 Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name's David. Today we're going to talk about my theory for who Rey is. Hey, welcome back to the channel. If you don't know or if you're new here, this is where I talk about just my interaction with the Star Wars franchise. I've been a fan since the very first day. I mean, I'm 50 years old and I just love Star Wars, love all of Star Wars, and especially I love the Empire Strikes Back. But I want to talk about Empire Strikes Back because I also want to talk about the last Jedi. Now, it really saddens me all the time when I see the haters on YouTube or the forums and they're talking about how they hate certain movies that are in the Star Wars franchise or they hate certain directors or they hate certain scripts or even when they say they hate certain characters or certain actors and actresses. I don't hate anything in Star Wars. I love all of it. I love the prequels. I love the movies that are coming out now. And yes, I even loved the last Jedi. I love the last Jedi. I didn't see any of the issues that most people see. And I think the reason why I enjoyed the last Jedi was because I am such a huge fan of the Empire Strikes Back. And I know a lot of you are too. I think when they pull Star Wars fans, Empire Strikes Back is typically number one. Empire Strikes Back is typically the movie that we all universally agree on that we love the most. And there was a summer when my uncle had a VHS cassette of Empire Strikes Back and I had to spend the entire summer at his house. And I literally watched Empire Strikes Back twice a day through the entire summer. And after I had seen it over 200 times, I stopped counting. So it asked me how many times I've seen it now. Easily a lot. Like, I can't even, I couldn't even tell you maybe a thousand times I've seen Empire Strikes Back. So I know every single part of that movie. I know every single line. I know every single thing about that film. And so because I think I'm such a fan of it, then I feel like then the middle chapter movie has always become my favorite. The movie that bridges the first movie to the third movie that that middle point that that crux or that pinnacle movie has always been my favorite. And I think that's true in a lot of the franchises that have come out like the second Matrix movie is my favorite. So, you know, I think that's just kind of, I don't know, I just love that point of the story. And I know there's a lot of Star Wars fans. A lot of people that also would say they love Star Wars, love the characters, they would say that Last Jedi is their least favorite film of all the films. But what I think some people have forgotten is we have begun to like Empire Strikes Back over time, over time. Now, maybe you liked it right away, but there wasn't an internet in 1980, right? There wasn't an internet back then. And there wasn't YouTube. But some of us may not know this, or maybe some of us may have forgotten, Empire Strikes Back was not well received when it came out. There were a lot of haters when Empire Strikes Back came out, because they'd only seen one film, they'd only seen Lucas's Star Wars. And now here's another new director taking a different approach to these characters that they loved, and then doing something crazy at the end with this revelation of Darth Vader and Luke, because we didn't have that revelation in the first movie. We didn't know who Luke's parents were. We didn't know how Anakin died. We didn't know who this mysterious Darth Vader was. And then we got two revelations at the end with, no, I am your father. So there were people that didn't like it. And I just pulled some reviews. I pulled some reviews. I pulled some critics. Let me read to you actual reviews from the Empire Strikes Back. Are you ready for irony? So here's the New York Times. The Empire Strikes Back is not a truly terrible movie. It's a nice movie. It's not by any means as nice as Star Wars. It's not as fresh and funny and surprising and witty. The Empire Strikes Back is a big, expensive, time-consuming, essentially mechanical operation. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank. Here's another critic. Yoda looks like a wanton and talks like a fortune cookie. Here's another critic. It is violent. It is conventional. Here's another critic. To call the Empire Strikes Back a good junk movie is no insult. Here's another critic. Somebody should tell Harrison Ford that when a woman tells a man I love you, I know is not an acceptable response. That scene was not funny. It was infuriating. Here's another critic. George Lucas has made a movie even more racist and sexist than the first. I would think that Billy Dee Williams would resent being the token black in the film. Also, there was only one other woman apart from Carrie Fisher in the movie. And lastly, here's another critic. Just about every other critic in the country has been telling you how good the picture is. They've been falling over themselves to tell you, and it's embarrassing, I feel guilty for not liking it as much as I'm supposed to. People didn't like the turn that the movie took. They didn't like the new look. They didn't like the script. They didn't like the ending. They didn't like the new director. Sound familiar? I think it's not only wrong, but it's difficult to judge a story arc coming into the middle and defining it by the middle of the book. I mean, don't you want to get to the end to find out what the things and questions and the things that you were just confused and concerned about in the middle meant? Do you not think that the third movie is going to tie the first two movies together? And now there's going to be a complete story arc and you're going to see it all come together? Of course. A lot of the things that we were disturbed about