"The Force Awakens" (with SPOILERS)

Officially, the EU is now "fantasy," although they are working stuff like the Khyber Crystals into the storylines.

All the Easter eggs and hints dropped into TFA indicate Rey is Luke's daughter. Maz as much said so with "the light saber calls to you" mini-speech.

The hints and feints that she's related to somebody else is a direct replay of Abrams' head-fakes that Cumberbatch was somebody besides Khan (there were some rumors he would be Harry Mudd, for gods sake).

It could have been made to work, sort of, but when the truth was revealed, people said, "Ahhhhhhhh, yes. Of course."

 

You're thinking of the old EU, which is now categorized as Legends.

Like the Clone Wars animated series, Star Wars: Rebels is part of the new continuity. That is why there have been rumors that Benicio Del Toro's character will turn out to be an older Ezra Bridger.

Disney went out of its way to show the connection with Rogue One. Saw Gerrera has appeared on Rebels. The ship and the droid from Rebels appeared in Rogue One. There was also a mention of one of the characters from that show over the loudspeakers at the rebel base. Also, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul were part of the recent season of Rebels. (Yes, in current Star Wars canon, Darth Maul somehow survived being cut in half and falling down a pit in The Phantom Menace).

 

Well, frankly, I've never paid any more than passing attention to anything that wasn't actually in the movies.

Making Rey the daughter of somebody previously mentioned only in a spinoff production IMO would be effectively the same as making her the daughter of "nobody."

 

Popular bet is the obvious. Rey is Luke's kid. Second a Kenobi. Third a secret Leia kid.

A Palpatine would be a pretty fun area to mine.

 

If Disney wanted to go DARRK!!! the way, for instance, DC likes to go with its characters, they could make Rey the daughter of ... DARTH VADER ... during a rape episode in one of his attacks on the defenseless Rebels shortly before Return of the Jedi.

Which would make her the half-sister of Luke and Leia, and the Aunt of Kylo Ren.

The mathematics would be screwy -- it would make Rey mid-thirtyish, although she appeared about 20 in TFA. But they could make up some crap about time dilation after her birth or maybe she was raised on a planet where aging processes slow down, blah blah, yadda yadda.

Yeahhh ... somehow I doubt Disney will go with that storyline. They wouldn't want to have to explain to the kiddies, "there was one part of Darth that wasn't burned to a crisp."

I like the idea better that she's the daughter of somebody we never heard of.

 

Yeah, can't see that happening.

But, on the point, with his whole body being burnt to a crisp under that suit, do we think he could still "perform?" He was on his stomach when he went up in flames.

 

I do. I like many things. I even love some movies.
I loved the original 'Star Wars' and 'Empire Strikes Back' when I was child, although I don't think they hold up too well.
I've been largely disappointed in the five movies made since 'Jedi.'

I love 'Mystery Men' and 'The Avengers.'
I love CA2 'The Winter Soldier.'
I love 'Being John Malkovich' and 'Adaptation.' I love 'Lost in Translation.'
I love 'The Thin Red Line,' and I love 'Cool Hand Luke.'

I love 'The Shining.'

I love 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' and I love 'Totoro.'

Those are off the top of my head. No ranking.

 

I respect any man brave enough to say he loves Mystery Men.

 

I ... I'd probably rather not think about the mechanics of it too much. But if you were Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and about the only part of your actual body that still functioned was "Little Ani," you'd probably find a way to "git 'er done."

 

thanks, Starman ... now I'm thinking of Spaceballs.

"I can see your Schwartz is as big as mine ..."

 

I don't know. If you thought the sands of Tatooine were coarse, rough and irritating ...

 

Y'know, we got a few scenes in the original trilogy where some Empire underling interrupted Vader in his "meditation chamber."
Are we sure he wasn't just spanking it to intergalactic porn in there?