Either she's a Skywalker or the biggest red herring in recent memory.
Rey
She is not related to anyone (that we know of).
So attempting to sum up what is known and what can be speculated of the Rebellion/Empire -> New Republic/First Order -> Resistance/First Order transition, from canon novel sources as quoted by Wiki.
These are the facts known to us, chronology-wise
1)The New Republic founded shortly after Endor. Among its core principle is a reduction to 10% of their military force once peace with the Empire is achieved.
2)After the Battle of Jakku, one year after Endor the empire cease hostile actions against the Republic.
3)Some relatively short time after that, the Galactic Concordance is signed. It's a peace treaty between Republic and Empire.
4)At some point later, The First Order is born as a successor state to the Empire. It *respects* the Galactic Concordance.
5)The New Republic chancelor refuse to view TFO as a threat.
6)However, elements within the Republic support Leia in founding the resistance against The First Order, which they view as a threat.
These facts are also known to us regarding the state of the Empire around the Endor-Jakku timeframe:
-Several Imperial leaders, want the empire to push into the Unknown regions.
-They appear to believe the "source" of the dark side is located somewhere that way.
-A mysterious Fleet Admiral, believed dead by most imperials, is reorganizing the empire behind the scenes, getting rid of the dead wood and corrupt types.*
-This mysterious fleet admiral appears to be involved with the faction wanting to push into the unknown regions.**
Another known fact: Starkiller base was originally in the Unknown Regions.
The New Republic was formed after the Battle of Jakku with the signing of the Galactic Concordance. Mon Mothma was elected chancellor (they don't use the term "supreme chancellor" anymore) and they established the New Republic capital on Chandrila, Mon Mothma's homeworld. In the span between Aftermath and TFA, the New Republic has demilitarized to a state significantly smaller than during the Clone Wars, but the Republic fleet is the largest in the galaxy. The current chancellor cares more about trade regulations than the First Order (lel) and, oh yeah, the Republic capital and Senate change planets rather frequently by popular vote. Leia's reputation is tarnished in the Senate, because people think she's kind of crazy, so her "in" is the black woman we see in Maz's castle (correct me if I'm wrong). The Resistance IS a legitimate part of the Republic (begrudgingly), though and is no longer a "rebellion" because the term "rebellion" implies that the rebels are fighting against the established regime. So while the Rebellion of the OT is fighting against the powers-that-be, the Empire, the Resistance is fighting a fringe group on the edges of Wild Space.
You guys are insane.Well excuse me for having unreasonably high standards for a Star Wars film.
Saw it the second time. Still as amazing.
Liked it more actually on the second viewing, now that I could fully pay attention to all the small details and nuances. Yes, they are there. The mystery adds to the attractiveness, not everything is spelled out. The characters are fresh and interesting, it leaves the desire to see more.
Could Han Solo be alive? They dumped Phasma (female high ranked stormtrooper) in a trash shaft. Perhaps Solo fell into this shaft aswell, after he was stabbed and fell into oblivion. Trash gets dumped into space, so....... I just hope he is still alive 8)He got run through with a lightsaber and then fell into a bottomless pit, I admire your stunningly blind optimism. Also, since he was clearly Ben Kenobi, and because that movie was literally A New Hope, he is dead, as all "old mentor figures" must die.
According to Clone Wars cartoons which are now canon comparable to movies (THANKS, DISNEY!) Maul actually survived the fall because reasons and returned, even though he did require a robotic lower torso and legs. Luke fell into a similarly seemingly bottomless shaft but the "air currents" handwaved in (as per the novelization) slowed his fall enough. (It is just a matter of time when it will be revealed that Mace Windu too survived his fall and that Finn is his grandchild.)Could Han Solo be alive? They dumped Phasma (female high ranked stormtrooper) in a trash shaft. Perhaps Solo fell into this shaft aswell, after he was stabbed and fell into oblivion. Trash gets dumped into space, so....... I just hope he is still alive 8)He got run through with a lightsaber and then fell into a bottomless pit, I admire your stunningly blind optimism.
