Romance Between Rey & Finn! Not so fast!

Recently I came across an article from Cineblend siting a long thought to be obvious romantic relationship between Rey and Finn, but small tadbit does not deny this, but rather suggest that things aren't that easy or as they seem. (and lets just set the Fandom Poe and Finn bormance aside, please)

It also has been noted, that all three (Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron will be "tested")

Episode VIII is said to be a lot darker. From both rumors and set photos, it looks like we may being going back to the elements or story points featured in the prequels/clone wars, including some world building! Knowing Abram's was the first to climb aboard this new Star Wars train, he most likley had a lot of input in creating the new characters and drafting out the new story, as he remains an Executive Producer on the next two films. With that being said, and knowing Bad Robot's works pretty well, I have some theories on why this potential romance may hit a dark and bumpy patch in Episode VIII

Almost Human:

One of Bad Robot's most recant shows on FOX following the end of Fringe, Almost Human didn't make it to a second season for a few typical network reasons, but this indirect companion piece to Fringe that also had some serious Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? homage, has some similarities and potential connections to Star Wars!

Finn (or FN) is a storm trooper in The New Order. Much like how The Clone Wars & Prequels parallel Nazi Germany with a fall of government and a rise of a deadly regime AND a eugenics movement, FN was said to be raised from a young age to become a storm trooper. This is again not unlike Hitler Youth Camp were children were conditioned to help serve The Nazi cause. "FN" has an impersonal feel to it, meaning he doesn't have an official name and implies he is not suppose to have much of an identity or to think on his own.

In Almost Human viewers were introduced to character, an android, named DRN or Dorian, who serves to help a recovering police detective solve crimes in 2048. The series never had the opportunity to become fully serialized to know how to connect it's various mythology and bits of story together, but part of what was introduced was that the DRN's were different than other android models--they had a warm and rather emotional personality/disposition, but something happened in which they all malfunctioned, and they were taken off line or demoted to non-law enforcement jobs, except for the one introduced in the Pilot and paired with disgruntle Detective John Kennix!

However, even this DRN model ended up having "memories", seemingly of a boy playing with a rocket ship, as if this could be him as child, which we know he never was, but many had speculated that this was some kind of implanted virus software or malware that was downloading and could change who Dorian was...

If we go back to FN and the soldier parallels between being raised as child by the New Order and not having a choice and the growth accelerated clones also raised to be soldiers and not having much choice, we might be able to make another parallel. The Clone Soldiers ended up also being a kind of "sleeper agent". They heard a code called, "Order 66", which made them tern on their non clone comrades and killed them!

Note: The Clone Wars are also directly mentioned by Kylo Ren in reference to FN in that he prefers the clones to these kinds of soldiers, presuming they can attempt to go "rogue"...

So I propose that one reason this romance could be tough or go south is because perhaps Finn can be turned/altered and/or is a sleeper agent and he will turn against Rey (at least for a time)!!! Abrams also made a point to tell us that he feels these characters are grey--and having complications like this, do make a character grayer IMO.

PS: One other Almost Human connection is that Karl Urban plays Detective John Kennix. Billie Lourd's character in The Force Awakens is named Lieutenant Connix. Both are in law enforcement type roles and the surnames are word play on the "connects" pointing out a theme or concept of connections!


Maybe he loves somebody else?

So if he's not a sleeper agent, then what else could make Finn disloyal to Rey? There was an altercation during TFA were another soldier, presumably a friend, is baffled that Finn betrayed the order--so we get the sense that these people do have friends and/or at least feel like bothers in arms, but what if in some cases there are situations were multiple children of a household were taken and that they were literally re-raised with their biological siblings? Could FN have a blood relation, like a brother in the New Order?

We know Captain Phasma is a female Storm Trooper of sorts, but perhaps she isn't the only one? What if there are also other female Storm Troopers similar in rank to Finn? Could he have a girlfriend (or boyfiend) he left behind?? Some of the new tie-in material, like Star Wars Aftermath and Lost Stars begins to show us relationships between Storm Troopers, but in an era closer to ROTJ, but they could be paving the path to Finn's bigger story...






