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Originally Posted by Itse
Huh? I've read or heard probably at least a dozen different perfectly valid things to do with that.
If you made Rey a Kenobi, you could do a whole "is lineage destiny". You could have Luke going dark side and Rey having to cut her down in the 2nd act, which would really build up the desperation for trying to save Kylo/Ben. Are the Skywalkers truly doomed, generation after generation to fall to darkness? Are Kenobis doomed to fail in their attempts to save them? Classic mythology stuff for a reason. If you then did a "there is no dark side and light side, we'll unite to recreate the Force in what it was always supposed to be", you could do either "lineage is not destiny, we are our own people" OR "these great families were always destined to bring final balance, through the power of love", which ever classical storyline you prefer.
Or alternatively you could have gone "yeah you're a Kenobi, but it's not what makes you special" thing with it. Or you could have just thrown it in somewhere with a deconstructive wink like they do with a lot of stuff in this movie, saying that "yeah she's a Kenobi, but it's not actually relevant to the story". Which would have been fine but still cool for many fans.
I actually really struggle to see how Rey being a Kenobi could possibly have been some major problem storywise. Unless of course you don't like space opera where the galaxy revolves around a very small group of people generation after generation... but then you probably don't like Star Wars in the first place.
I actually felt everything he did was well in line with the previous stuff and kind of felt right. The big force use moments just weren't written very well.
For example, Leias big force moment was IMO a great idea, but storywise it just managed to make the previous scene kind of irrelevant. She died... but she didn't! But she's still out of it, so.... huh. That kind of just happened. It was just a very weird moment to do it. I would have liked to see her get a big hero moment with force. And yes it's cheesy, but sometimes cheese is good.
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How and why does Rey end up on Jakku if she's a Kenobi. And when exactly is she conceived as she notionally younger than Ren who was born Post ROTJ. . And if Kenobi has a son or daughter in between where were they and why did Kenobi have a family while being a hermit. It doesn't make sense and requires too many twists for no payoff and far too much exposition to get there. And when you do get there you get Oh she's a Kenobi, who cares. Only if she was a Skywalker would it have been meaningful and all the Skywalker, dropped on Jakku theories were brutal. Having Rey related to anyone just for the sake of a reveal is poor storytelling.
Star Wars to me isn't just a story about a family. It is the history of the GFFA. From Reven in KOTOR to the pre-Anakin Jedi councils to now Rey is 1000 years of history 30-50 of which involve the Skywalkers.