How Rey end up in Jakku? - Star Wars

Since The Force Awakens resembles a New Hope, lots of people believe that Rey's past is similiar to Luke's: both have special powers and special parents and were hidden on a harsh desert planet.........However, for what reason would Rey need to be hidden? Let's analyze some theories and see which one makes more sense:  

- Was Kylo Ren the one who left Rey in Jakku?


Some fans built a theory based on Rey's vision, where we first see a shot of Luke with R2-D2 in front of a fire, and in the next shot we see a warrior being stabbed through the back by Kylo Ren.

The popular opinion of these shots is that they show the moment when Luke's Jedi Order was destroyed by his nephew, along with fellow members of the Knights of Ren, who may have actually been other students who also turned to the dark side with Ben Solo.

The theory says that Rey is Luke's daugther and that she became a young student of his New Jedi Order and, when it was destroyed by the Knights of Ren, Kylo could not go through with killing Rey, because he hadn't enough courage to kill his cousin. So, he saves her and leaves her in Jakku, where she is left with Unkar Plutt. 

One variation of this theory says that Luke was the one who saved Rey (either because he was her father or just a teacher that cared about her) from the Knights of Ren and left her in Jakku so that no one could find her.

The problem with these theories is that the events in the book Bloodline occurs 6 years before the events in The Force Awakens and, at that time, Ben Solo was still one of Luke's students and hadn't yet turned to the dark side and become Kylo Ren.

So, by the time Kylo Ren turned against Luke and helped to destroy the New Jedi Order, Rey was already living in Jakku. We know that because she is 19 years old (according to the Visual Dictionary) in the movie and, when we see her in the force vision as a little girl, she is probably around the age of 6-8.

- Was Rey really left in Jakku?

Thanks to Bloodline, we know that 6 years before the events of The Force Awakens, all was going rather well: Luke was running his Jedi Order, Ben Solo was still his apprentice, the Republic was divided but in power and the First Order was only starting to emerge from the shadows.......So, why would Rey need to be hidden roughly 11-13 years before the events of The Force Awakens if everything was fine?

Also, when Luke was hidden in Tatooine, he was given to his family and Obi-Wan was watching over him. Rey, though, was given to Unkar Plutt, who wasn't her family nor looked out for her. It's hard to believe that someone that cared out for her would give her to him.........

So, she might not even have been dropped on Jakku, but born in it and was simply left behind by her family. In fact, when we see Rey as a little girl, she screams "come back" and not "don't leave me here" (or some other thing that would suggest that she was dropped there), and she is wearing the same kind of garment that she wears during her adult life, implying that she has worn this kind of clothes her entire life.

You must be wondering why would her family leave her behind. Simple: they were horrible people that wanted to leave Jakku no matter what. It's totally possible that her biological parents had already died and she was left with people that didn't care so much about her........The dialogue between Rey and Maz Kanata even implies that her family isn't anyone special and that probably won't play a part in the saga. She advises Rey to forget her past and look for her future: find Luke and become a Jedi.

Anyway, whoever was taking care of her was probably saving money to get out of Jakku and, when the opportunity came, they took it, even if they couldn't bring Rey with. In fact, it's even possible that they "sold" Rey to Unkar Plutt in order to have enough money to leave Jakku. Of course they didn't tell Rey the truth, they probably lied to her, saying that they would come back for her.........that's why she still had hope that they would do it. 

There are other evidences that also indicate that Rey was born there: she says "I didn't know there was this much green in the whole galaxy" (when they arrive in Takodana) because she has never been anywhere else but Jakku.

Besides, if she had ever been somewhere else before Jakku, she would probably want to go back there in order to try to find her family or any acquaintance that could have information about her family's whereabouts. She had the opportunity to do that not only in the movie when they steal the Millennium Falcon, but also in the book "Before the Awakening", in which Rey, with the help of 2 friends, finds and repairs a ship, but she refuses to leave Jakku with her friends, and they take the ship and leave her behind. So, that indicates that she has always lived in Jakku.

Some people might say that she simply doesn't remember where she was before she lived in Jakku. But she was left with Unkar Plutt when she was around the age of 6-8, old enough to understand what was happening in her life. People might also say that her mind was force wiped by someone.........but why? As we have already discussed, everything was fine at the galaxy during Rey's childhood.

That's it for now guys, I know that most people rather believe that Rey is someone important (a Skywalker or a descendant of Obi-Wan or of Palpatine), but there's a great chance that she turns out to be only a simple girl born in Jakku who was abandoned by her parents or whomever she called family. And what do you think about it? Let your comment below and don't forget to check out the videos I used to make this post:


 Did Kylo Ren leave Rey on Jakku? 


