After their battle with the pretorian guards and the death of snoke, Kylo forces Rey to reveal to herself and the audience that her parents are no one significant, but just gamblers and junkyards that sold her for drinking money. This reveal tells us that Rey has no noble bloodline like her counterpart Kylo Ren, but instead seemingly doesn’t even belong in this story at all, as kylo tells her. But why is Rey so powerful with the force of this is the explanation of her heritage? What about her makes her so significant? Moments before his death, snoke explains that very concept and what makes Rey such a worthy foe of kylo. Snoke tells both Rey and kylo that they are the balance, and the young and yang within the force itself. As Ben Solo turned to the dark side and became Kylo Ren, his power in the darkness increased. But too, the power in Rey was awoken, but this was the light as the force itself created the balance by giving Rey her strength to out match her equal, the darkness of kylo as snoke says “darkness rises, and light to meet it.” As the dark side of the force rose within Kylo Ren, so did the light within Rey. What’s most compelling is that we have seen this
After their battle with the pretorian guards and the death of snoke, Kylo forces Rey to reveal to herself and the audience that her parents are no one significant, but just gamblers and junkyards that sold her for drinking money. This reveal tells us that Rey has no noble bloodline like her counterpart Kylo Ren, but instead seemingly doesn’t even belong in this story at all, as kylo tells her. But why is Rey so powerful with the force of this is the explanation of her heritage? What about her makes her so significant? Moments before his death, snoke explains that very concept and what makes Rey such a worthy foe of kylo. Snoke tells both Rey and kylo that they are the balance, and the young and yang within the force itself. As Ben Solo turned to the dark side and became Kylo Ren, his power in the darkness increased. But too, the power in Rey was awoken, but this was the light as the force itself created the balance by giving Rey her strength to out match her equal, the darkness of kylo as snoke says “darkness rises, and light to meet it.” As the dark side of the force rose within Kylo Ren, so did the light within Rey. What’s most compelling is that we have seen this