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November 19, 2021 It’s that time of year again for Reylos—those of us invested in the relationship between scavenger Jedi Rey and the fallen son of the heroes
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November 19, 2021 It’s that time of year again for Reylos—those of us invested in the relationship between scavenger Jedi Rey and the fallen son of the heroes
We're not sure if we'll see Rey and Kylo Ren unite in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but this post argues in favor of the Reylo pairing.
“Each trilogy has had its central love story—Anakin and Padme, Han and Leia—and both so far have ended in tragedy. Those opposed to Rey and Kylo’s union might tell you Star Wars isn’t about romantic love. I would argue the opposite: That it’s all about love, in its many iterations. Romantic love is part of that, and it doesn’t make characters like Rey lesser if she’s drawn to a soulmate, or if she looks for love in the arms of a man. Redemption arcs in fantasy are almost never rooted in a woman’s desires. But female desire isn’t a weakness. In this case, it could be the most powerful thing in the universe.”
— Lindsey Romain
We're not sure if we'll see Rey and Kylo Ren unite in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but this post argues in favor of the Reylo pairing.
When the Nerdist and Lindsey Romain go full Reylo, you know Reylo has come a LONG way.
“The truth is the sequel trilogy is a tale for the modern audience” the Skytalkers tell me, “one who wants nuance to their villains, one who wants complexity in their heroes, and one who is familiar with the lore of Star Wars as a cultural phenomenon in our time as well as in-universe”.
The most forbidden pairing in Star Wars deserves some attention. This is why I think we shouldn't be so quick to turn away from a Rey and Kylo Ren romance.
New reylo article. Don’t agree with.... well... a lot of the way they put it, but there we go. There’s also a poll at the bottom of it.
Some highlights:
As The Last Jedi attempts to show, Rey and Kylo Ren are not so different. Both are obsessed with the past, though, in different ways; Rey is trying to find hers while Kylo is attempting to escape his. Both of them are willing to go to extremes to achieve their goals. While Rey is willing to open herself up to the dark side in the cave on Ahch-To to find answers, Kylo is attempting to literally kill the past by murdering his parents and his mentor, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). At the end of their climactic tag-team against Snoke and the Praetorian Guard, Kylo suggests cutting all connections to the past and forging a new path together, an idea that clearly has some sway over Rey. in addition, Kylo and Rey were all too eager to believe their Snoke-induced visions of the future. They each wanted to believe that the other could be turned.
The two are also extremely powerful Force users who share a kindred spirit. Rey is seeking several things in The Last Jedi, but one of them is guidance. She has no idea what to do with a power she has felt inside of her for her entire life... or even what it is. She turns to Luke, but he can't give her what she needs. Kylo, on the other hand, is more than willing to show her the ways of the Force. There's certainly an argument to be made that his possible motives are selfish, but he seems to feel a genuine bond to Rey. More than that, Kylo is lonely. This dude is broken, and when he finds someone who has struggled like him, he attempts to form a connection in a way no one ever did for him.
As for Rey, she still sees that there is light inside of Kylo Ren, to the point where she begins to call him Ben. Call it naivety, but redemption is a key theme of Star Wars. There's always a chance that no matter how hard you sink into the dark, you can eventually find your way back to the light. Darth Vader was a child murdering psycho and he still ultimately redeemed himself at the end by killing the Emperor. Yeah, Kylo killed his father and probably did a bunch of other bad stuff we don't know about, but it was an act that "split him to the bone," and he's not as far gone as his grandfather had been.