Rey in The Force Awakens (Possible Spoilers)
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My pet conspiracy theory is that Disney wanted to see if Rey caught on since she's a female protagonist who isn't in the vein of many others. It's a cynical take, but I don't think we can count on Disney being the vanguards of progressiveness, sadly. I'm betting we'll see a lot more Rey paraphernalia since she's become very popular.
I'm curious, because I don't recall, was Lucasfilm reluctant to put out Leia and Padme products? I want to say they weren't, but I was pretty young when the special editions and TPM came out.
I'm curious, because I don't recall, was Lucasfilm reluctant to put out Leia and Padme products? I want to say they weren't, but I was pretty young when the special editions and TPM came out.
They still tend to market to boys and girls separately. The animated princesses are marketed for girls while Star Wars is more heavily marketed at boys, though that is changing a bit. We've started to see more Star Wars related clothing in the girl's and women's sizes of late in retail as oppose to just men's and boy's shirts.
Originally, the concept was to have a number of Star Wars stories set in the shared universe. The first movie was the chronicles of Luke Skywalker and I don't believe Lucas had plans to include Han in the sequel until after ANH was so successful.
Han was not the protagonist of ANH.
Honestly if they do pull that, I know I'm gonna be pissed. After they made such a big deal about the mystery of her parentage, if they went and said her parents were just random nobodies I would feel like they were screwing around with us.
I know when they first sold SW to Disney a lot of people were upset because they couldn't find any Leia merchandise in the Disney Stores while they had plenty of merch with the male characters.
I think some people may be confusing Rey's hard earned skills with pure preternatural ability.
Why is she so technically adapt? Well obviously because she scavenges old technology for a living. She's had to learn how things work, what they do, where the valuable components are and how to extract and refurbish them in order to sell them on. Yes, she's clearly very good at it, but it's just as much about experience as natural skill.
How can she be such a good melee fighter? When Finn first lays eyes on her she's single handedly fighting off an ambush from two or three much larger and apparently stronger thug...and she kicks their arses with nothing but a metal quarterstaff. Having spent her whole on her own, she's had to learn how to handle herself and when you're living with people who all seem about two meals from starvation, you either learn to fight the hard way, or end up face down in the dirt with a shiv in your back while some other scavenger makes off with your haul.
Piloting skills? Again, clearly there's some serious innate talent there--which we know from both Luke & Anakin can be greatly enhanced by latent force sensitivity. But again, she mentions she's flown ship before (just not out in open space) presumably taking the occasional job as a quad-jumper pilot when the opportunity arises. Plus of course her custom bike which according to some of the tie-in media, is something she built herself from salvaged speeder & fighter parts and is seriously overpowered, able to get up-to speeds an altitudes more akin to an airspeeder.
I guess what I'm getting at is that those basing certain arguments of who she's related to based purely on her demonstrated skills aren't really taking those skills in their proper context.
Why is she so technically adapt? Well obviously because she scavenges old technology for a living. She's had to learn how things work, what they do, where the valuable components are and how to extract and refurbish them in order to sell them on. Yes, she's clearly very good at it, but it's just as much about experience as natural skill.
How can she be such a good melee fighter? When Finn first lays eyes on her she's single handedly fighting off an ambush from two or three much larger and apparently stronger thug...and she kicks their arses with nothing but a metal quarterstaff. Having spent her whole on her own, she's had to learn how to handle herself and when you're living with people who all seem about two meals from starvation, you either learn to fight the hard way, or end up face down in the dirt with a shiv in your back while some other scavenger makes off with your haul.
Piloting skills? Again, clearly there's some serious innate talent there--which we know from both Luke & Anakin can be greatly enhanced by latent force sensitivity. But again, she mentions she's flown ship before (just not out in open space) presumably taking the occasional job as a quad-jumper pilot when the opportunity arises. Plus of course her custom bike which according to some of the tie-in media, is something she built herself from salvaged speeder & fighter parts and is seriously overpowered, able to get up-to speeds an altitudes more akin to an airspeeder.
I guess what I'm getting at is that those basing certain arguments of who she's related to based purely on her demonstrated skills aren't really taking those skills in their proper context.
From what I gather, the idea is that (like the Falcon) it's built like a tug. Lots of engine for moving heavy loads. That way when it's unencumbered it can seriously cut loose. But yeah, it's a shame we never saw it do more than we did.
There's a fair amount or Rey stuff at the Disney Stores, they had figures, costumes, PJs and t-shirts prior to the movie's release. Following the release, I've seen an updated rerelease of the die-cast figure that now comes with her lightsaber, plus they now sell "Rey's Lightsaber" itself.
Hasbro seems to be a little more lacking, which is maybe attributable to the fact that the Hasbro stuff is specifically located within the "boy's toys" sections of the big box stores. Which is sad, my 7-year old boy loves Rey, and I bet other boys do too...
IT moved pretty quick on Jakku. Actually I wish we would have seen Han fly her into battle. A shame they didn't let him survive until the second movie so we could see Han fly the Falcon more. He didn't fly her in ROTJ so I really wanted him to fly the Falcon for more than we saw. A pity.
And if he'd flown her more, people would've complained about the movie being too derivative and just giving us "more of the same"? 
Aren't they already saying that?And if he'd flown her more, people would've complained about the movie being too derivative and just giving us "more of the same"?
Fair enough. Though, even if they didn't give them more ammo, someone would find something to compare it too.So why give them more ammunition?
Doesn't matter. There will be complaints about the work no matter what.
There would have been nothing derivative about finding something for Han to do in his ship unless it involved repeating something he did in ANH or ESB. Most likely they just couldn't find anything for him to do without distracting from the breakneck pace of the movie.
