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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Anakin was basically the start of the Skywalker line. I mean his mother Shmi was a Skywalker
Anakin was basically the Christ figure created by the Force as part of an ancient prophesy. There were no Skywalkers in pre TPM Lore.
In Legends EU there were Skywalkers after that were very powerful. But those have been wiped away.
Anakin was powerful because he was conceived by the Force.
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I'm aware of that and that was my point and I think you agree based on your other posts....it isn't necessary for Rey to be of an existing lineage. The Star Wars universe has already set up parentage/lineage as not being necessary. But it goes further in terms of the movie universe to me.
Why is it a big deal if her parents are a known force using family or nobodies (or nobody at all)? We accepted Vader without knowing any back story in the original trilogy...I get we watned it but it took a bit for the pieces to come together and still the only thing you knew about his past was he was a powerful jedi who turned and had a couple of kids. Satisfying or not we then "accepted" the conceived by the force explanation. Well maybe forced to accept. We accept force can also follow bloodlines. There are several explanations available for Rey but ultimately it has never really mattered we know a full detailed character history before in the movies so why do we need it now? It's enough to know that these people can use the force , these ones can't, some appear to be particularly strong and light or dark side choices are made.
It isn't necessary for US, the viewer, to know that answer at this time IMO. The only thing that is necessary for the story is that REY wants to know the answer. It is something that causes her pain and her own imbalance and that Ren tried to use it to turn her. It will likely be a source of imbalance moving forward.
Sure we'd all like to know a long detailed history of every major character but it isn't possible nor is it necessary. Main protagonist or not. When you have another movie left in this set it can still be answered if that is what the story needs. And really I wouldn't be shocked to see them split the last movies into two different ones as seems to be the thing to do with multi-movie storyline franchises. First part dealing with the final major character from the orginal trilogy (leia....how they do it without her I don't know) and the last half purely the new generation.