It doesn’t matter how strong she is. It doesn’t matter how independent she is. It doesn’t matter how well she is able to wield the Force. No matter what she has proven to the audience through her actions, her worth and importance is based on who her father is. Some, not all, believe that if she is related to no one important, then Rey herself is a nobody. While Rey’s parentage interests me, I feel that Rey’s importance and identity relies more on who she already is and who she will become through her experiences.
Yes! And I feel like the bloodlines novel while not pertaining to anything TFA as it’s placed before it, will push the point that blood isn’t as important as having a connection with someone.. Like Leia has no connection with her birth father and thinks of him as only “Darth Vader” but cherishes the memories of the man who raised her and the man who was her father, while Ben had Han and Leia for parents but felt so disconnected from them…
I think it’s kind of showing how you know, blood isn’t everything.