The Last Rey's Parents Video You'll Ever Need to Watch 

Star Wars Kisses,

Tati.

Beauty and the Beast (Live Action) - Theory

Have you ever heard about the Temporal Loop Theory concerning the live action "Beauty and the Beast"? Let's discuss about it and see whether it makes any sense:


- What is the Temporal Loop Theory?


At the end of the movie, it is revealed that some members of the village are relatives of some employees of the castle and, according to the theory, the spell was cast in the castle many years ago, but the Beast and the employees didn't grow any older. We can suppose that because Chip continues to be a child when he returns to human life.

It seems to be a flaw in the script because the villagers continue to be practically in the same age of the cursed members of the castle, but the former should be much older than the latter. So, according to the theory, the inhabitants of the village are stuck in a temporal loop, cursed to live the same day uninterruptedly and without being aware of it. 

The enchantress that cursed the Beast cursed the whole village in a temporal loop so that the inhabitants couldn't remember of the empoyees of the castle that were their relatives, friends or acquaintances. On the "bonjour" song, we see that Belle knows perfectly the daily routine of each member of the village. She is bored because she knows exactly what is going to happen.........after all, the same things happen every day.

Belle even sings, on the mentioned song, that "every morning is just the same, since the moment that we came". According to the theory, Belle and her father weren't enchanted in the temporal loop because they arrived in the village after the spell had been cast. That is why the members of the village find them two weird. And the enchantress remained disguised as Agathe only to maintain her spell on them.

- Does the theory make sense?


Now, let's analize this theory: first, it hasn't passed so many years as the theory says. The only thing that the movie says is that "as the years passed, the Beast felt into despair". It might have passed only two, three, four years......

Some people might say that it has passed lots of years in the animation, but let's not forget that it is different from the live action. Besides, even in the animation, things aren't very clear about how many years the spell lasted. Everything that is said is that the rose "would bloom until his 21st year", which is completely vague. We can't be sure if it is until the prince completes 21 years, or if it is until he completes 21 years of being a Beast.

There is a clue in the animation, though. In the song "Be our guest", Lumière (the candlestick) sings that "ten years we've been rusting" (click HERE to check out the lyric). So, it seems that it has passed about ten years in the animation.

However, according to the book The Beast Within, an official Disney canon, it is revealed that the spell would last until the prince achieved the age of 21. You might say that it fits the animation, according to which the spell lasted about 10 years. However, the prince would be 11 years old when he was transformed........

"Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas" kind of support the idea. According to it, the prince was transformed in a Beast when he was a teenager. So, it seems that everything fits perfectly.......However, the book "The Beast Within" says that he was cursed because he treated his fiancée badly (yes, the enchantress was his fiancée, not a beggar, which the animation makes us believe)........and, let's agree, it is very odd to think that a 11 year old boy was already engaged. I know that people used to get married young at the time, but 11 years old is too much, isn't it? Especially because the men didn't use to get married so young, only the women.

Another thing that we must pay attention to is the fact that there is a huge flaw in the "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas": if the Beast was cursed when he was a teenager, and returns to human life as an adult, it means that he and the members of the castle should have grown lots of years older. However, Chip continued to be a child, even though it has passed lots of years.

Another thing that doesn't fit is that he is already an adult in the painting portrait of the classic animation movie, which was painted before he was transformed into a Beast (we know that because the portrait has been ripped by the Beast, probably because he couldn't bare to look at it and face the fact that he is a monster now). So, either there is a time traveler that painted him in the future and went to the past to deliver the painting, or he is the most mature 11 year old child that has already been portrayed.

As we can see, the animations and the book don't fit each other well and, unless Disney gives us better explanations, we have to consider that there are more than one (or even more than two) official versions of the story..........

- And what about the live action?


Well, the live action is something apart from the books and from the animations. And, if we pay attention, the movie cares about differing the time length of its story from the one of the classic animation movie: in the song "Be our guest", the part which Lumière (the candlestick) sings "ten years we've been rusting" (click HERE to check out) in the animation is replaced for "Too long we've been rusting" (clicke HERE to listen to that part of the music in the minute 2:35) in the live action.

So, it is clear that the live action worried about not showing the time length, probably because they intented to show us that it hasn't passed so many years. It has probably passed about four or five years, that's why the members of the village didn't grow so much older than their cursed relatives of the castle. I know you might be thinking that it isn't enough to break the Temporal Loop Theory, but calm down that we aren't done yet...........


