Coming this week: We wrap up our SkyMom series with a post suggesting several possibilities!
Read the rest of the series here:
https://swshadowcouncil.com/finding-skymom/
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“I can’t be what she needs me to be”
– From Marvel’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi #4
“Rey can’t be a Skywalker! Why would Luke leave her on Jakku?!”
We always see this counter-argument when people ask us about ReySky.
Luke leaving Rey on Jakku is not the only outcome of Rey Skywalker.
There are a multitude of ways that Rey could’ve ended up on Jakku.
In The Last Jedi, there's a parallel between Kylo smashing his mask, and Rey in Mirror Cave. Kylo is smashing his mask, a mask that was an intentional mirror of Vader. So he destroyed a mirror. Meanwhile, Rey embraces a mirror for answers.
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I don’t talk about it anymore but I want everyone to know that i’m still a bitter bitch about Rey Skywalker not happening.
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You should read “The TLJ Case For Rey Skywalker”.
For the record, we honestly believe this is what happened and what we’re getting in IX. We’ll be revisiting it after we get a chance to read the novelization.
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The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker: Conclusion
At long last, we reach the conclusion of our series and leave you with our final thoughts on what we’ve put together and why. While the main series is over, check back in as we’ll be supplementing it with new articles as more information becomes available or as we gain new insights. We hope you enjoyed our series and found it insightful even if you disagree! Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi.…
This series was a lot of fun to put together, but we’re all excited to discuss other topics again! We hope you enjoyed it and found it insightful even if you don’t agree!
The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker: Conclusion
At long last, we reach the conclusion of our series and leave you with our final thoughts on what we’ve put together and why. While the main series is over, check back in as we’ll be supplementing it with new articles as more information becomes available or as we gain new insights. We hope you enjoyed our series and found it insightful even if you disagree! Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi.…
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The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker: Symbolism
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles, HypersonicHarpist In the last full post of the series, we’ll examine the symbolism of The Last Jedi and what it tells us about Rey, Luke and the Skywalker family. Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. (more…)
Excerpt:
Reflections:
Rey: And a Jedi who saved him. Yes, the most hated man in the galaxy. But you saw there was conflict inside him. You believed that he wasn’t gone. That he could be turned.
Luke: And I became a legend. For many years, there was balance and then I saw Ben. My nephew with that mighty Skywalker blood. And in my hubris, I thought I could train him, I could pass on my strengths.
When Luke recounts the failures of the Jedi in an effort to dissuade Rey from following the path of the Jedi, Rey counters with how Luke saw the good in Vader and turned him from the dark side. Luke scoffs that it made him a legend and misled him into thinking he could teach his nephew to overcome the true nature of his of bloodline. Rey, believing Luke is talking Ben as a student, counters that where Ben failed him, she will not.
At exactly the halfway point of the film, Rey finds the mirror in the dark side cave and asks it to show her parents. To her disappointment, the mirror only shows shadows before showing her own reflection. However, Rey misses the point of what it showed her – being a mirror, it can only show what is placed in front of it. She sought an answer external to herself when the answer already lies inside her. That she sought the answer from the dark side cave further underscores the point being made. By looking for answers to who she is outside herself, Rey is trying to take the quick and easy path.
While Rey misses what the mirror is telling her, the scene subtly to signals the audience that the answer will be found by watching what Rey does. After learning what really happened the night of the massacre, Rey tells Luke there is still good in Kylo – much as Luke saw good in Vader as the film helpfully reminded us – and demands he go confront him. After he refuses, she leaves to do what she feels is right, much as Luke left Yoda to rescue his friends.
Once she arrives on the Supremacy, the movie shows a condensed version of Luke’s confrontation with his father. The elevator scene corresponds to Luke and Vader’s conversation on the catwalk on Endor. Snoke welcomes Rey and removes her restraints in the same way the Emperor removed Luke’s. Snoke places the lightsaber on the same side in the same orientation. The flow of the dialog mirrors that on the Death Star and Snoke even uses some of the same wording:
Young fool. It was I who…
Finally, Snoke forces Rey to watch as the Supremacy destroys the Resistance transports just as Luke watched the Death Star destroy the Rebel ships in Return of the Jedi. Also like RotJ, the apprentice turns on his master, but Kylo does it for his own ends. Following Kylo’s refusal, Rey heads to Crait to join her friends. It is in the final segment of the film, Luke and Rey rescue the Resistance. Luke distracts the Kylo and the First Order while Rey removes the rocks preventing the survivors from escaping – completing the mirror in spectacular fashion..
The mirror tells us the true answer to who Rey’s parents are will be reflected in her and she then spends the entire last half of the film mirroring Luke’s arc from the Original Trilogy. Finally, she unknowingly joins her father in saving those they love.
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The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker: Symbolism
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles, HypersonicHarpist In the last full post of the series, we’ll examine the symbolism of The Last Jedi and what it tells us about Rey, Luke and the Skywalker family. Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. (more…)
Excerpt:
Reflections:
Rey: And a Jedi who saved him. Yes, the most hated man in the galaxy. But you saw there was conflict inside him. You believed that he wasn’t gone. That he could be turned.
Luke: And I became a legend. For many years, there was balance and then I saw Ben. My nephew with that mighty Skywalker blood. And in my hubris, I thought I could train him, I could pass on my strengths.
When Luke recounts the failures of the Jedi in an effort to dissuade Rey from following the path of the Jedi, Rey counters with how Luke saw the good in Vader and turned him from the dark side. Luke scoffs that it made him a legend and misled him into thinking he could teach his nephew to overcome the true nature of his of bloodline. Rey, believing Luke is talking Ben as a student, counters that where Ben failed him, she will not.
