Why You Should Be Upset About Rey In Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Spoilers Ahead!
Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-Screenrant

There’s a lot to be about with the new Star Wars movie. Its visually stunning and it goes all out in the fan-service department. But that’s also its biggest downfall. In its frenzy to tie up loose ends and walk back the more ambitious ideas of The Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker shys away from all the gray areas of the force, which are now yellow areas.

But this could be the whole point. After forty years of films, TV shows, comics and fan theories ranging from the deranged to the completely plausible, there was a lot of pressure on the people tasked with tying up the Skywalker saga and, unfortunately, the repeatedly chickened out. Every time directors and writers got too ambitious with their ideas, colouring too far outside the set Star Wars lines, they got fired, often halfway through and sometimes almost at the end of the production.

This movie played it safe. Instead of digging into the relationship between Rey and Kylo, they brought back the biggest Star Wars villain of all time and made him Rey’s grandpa. The trailers led us to believe that Palpatine would turn her over to the dark side but, it turns out, that clip of Rey holding the folding red lightsaber, wasn’t actually Rey turned Sith. It’s just dark Rey, a hallucination or Palpatine construction that Rey has to fight, a box to be checked on her archetypal journey. But, based on the final line of the movie, and the new lightsaber reveal, this could all just be a set-up for Rian Johnson’s upcoming and, hopefully, more ambitious trilogy.


Our Social Media:
https://twitter.com/screenrant
https://www.facebook.com/ScreenRant

Our Website
http://screenrant.com/