The truth is, I don’t believe it either. I just think it’s a possibility. I think it’s more likely that she is Luke’s child. He either knew about her and chose to stay away because he had failed Ren or others chose to keep her away from him out of that same fear. If they want her to be someone else’s child, she could be Obi Wan Kenobi’s child or Emperor Palpatine’s (the latter I find particularly unlikely but could be interesting in it’s own way). I think it would be just a little anti-climactic for her to be no one in particular. And Fin already gives us a hero plucked from obscurity.
Injure him and leave him in a life-support suit you can shut off; sure, it’s cruel and unusual punishment – but on the plus side, Kylo Ren would totally go for it.
Problem is, Kenobi died 35-40 years ago.
Ghost Kenobi, however…
Now, now, we all know what they say about ghosts…
“If you strike me down, I’ll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
“Hold on – what do you mean by that?”
“Well, I’ll be a ghost impregnating my way through a whole harem of ladies.”
“I don’t even-”
“My daughter will beat your grandson’s ass.”
“But-”
“Strike me down! STRIKE ME DOWN! C’mon, man! Need ya to be a buddy, here!”
Or Sperm Bank Kenobi.
Anyone else like to imagine that Finn is the descendant of Lando Calrissian? You know that old smoothie sowed plenty of oats.
You’ve got me there. Grandchild? No, that seems unlikely too because it implies that he had a child around the time of the prequels. Okay, now I think we’re really closing in on Rey being a Skywalker.
My supposition is that this is the scaling up of Lucas’ not understanding how big a meter is. Abrahms doesn’t know how big a galaxy is.
Yeah, they should have called him Darth Vaper.
No. I hate the narrowing story lines where the only new people who matter are people who are related to old people who matter.
“My name . . . is Rey Kenobi.” [beat] “No relation.”
Agreed.
Well, we know one of the recent owners/thieves had been working on it, because they installed the compressor override, or whatever it was that Han and Rey were complaining about.
But that’s definitely a case where a couple of quick lines of dialog explaining that:
(a) it had been worked on enough to be flight ready
and
(b) Rey had been one of the people working on it, explaining why she was so familiar with its systems
would have been appreciated.
Or, you know, they talked on the radio before they landed.
Me too. And it would be extra lame to have the only two black characters outside of the prequels be related to each other.
Yeah, I complained about this a few pages back. I think they should have reworked the story so that they had a chance for a breather during which Rey worked on the ship while hiding out and got it ready to fly.
It also had nothing locking it down. I can’t believe that it requires no “keys” to start it and that the junk yard owner doesn’t have a chip installed to prevent it from leaving. I can’t believe he hadn’t at least stripped it for parts.
Well, I guess we know how it kept getting stolen.
It could all have to do with what is eventually revealed about Rey and her reason for being dumped on the planet. Perhaps that junkyard dealer is more crucial than we think.
My theory is that the junk dealer had been deliberately keeping the Falcon in ready-to-go condition while making everyone think it was a piece of non-functional junk. Perhaps as an emergency escape plan he could use, perhaps as part of the deeper backstory of why Rey was left on the planet, or perhaps he just didn’t want it flying until he figured out a way to block whatever method Han used to detect it and track it down the moment it took off.