Alternate sequel trilogy idea
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cosleia:
Cross-posted from Twitter.
What if Rey had been Leia and Han’s child who had fallen to the Dark Side?
That story, the story of the fallen child making their way back to the Light, was always going to be super compelling. Why not just make it about Rey?
Imagine Finn’s part: she notices him at Tuanul but doesn’t kill him, isn’t sure why. She’s furious when he defects. WHEN SHE TRIES TO GET HER GRANDFATHER’S LIGHTSABER, IT GOES TO FINN.
He’s her opposite; he was raised in the Dark and chose the Light instead. She can’t stand it. She can’t stand that he can be to her parents what she never (believed she) could.
She’s full of entitlement and anger (just like Kylo) and she’s obsessed with Finn. She wishes she were as strong as Finn even as she believes she is superior to everyone in the galaxy. She wants to kill Finn and erase the way his existence proves her wrong.
Meanwhile, Finn is a lot like Rey in the existing canon, afraid of the strange powers he seems to have now and really just wanting to find where he actually came from—where he was born, who his parents are/were. But he’s starting to understand how all life is connected. He’s starting to realize that there are people out there in all kinds of circumstances who need help, and he is uniquely qualified to help a lot of stormtroopers escape the First Order.
The more he works toward this goal, the more he wonders whether Rey could be saved too.
So when they fight, he doesn’t try to kill her. He tries to talk to her. He tells her stories about her parents. He “tempts” her with the Light Side. He distracts her while the rest of the Resistance works against the First Order.
He tells her that Leia has been waiting for her all this time, and that she will always believe in her.
Rey spits, “If she truly gave a damn about me she wouldn’t WAIT.” Then, horrified by how vulnerable she has made herself, she flees that particular battle.
Leia never trained as a Jedi. She rejected the Force because she knew what the misuse of it could do. She isn’t sure she made the right choice, because she isn’t able to confront her daughter in battle. When she hears what Rey said to Finn, though, she realizes she’s got it wrong.
She never needed to face Rey in battle. She needed to face her as her mother.
Palpatine could still be the bad guy. Snoke’s unnecessary; have Palpatine there the whole time, though shadowy at first, only hinted at until he’s revealed right at the desperate cliffhanger in the second film. Maybe he comments about how Rey looks so much like her grandmother.
Ultimately the story would be about the Skywalkers finally triumphing over the man who had victimized their family for generations.
And Leia would have a devastating but ultimately good conversation with Anakin’s Force ghost.
Maybe in the end they all take a little trip to Tatooine where they visit Shmi’s grave.
cosleia:
Cross-posted from Twitter.
What if Rey had been Leia and Han’s child who had fallen to the Dark Side?
That story, the story of the fallen child making their way back to the Light, was always going to be super compelling. Why not just make it about Rey?
Imagine Finn’s part: she notices him at Tuanul but doesn’t kill him, isn’t sure why. She’s furious when he defects. WHEN SHE TRIES TO GET HER GRANDFATHER’S LIGHTSABER, IT GOES TO FINN.
He’s her opposite; he was raised in the Dark and chose the Light instead. She can’t stand it. She can’t stand that he can be to her parents what she never (believed she) could.
She’s full of entitlement and anger (just like Kylo) and she’s obsessed with Finn. She wishes she were as strong as Finn even as she believes she is superior to everyone in the galaxy. She wants to kill Finn and erase the way his existence proves her wrong.
Meanwhile, Finn is a lot like Rey in the existing canon, afraid of the strange powers he seems to have now and really just wanting to find where he actually came from—where he was born, who his parents are/were. But he’s starting to understand how all life is connected. He’s starting to realize that there are people out there in all kinds of circumstances who need help, and he is uniquely qualified to help a lot of stormtroopers escape the First Order.
The more he works toward this goal, the more he wonders whether Rey could be saved too.
So when they fight, he doesn’t try to kill her. He tries to talk to her. He tells her stories about her parents. He “tempts” her with the Light Side. He distracts her while the rest of the Resistance works against the First Order.
He tells her that Leia has been waiting for her all this time, and that she will always believe in her.
Rey spits, “If she truly gave a damn about me she wouldn’t WAIT.” Then, horrified by how vulnerable she has made herself, she flees that particular battle.
Leia never trained as a Jedi. She rejected the Force because she knew what the misuse of it could do. She isn’t sure she made the right choice, because she isn’t able to confront her daughter in battle. When she hears what Rey said to Finn, though, she realizes she’s got it wrong.
She never needed to face Rey in battle. She needed to face her as her mother.
Palpatine could still be the bad guy. Snoke’s unnecessary; have Palpatine there the whole time, though shadowy at first, only hinted at until he’s revealed right at the desperate cliffhanger in the second film. Maybe he comments about how Rey looks so much like her grandmother.
Ultimately the story would be about the Skywalkers finally triumphing over the man who had victimized their family for generations.
And Leia would have a devastating but ultimately good conversation with Anakin’s Force ghost.
Maybe in the end they all take a little trip to Tatooine where they visit Shmi’s grave.