- The mystery of the fallen tree


And what about that tree that has been hit by lightning but is up again when Maurice returns there with Gaston? Well, it was probably a work of the enchantress, disgased as Agathe. And why she did that? Because she wanted to confuse Maurice so that he and Gaston couldn't get to the castle. After all, she didn't want the Beast to be haunted and killed, she was a good person (or a good entity, to be more accurate) and only wanted to give the prince a lesson.

So, she didn't want anyone getting in the way, that's why she was still in the village in the first place. She wanted to make sure that things wouldn't get out of control: she erased the memories of the prince, his lands, and servants from the villagers' minds and every time someone started to remember them, she would fix it (like a refresh on the curse or something). For example, Belle asks Mr. Potts at the beginning of the movie if he has lost something again, so it is possible that whenever he starts to remember of his wife and child, the enchantress reinforces the spell, making the memories disappear again.

- The villagers are aware that days go by

There are many moments in the the movie that shows that they weren't living the same day: they did lots of different things in differents days. Gaston even says that he looked for Belle's father for 5 days. So, this already breaks the theory, since the villagers are aware of what happened in the days before. You might say that Gaston wasn't living in the village when the spell was cast, but that doesn't make sense, because people wouldn't be able to idolize him like we see in the movie. They would always treat him as a newcomer in the village, due to the temporal loop that makes people forget everything new that happens after the day of the spell.

You might say that Gaston was already living in the village at the time of the curse, but he wasn't affected by it because he was traveling in the day the spell was cast. Well, even so, it doesn't fit the theory, since people don't find him strange.......I mean, people should find strange that Gaston was growing older and so on, but that doesn't happen (on the contrary, people idolize him, as already said), they only find Belle and her father strange. Besides, if Gaston was indeed traveling in the day of the spell, he would have noticed that there was something odd about the village soon after he returned to it. He would have quickly found out about the temporal loop and he would definitely be too scared to continue living there. 

- The villagers recognize Belle and her father


The theory says that Belle and her father weren't cursed because they arrived in the village after the spell was cast, but it doesn't make sense at all. Using the same logic explained in the last topic, considering that the day is always the same since the day of the spell, every new day after would be erased of the villagers' mind. So, if Bella and her father arrived in the village after the spell, people would meet them and forget about them in the following day over and over again. I mean, people would always consider them two as newcomers, but we clearly don't see that in the movie, because people there recognize her, including Mr. Potts, who greets her and talks to her about his memory problems........so, it is quite obvious that he is familiar with her.

Why then people in the village find Belle and her father strange? It's because they aren't just simple villagers doing simple things like everyone else there. First we have Maurice, an eccentric, yet humble inventor that hopes to someday create an invention capable of reforming the life of his family for the better, and is regularly hard at work in his basement/workshop on various contraptions. Though they're usually met with failure, his dream and Belle's support motivates him to push forward each time.

And then we have Belle, who is, like his father, someone that likes to study and find out new things. That's why she seems to be bored with the daily routine in the village, it isn't because of the time loop. People at that time, especially the ones that lived in the countryside, didn't want to explore and learn about new things. So, they ended up in a daily routine, doing practically the same things every day. And that is why Bella is such an amazing character: she is a woman beyond her time, she aimed to explore new things and wanted more than just a life in the countryside.

That is it guys, I do hope you liked it. Don't forget to let your comment below =)

Beauty Kisses,

Tati.

Is Rey Luke's daughter? - Star Wars

One of the main questions that "The Force Awakens" left us with is definitely concerning Rey's origin and lots of people believe that she is Luke's daughter, but is it a solid theory? Let's analyze some of the main arguments that support the idea and see where we go:  



- "Star Wars" is a Skywalker story, so Rey has to be one

Yes, the saga is about the Skywalker family, but Rey doesn't have to be one: in the prequels, Anakin becomes Darth Vader; in the original trilogy, Luke redeems his father from the dark side and destroys the emperor; now, Luke is the key to bring back the Jedi Order and Kylo Ren is a Skywalker that can potentially get the Force out of balance.

- The conversation Rey has with Maz Kanata down the basement, after she touches Luke's lightsaber, indicates that she is his daughter

Actually, their conversation might indicate the exact opposite, depending on the way you interpret it: Rey wants to go back to Jakku to wait for her family and Maz says that they are never coming back, but Luke can be in her future. And then she emphasizes: "the belonging you seek is not behind you, it's ahead".

What we can understand from that? That Luke isn't the one that left her in Jakku, he isn't her family, he isn't the one Rey has been waiting for in Jakku. Luke is something that is ahead, not something that is behind. It seems that the movie is telling us that Luke isn't her father, he isn't in her past, he is in her future, he is what the force is trying to draw her to. Seeing from this perspective, their conversation makes clear that she isn't his daughter.   

