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Who Is Rey?

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Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex.

Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.

- Isaac Asimov

That is a disturbing quote.

Was it something one of his characters said, perhaps a villain, or is that just Isaac Asimov being Isaac Asimov?

One of the most painful sex scenes I've ever read was in one of Asimov's books. It was two scientist sorts trying to talk clinically about their attraction to each other... I think it was in one of the Empire novels. I forget if it was Empire or Robot because I followed one of those reading guides that ties them all together.

I think it was just Asimov being Asimov, during the sexual revolution when sex wasn't considered an overly bad thing.

Seems to be a jokey song, but a brief scan doesn't indicate the author disagrees with the premise: http://members.tripod.com/~bardic_circle/aclone.htm

Why is it disturbing? Because he rhymed a word with itself?

Technically, he rhymed one word with its homonym, not with the same word.

How old is this post? I thought it was established in the Last Jedi (spoiler ahead) that she was just a random person who was abandoned by parents who were nobody special.

Was it established? I think it was just Kylo Ren who said that, wasn't it? He might be mistaken, or lying. It wouldn't be the first time in the series that somebody lies about someone else's parentage or identity.

25th Dec, 2015

This is a cool theory, but maybe somebody more versed in the details of star wars cloning technology (or even real-world cloning technology) could explain: wouldn't a clone have some visual similarity to the original? In addition to the obvious gender difference, Rey and Anikin don't really look all that similar. If Rey is a clone of Anikin in the force-using aspects, where did all her other aspects come from?

There is one person in the entire series that could be said to have a similar appearance to Rey: Sabé, Padme Amidala's handmaiden, played by Kiera Knightley, who posed as Amidala at various times. I don't know what that means in the end, but I would find it hard to believe that at casting they saw someone who was a previous character's doppelganger and decided to make them a main character without thinking about it.

Maybe they used CRISPR tech to modify the sequence.

It's amazing people spend so much time theorizing about hack writing.

By all accounts JJ Abrams had drafts for Star Wars 8 & 9, but Rian Johnson "took it in another direction". There's not even coherent narrative here for people to theorize about.

They each basically tried to start their own trilogy so yeah, episode nine is gonna be tough.

If she was Anakins clone, wouldn't she have to look exactly like him ? Just like how the clone troopers all looked like Jango Fett. I can see how she would be a clone, just not of Anakin. The whole clone thing would also explain the reflection/mirror scene in last jedi. Maybe she is the original clone and they discarded her ? And evil rey is like a trained clone version of her.

I’d really lough when in the end she isn’t actually related to anyone and they pull a spaceballs-like: “And what does that make us?”

Yeah after what happened with Anakin, what's the next big idea? Let's clone him! Wow! Maybe this time things will be different. Oh what happened the last time? We lost an entire generation of Jedi! But this time, we got nothing to lose. I'm not buying this.

J.J. Abrams is the man behind Lost...isn’t a cohesive backstory and grand plan to Rey questionable?

The Rey-Palpatine clone is just as compelling...

https://youtu.be/hzG3m-ZW198?t=358

There are hints with the theme of the Emperor being played at times. The sounds of his laughter haunt her visions, along with her distinctive fighting style and power.

Abrams is a hack and he's just gonna say she absorbed the dark and light or something wacky.

>Abrams is a hack and he's just gonna say she absorbed the dark and light or something wacky.

Maybe, but the Force was never that deep as a concept, and don't forget that it was George Lucas who gave us midichlorians.

The video you linked to ignores one glaring thing. Rey learned to fight with a staff, where a jabbing motion is very common.

You're over thinking it. They will go with time travel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzeOrA2in1c

Holy molly! Yes please!

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