ST Daisy Ridley (Rey) in Episode VII

theres much more in the movie (and future movies) then what the trailer implies. the trailer is used to generate bums on seats and to give out the snippets of footage contrived to fit certain messages and themes that the powers that be choose to put out. the fact is, youre on a forum/fan page, and you simply cannot get over what you think is going to happen. you dont know the direction, youve seen approx 4 mins of proper footage. the big things are all still uncomfirmed and its really ignorant to say "i can very clearly see the direction they are taking" because factually, you dont, other wise, do tell please... we get it, you are a luke fan boy. thats okay. whats not okay is that you vent here and also cant handle it when some creative decision made by the people that are qualified to do so, doesnt resonate with you. sure, the movies going to love, hate, and all the inbetween.this is 2015 and whether its trolls on the internet or just passionate people letting everyone know how they feel, its impossible to stop the hate, however, id appreciate it if you could not partake in the hate, since we are all star wars fans and really, star wars has always been more then Luke Skywalker. Rey seems to be a great character, whether or not shes heavily involved with Luke, with Han, with Lando! it shoudlnt matter and shouldnt effect how you judge the movie and especially Rey's character (this thread).

 

From Allure:
By now, you've probably seen the trailer for the latest Star Wars installment, The Force Awakens. If you're like me, you've already bought your tickets (come on, December 18!) But even a casual observer of the Star Wars phenomenon is probably at least a little bit curious about the massive film's newest star, 23-year-old British actress Daisy Ridley. She plays the lead role of Rey, a droid scrapper living on the desert planet Jakku. "When we find Rey, she's covered in grease and dirt. She's been living alone for a long time," says Amanda Knight, the film's makeup-department head. "She's dirty because she was scavenging parts from spaceships, so she had to really look like she's hard-core and gets into fights. This girl kicks ass." Here's how Knight, hair designer Lisa Tomblin, and their teams brought Rey to life.

The new buns. Rey wears her hair in three segmented buns (or "knobs," as Tomblin calls them) throughout the film. "I tried to think of a style that was cool, practical, and different—and not so fussy," says Tomblin. And of course, "it's a nod to Princess Leia," she says. To secure each knot, Tomblin chose a piece of brown wool. "It's rustic, like something she'd find in the desert."
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http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends...15/11/star-wars-force-awakens-makeup-rey.html

 

although thats true, theres simply a bunch of ways to work around that. maybe they play up the mysteriousness of it, maybe before that scene, they imply she is Luke's daughter and so at the point you mentioned, it actually comes as a shock, and adds to the suspense upon the ACTUAL reveal. im not saying this is the way it could happen, theres just a lot of minuscule things that can change how the audience is interpreting every thing.

 

I hadn't heard this part?

 

Pomogema > Kyle > GG

+ (Dr Van)


That is route of where this Luke theory comes from.

Am not sure I have faith with these sources

 

Yes, with all this speculation - not just Rey - it's important to remember that any new bit of context or info could throw everything out of whack and cast things in a new light. We're speculating on shifting sands in the dark while someone keeps throwing rocks at us.

Re the Pomojema thing - I thought it was just spec anyway, there is no new "info" is there?

 

didn't we already know since Celebration that Rey has buns?and 3 at that.
most girls tie there hair in buns anyways.

 

I don't think the article was posted as spoiler.Just girls who like talking about hair and fashion and stuff.

 

I'm a Luke fangirl

I never hear a quote 'Star Wars is more than Han Solo' for example, but I hear very often 'Star Wars is more than Luke Skywalker'. Maybe something to think about. I also said I give the movie a try and we will see, I just dislike until now everything regarding Luke that I heard from the rumors. That's it. Some images and scenes look good, but the movie must still convince me.

 

Suppose Rey is Luke's daughter. Then suppose she turns to the darkside. We might have father and daughter duels that mirror the father and son duels from original trilogy.

 

And if he was reluctant to kill his father, just imagine how reluctant he would be to have to kill his own daughter.

 

I wasn't looking at it from a parentage way. Just saying it's not new, we knew that she had buns since Celebration. Not everything on this thread is about parentage you know.

 

Yeahh :/ I was listening to the MSW podcast and they don't even consider the possibility that the "parents" who dropped Rey off on Jakku might not be her real parents or family. Rey being in the care of others on behalf of Han/Leia at some point seems like a perfectly reasonable theory that their sketchy flashback information doesn't contradict.

Then they started speculating about Rey being a reincarnated Anakin and I was just like okay then.

These are good points I keep forgetting to remember while making theories, too. I suspect some kind of grief is at the root of Luke's seclusion but duty and the larger threats the galaxy is facing will definitely have something to do with it as well.

 

I seriously hope neither her nor Finn turns to the darkside, flirt sure, conflicted sure but turn NO.
It's like the movie is already taking everything away from Luke and he's finally ready to make a comeback then he gets a new padawan/heir and that person turns to the darkisde later on.