Rey Turns Dark (Image Credit: PandamuneDeviantart.com)

Another possible aspect given some shades of Anakin (and a potential very spoilerly plot leak also more ardently connecting her to him) is that Rey gets seduced by the dark side or becomes isolated and gets enraged.

One way that could work could be if Rey does in fact have a mother or a mother figure and her mother would already work for Snoke. In fact I could see the tables turn where, despite the death of Han Solo, should that hold true, perhaps Kylo Ren and The Knights of Ren are not what viewers think, but rather they are secret covert group meant to protect something or someone, and ultimately Kylo Ren has been undercover, and Rey falls due to wanting a relationship with her mother, especially of Luke lied or betrayed her trust in some way, despite good intentions.









One other minor possible connection reflecting the Rey and Finn relationship may be in JJ Abrams Felicity...

The only other character named Finn in Bad Robot's vast assortment of characters is a guy named Finn introduced in the third season of Felicity. Elana, is main character who was in love and wanted to marry a guy named Tracey, but ultimatley their wedding is ruined and they go separate ways. Trying to move on, she meets Ben's lab partner, Finn, who she feels is fun, but not very intelligent. Finn and Elana's brief romance highlighted a bi racial couple and how opposites could attract.


EDIT UPDATE:

However with some rumors abundant, we may also want to consider something else. Without revealing the full nature of one of these possible major spoilers, let's just say that Rey isn't a Skywalker and the rumor about Kelly Marie Tran being Finn's potential love interest, is true.

Then we have to consider, because this is still a Skywalker family Saga, that Kylo Ren's story is something that has to come more into the forefront and Episode VIII has to make some kind of compelling case for us wanting to save Ben Skywalker.

Liea might be one angle to do that. After all, the prequels story was very much about a boy who feared losing his mother, and ultimately did so, but also lost the love of his life, whom, in some ways was also motherly to him. It would be great to see a juxtaposition to that and also tell a mother and son story, as opposed to the OT's Father and Son story.

Rey then may also serve as a love interest to Ben. The thought also crossed my mind that perhaps the two of them were about to become childhood friends before Ben joins the Knights of Ren and turns his back on his Uncle Luke.

I had thought there were times when Ben seemed intrigued with Rey and her abilities and I wasn't sure if Rey beat him solely because she became very strong, if not also Kylo couldn't bring himself to finish her off or really hurt her...

Insight From The Episode VII Script about Episode VIII from SlashFilm Article

Slashfilm has given their insight into the now revealed script from Star Wars: Episode VII! The Following is my take on what they are discussing both about the name of Planet Luke is on and in terms of history of the Millennium post Return of Jedi and in relation to Rey's upbringing on Jakku!



First is the reveal of the name of Luke's planet Rey finds him on, which is"AHCH-TO". Ahch is a Hebrew word meant to mean "Brother". Slashfilm speculates that this may imply that Luke is somehow Rey's brother, which may imply that somehow Aankin was alive was post Return of the Jedi. 

Although I have another take, in which I will get to after this, I still will take the time to explore the possibilities of how this would work.

One way would be that Anakin was resurrected post Return of Jedi. I myself have speculated that the trilogy itself may explore the idea of resurrecting him, given both what has been presented in Darth Vader Comic Series (Dr. Cylo's Resurrection/Human-Hybrid Force Mimickers), Star Wars Aftermath (The Acolytes of the Beyond: Vader Relic in relation to beliefs of The After-life/Dark Side Power Source), and because of rumors that tell us that Hayden Christensen may be in training for either/or Star Wars Rogue One and Star Wars Episode VIII.

The same information could be used to support the idea that this Resurrection already happened! It's the easiest solution in entertaining this particular possibility, although it would mean she is a "half" sibling, unless Padme's eggs were harvested, although we would have further question Kylo Ren's beliefs, although it could give more weight to them.

