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My guess is:

Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. Or at least somehow recognized her visually or by sound when she was nearby. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray!

And going a bit deeper on this:

And lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?

My guess is Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. Or at least somehow recognized her visually or by sound when she was nearby. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray!

And past that… Lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?

My guess is:

Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray!

And going a bit deeper on this:

And lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?

My guess is:

Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. Or at least somehow recognized her visually or by sound when she was nearby. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray!

And going a bit deeper on this:

And lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?

My guess is:

Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray! And lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?

My guess is:

Rey is Luke Skywalker’s child and R2-D2 sensed “the Force” in her. C-3PO makes it very clear that R2-D2 has been in self-imposed “low power mode” (aka: deep droid depression) since Luke went into hiding. Heck, R2-D2 is covered with a sheet when BB-8 first finds him. Then R2-D2 suddenly “snaps out of it” when who arrives? Rey! She’s Luke’s daughter. R2-D2’s choice to go into “low power mode” and cover himself with a sheet all day was his choice. And when Rey shows up he senses something familiar and snaps back to life! Hooray!

And going a bit deeper on this:

And lo and behold… The darn droid has a HUGE map of the galaxy (?) including areas that are apparently uncharted? Or perhaps BB-8’s missing piece was the only uncharted part the galaxy? Where did R2-D2 get those chunks from? It would have made more sense if Rey salvaged some data storage device from the wreckage on Jakku and then Rebellion analysts were able to recover data from that.

Which is also all to say… You are kidding me that data such as maps—or plans to the Death Star—can’t be copied as easily as we copy data today. Unless the devices that contain that data in the Star Wars universe have some kind of encryption or biometrics or something?