I'm going to preface this post with some general garbage so that those in Tapatalk can't see the question I'm going to ask. Because that could give away spoilers. And that's not cool.
I loved the movie. It was well acted, well written, well directed. JJ Abrams is the man. I was absolutely astonished at the lack of lens flare though. Astonished and relieved.
Now to the question.
Where the hell did Luke's lightsaber come from? That's the one that was lost in Empire when Luke's hand was severed on Cloud City. That'd be a 1 in a million find.
Kylo Ren. Without the helmet looked a bit like a lady boy.
I was admittedly confused as well by Finn's ability to wield a lightsaber. That's not something you just do.....
The obvious assumption is that Rey is Luke's daughter. But if he was strict to the Jedi code I don't see how that's possible. We know he was involved in hiding her on Jakku, but that's all we know.
I want to see the outtakes from the final scene with Luke and Rey on the hillside. I could see Mark Hamill making complete and total fun of that scene.
***Warning to non-Star Wars geeks - If you haven't kept up with the Expanded Universe that exists outside of the movies... this could be a spoiler for future movies***
Hey, guys.
Glad to read discussion on this. I just saw the movie and have my own questions... and no one with a clue about EU to talk to. I'm not a big EU fan, but I've kept up more than the average Joe.
I see that Abrams is dropping hints that Rey has a connection to Luke and Kylo is Ben Solo. Despite the Rey/Skywalker innuendo, I was convinced that Rey is actually Jaina Solo. She's far too in-sync with Han; they were finishing each other's sentences regularly. Kylo's comment when he was reading her mind that Han is "like the father she never had" seemed pretty suggestive... did he see something when he was probing her mind? And who the hell is Ben Solo? Never heard of a Solo named Ben (not that one doesn't exist). There is another Jedi named Ben out there, but he isn't a Solo. Is JJ setting up a Solo/Skywalker bait and switch?
There's an insane amount of parallelism going on in this movie... are we looking at another surprise twist- "I AM YOUR FATHER" light side/dark side moment?
-Rok
Sorry I quoted you there... you had some astute questions so I assumed that you knew a little about the extended universe.
I haven't read much of the EU stuff, but I have a couple of friends who are die hard fans and they fill me in from time to time. I Googled different combinations of Solo/Skywalker names looking for EU links and I found that the Wiki pages for "Solo family" and "Skywalker family" have a bunch of references to EU story-lines. The family trees presented at the bottom of each family page are interesting to me, they seem to be very complete with the exception of one Skywalker child in particular... and he isn't a girl.
One disclaimer though: I'm pretty sure that George Lucas allowed the EU to be created as an "alternate universe" that had no guaranteed tie in with the movies. But I think the existence of the solo twins has been in place since before Return of the Jedi came out so it's hard for me to believe that JJ/Disney would try to rewrite that part of the Star Wars universe. But who knows really?
-Rok
Edit - I just read that Disney decided to discard the expanded universe. I wonder how George Lucas feels about that, I know that a lot of effort was put into keeping that world fairly consistent. That really sucks that they're using names from the EU - like Ben. Strike one, Disney.
I have not kept up with the EU at all. Maybe that's something I should do. Where would be a good place to start?
But Abrams took EU ideas and references and just changed them a bit. The new deathstar was essentially a less mobile Sun Crusher. Instead of Jacen Solo becoming Darth Cadeaus he had Ben Solo become Kylo Ren.
In the EU Luke did have a Wife and a son. No reason to say JJ didn't like the idea, but put his own spin on it.
This. It already felt like they repurposed too much from the original trilogy.
Finn the son of Lando Kalrissian? He was taken from his family and made a storm trooper, and Sky City was overtaken by the empire...he's definitely got some jedi blood in him, as evidenced both by how easily he overcame his storm trooper training and how he handled a light sabre.
Rei was like Luke - the Force is very strong in her. She is just way less of a lil' *****, and therefore was more prepared to embrace/wield the power. (I forgot how much of a whiner Luke was in 4 until I watched it in preparation for this one). The cop-out position is Rei is Luke's daughter, but I don't think that's it. When he found out Leia was his sister, he went monk mode. I'm going with sister to Kylo Ren. The explosion/rift between them --> symbolic.
I am really wanting Rey to be a Kenobi.
(no, not because of my name).
That would be cool. But I don't see how it'd be possible.