

The revelation of Kylo Ren’s lineage is something that offers a lot of meat for future movies - not only the possibility that his primary nemesis, Rey, could be his cousin (or perhaps his sister, maybe possibly), but the question of what happens with he finally comes face-to-face with Leia, which feels inevitable after the events of Force Awakens. If, for some reason, she’s not a Skywalker, then there’s an entirely new storyline awaiting her at some point in a future feature.
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But being Luke’s daughter would also explain the connection she had to Luke’s lightsaber in particular), but it’s never actually outright stated in the movie itself.


The implication is that she’s a Skywalker kid (Luke’s, most likely she didn’t seem to recognize Leia or Han, after all, and his exile would also answer why it was clear that her family wasn’t coming back. The most obvious dangling thread from Force Awakens is the identity of Rey’s parents. (Another question left unanswered by Force Awakens: why is Luke is the last Jedi? What happened to the other Force adepts that Luke was training at the same time as Ren?) Was he in exile through shame of not teaching Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) to reject the dark side, or some other reason? Could his withdrawal from the fray have been out of a new dedication to pacifism, for example? Or will he end up accompanying Rey back to rejoin his sister in battle? While Hamill will inevitably rejoin the cast for a more active role in the untitled next installment, what Luke will do remains a mystery. So, Rey (Daisy Ridley) ends the movie having found Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), but judging from his reaction to seeing the outstretched lightsaber, he didn’t seem entirely eager to rejoin the ongoing war.