On that note, the other might be that some of Vader's genetic material was left behind to make a kind of man-made prodigy AND we could even take this idea further should there be some Darth Plagues-like Force capabilities involved.


However, I think there is another way to look at the word "Brother". All through out Star Wars, spiritual words, including names of famous Spiritual people, have been sprinkled in names of planets and characters alike. One detail Slashfilm failed to pick up on was it's "Dark Rock Island" description.

In Empire Strikes Back, when Luke is  training on Dagobah (Dagobah also refers to real-life scripture of a Buddhist relic from Ancient Sri Lanka) he goes into "Cave of Evil", which presents his biggest fears in what he must face. Some may not know, but this dark-side-cave is suppose to be strong with The Dark Side of the Force!

Going back to prequels, we also learned during The Clone Wars, that the Jedi Temple on Courasaunt was seemingly and unknowingly (to that time period of Jedi) built on top of an Ancient Sith Shrine, which is how Palpatine/Sidious is able to distort the Jedi's vision. After Order 66, Sidious reclaims the Temple and begins going through and underneath it looking for Sith Relics, which then is followed through by Aftermath's reveal that he was looking for a power source of The Dark Side somewhere on the outer realm...

So there are a few things we can take away from this information. One might be a correlation between Dagobah, Courasuant, and AHCH-TO, meaning that the PLACE is a brother to one of, or multiple other places relating to the Dark Side of the Force. I believe we learn that Luke's Temple was also the oldest and first Jedi Temple...

Which leads us to Anakin's struggle with the Jedi to begin with, in that, there wasn't transparency or full honesty with the history of Jedi and/or ideologies/methodologies of The Force. The whole thing points out that there is a missing origin story behind these things. In the prequels we are told the Sith have been extinct for thousands of years, but it is not disclosed how that happened, and of course we know that somehow they either survived and/or whose principals were revived by some Force Users....

But other things that point to this, should these places be inter-related as "brothers" and/or are basically Force-heavy counterparts are the facts that, somehow one Jedi Temple was built over a Sith Shrine and that Yoda chooses to retire and hide at a "dark-side" heavy location and that now possibly Luke had done the same!

Other possible references are that Rey has a brother too (Kylo Ren/Ben Solo) and/or she is just meant to find Liea's brother "again".


Getting Around the Story of the Millennium Falcon & Gambling Smugglers

Well as they stated in Flashfilm, we know officially that Rey ends up in the hands of Unkar Plutt upon arriving to Jakku, but there is an easy solution getting around the argument of thinking the Millennium Falcon was bartered to Plutt, when other Journey to Force Awakens stories and Episode VII tell us it was stolen. The simple solution was that IT was stolen, but Rey somehow ends up a hidden passenger during the ordeal and is either discovered by Plutt upon purchase from other smugglers and/or is bought with it.

I would lean to the idea that she found her way on board by herself and wasn't discovered until after landing on Jakku, perhaps even initially with the guidance of the Force Spirit of Obi-Wan: "You've taken your first step into a larger world.", he says in her flashback vision.

However there is also Max Von Sydow's character Lor San Tekka, whom looks very much like an Obi-Wan Kenobi/ "Uncle Ben" type of character (even Jedi-Style of dress), but it could easily be juxtaposed that Tekka's overlooking of Rey was more of an after thought once in search of her, as opposed to Obi-Wan always keeping tabs on Luke from the moment of his birth.

Tekka too might be word relating to Eastern Philosophy/History/Culture as Tekka, often relating to Sushi dishes also may translate more aptly to "Red Hot Iron" in reference to the color of the Tuna-Salmon, may in fact derive from a easy to make tuna snack eaten and served at gambling dens called, Tekkaba! So it might very well be that his character relates to all of this, especially with the irony that it is "Ben" Solo, named for Obi-Wan, who murders him at the beginning of the film.

And here's also a webiste that gives more insight to Tekka's relationship with Luke, and Jedi Lore!
http://www.slashgear.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-who-is-lor-san-tekka-22419360/