At exactly the halfway point of the film, Rey finds the mirror in the dark side cave and asks it to show her parents. To her disappointment, the mirror only shows shadows before showing her own reflection. However, Rey misses the point of what it showed her – being a mirror, it can only show what is placed in front of it. She sought an answer external to herself when the answer already lies inside her. That she sought the answer from the dark side cave further underscores the point being made. By looking for answers to who she is outside herself, Rey is trying to take the quick and easy path.
While Rey misses what the mirror is telling her, the scene subtly to signals the audience that the answer will be found by watching what Rey does. After learning what really happened the night of the massacre, Rey tells Luke there is still good in Kylo – much as Luke saw good in Vader as the film helpfully reminded us – and demands he go confront him. After he refuses, she leaves to do what she feels is right, much as Luke left Yoda to rescue his friends.
Once she arrives on the Supremacy, the movie shows a condensed version of Luke’s confrontation with his father. The elevator scene corresponds to Luke and Vader’s conversation on the catwalk on Endor. Snoke welcomes Rey and removes her restraints in the same way the Emperor removed Luke’s. Snoke places the lightsaber on the same side in the same orientation. The flow of the dialog mirrors that on the Death Star and Snoke even uses some of the same wording:
Young fool. It was I who…
Finally, Snoke forces Rey to watch as the Supremacy destroys the Resistance transports just as Luke watched the Death Star destroy the Rebel ships in Return of the Jedi. Also like RotJ, the apprentice turns on his master, but Kylo does it for his own ends. Following Kylo’s refusal, Rey heads to Crait to join her friends. It is in the final segment of the film, Luke and Rey rescue the Resistance. Luke distracts the Kylo and the First Order while Rey removes the rocks preventing the survivors from escaping – completing the mirror in spectacular fashion..
The mirror tells us the true answer to who Rey’s parents are will be reflected in her and she then spends the entire last half of the film mirroring Luke’s arc from the Original Trilogy. Finally, she unknowingly joins her father in saving those they love.
The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker: Symbolism
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles, HypersonicHarpist In the last full post of the series, we’ll examine the symbolism of The Last Jedi and what it tells us about Rey, Luke and the Skywalker family. Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. (more…)
Happily Ever After Theorist shared our theory on YouTube!
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The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker - The Narrative
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles and HypersonicHarpist In this section we expand on the key parts of the The Last Jedi that indicate there is much more going on between Rey, Luke and Kylo Ren beneath the surface. Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. (more…)
The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker - The Narrative
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles and HypersonicHarpist In this section we expand on the key parts of the The Last Jedi that indicate there is much more going on between Rey, Luke and Kylo Ren beneath the surface. Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. (more…)
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The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker – Movie Analysis Round Table
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles, HypersonicHarpist
While some of you have already read this on our main blog, we thought it would be a good idea to post this in full here. This is an explanation of why the real parentage reveal of The Last Jedi is not Rey Nobody, but Rey Skywalker.
For a full explanation of the interpretation we’re using, go here.
Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. Please share widely!
It may seem like we’re reaching by concentrating on the meta, structure and symbolism, but Rian Johnson really does approach film this way:
From a 2012 Wired interview about Looper:
The hit-man angle came first, but when did the father-son dynamic and the destiny-vs.-free-will stuff start creeping in?
That’s the real writing process for me—that’s what has to happen for something to seem like it’s worth not only spending a few years making, but asking people to sit in that dark theater for two hours watching. For lack of a better word, something really takes off when I find the theme of it. “Theme” just instantly sounds boring—we all have connotations from high school English class. Or it sounds reductive, like it’s the message you’re trying to jam down the audience’s throat. For me, it’s more about finding some big question I don’t know the answer to. What makes a project take off for me is when that attaches itself in this perfect symbiotic way to a concept, to a plot, to a character, to a world, and suddenly I say, here’s this vehicle to talk about this thing that’s really on my mind right now.
Time to be reductive, then: What was that question in Looper?
A few years ago I would have jumped at the chance to start talking about it and explaining, but hopefully it’s there in the movie and is better presented in the movie than I could present by saying it. Not because it’s something secret or incredibly deep or complicated, but divorced from its context in the movie, it’s the least interesting thing to plop on the table dry, without any sauce.
Recording of Rian interviewing Denis Villeneuve last year:
Watch from about 3:40 to 5:00. Note Rian’s excitement over something he found incredibly meta.
And finally I leave you with this:
You’ve said that Looper isn’t really a time travel movie. What’s the central issue then?
You have to have something bigger than time travel that’s worth asking an audience to sit in the dark for two hours. And the power of a parent’s love really was the thing that set everything off. I realized that this weird little sci-fi concept could amplify that theme and be a conduit for it. I worked backwards from the end and planned the entire movie from there.(edited)
That seems pretty close to the mark when it comes to our interpretation...
-robotical712
The Definitive “The Last Jedi” Case for Rey Skywalker – Movie Analysis Round Table
Written by: robotical712, Josey, Needs_More_Sprinkles, HypersonicHarpist
While some of you have already read this on our main blog, we thought it would be a good idea to post this in full here. This is an explanation of why the real parentage reveal of The Last Jedi is not Rey Nobody, but Rey Skywalker.
For a full explanation of the interpretation we’re using, go here.
Part of our analysis of The Last Jedi. Please share widely!