with Empire got resolved in Jedi. And I think because Jedi came out, it made us appreciate Empire even more. And so I would be very not surprised if fans turned back around on last Jedi, same way they did with Emperor Strikes Back. So a couple questions. Do I believe Kylo Ren? Do I believe Kylo Ren? Of course not. I don't believe Kylo Ren. I don't believe he knows who Rey is. And even if he does know who Rey is, he did not tell her the truth. I think we were all expecting a revelation in the film like, no, I am your father. And what they gave us was, and they did that on purpose because we were expecting it. And they're going to do that revelation in the third movie. We thought it would mirror Empire Strikes Back. We are waiting for that moment and they built that tension up and then they snapped the pencil in half and didn't give it to us. And I think they didn't give it to us on purpose. I think Kylo Ren is toying with her or he's manipulating her. So I do have a hypothesis for who I think Rey is. I'll give you one guess. One guess would be that in the third film, they're going to take the same approach that the classic books took in that Han and Leia had twins. In the vintage books, Han and Leia have twins in the Timothy Zahn novels. And there's a boy and there's a girl. Initially, there's the two twins. Similar to how Luke and Leia were twins, a boy and a girl. And that they were separated at birth. I think this trilogy could be mirroring the original trilogy in that Rey and Kylo were separated at birth to keep them safe. And that's going to be revealed in the third movie. And I think if they took that approach, it would certainly give some resolve and some satisfaction to the people that love the books. I think people who love the books and read the books are going to say, ah, they're my twins. There's the twins that I've been wanting to see, hoping to see. And if they pay that respect to the book readers, I think a lot of fans will come back around and say, you know, awesome. Now, do I think the movies are actually going to go that direction? I don't. Only because I think that once Rey had revealed herself to Han and once Rey had revealed herself to Leia, I think between the two of them, they would have said something. If they had seen Rey, recognized her, especially Leia being force sensitive. Leia's force sensitive, she would have felt, no, this is my daughter, there's a connection here. She would have said something. Right. She would have said something. Maybe they're saving that for the next film and she'll say something in the third film, but I don't think so. What do I think? Okay. So here's my theory. Here's my theory. And it's, it's always been my theory and it's been my theory alone since the very beginning, since I saw the very first film with the force awakens. I think Rey is Anakin. I think Rey is Anakin. I think she is Anakin reincarnated and she is going to feel that because initially what we learned about Anakin from Schmi Skywalker is that there were, there was no father, right? There was no father. So it was divine, you know, conception. So, so where does this chosen one who brings balance to the force? Where does this energy come from? So the energy was manifested in Anakin, but then died, became force energy, then Luke came along and then we all thought Luke was the chosen one to bring balance to the force, but he wasn't. And so the empire rises back up again and there is unbalance and so Rey is born and Rey is Anakin once again. Come back. This is why she is a tinkerer. This is why she's good with mechanics, good with fixing things. This is why she's good with her hands. This is why she doesn't act all princessy. You know, she's very much the aggressor, the grit your teeth, the grip it and rip it kind of person that we would want from a hero. This is why she was quickly able to master a lot of lightsaber skills without any seeming training, right? So she she checks off all those boxes. You know, she also has this where did she come from origin story where we don't know who her parents are. She doesn't have this memory of where she came from or what began her story. And so very similar to the Anakin story, very similar to the Luke story, I think in this one, she's going to get a vision of herself maybe coupled with Darth Vader. Like, you know, you had this choice presented before to you to go good or to go bad and you chose bad. And this time, Anakin has the choice to change that destiny for him. He's going to have this vision of himself or rather she's going to have this vision of herself as as a dark lord again, as a Sith as a dark princess. And she's going to reject that just as Luke rejected it in the cave on Dagobah. And now she's going to come out the other side, victorious. And she's going to once again face Palpatine and destroy him forever this time. Plus, don't you I mean, here's here's here's something that I was even thinking about. I think this would be amazing. The pivotal scene of Empire Strikes Back was the two of them on Cloud City and Vader saying no, I am your father. And then this silence and then Luke saying no, don't you think it'd be awesome to have that scene now switched and to have force Luke come back as his force spirit and to reveal to Rey who she is. And for him to say no Rey, you are my father. That's my prediction. What do you think you think I'm right? You think I'm wrong? You think, you know, I heard that I heard that one already. I heard someone else already give that explanation and I don't agree. Or just tell me who you think Rey is. Who do you think Rey is? Do you think they've resolved Rey's identity or do you think there is more to come? Thanks for sticking with me. I know that was long winded. May the force be with you guys. I'll see you next time. Bye.