[tps_header][/tps_header]3. A “sleeper agent” Jedi?
Given Rey’s ability to ward-off Kylo Ren’s mind control, to utilize the Force to make others do her bidding, her confidence with Luke’s lightsaber in the film’s final battle as well as just the way she says “The Force…” when she’s reminded of it – I’m 95% sure this girl is what I’m calling a sleeper agent Jedi.
My working theory? She’s Luke’s daughter. Luke and Ben Solo were training new Jedi, then Rey came of age and started getting much stronger than either of them. Ben got jealous and tried to kill her on Jakku, but couldn’t bring himself to do it so he left her, wiping her memory. Now can use the force and a lightsaber VERY well despite not knowing why she knows that.
This allows Rey to be sort of the “anti-Luke”, as well. When Luke had friends, family, leisure time and and a safe life on Tattoine, Rey’s life is utter shit. She scavenges just to stay alive and fed. The biggest difference between the two is that Rey is a reluctant protagonist throughout the film. Even given how skilled she is, Han’s work offer and Maz Kanata’s prophecy, she still wants to sit on Jakku, count the days and wait for whoever left her there! This makes her mythic “refusal of the call to adventure” and eventual acceptance more cerebral than Luke’s journey, which is basically, “I want to leave! My family is dead? Darn… well at least now I can leave!” thing.
If anyone ever tries to tell you that The Force Awakens has no original ideas, throw the sleeper agent thing at ’em and see what they say!
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