Seeing that Rey is obviously such an essential character (even though she says shes nobody) got me thinking about her. I felt I had seen her before. Everyone says she is obviously a Skywalker, which I believe to be true, but how exactly? Then it finally struck me ,she does look an awful lot like Shmi, Anakins mother.
Very little is known about Shmi other than she was a slave on Tatooine. It doesn't say if she had living relatives, like brothers or sisters ,or how she became enslaved,or from which planet she was abducted, but it wouldn't need to be a big stretch of the imagination that Rey comes from another side of the Skywalker family, and that all the characteristics required to make her a Jedi took a generation beyond Luke to mature so that ,when given the right push, "The Force Awakens" in her.
The fact that she appears totally ignorant about the Jedi / Force seem to indicate she has no formal training. Kylo seems driven to hunt Luke down possibly because Luke destroys most of the other Rens in the flashback after the slaughter at the academy. The lack of them at the First Order base shot hints at this. Did Luke spare him because he couldn't bring himself to kill his own sisters estranged son and thus fled into exile?
I like that so many possibilities exist at the moment. I believe the majority of the story outlines are accurate but the real detail is surprisingly still fairly well hidden. We still know very little about Phasma, Snoke, Rey, Finn, Poes mission, Mas, how Lukes lightsaber features ,but the star map that is supposed to show his location is there in the trailer. But you'll have needed to follow this thread to have known that.
Really in comparisson to all the terrible doom mongering that has gone on the reality is we have a film that has , at this moment in time, managed to have brought the series right back to where nearly all of us have so desparately wanted it to be for decades.
And I cannot tell you how much that really means to me.