That kid was a simple farmer who never heard of force by the age of 20(almost) He meets Obi-Wan, gets out of Tatooine, gets to fly an X-Wing!!!?!?! (Rey=Millenium Falcon) and he makes an attack run against the Rebellion's #1 target: Death Star. I mean, that attack could have been made by any other remaining pilots, Biggs, Wedge... But it had to be Luke. In the middle of the run he suddenly hears Obi Wan talking over force(WHICH IN EPISODE III OBI WAN HAD TO LEARN THAT STUFF TO SPEAK TO QUI-GONN ACCORDING TO YODA) and destroys the Death Star by using force.It requires no training to be able to talk to the Force ghosts that appear to you, otherwise Yoda wouldn't have had his little chat with Qui-Gon at all (sadly, this was cut from the movie). To be able to appear as a Force ghost (whether as a voice or a spectral being) does require a lot of training (or being a physical incarnation of the Force, as it was with Anakin).
He also hurts Vader on the shoulder after a few days worth of training(we did not see much Lightsaber training)and gave him a rather good fight.(Vader was teasing him I know)
People thinks those actions by Luke is rational and yet they babble over Rey beating wounded Kylo Ren. ::)
I have wondered why Red Leader told Luke to lead Biggs and Wedge during the attack run. For one thing, we don't know how long Biggs and Wedge have been with Red Squadron, all three of them sort of seem like comparative newbies (but of course, there wasn't anyone else left to take the shot once the more experienced first two trench run teams failed). But I think Red Leader also saw a lot of natural talent in Luke and felt confident he could take the shot.
That kid was a simple farmer who never heard of force by the age of 20(almost) He meets Obi-Wan, gets out of Tatooine, gets to fly an X-Wing!!!?!?! (Rey=Millenium Falcon) and he makes an attack run against the Rebellion's #1 target: Death Star. I mean, that attack could have been made by any other remaining pilots, Biggs, Wedge... But it had to be Luke. In the middle of the run he suddenly hears Obi Wan talking over force(WHICH IN EPISODE III OBI WAN HAD TO LEARN THAT STUFF TO SPEAK TO QUI-GONN ACCORDING TO YODA) and destroys the Death Star by using force.
[Actually, the Force pretty much seems to have been a requirement. Most of the other pilots seem pretty sceptical that it's even possible (Fake Wedge: That's impossible, even for a computer! Red 10: We should be able to see it by now. Wedge: Are you sure the computer can hit it?) And of course Red Leader lines up the shot but the targeting computer misses. Obi-Wan's pretty sure Luke would have missed too if he didn't use the force.
Luke had been flying a lot his family's T-16 Skyhopper and bulls-eyeing womp rats from one, it had controls very similar to that of an X-Wing (in the novelization, they explicitly mention this and the Rebel techs even slightly modify Luke's X-Wing's controls to be even more similar). Also, Red Leader almost hit the same target with no Force whatsoever, so clearly, the Force was not a requirement, just made the job easier. As for "some days",even months.
It requires no training to be able to talk to the Force ghosts that appear to you, otherwise Yoda wouldn't have had his little chat with Qui-Gon at all (sadly, this was cut from the movie). To be able to appear as a Force ghost (whether as a voice or a spectral being) does require a lot of training (or being a physical incarnation of the Force, as it was with Anakin).
Holy crap there were people that disliked this movie?TFA had the same amount of exposition than the Original Trilogy had, and even without any supplemental materials or extended political debate it is made pretty clear what the situation is: First Order have so far been a fringe group operating in the periphery of the galaxy that no-one really takes seriously until they do a combined 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, and the Republic has been content to wage a half-hearted effort of a proxy war through the Resistance. What I missed on the first viewing was that they even mention in the Resistance briefing that the Hosnian system was destroyed, not Coruscant. Some explanation could perhaps have been included why the entirety of the Republic fleet was kept in low orbit above the capital, but at least they show ships in the brief shot and mention it afterwards.
Life must be hard being so pessimistic and having ridiculously high expectations for everything. :-*
Movie was awesome. X-Wings flying low over the water/ 'nuff said. JJ Abrams dropped the mic.
Just be glad you didn't get 2 hours of CNN coverage over the politics going to battle against the Order. (aka the prequels)
Be sure not to miss all the glib pandering injokes about the earlier films either!
I should really see it the third and fourth and fifth time, because I liked it even more on the second viewing (so it's becoming 5/5 now). Also, on second viewing I could pay attention to all the little details because I was not too overcome with emotion.
