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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Why is it so hard to accept that Rey is just really powerful with the force?
Why is it so hard to accept that Snoke's back story isn't important to this main story arc?
Why is it so hard to accept that Rey isn't a Skywalker, a Kenobi, a Palpatine, a Porg. I mean, wait a minute, that's it isn't it? Who could Rey possibly be besides those three that would lead to any satisfaction for the nerd brigade? If you find out that Rey was Qui Gon's granddaughter would that make you feel happy? No? So infact the lineage of Rey is either so damn narrow that's it's predictable and lame: ie. Palpatine's niece, or Kenobi's second cousin, or she's done secondary character's lineage that no one cares about.
And let's be completely clear here. This trilogy of movies is aggressively unconcerned with anything to do with extended universe (thank God). So no Rey being the love child of Darth Buttface and Mara Jade was never going to happen. Please, let that sink in.
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Believe it or not, I completely agree with you. But the thing that happens when you get a multi-generational series of films that basically covers nearly 100 years of history is that fans want the links between the series. Its just naturally going to happen, especially in a science fiction franchise, and frankly Lucas was about that type of minute detail. Disney however is not, and they're almost like reformers of the book, they want as few links as possible to the previous movies. That's why it was so easy for them to kill off Solo, have Luke flutter off after what amounts to a detailed cameo, and have the franchise put in the hands of an entirely new group of characters.
I would argue that it was probably a big debate at Disney about having Ren as a Solo.
And I doubt that the EU would ever have been seriously considered for this movie. Frankly the books that took place in legends post ROTJ weren't great stories that could be made into movies.
However to me the books that took place in the prequel universe were for the most part very good, and a lot of the old republic were really good because the only link with the movies was the Force.