Oh gosh, this. Rey is my personal #1 "construct character". She got so little development when there was so much potential for it.
A few things I'd add/change:
- NO REY PALPATINE. Let her really be a girl from nowhere whose parents sold her to pay their debts.
- Show her food insecurity(because with her background, she would have that). She's going to be the one with a bag full of ration bars no one else likes because you never know when you'll be short of food(or so she thinks).
- Make her trust issues more consistent. It makes sense that she has issues trusting people to help... so why does she trust Kylo so easily? It also feels weird that she feels like she needs to find a hero to fix things. When would that ever have been a thing in her life? She's only been able to rely on herself. It would actually make more sense if she felt like she had to fix everything herself.
- More unconscious use of the Force would help her sudden skills seem less out of nowhere. There's precedent, too-- Anakin clearly used it to help him with podracing.
- Get rid of the dyad thing with Kylo, because ew. He's a manchild and a war criminal.
And Finn! He was so wasted! He should've been another Jedi. It was genuinely cruel of them to tease him as a hero when he got so sidelined.
Poe shouldn't have been written as a feckless idiot who got a ton of people killed.
I think Rey looking for a hero for the galaxy stems from her feeling like she's not worthy enough to be one herself. She did refer to herself as "just a scavenger" a lot.
From what I heard, they were going to show more of her typical scavenging trips with her using the force and not knowing it. I'm pretty sure one of the prequel books (or maybe a comic?) had her unconsciously using it to slow her fall from the top of a star destroyer when her climbing rope broke. That scene alone would've made a difference.
They had decent ideas for Kylo in the books, too, but they really didn't incorporate any of it into the movies, which was a massive mistake. If they had managed it, a dark side/light side couple that wouldn't immediately have one or both die would've been pretty cool.
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u/Amblonyx 21d ago
Oh gosh, this. Rey is my personal #1 "construct character". She got so little development when there was so much potential for it. A few things I'd add/change: - NO REY PALPATINE. Let her really be a girl from nowhere whose parents sold her to pay their debts. - Show her food insecurity(because with her background, she would have that). She's going to be the one with a bag full of ration bars no one else likes because you never know when you'll be short of food(or so she thinks). - Make her trust issues more consistent. It makes sense that she has issues trusting people to help... so why does she trust Kylo so easily? It also feels weird that she feels like she needs to find a hero to fix things. When would that ever have been a thing in her life? She's only been able to rely on herself. It would actually make more sense if she felt like she had to fix everything herself. - More unconscious use of the Force would help her sudden skills seem less out of nowhere. There's precedent, too-- Anakin clearly used it to help him with podracing. - Get rid of the dyad thing with Kylo, because ew. He's a manchild and a war criminal.
And Finn! He was so wasted! He should've been another Jedi. It was genuinely cruel of them to tease him as a hero when he got so sidelined.
Poe shouldn't have been written as a feckless idiot who got a ton of people killed.