Plus the idea of finally having a female lead in front/center (along with Finn) and she turns to the darkside not much of a role model.

 

That's because the problem with the idea of Han and Leia putting Rey up in the care of some other family is that it makes no sense. If their motivation is that they want to protect their daughter after losing Kylo, then it'd make more sense for Han and Leia to just ramp up security and keep her close by. And that "Put Her Up For Adoption" route only makes them even worse parents for not only coming up with such an insipid plan, but that it blew up in their faces and they lost yet another child.

 

you forget any planet but a hell hole like Jakku and what makes them wait so long to get her, if they put her there to begin with.At least for Luke him being MIA and mom MIA or foster parents/family going MIA fits a lot better, since there would be no opportunity to go back for her and if she wants her family than she has to make a move herself. Same goes with unrelated fits a lot better.

 

Ehhh I think it makes perfect sense potentially and other factors we don't know about yet could have made it seem like the only viable option they had. I think whoever left Rey on Jakku period was not her real family, regardless of whether she's Han/Leia's or Luke's.

 

In my Rey is the chosen one theory, I have Rey being able to use all aspects of the force without being Jedi or Sith. Neither good nor evil, just a rampaging badass who fights both sides and eventually takes down the main villain at the end of the saga. To me that is more interesting and more exciting

 

But things seem to be pointing at her being on Jakku as premeditated. She is waiting for her family to come for her there. Whoever her parents are, they had to have SOME REASON to leave her on Jakku rather than take her with them or leave her somewhere else in the Galaxy that is a little more civilized. A reason is needed whether her parents are Han and Leia, Luke, or new characters. Its hard to reconcile Luke and Mrs. Skywalker leaving her there after the Clan incident with a promise of returning, whereas a more straightforward Han and Leia explanation exists for all of this.

 

Sure, and I think that's a fair idea in and of itself. I just think that it really doesn't make sense for Han and Leia. Especially Leia. Luke at least has the whole Jedi thing going on, so it could turn out that his first attempt at an Order was very understaffed and had an excuse to feel ill equipped to properly protect his potential daughter from harm.

But that's just my opinion on the matter. Context could hypothetically change that, though I fail to see how.

 

I agree - I struggle to see how Han and Leia are both active in the galaxy and Rey is being looked after by someone else. Stolen? A changeling? Maybe, I guess. It's just hard for me to wrap my head around and I've thought that since the moment I read the Rachel casting brief.

Obviously though, if the flashback stuff is even vaguely wrong, or Luke shows up in act 2 then all bets are off and anything could happen.

This time last week I was firmly entrenched in Rey Random camp. Now I've swing around to Rey Skywalker. After the next TV spot it'll probably be Rey Solo.

 

Lol I sometimes think whoever left Rey on Jakku didn't have her best interests at heart and probably dumped her there, told her to sit tight because her family was coming to get her, and skedaddled. If she ended up in the temporary care of some "Clan" person who was also a survivor of whatever attack supposedly happened, he or she may not have been that great of a person and thought Rey was worth too much trouble and stopped at the first planet they found to get rid of her.

 

(Reluctantly sticking my head back into the echo chamber for just a quick moment.)

Rey (whateverhernameis), be she the daughter of Luke Skywalker or Han Solo, would not be left on that festering hellhole of a planet, living like a slave forced to work for water, by either of those men if they knew she was there and alive. Both of those men would rather die trying than to leave her there.

(Ducking back out.)

 

People forget the condition Rey is living in on Jakku. Han and Leia dropped her there? No chance.

 

This might be helpful. I was not super familiar with the old EU but all this talk drove me to do a little research. I found an interesting part of Jaina Solo's wiki entry that might be of some use here in illustrating a point

IsolationEdit

Despite the reassurances of ancient Jedi lore that held that childish innocence was an effective obstacle to the corrupting influence of the dark side of the Force, Solo's uncle Luke Skywalker believed that any contact with the dark side could warp the mind of a young child for the rest of his or her life. Given the Force potential in the twins, Luke told Solo's parents that he felt it was best to minimize any chance for the twins to be exposed to the dark side during this vulnerable time.[4]

Jaina and Jacen in the care of Winter, with Leiawatching closely.
They took his advice and sent the twins to New Alderaan, to be under the care of Leia's lifelong friend and aide Winter. Any safety that could be derived from this arrangement would be short-lived, however. The reborn Emperor Palpatine discovered New Alderaan's location and ordered an attack on the planet immediately. During the chaos of the attack on New Alderaan, Solo and her brother were nearly kidnapped by Darksiders Xecr Nist and Kvag Gthull, but their efforts were thwarted by the actions of a group of Jedi warriors led by Skywalker.[4]


Now replace New Alderaan with the Clan's society on Jakku and Winter with Maz Kanata, whoever those weird Darksiders are with the Knights of Ren, and the successful thwarting with failure and supposed death of Rey Solo and you have a basic picture of how I think this is going to pan out.