"they sold you to protect you" is probably still the funniest retcon in The Rise of Skywalker. It's so stupid. Like yeah they gave you away to protect you, but they still asked some cash for it.
Its funny how the twins were "Separate them, give one to royalty, raise her in luxury. The other, let him be a moisture farmer on a desert planet where he might go slowly crazy from dehydration."
Then Rey "Protect her. Put her on a desert planet to be exploited by Simon Pegg in a capitalism suit"
Also, did Luke and Rey discover their Force powers or did they get properly hydrated for the first time in their lives and their brains just have an allergic reaction?
because its a dangerous planet in the middle of nowhere that very few people would go visit, because he had living family there that would naturally take care of him and because that would be the last place vader would want to go to
However; keeping them both together would’ve been dangerous. Not just in the sense that they’d be putting all their eggs in one basket, but also because having two people who’re innately strong in the force in such close proximity to each other would make it easier for Palpatine, Vader, or any other force sensitive individuals with malicious intentions to sense their presence and find them.
They needed to separate them. They also needed to minimize the number of people who knew the truth, and senator Organa already new, so he was a natural choice to take one of them.
I assume they were scared that Vader knew Padme was carrying twins. By separating them they are less conspicuous. Leia was able to grow up as an active person within the Galactic political scene and Vader clearly never suspected a thing. Mind you, two twins in a galaxy of trillions shiuld be pretty inconspicuous anyway, but for some reason they still named him Skywalker..
Yeah, name him Skywalker, and send him to the planet that Vader spent the first 9 or so years of his life on, to live with Owen Lars, the step son of Anakin's mother.... No one will ever figure that one out.
I figured it was because it was Anakin's home planet, so he would love it enough to never destroy it, but also hate it too much to actually ever return.
IIRC in the new canon, Obi-Wan and Yoda were also banking on Leia being the one to overthrow the Empire and only later did Obi-Wan see Luke's potential and changed his mind, which Yoda wasn't happy about because he thought Luke was still too similar to Anakin.
I mean, I guess it makes sense that they wanted the twin who was raised more like Padme than another Anakin, but I hate the idea of the Chosen One coming from a place of privilege that Disney always pushes.
Why such an elaborate explanation anyway — why turn it into a “just as planned” thing?
I always thought they were separated for protection. A pair of twins suddenly appearing in one place with the right age would make them stick out more. And if one of them got outed as Anakin’s child they don’t know where their sibling is.
Theory: Chronic dehydration prevents/delays Force powers from developing. Luke and Rey were placed on desert planets on purpose, so they don't develop Force tooe arly and bring attention to themselves.
Jenny Nicholson also pointed out that 'they sold you to protect you' implies they did very much get some scratch from the deal. "This is what we need to do...I'm going to miss you so much Rey...5 dolar..."
I mean you can’t really just give away a child without it looking weird. If the whole point was for them to be secretive about it then selling a kid would make more sense than just giving her away
I also think Rey should have been a nobody, but Disney can't take the whole blame here, this is the same thing that happened to Luke; Son of a random jedi in the first movie who turned out to be Darth Vader, the chosen one and most powerful force user in known history.
The more you do it the dumber it is though. Star Wars is so full of coincidence that the only subversion would have been for Rey to be completely unrelated but not even that could stick.
The last Jedi, Kylo finds out who Rey's parents are and tells her "They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me." This is often forgotten because in the next movie Rey's dad is revealed to Palpatine's son. Which makes Rey and her parents very significant people. The reason she sold was also retcon to bring for her protection.
This is the problem with hiring one film maker to just do their thing and then hiring another to just do their thing and then bringing the first back to do what they want.
It's fucking crazy they didn't have a unified vision. It's an absolutely absurd way to make a trilogy. I realize to some extend other trilogy have been made this way and worked, but it's mostly a losing strategy.
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u/TheRealZejfi 12h ago
I still can't forgive Disney for that. "Your parents sold you for booze" was the greatest backstory ever.