Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was the end of a saga that saw three generations grow, and although months have passed since its premiere, it still gives us something to talk about, but not because of what we saw in the film, but rather what they didn’t tell us.
Almost exactly what JK Rowling did with Hermione’s ethnicity and Dumbledore’s courtship preference, Lucasfilm executives want to rewrite the way Star Wars: The Rise or Skywalker but not on the big screen, rather in the novelizations.
The third film from the last Star Wars trilogy was the least appreciated by critics, because some media assessed it as having an excess amount of fanservice and contradicted the previous installment, The Last Jedi.
But fans didn’t like it either: from the apparent resurrection of Emperor Palpatine to Force powers that had no justification in the canon, nothing made sense to anyone.
According to the official novel of The Rise of Skywalker, in reality the emperor was not resurrected, what we saw in the cinema was a clone with Palpatine’s soul, and what the Sith was looking for was a new vessel that would allow him to revive.
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As expected, some fans made fun of that change in plot, even suggesting jokingly that we will soon have a mini army of Palpatines.
In the same book, Rey’s father, who in episode VIII was no one and suddenly in IX turned out to be a failed clone from Palpatine himself. What? Thanks to that revelation we learned that Palpatine did not have a relationship: as lord of the Sith he had no real interest in forming a family.
The novel reveals that while Rey tries to fool Palpatine during the Sith ritual in Exegol, she had a vision where her grandfather transfers his consciousness into the body of a clone, but the process failed. From that procedure was born the clone who would later become Rey’s father.
Finally, the expected kiss between Rey, the representation of the Light side, and Ben Solo, who was the maximum exponent of the Dark side in this trilogy until his redemption, actually turned out not to be as romantic as we initially thought.
According to the novel, it clarifies that the kiss was not love, but a gesture of thanks. Kind of like the kisses I never get after someone thanks me.
We don’t have Ben Solo’s ghost, but we have (what joy!!!) Ben Solo’s ghost voice! 🤦♀️😬🥺
Perfect!! I’m so happy! I feel myself so “closure” right now! 😤😒
I need said it again: I won’t buy this “thing”! No way!!! #TheRiseofSkywalker #novel pic.twitter.com/TUHWIO8Rea— Deniis •-• (@laurameirellesb) February 29, 2020
The non-romantic kiss between Rey and Ben surely felt like a bucket of cold water dropped on all the fans who asked for an emotional closure to the saga, but perhaps new details about the novel will be a little more kind to them.
The Rise Of Skywalker is like when you’re plastering drywall and you leave an edge mark so you go back and retouch it but now there’s a trowel edge in another spot and the more you keep trying to fix it the worse it gets.
— Mike G (@goedharted) March 4, 2020
Can’t fix stupid
— Luke Skywalker (@LukeSky56726531) March 4, 2020
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again & again: I’m DONE with Star Wars. DONE with Disney, DONE with everything related to Star Wars! I’m uninterested in their content and as long as they don’t FIX the Skywalker saga and bring Ben Solo back, it will stay like that for me.
— Blossom (@S_E356) March 1, 2020
Seriously, Star Wars people – just STOP. You can’t fix this mess of a storyline. Stop writing. Stop talking. Let this trilogy die.
The stand-alone films were fantastic. The Mandalorian is amazing. Put that trilogy into quarantine so it doesn’t taint everything else! https://t.co/hXYMOzDmuT— Mara Jade Skywalker (@MasterJediMara) March 5, 2020
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