My Star Wars re-awakening after the Force returned

When I was about 13 I was given all the Star Wars movies (episodes four to six) on VHS in a stocking for Christmas. I woke up at 4am and watched them from start to finish while making myself sick on sweets.

That is the first and only time I’d watched Star Wars until the prequels were released, then I watched The Phantom Menace, gave up and forgot about the series, telling myself I didn’t like it.

That changed with the release of the Force Awakens. I knew I’d go and see it so I decided to re-watch it from the Phantom Menace through to Return of the Jedi ahead of watching The Force Awakens.

Yes the prequels are a little annoying, yes they let the series down, but as you get through them and move on to A New Hope it gets so much better. I was hooked by Empire Strikes Back. Loved Force Awakens and belive it to be the best Star Wars movie of the lot — Rey is an amazing character.

I’ve now re-watched the first six four times since watching the Force Awakens and am looking forward to seeing movie seven again.

However it did leave me with many questions, as it did others, and a longing to see episode eight and find out more about the inbetween years.

Ben Ostrower posed an interesting fan theory on Medium, asking if Rey is a Kenobi rather than a Skywalker as many seem to assume.

Reading it led me to think: Could Rey be both a Kenobi and a Skywalker?

It could be that Obi Wan Kenobi had a daughter while in isolation, his wife died and when grown up his daughter left to “find herself”.

While finding herself she hooked up with Luke post Return of the Jedi, had a child and dropped her off on Jakku as a small child with a message “stay where you are as we will return”.

They could have been concerned for her safety as being of both the Kenobi and Skywalker lineage she would be incredibly strong with the Force and so left her in isolation with no memory of her family.