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2. Rey Is Luke's Daughter

The first TV spot was surprisingly eye-opening, since it gave us the first real dialogue from Maz Kanata (aside from her "who are you?" prompt from the third trailer of course), positioning her as the mystical Elder consultant figure. That profile was all but confirmed by Entertainment Weekly, when it was revealed she's thousands of years old. Anyway, the interesting part of her speech was about Rey's eyes (presumably) and how she'd seen them before in someone else. Someone absent. Someone they were there looking to find. We know that Han Solo visits Kanata with Rey, so it makes no sense for her to be talking in such vaguely mysterious terms when both are in front of her. Surely being more direct would have made more sense? That alone could be enough logical confirmation that Rey isn't Han's daughter, leaving Luke as the only possible absent father figure. Rating: 8/10 Without knowing the trigger for Rey's exile (which we now know happened when she was 5), you would have to suspect that it makes considerably less sense for a General and her space pirate husband to think that it was safer for their daughter to fend for herself on a sandy distant planet than stay with them in their super Empire-beating military base. Unless they're just idiots, of course. It just makes more sense than Rey is Luke's daughter (and that she's possibly also Kylo Ren's sister), and that he abandoned her necessarily to "wait for her family" as he fled the Empire's Jedi hunters. It's also deeply troubling to think that JJ Abrams wants us to believe the probability of an exiled character accidentally finding her own father's spaceship (since it has become clear she is in possession of the Falcon when she encounters Finn). Like, seriously, what would the chances of that be?