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Spoilers: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
raidem:
(click to show/hide)Well, if they want a romantic thing to go on between Kylo and Rey, they will need to snuff out familial relationship I think. If they want to put more emphasis on non-skywalker jedi, that is another way to do it with Rey having nobody roots. I'm just saying Disney just voided lots of expanded universe material regarding Luke's history and his family. I mean there are comics 100+ years after RTJ where Cade (Skywalker), Luke's descendant plays a part in taking down a Sith Lord. So, much of the expanded universe has Luke having a child.
I mean, Disney is the new owner, and the expanded universe is no longer canon. But I still see Disney taking ideas from it and using those ideas in the movies they already created.
I stumbled on an article about the expanded universe and new movies.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-the-force-awakens-borrowed-from-the-old-star-wars-1749328107
Read this. As someone who is familiar with EU cited in the passage, it's why I'm still speculating about her parents and not accepting the answer that others do in The Last Jedi.
(click to show/hide)There’s a lot of speculation over Rey’s family—whether she’s a Solo, a Skywalker, or just specially Force-powerful. For those familiar with the EU, it’s really hard to not assume some kind of familiar relationship between Ren and Rey. When Rey fought him and won in The Force Awakens, that was reminiscent of Jaina and Jacen Solo’s last fight in the books. Jaina is Jacen’s twin.
Timeline-wise, Rey can’t be Ren’s twin. She’s nineteen and Ren is around 30. And Han and Leia don’t react to her strong enough for her to be their daughter. But something about that theory feels right, if only because of the baggage left behind by the EU.
So, Disney is do some mixing and matching and some distractions right now to keep us off guard as they role out their movie where people who have read the expanded universe may already have an idea of where they are going, because it's already gone there before.
raidem:
Spoilers. The big bad in the Expanded Universe is a 100,000 year old lady named...
(click to show/hide)http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Abeloth
She is the cause of force psychosis. She is also the cause of the cyclic nature of Sith rising to power followed by their fall. She is imprisoned, breaks free, has more influence in the galaxy, and then gets imprisoned again by the Ones except now the Ones are dead. The prison has weakened and she has broken free. She also uses multiple bodies. She can effectively use/create clones of herself, and switch bodies with others like capiocorpus.
So, maybe Rey is meant to take her down. Maybe she is a clone of abeloth that abeloth wants to later use but will get turned against herself. (Crazy Wagging) Luke was the one who killed Abeloth, but he did so many, many times. He had to have the special weapon used to kill "the Ones" to kill her.
So, in this plot outline it seems there would be too much for one movie but it eventually could set the stage for Rey that battles her EVIL self who just wants to extinguish all life in the galaxy.
Sully:
Or maybe both disney and star wars EU are both full of mediocrity and clumsily used tropes?
Neither IP is known for their subtlety or respect for canon & continuity here.
Kindler:
Honestly, I was so disappointed in the movie that I didn't even care about Rey's parentage being "answered." Whether it's true or not to me, functionally, is meaningless. After this movie failed to provide any sort of payoff from events built up in The Force Awakens, all I can say is that the next one better be written by someone competent.
raidem:
Yeah, I hope there is more of a spark to this next movie.
(click to show/hide)If I'm reading the tea leaves from the expanded universe, then Luke may have picked up on an entity sowing extreme discord within the force. He believed it to be Snook but went on an investigation and found there was another entity at play in the background. The same entity pushed Luke with homicidal ideation when he went to confront Ben. So, Luke journeys throughout the galaxy trying to track down this entity and learn more about the force from communities that have different ideas regarding force and trainings. Luke learns that that he must shield himself from this entity and must not be captured, used again by the entity which is why Luke finally strands himself on the Jedi Island where he "must" live out his days. It may be that he has seen worse futures with him stepping off this island, etc. It should be noted that Snook considers Luke wise by not leaving the island. Snook may know something about this entity and it's ability to penetrate and compromise the Jedi.
There is still a possibility that Snook himself may be a clone of the greater entity like I described about Abeloth. So, I guess it's possible we could see him again. I think we need a bad guy real quick or realize that there is a Big Bad guy that Disney will have some time making lots of movies trying to take down. That would be the answer to the prophecy about Anakin. He, his bloodline, will take out this Big Bad, thereby restoring balance to the force.
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