimson hair)
They have a son named Ben Skywalker.

Lea and Han Solo marry.
They have twins Jaina and Jacen Solo.  They also have a boy named Anakin Solo.
The bad guy in Star Wars turns out to be Jacen Solo not Ben. 
Luke and Ben Solo retrace Jacen's journey to find out who, what turned him to the dark side.

So, you can see how Disney, with the movie, mixes and matches names, relationships, etc in making their movie with some familial connection shrouded.  There is also the potential in Star Wars for cloning, other reproductive techniques to be used to produce a child so that needs to be kept as an option.  Well, that is my best shot at proposing who Rey's possible parents are.

Snark Knight:
You've actually seen TLJ, right? The parentage question was answered in the actual movie.

wardenferry419:
For many, the answer was found to be lacking.

raidem:
Yeah. You actually believed it [that the parentage question was answered]?  I don't buy it. 

(click to show/hide)Her parentage is still shrouded. She was left with someone and looks up toward a transport as if her family or parent or loved one was on that transport. And, that transport was a really nice transport, not some piece of junk, I checked. I rented the first movie yesterday.

Kylo Ren is the one that suggests she is a nobody, etc. She agrees or feels that way.  It doesn't mean she just suddenly found the truth of her parentage in the conversation with Kylo. And remember, he probably was using her desire for parents to bring her over to him in his own way in saying "you are a nobody but I want you so come to me."
Maz believes there is something to her parentage and asks Han who is the girl. Maz sees Rey is drawn to Luke's lightsaber. Luke asks her who are you, why are you here.  We have basically been led to think is Rey Luke's daughter or maybe Han's daughter.  And, then we find out, nope she is just some 'nobody' that had strong potential with the force, who was just coincidentally at the same planet where the millennium falcon was, where missing piece to Luke hideaway was, to where Kylo Ren shows up, etc.

I've also read so many of the novels in the expanded universe in my youth so I know a thing or two about the people in the background, the plots, etc that others who haven't read them don't know.  I see where Disney is editing in this expanded universe to create its own version.  So, Disney to this point has totally voided Luke's (love interest, wife, son).  I think we will find out Luke did have a love interest and maybe didn't find out he had a kid himself.  It's not like that hasn't happened before in Star Wars where a kid has been hidden from their father.

wardenferry419:
I am not saying I believe it. In fact, I don't want to believe it. It goes against the grain of Star Wars being the Skywalker saga. But, I suspect that it will be so in order to appease certain non-plot related needs.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page