When Rey goes to confront Palpatine, the fight could go exactly the same way if she had no relationship to him. When Luke goes to confront Vader, their relationship drives the conflict. The worst part of Rey Palpatine to me is that it doesn't impact the conflict with Palpatine at all besides some lines he says about him being her family. Will he become evil the same way his father did? Now it's not a question of "who am I, why should I have a role in this story?" Its a question of "am I destined to be evil because I came from evil?" When she tells Finn that she's afraid no one really knows her, it's not because she is still trying to answer that question for herself, it's because she found out and didn't like the answer. While Rey's internal conflict was a question of self worth, and overcoming self doubt and imposter syndrome, finding out she is a Palpatine instantly shifts her away from that. Her role in the story is instantly clarified by external forces - either she joins Palpatine or she fights him. "Who am I?" goes from a question Rey needs to answer for herself to "you are the granddaughter of the Emperor". You’re going to have to find your own place in this world."įinding out she is a Palpatine instantly narrows that big wide open question down. There you go.’ The hardest thing she could hear would be ‘No, you’re not going to get the answer. “The easy thing would be, ‘Yes, your parents are so and so and here’s your place in the world. That's precisely why it was impactful that she finds out she is indeed a nobody in TLJ. Because she has no lineage, she doesnt know where she belongs, and that she doesnt have a right to have an active role in the story. Kylo voices that fear in TLJ, and she asks Luke to tell her her place.
But that's only a piece of it - Rey feels like she can't be the hero because she has no place in the story. As you noted, Rey struggles with self worth.
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It's less that it was "never intended to be the final answer" and more that Johnson understood his role in the movie and didn't want to definitively state from a "word of god" standpoint anything more than he said in the movie, boxing in whoever would be doing IX.Īs far as a movie can be said to have a message, the message of TLJ was not that anyone can be a Force user, because that message has no bearing on our world. But Rey's being nobody was never meant to be the final answer. I don't know what better idea you are talking about. To be clear, I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm not trying to tell you why you shouldnt like the movie or even why you shouldnt like Rey Palpatine.
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