The hidden lightsaber and how Lucasfilm have successfully concealed the answer to Rey’s lineage.
Kylo ren saber art by the fantastic @gwendy85
The vision sequence in TFA is interesting to say the least, in particular the scene in the rain where Kylo Ren surrounded by what seems to be dead bodies. He seems to murder someone and then suddenly snaps his head round and walks towards Rey.
To say this scene is shrouded in mystery is an understatement. From day one we have had confusing accounts from the production about what is going on due to disconnected visuals and mixed messages about the following:
1. The person stabbed by Kylo Ren.
2. Bodies or rocks?
3. Past or future?
What if I was to say that something which makes it all make sense was hidden from the final version of the film?
It wasn’t always hidden, folks. All you have to do is look at the trailer for The Force Awakens to see it. And let me tell you this, by simply hiding this lightsaber from view, Lucasfilm did a fantastic job of throwing us all off of the scent.
It took me 8 months to realise the significance of this moment and the impact the removal of that saber has caused (mass confusion. Mission accomplished.)
If you piece together the clips from the trailer and the actual film, it flows seamlessly as what appears to be the following:
1. Kylo Ren stabbing someone in the back
2. Rey clambers up to witness something unfold
3. Kylo Ren has a lightsaber in his left hand as well as his own in his right
4. Kylo Ren waits for something to happen
5. Kylo Ren gets a vision of Rey through the saber he’s holding
6. Kylo Ren sees Rey masked and as a small girl?
Lets take a look at the sequence as a whole:
People, including me thought nothing of this lightsaber because it was hidden from TFA.
However, upon second inspection, I think that they haven’t removed it from the scene and his hands, They have just hidden the fine details by very cleverly using an establishing shot. Then they use a mid close up to hide his hands from frame.
After doing some digging and research, I feel that the that lightsaber tells you the possible time frame of the scene you are watching, it tells you who Kylo is killing and WHY. Whats more, it tells you exactly who Rey is.
But hey this is just my opinion, it could still be unimportant and just my head canon, but if you are interested in why I think this saber is the answer to lots of things, read on:
1. Who does Kylo Ren stab?
According to the credits he stabs a Knight of Ren, this led many to believe that this was the future and Kylo Ren was saving Rey due to the way she falls. However, I think thats a visual misdirect and deliberate mistake of a credit because:
Pablo Hidalgo has shed some interesting light on this scene on several occasions.. He once called the man who was stabbed a “clan leader”. In another tweet he states that Kylo ren wiped out an entire village with the Knights of Ren in this scene:
To back this up is a recent image from the comics, confirming that those are bodies, not rocks.
Heres an incredibly interesting spoiler from www.spoiledmilk.com from way back in 2015. Keep in mind that this leaked before TFA was released:
“Flashback: Exterior Night Battlefield – Fierce battle! Sword is being used by the CLAN against THE SEVEN.”
So yes, it seems like the KOR and Ren just murdered an entire clan of people. For a lightsaber. But why?
In The Force Awakens, its implied that Kylo has been searching for Anakins saber “That lightsaber, it belongs to me!”
Back to the spoiled milk spoiler, this is from a version of the script/early scripts where Anakin’s lightsaber was called “the sword” a nice code name.In this script you find out that fell into the possesion of Ben Solo and it was then stolen by Maz. In other early versions of scripts Kylo is seen to be looting with the KOR/hunting relics/anakins saber. Rian Johnson recently said that Raiders of the Lost Arc is a big inspiration for episode 8. Is all this something which has been removed from The Force Awakens and we will now see it in Episode 8?
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So a clan gets wiped out for Anakins saber…. and let me just ask you this, does the saber ren is holding look like Anakins lightsaber?, just look at it:
That does not look like Anakins saber to me. There are only really two famous sabers this could be:
Luke’s or Obi Wan Kenobi’s
Obi Wan’s left, Luke’s right
So, Is this an upcoming twist? In the past, Kylo gets a tip off that a clan is holding an Ancient blue saber? Upon killing them all he discovers that it is not Anakins saber, but in fact another legendary saber, one which shows him none other than Rey.
Does rey witnesses the moment Kylo Ren murders a clan for a saber and then does she witness the moment he a vision of her through the saber?
Lukes? I doubt it for 3 reasons.
1. Luke has his green saber on Ach To, and according to new spoilers (where someone witnessed filming), the Knights of Ren arrive and get slaughtered by him with his green saber
2. Lukes saber was never lost on screen like Anakins and Obi Wans. Why would a clan have Lukes saber? Also, why would Kylo Ren give it to Luke before Luke goes to Ach To after Kylo has fallen to the dark side?
3. There is no clan on Ach To, no extras spotted on set, no people on the island as Rey walks to Luke, Luke being stranded on the island would suggest, no clan and no means for transportation. The place clearly looks like a ruin when Rey arrives. This location with the clan cant be Ach To.
New random saber? If so, why hide it? No one would be able to connect who it belonged to and it would not give away who she is if it was a random object.
That only really leaves one other strong possibility; Obi Wan Kenobi’s saber. His saber was lost on screen and recently Official Disney twitter asked us all to think about what happened to that saber, more specifically, what Darth Vader did with it:
In The Force Awakens it is implied that Ren has seen Rey before. I think sees masked Rey through a lightsaber (just like she sees masked Kylo) and then he sees Rey as a girl getting abandoned on a sand planet (just like in the novel when rey saw a small boy (*cough* ben *cough*.) This would explain his massive over reaction to the mention of a girl on a sand planet (Jakku).
“WHAT GIRL!?”
Now, is Obi Wan’s saber about to make a comeback on screen? There’s one very telling thing about the way Pablo Hidalgo seems answers questions about upcoming things that may be coming into Canon. Recently, when asked about Thrawn (before he was brought into canon) he said:
Now just look at what he said when asked about Obi Wans saber:
I think may be seeing the complete version of the scene in the next film
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