applepiewithextrafreedom:

lj-writes:

Leaving aside the fact that it was like catnip to a Certain Group of Fans That Shall Not Be Named, I disliked its lack of emotional resonance. Obi-Wan Kenobi died over 30 years ago in story time by this point in the franchise and, more importantly, he wasn’t important enough in TFA enough for him as Rey’s grandfather to be emotionally satisfying. Her parents would have to be whole new characters or characters from The Clone Wars unfamiliar to the general moviegoing audience, and introducing them would have taken screen time. Maybe @applepiewithextrafreedom could provide more insight, since their comment on hating Reynobi is what I reblogged.

@lj-writes  for your Anon.

it served no purpose to the story in any way shape or form. we love him but it makes no fucking sense and is actually detrimental to obi-wans character. this is a man who watched his adoptive brother get torn apart by the internal conflict between the dark side and the light and you mean to argue that shortly after watching someone who he loved fall the way he did he was going to risk getting attached to someone. did he not learn anything from watching anakin die?

look, it makes sense for luke because luke wasnt there. luke didnt see anakin when he was burning up on mustafar so to luke the most important thing was his friends and thats when he proved that attachments dont have to be a death sentence. but this was LUKE. up until anakin was redeemed by luke obi-wan didnt believe it was possible. that was why he was so afraid for luke when luke tells him hes going to abandon his training and go to bespin to save han and leia.  “i dont want to lose you to the emperor like i lost your father”. it doesnt make any sense if obi-wan is secretly hiding a wife and child somewhere. obi-wan is an old school jedi. hes very by the book kind of guy. its completely unlike him and i would hate to see obi-wan throw the book out the window. thats not who he is, he’s not like anakin, and thats why i like him.

back to the pointlessness of such a reveal. how does that affect rey?

answer: it doesnt. rey doesnt care that her parent is the child of some jedi who died 34 years ago. its not like obi-wan is anakin. obi-wan was a great jedi but he wasnt exceptionally powerful or anything like that. he was pretty average. what made obi-wan a good jedi were his values. he was very by the book and followed the rules but if he didnt feel comfortable doing something he felt was immoral he would speak up and he wielded his power responsibly. this is why he was a great jedi. not because he has raw power like anakin. anakin had raw power and he was the worst jedi. he single handedly destroyed the jedi order. so yeah it affects rey in NO way that obi-wan is her relative. its pure fan service and requires the movies to do too much leg work like introducing the actual parents as well as telling us who obi-wans wife was. saying hey she appeared in some TV show the general audience hasnt seen isnt going to work. when the audience walks into the movie theater they arent going to hand them a CLIFFNOTES guide to the expanded universe so you can understand who the fuck Satine was. the reason why reysky matters is because shes actually meeting luke (A SKYWALKER) and she was attacked by his nephew (A SKYWALKER) who worships his dead grandfather (A SKYWALKER) and she is now doing his sister’s bidding (A SKYWALKER). this family is taking over her life. why should some random girl work to fix this family’s issues? because shes not random. shes one of them. they are her family.

one of the more minor reasons i hated it was because a lot (not all) reylos completely latched onto this theory as an excuse to deny reysky because it would be incest for rey and kylo to be related. they completely ruined this theory for a lot of people.