- Kylo Ren recognizes Rey because they are cousins

In the novel version of "The Force Awakens" (yes, there are books about "Star Wars", including a written version of the movie), Kylo Ren whispers "it is you" when Rey pulls the lightsaber to her in the fight scene between them two. Unfortunately, the line was cut from the movie.

There are some hints in the movie, though. In Rey's vision of the Knights of Ren, there are some insinuations that Rey and Kylo have crossed paths before. However, remembering someone from years ago doesn't mean that you are the person's relative. 

- Rey is strong with the Force, that's why she is Luke's daughter 

Is it possible to be so strong with the Force having average parents? Well, except from the Skywalker family, lots of people (Obi-Wan, Master Yoda, the children we see in the prequels, among many others) were strong with the Force and didn't have Force-using parents. So, we don't have any proof that Force-sensitive ability is hereditary. Besides, let's not forget that Jedi are forbidden to love, get married, have a family and so on, and they were still finding new Force-sensitive kids during the time of the prequels.

So, Rey can be strong with the Force without being a Skywalker. Besides, there is something up with the planet Jakku itself. In the "Aftermath" books, Palpatine takes interest on the planet, reasons that are yet to be revealed.

Also, why was Lor San Tekka on Jakku?

According to the site Wookieepedia, Lor San Tekka is a member of a religious sect called The Church of the Force. Despite not being Force-sensitive, his knowledge of the galaxy and its history was useful to the New Republic after it prevailed over the Empire during the Battle of Endor and began a period of galactic reconstruction. Lor San Tekka also helped Luke Skywalker, the last known Jedi Knight at the time, in his search for knowledge of the Jedi.

Anyway, Lor San Tekka had a profound knowledge of the Force and of the Jedi and it's possible that he was on Jakku to explore the mysteries hidden within it. So, if there is actually something up with Jakku, maybe that was what made Rey so powerful.   

- The lightsaber chooses Rey over Ben, that's why she is Luke's daughter

In the book Ahsoka, we learn about kyber crystals, which power lightsabers and are able to almost choose their own masters, and call out to them. 

So, the lightsaber itself or, more specific, the crystals within it, doesn't want to belong to dark side members. Besides, the saber might be trying to get back to Luke, its true master. Maybe the saber knows that Rey is being sent (by the Force) to Luke and that's why it picks her over Ben. Thus, there's nothing to do with her being or not Luke's daughter.

- Luke's look indicates a deep connection with Rey, so we can conclude that he is her father

Actually, his look could have represented a vast range of emotions, but let's try to figure it out: first, he gives a very inquisitive look, probably thinking "Who are you?", "Why are you here?", "How did you find me?". He waits for her to explain something and her explanation is simply to pull out the lightsaber.......

.........and then his expression immediately starts to change. What is he probably thinking now?!

The first thing that likely crossed his mind is the memory of the last time he saw the lightsaber, which was instants before he had his hand cut off by Darth Vader, who was about to destroy everything he thought was true, by telling him he was his father. Obviously, that isn't a pleasant thing to remember. 

Besides, we know that Luke has given up on training Jedi and went on his search to find the First Jedi Temple, probably looking for answers on what he did wrong and what he should do now. We know that Ben Solo was his apprentice and that he turned on him, and helped to destroy the new Jedi Order he was building........

......not only Luke probably sees this as a personal failure, but also feels that he has failed with his sister and his best friend by losing their son to the dark side, when they trusted Luke to save Ben from it. In the movie, and especially in "The Force Awakens" novel, we know that both Han and Leia (who also blames Snoke) feel a lot of blame for their son's turn. Neither one seems to blame Luke, but that doesn't mean he doesn't blame himself.

Then there is the fact that he probably has sensed through the Force, or maybe through his sister Leia, that Kylo Ren has killed his best friend Han Solo. This must make him feel a lot worse.......and why is all that relevant? Because when Rey pulls out the lightsaber, he realizes that she has gone there to be trained, but he is not ready to do that again, or maybe even never again........

Well, as you have probably noticed, I tend to believe that Rey isn't Luke's daughter...........but what do you think of it? Leave your comment below and don't forget to check out the videos I used to make this post:

- The Last Rey's Parents Video You'll Ever Need to Watch

- STAR WARS: Why Rey isn't Luke's Daughter

- 10 Reasons Why Rey is NOT Luke Skywalker's Daughter 

Star Wars Kisses,

Tati.