J.J. Abrams has hinted in an interview that Rey's parents are not in episode 7, so this may mean she isn't the daughter of any character appearing in Star Wars, the Force Awakens.
So whose daughter is she?
Here's my theory...
When Rey finally wields Luke's light sabre against Kylo Ren, her fighting style most resembles that of Emperor Palpatine. She doesn't parry like a Jedi. She thrusts aggressively into her opponent very much like the Emperor did in Revenge of the Sith against Mace Windu and the Jedi who were sent to arrest Palpatine. She uses this same sabre thrust four times in her battle with Ben Solo, and I think it was done to suggest something about her lineage. Somehow, Rey is a descendant of Emperor Palpatine.
What's YOUR theory?
My theory is that I need to watch The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi before I form an opinion. I do note that Keri Russell has joined Ep. IX in an as-yet unannounced role so maybe?
My theory is that Kathleen Kennedy fucked up star wars with her feminist bullshit....
This is what happens when someone puts more emphasis on selling Porg toys that actually making a good movie...
Wookies were the gigolos of the universe.
Rey may be the Emporer's daughter. Or Luke's.
I'm starting to think I don't really give a fig. I avoided the expanded universe (all the novels and comics and such that came out prior to the Disney buy-out). I largely disregard the prequels (though I do like the Clone Wars TV series, which is closer to what I imagined the prequels would be than the prequels). And I'm not really working up a lot of passion for seeing the new trilogy or the spin-offs. I'm kind of thinking that maybe Star Wars began and ended for me with the original trilogy. Others are welcome to the rest, but I can't see myself ever developing a passion for them. We'll see. Maybe that will change if/when I see the sequel trilogy. Right now, though, I'm far more pumped for the Sony-Legend monster-verse (Godzilla, Kong : Skull Island, and upcoming sequels) than anything Star Wars.
"insensitive prick!" – Danielle Algo
The Force Awakens was effecrtvely a rerun of A New Hope with a cooler protagonist (Luke was pretty lame). I was very happy when I saw it in the cinema as I remembered just how much I loved Star Wars when I was a little boy and I hoped it would now perhaps appeal more to young girls too and bring them the same joy that the original triology had brought to me.
The Last Jedi and Rogue One were rather disappointing in my mind. Rogue One's master switch made me laugh though. It was just too ridiculous.
Anyway, who are Rey's parents? I don't care. She's Rey and she kicks intergalactic ass!
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
My dad likes the Star Wars series. It came out when he was in college in the 1970s. The series is mostly entertaining, but there are a couple of them that are quite frankly, goofy.
I think the oldest three are the best scripted, and they were made before l was born. I've heard about how when the original came out that it had people standing in crazy long lines because there had never been a movie like it before.
I've never seen a Star Wars series movie at a theater, just catch them on TV.
I believe that Rey is a Kenobi. I don't know the exact timeline(s) so maybe she's his daughter but possibly his grand daughter.
They wear similar clothing when we first meet them.
The Star Wars movies are full of British actors, all who speak with non-British accents. Except for two (not counting C3PO)... Obi-Wan and Rey. There has to be a reason all those actors are not using their normal voice/accents.
The Force dream, we hear both Alec Guiness' and Ewan McGregor's. Obi-Wan pulled the lightsaber out of a wooden box, so did Rey. "Luke's" lightsaber was originally Anakin's. Obi-Wan gave it to Luke. In The Last Jedi, Rey gives it to Luke. Both times he's given his dad's sabre, he's given it by a Kenobi?
There's also the fact that, with no training, she's able to pull off the Jedi mind trick. Just like Obi-Wan. Maybe it's just in her genes to have such a handle of such a tough skill. No one else really pulls of that trick.
When Yoda and Ben are talking about Luke, Yoda says, "there is another". We assumed he meant Leia, but she never became a Jedi (despite that utterly ridiculous deep space Force move she pulled off), maybe Yoda knew about Rey.
The multiple times in the series when we see an epic battle between Skywalker & Kenobi. Including Rey and Kylo.
Personally, I always hoped she was a Skywalker. She can't belong to Luke or Leia, they'd recognize their own daughter. Maybe Palpatine, before he died, had extracted some of Anakin's/Vader's DNA to produce an heir. But, for symmetry's sake, she's probably a Kenobi.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates From what I've seen in the leaked spoilers so far, I think I'm about to be vindicated!
Commander William T. Riker.
