Warning: Spoilers ahead. Do not read this fan theory if you don't want to know what happens in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
Now that it's been nearly a week since "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premiered in theaters, fans are donning their best tinfoil hats to come up with elaborate theories about the franchise.
Whether it concerns Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke, or the mysterious Rey, there are lots of plot points J.J. Abrams left fans to mull over while we wait until 2017 for Episode VIII.
This is your last chance to stop reading for spoilers.
Tumblr user Lele saw the movie twice with her father before the two came up with their own fan theory — and it's gaining traction online.
"Ok so my dad just came up with the coolest theory on the reason Kylo Ren turned to the dark side and my life will never be the same," Tumblr user Lele wrote on Saturday.
The theory goes something like this: Kylo Ren didn't turn to the dark side beause of his own selfish ambitions, but in order to kill Supreme Leader Snoke, the ominous bad guy in the film. Lele's dad reasons that Kylo was forced to kill his own father Han Solo to become a full Sith, which requires you to sacrifice someone you love to complete your training.
The reason he needed to become a full Sith, according to Lele and her father, is that both the dark and light sides are necessary to destroy Snoke.
"They are always saying that the dark side and the light side are together in the force," Lele wrote on Tumblr. "They need the personification of both sides (Kylo and Rey) in order to be strong enough to destroy Snoke."
The theory is interesting, but not without its problems. Lele argues that Kylo Ren is driven by his obsession with Darth Vader because he wants to help 'finish what Anakin started,' but Abrams has said before that it's the idea of Darth Vader and his power that drives Kylo Ren, not the actual person behind the mask.
Lele and her father also believe that Luke and Rey may know about Kylo Ren's plan as well, an idea with little evidence from the actual film.
And while we're pretty confident Kylo Ren didn't join the dark side to take down Snoke, the idea that the dark and light sides are necessary to defeat someone as evil as Snoke is intriguing. Perhaps Kylo and Rey will be the two to defeat Snoke in the end, not unlike Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker killing Emperor Palpatine together in "Return of the Jedi."
"It'll be literally the dark side and the light side joining up to defat [defeat] one enemy as one, which is basically what the force is," Lele wrote.
You can read the entire Tumblr post in its all-caps entirety below:
OK SO WE GOT OUT OF OUR SECOND THE FORCE AWAKENS SHOWING AND MY DAD WAS DRIVING US HOME AND OUT OF NOWHERE HE WAS LIKE: Oh my god. WHAT IF KYLO REN CHOSE TO GO TO THE DARK SIDE SO HE COULD HELP THE LIGHT SIDE! AND I WAS LIKE WHAT! SO HE WAS LIKE HEAR ME OUT WHAT IF HE WENT TO THE DARK SIDE JUST SO HE COULD KILL SNOKE!!!!
AND THATS WHY HE’S SO CONFLICTED, AND THATS WHY HE FEELS THE TEMPTATION OF THE LIGHT SIDE STRONGER THAN THE DARK!!!!!
THATS WHY HE TALKS TO VADER’S HELMET, BECAUSE HE IS GONNA FINISH WHAT ANAKIN, THE CHOSEN ONE, STARTED!!!
HE HAD TO COMPLETELY TURN AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY IN ORDER TO DO THAT! TO BECOME A SITH FULLY AND COMPLETELY YOU HAVE TO SACRIFICE SOMEONE YOU LOVE TO DEATH, IN HIS CASE IT WAS HAN!
THATS WHY HE TELLS HAN HE FEELS LIKE HE’S BEING TORN APART INSIDE, BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT TO DO IT AT ALL, BUT IT’S THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY TO BECOME A SITH AND COMPLETE HIS TASK!!!!! KYLO LITERALLY UTTER THE WORDS “WILL YOU HELP ME” TO HAN, AND HAN SAYS “ANYTHING YOU NEED” (OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT I CANT REMEMBER)! WHAT HE’S ASKING IS IF HAN WILL DIE IN ORDER FOR HIM TO COMPLETE HIS TASK.
THATS WHY IT LOOKED LIKE HE KNEW WHO REY WAS, BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO PROTECT HER THATS WHY HE OFFERS HER TO BE HER TEACHER, HE NEEDS SOMEONE AS POWERFUL AS REY IT’LL BE LITERALLY THE DARK SIDE AND THE LIGHT SIDE JOINING UP TO DEFEAT ONE ENEMY TOGETHER AS ONE, WHICH IS BASICALLY WHAT THE FORCE IS.
THEY LIVE SIDE BY SIDE IN IT THATS WHY HE’S SO CONFLICTED ALL THE TIME, THATS WHY HIS FIGHT STYLE ISNT LIKE A SITH’S AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE ALWAYS SAYING THAT THE DARK SIDE AND THE LIGHT ARE TOGETHER IN THE FORCE.
THEY NEED THE PERSONIFICATION OF BOTH SIDES (KYLO AND REY) IN ORDER TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DESTROY SNOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE LITERALLY HAS TO BECOME A SITH TO JOIN FORCES WITH A JEDI
BECAUSE THE LIGHT IN HIM IS SO MUCH STRONGER THAN THE DARK AND HE HAS TO GET RID OF IT IN ORDER TO DO WHAT HE HAS TO DO AND SAVE THE GALAXY WITH REY AND LUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE NEEDS TO KNOW WHERE LUKE IS AT ALL TIMES SO THE FIRST ORDER WONT CAPTURE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT IF THEY STAGED LUKE’S JEDI ORDER MASSACRE!!! WHAT IF LUKE KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IF KYLO KNOWS THEY LEFT HER IN JAKKU SO SNOKE WOULD THINK SHE DIED IN THE MASSACRE ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER JEDIS!!!!!!!! AND THATS WHY HE REACTED THAT WAY WHEN THE GUY SAID THE DROID HAD “HELP FROM A GIRL IN JAKKU”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”
You know how a lot of people are saying: OH BUT IT LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE EPISODE IV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!! I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S ON PURPOSE!!!!!! BECAUSE THE PATH THEY ARE TAKING IS GONNA BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! EPISODE VII WAS LITERALLY JUST AN INTRODUCTION!!!! CALM DOWN PEOPLE PLEASE IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME!
THIS IS STAR WARS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. A PLOT TWIST LIKE THIS IS MANDATORY WE ARE NOT GETTING “REMAKES” OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY I PROMISE YOU.
[I don’t know] if you like it but I THINK ITS SO F***ING AWESOME IF THATS THE REASON — IT’S THE ONLY POSSIBLE GOOD EXPLANATION IN MY HEAD.
WHY [WOULD] SOMEONE THAT HAS LEIA AS HIS MOTHER, HAN AS HIS FATHER, AND LUKE SKYWALKER AS HIS UNCLE TURN TO THE DARK SIDE?
HAN DYING WOULDN’T BE FOR NOTHING, HE LITERALLY DIED SO HIS FAMILY COULD FINISH SAVING THE GALAXY.
REY, KYLO, LUKE, LEIA, FINN, AND POE ARE GONNA DESTROY THE LAST SITH TOGETHER AND BRING BALANCE TO THE FORCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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