Its a starship cutting through storm clouds over a glowing, mountainous village.
The shape isnt easy to make out, but freeze-framing and enhancing reveals its one weve seen before.
First, a disclaimer there is no inside information here.
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Just speculation of the sort everyone is engaging with as they wonder what The Rise of Skywalker might mean.
Theyre dead, in a paupers grave in the Jakku desert.
I think he meant parents from a certain point of view, as Obi-Wan Kenobi might hedge.
The Rise of Skywalkertrailer shows were going to see that ship again and likely learn who was inside it.
Rey was deposited in the middle of nowhere.
She was raised as a nobody.
But she has proven her value, her independence, her persistence.
We already know who she is.
But she is driven to know more.
She wants to fill in those blanks and understand exactly where she comes from.
We often venture to chart our future by first coming to terms with our past.
When she pleaded with the Force to see her parents, the vision she received was of herself.
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What if that wasnt a dodge by the powers of the Force?
What if that was literal truth?
It could have ominous implications.
What if Rey is part of an experiment to artificially create powerful Force-sensitive warriors?
Remember, theStar Warsuniverse is one in which cloning is commonplace.
Whoever Rey may be could she contain elements of other Force-wielders of ages gone by?
What would be done with her then?
Maybe thats how she ends up discarded on Jakku.
What if withinherisThe Rise of Skywalker?
Maybe she will prove to be The Chosen One who choses the light.
Only through sacrifice of many Jedi will the Order cleanse the sin done to the nameless.
The danger of the past is not past, but sleeps in an egg.
When the egg cracks, it will threaten the galaxy entire.
When the Force itself sickens, past and future must split and combine.
Many of the allusions here are clear, like Order 66 exterminating the Jedi.
But what about Sleeps in an egg?
Past and future must split and combine… ## Just Breathe…
Maybe this is all nonsense and errant speculation.
But theres one last hint about this in the teaser trailer.
Its a bit of a stretch, I admit, but consider it for a moment.
We open on darkness, and all we hear is the rush of Reys breath, in and out.
Who else do we know by the sound of breathing alone?
Only in this case, Rey is not gasping but calming herself, pushingoutthe fear and anger.
Those things have no place in her.
Whatever her origin, she is different.
