Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Who is Rey, really?

And that brings us to the third point: balance. Life and death; light and darkness; these are two sides of the same coin, and two sides of the Force. “Darkness rises, and light to meet it,” says Snoke, and, for things to truly balance out, well, you put one young Skywalker on one side in Kylo, and one possible young Skywalker on the other with Rey. Does that mean that Ben Solo can’t be saved?

Well, no. It just means that at some point, there will probably be darkness in the Force again.

Fourth comes the idea that this is the Skywalker saga. Buckie Wells and I have already gone back and forth about this entire theory, and I’ll quote her here:

"I think the strongest argument is that it’s the Skywalker saga, so unless we’re counting Luke (who will basically only be physically present in one film of three), there should be another… unless it’s about kylo [sic], which i don’t think it is."

She’s already argued that Rey is the true hero of this trilogy as well.

“There should be another” almost brings to mind “there is another,” the line that was a second, smaller earthquake in Return of the Jedi after Vader and Luke in The Empire Strikes Back. For a significant portion of the films, we’ve had multiple Skywalkers. Shmi and Anakin in The Phantom Menace, Padmé marries into the family in Attack of the Clones and is thus a Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith (who gives birth to the next generation), we find out Vader is a Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back, Leia’s confirmed as Luke’s sister in Return of the Jedi, and both appear in the sequel trilogy films.

In fact, every film has multiple Skywalkers, whether known or unknown at that point, and while Episode IX would satisfy this without making Rey a Skywalker, assuming Leia somehow appears, it wouldn’t echo the original trilogy quite as much. Sure, Kylo or Rey probably won’t get a Return of the Jedi-style speech about how they’re cousins, but J.J. Abrams is still working on the script.

Next: The evolution of Rey in The Last Jedi

So, while you might have lost hope, in the words of Darth Vader, “search your feelings.” We do not know everything to be true just yet. Hold out hope, Rey Skywalker fans.