Be sure not to miss all the glib pandering injokes about the earlier films either!Yo, Imma let you finish, but A New Hope was the glibbest facsimile of them all:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2015/12/star_wars_is_a_pastiche_how_george_lucas_combined_flash_gordon_westerns.html?wpsrc=sh_all_tab_em_botBe sure not to miss all the glib pandering injokes about the earlier films either!Yo, Imma let you finish, but A New Hope was the glibbest facsimile of them all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8r0LhpMzk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU
and to sum it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx15aXjcDZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BVUTOrYP8
The thing is that he had multiple, original inspirations. J.J. Abrams only had one: a New Hope.I do not recall that the McGuffin of any of the previous Star Wars films was finding the missing Jedi Master - Luke navigates to Dagobah quite easily when told to. Also, where was the rescue mission that the Rebels mounted to save our heroes? Where was the Alien-esque hide-and-seek against man-eating monsters in the corridors of a mostly empty cargoship? Don't remember the victory in ANH being as hollow, after all, the Rebel military was hardly affected by the loss of one peaceful planet which was apparently not in very open rebellion else it would have been invaded already (though Leia would not obviously have admitted even if Alderaan had had significant military capabilities), don't remember the Rebel fleet being knocked out ever either.
The thing is that he had multiple, original inspirations. J.J. Abrams only had one: a New Hope.I do not recall that the McGuffin of any of the previous Star Wars films was finding the missing Jedi Master - Luke navigates to Dagobah quite easily when told to. Also, where was the rescue mission that the Rebels mounted to save our heroes? Where was the Alien-esque hide-and-seek against man-eating monsters in the corridors of a mostly empty cargoship? Don't remember the victory in ANH being as hollow, after all, the Rebel military was hardly affected by the loss of one peaceful planet which was apparently not in very open rebellion else it would have been invaded already (though Leia would not obviously have admitted even if Alderaan had had significant military capabilities), don't remember the Rebel fleet being knocked out ever either.
The characters I also don't recall. Don't remember that any of the protagonists was an orphan who had forgotten about her parents, yet wanted to return home even after getting a taste of the adventure. Or that any of the protagonists was a defecting stormtrooper on the run. Or that the ace pilot was actually a serious professional whose skills actually matched his boasting. Or that estranged parents decide to renconcile their disagreement and try once more turning back their wayward son, all in vain. I don't even remember that any of the bad guys had shown any hesitation either when trying to embrace the darkness.
ANH is great for its time, but it will be utterly cheesy in today's standards. The whole space-action scenes uses old-timey "whole battlefield" view, sometimes with wrong perspective due to inconsistent prop scaling. Things were randomly shot, and generally just explodes. "Goof" section in IMDB.com will be full of unnecessary nitpickings if ANH was released instead.I will hold that the Battle of Yavin is a far better directed and more suspenseful action sequence than the "Battle of Starkiller Base". In fact, the three battles in the original Star Wars trilogy are probably my favourite action sequences to this day.
Battle of Yavin scene is just like D-Day battle scenes: realistic, procedural, and representing the time of their creation. I also have strong likings for such classic war movies, they are intense in a grand scale. Modern battle scenes are just too focused on single localised overly-dramatised actions.But the Force Awakens was heralded for "feeling just like the old Star Wars original trilogy". I disagreed, precisely because it lacked everything you just named. I don't understand the disconnect. I love Star Wars, but the new film just didn't feel like Star Wars to me. I judged it most harshly from the air battle. I wanted 1977, I got 2015, and I was very unhappy (see also the weird tentacle monster scene). Why have I not seen anyone else disappointed over this?
But here is the main problem in 2015: for a sci-fi, they are quite dated and lacks of the technological refinements that we have today. Teenies, millenials spoiled by their "smartphone" technologies would most likely laughed at: magnetically altered radio voices, monochromatic time-delayed displays (US Navy already has a clear-glass display like the one shown in Yavin rebel base during Vietnam war), dangling equipment cables inside a sophisticated space fighters cockpit, constant-needing of calibration targetting scope, separate targetting computer scope with twitchy mechanism (South Africa already have integrated Helmet Mounted Sight back in 1970s). The shaky cockpit camera shot and their combat very much represents World War 2 era fights. The 1974 General Dynamics F-16 already have "relaxed stability" flight controls by the help of FBW computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNAy7yCMyBw
This guy pretty much nails it, whats wrong with star wars episode 7