This article contains massiveStar Wars: The Last Jedispoilers.

Its a strange feeling for most moviegoers who were not alive when the OriginalStar WarsTrilogy came out.

Most viewers were left thrillingly unsure.

But the only people dying here are damnable henchmen and an emperors stand-in.

Or Rey could just as easily be tempted by Kylo.

Maybe his side is a home (and family) for a girl whos known neither.

They have no role in this story.

The actual names of Reys parents are irrelevant.

She is an orphan whose qualities come not from lineage but from within.

Hints of the real answer to Reys mystery are found in Supreme Leader Snokes monlogue.

In this vein, Snoke isnt just whistling The Imperial March.

Rey is gifted (or cursed) with an unusually high amount of Force sensitivity.

For there were the ancient Jedi texts of the first Jedi Temple.

Page-turners of the light.

The island epitomizes a land of light and grace in theStar Warsuniverse, a place of balance.

And it is also the closest Rey has come to finding a home.

Anakin was conceived by the Force.

As a fatherless child, he was willed into existence by energy meant to bring balance to the Force.

And in a way he did.

This includes the actions of his grandson too.

Ben Solo has proven to be every bit as weak and wrathful upon the galaxy as his grandfather.

Ben is a continuation of the Skywalkers bleak legacy.

He is their destiny reclaimed; and Rey is the Forces answer to that.

Whether of immaculate conception or not, Rey was conceived by the Forces light side.

In search of answers, a waterlogged Rey finds herself inside the belly of Ahch-To.

Its a cold and secluded place reserved for the dark side, yet it remains unthreatened by Reys presence.

She has come looking for her origins, but finds only a mirror.

He too knows what it is like to struggle with a heritage he doesnt fully comprehend.

This similarity is what binds them so well… and scares Luke half to death.

You didnt even it fight it, Luke shivers.

The strongest portions ofThe Last Jediare when Kylo and Rey are connected by the Force.

We learn later that Snoke enabled this psychic link.

They are the two halves of the Force and a detente between them is when they are at peace.

However, it is short lived because neither party can consummate the pull of their attraction to the other.

Kylo is lost to the dark side, just as Luke and Leia have accepted.

It is against his very nature to become the Ben Solo she sees.

Part of her might want to, but that is not balance; it is submission.

Thus they are at an eternal impasse: the rock and the hard place.

Luke and Leias heroism was derived out of the literal need to atone for the sins of their father.

That is Reys destiny, and it will be what brings her back again to face Kylo.

In many respects, there is a sense of classical antiquity to the latestStar Warschapters.

As our editor-in-chief Mike Cecchini suggested, this narrative journey increasingly (and knowingly) reflects theOresteiacycle.

TheOresteiais also a trilogy from 3500 years ago.

To do this, Agamemnon even sacrificed a daughter to the gods.

As a consequence, he was eventually murdered by his wife Clytemnestra.

In turn, Orestes and Electra avenged their lost dark father by slaying their mother.

Despite how bizarre this might appear, its very much mirrored inThe Last Jedi.

He kills Han and helps drive Luke to the grave.

The relative who destroyed Vader.

Kylo is closing the circle of his family in blood.

See you around, kid, the uncle sneers to his former student.

To do this, there is only one ending awaiting either party: death.

The carnage inflicted by the House of Skywalker, along with their lives, will end.

Indeed, Luke mightve been right early inThe Last Jediwhen he suggested the Jedi had it wrong.

Balance is not the absence of darkness, nor is it purely light.

If Rey is to end Ren, it is just as probable hell end her too.

Again, were taken back tothat ending forThe Last Jedi.

Rey is thus isolated, even from the shut out Kylo Ren.