Snoke spoke of an awakening. So while theories about the origin of Rey belonging to the Skywalker legacy are tempting, I'm actually more interested in the idea that she's unrelated to them. I can't buy into the idea that she's Leia's daughter, given how they obviously feel towards their son, they wouldn't have allowed their daughter to be dropped off someplace barren without some master-level trickery. Given that Leia felt the death of Han, a non-force user, I can only imagine she would have some sense of whether her daughter was alive or not, and chase after her if she existed. Therefore, I expect Rey isn't her daughter.
That essentially leaves Luke a a possible father, and I suppose that's possible. Ben and Yoda didn't have time to teach him the Jedi order, and as things stood they may have felt it didn't matter, and perhaps they felt that it was harmful to expect and train jedi to be monks. So maybe Luke had some children. As bad as things might have been for him afterwards, mentally, emotionally, he did attempt to train new Jedi. The conversations about it suggested there was more than one person being trained, but they can't all be his kids. They didn't learn about midichlorians, there wasn't a galaxy wide testing program, so he would have particularly sought out those he knew to be related to force users. However, if this was his daughter, I doubt he wouldn't know, and I doubt he would abandon her, even in his darkest despair. And, again, it's unlikely that he wouldn't know she was alive through the force - but perhaps he felt he had gone so wrong that no matter where she was she was better off.
So
if she is his daughter, then when Kylo went bad (and probably killed other trainees who wouldn't follow him), she escaped or was rescued, and sent away where Kylo and Snoke wouldn't find her. However, Kylo should then have recognized her, or her him.
Thus it seems unlikely that she is a Skywalker, and it seems unlikely that she was trained by Luke. I think the end of the film is the first time she's met him. There's a remote possibility that he had offspring he didn't know about, and an even more remote possibility that he had a lot of offspring he intentionally created, but equally intentionally knew nothing about.
So I'm hanging Rey on the "awakening of the force" comment by Snoke, who is obviously concerned about the rise of new, powerful Jedi, but perhaps even more wants to replace his obviously flawed but irreplaceable Kylo with a better option.
I find it interesting how Kylo fetishizes Darth Vader. I hope there's more explanation and backstory on screen about this. One source could be luke himself, who, probably wanting others to view Vader as Luke did, probably talked him up during training. But I don't think that would account for the level Kylo takes it to. Not just keeping a keepsake, but modeling himself after Vader, mask and all. It's hard to get someone to go that far without significant, long term investment - the same way Palpatine groomed Anakin.
Luke is falling prey to the "fallen master" situation, where Obi-wan believes he failed Anakin but redeemed himself training Luke, Luke believes he failed Kylo (and through Kylo his sister and dear friend Han), and will resist teaching Rey but probably gain redemption by doing so.
All of this has happened before and it will happen again...
I'm not sure what Phasma's role was apart from just another cash-grabbing action figure.
Probably a character that will resurface (she just ended up in a garbage compactor just before the planet exploded, so she's probably still alive
). I anticipate that the history of Fin, how he was taken, raised, etc, will play out a little bit and she will be part of it, having raised them specifically for her minions. Could be a side story spin-off in other media as you suggest.[DOUBLEPOST=1450445298,1450444706][/DOUBLEPOST]
Oh dear, yes. So many great scenes with Rey tapping into the Force, probably going after what she heard from old folk tales about the mystical Jedi. Also that scene when she went force-pulling the lightsaber out of the snow with such force that she almost knocked out Kylo Ren.
Unfortunately t feels like an anime where the lead character is weak with untapped potential, and they gain
significant experience immediately through battles.
Some of the article positing about her birth suggests that the whole Luke/Mara Jade storyline will be adopted with significant changes, so it's more reasonable she's Luke's daughter.
