And remember, its her that says they’re no one - he just prompts her to it.

As I commented on the same story on io9:

Very much this second point. I’m convinced that the entire reason Jurassic Park works so well (and why Jurassic World does not, imho) and has stayed so close to people’s hearts is that it instills such a relatable sense of awe and wonder in the characters. Spielberg has built an entire career on capturing that.

Except Kylo’s not the one who says anything. He pushes Rey to say out loud what she’s always secretly known, and she’s the one who says they were nobody. Kylo then expands on that, to which she’d undoubtedly interrupt if he was at all off base.

I think that’s mostly just whining that she wasn’t a Skywalker or Kenobi, because those outcomes would have tickled the simplistic nerd brains of the complainers. People with a more mature perspective can recognize that it’s a much more interesting storytelling choice to make Rey’s parents nobodies.

I think TLJ’s reveal is just as devastating for Rey as ESB for Luke.

For a large number of Star Wars fans, nothing is ever good enough.

People who are pissed about Rey being a “nobody” in TLJ seem to forget the scene in TFA where Maz talks to her after picking up the lightsaber. It is heavily implied there that her parents are nobodies and she knows it.

Funny. Every word of what you just said is wrong.

So there was “kind of sort of some talk chucked around”? Thanks for settling that, Simon.

Of all the gripes about TLJ, the decision to make force powers / sensitivity more egalitarian is the most peculiar one to me.

Rey’s parentage reveal in TLJ is fantastic. Exactly the kind of message SW should send in this day and age: “Doesn’t matter where you come from. That’s not who you are or the limit of your potential. You decide what to make of yourself.”

Whatever. I’m glad that’s the way it went and I hope whomever does the next films holds firm to that.

I like plot twists that make a story less interesting.

JJ Abrams had no intentions for anything other than creating mystery boxes.

Murphy tells The Hollywood Reporter he was having second thoughts about the adaptation. When he ran into Lewinsky at a party, he realized “‘Nobody should tell your story but you, and it’s kind of gross if they do.’”

Good. Leave the poor woman alone.

If your show is “balanced” without an “agenda”, then you’re just advocating for the status quo and mealy-mouthed apathy. Every show has politics in it; you just might be inured from seeing them since they conform to your world view.

Your viewing attention is better served by shows like Black-ish and Fresh off the Boat. Can you believe ABC will air Roseanne’s shitshow but blocked an NFL-themed Black-ish episode? Talk about some bullshit.

The thing is, the identity of Rey’s parents is important *to her*, and we need to see that. Rey is desperate to find her place in the galaxy, and she thinks knowing who her parents are will tell her this. Part of her growth as a character is learning that there are no answers there, and whatever her purpose is, she…