Star Wars: The Awakening of Skywalker never had a chance to completely wrap up the entire thread from the eight films that came before them in the Star Wars series. But Polygon staff didn't expect it to leave many strange questions open, either. We don't want to go to the CinemaSins region with nitpicks, but we're pretty surprised by everything Episode IX that seemed quick, incomplete, confusingly hand-held, or just plain lost. It's always a bad sign when people get out of the movie interrupted by parts of what they just saw, trying to make sure they don't sleep in the theater and miss the key moment. Here are the big questions The rise of the Skywalker it left us thinking.
(Vol. Note: Great spoilers ahead The wake of the Skywalker.)
What was Finn's biggest secret from Rey?
When Finn thinks he is going to die, he desperately tries to tell Rey something he has been keeping from him, but is rejected. Later, when it looks like he and Poe and Chewbacca are like that everything he'll die, Poe brings it up again, Finn lets him go. Now what would he say? Normal narrative clichés may suggest that he wants to confess his love for Rey, or that he wants to tell her that he is very sensitive and has always felt his feelings throughout the galaxy. (The wishful thinking from some distributors & # 39; indicates that he wanted to acknowledge his love for Poe instead.) But why would this be useful for him to spread it out just before being consumed by a fast-paced space?
Importance of place: On another level, if it is not important enough for Finn to complete the thought, it may not be important to the viewers. And then it's a bizarre story to keep you from delivering something that can be fixed and then not solving it, especially when it comes to a beloved character whose history has never been fully developed or paid for.
Who killed Kylo Ren in his opening scene?
Kylo is reinvigorated The wake of the Skywalker in the middle of a battle where he kills a small army of soldiers to get his hands on one of the many MacGuffins, a Sith way that will lead him to Exegol. Who is guarding the way, and why? Are these Sith invaders or Resistance warriors or neutral groups serving the path or using it as a cooking fire or what? And why did Luke teach nothing in this way, which seems so easy to achieve? And if it's in the hands of the Sith or the First Order, why not hide it in Exegol, where it was safe?
These questions are actually briefly answered in a recently released book Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker – Visual Dictionary. The letter states that Kylo is on The mustafar, a lava planet where Anakin Skywalker lost his legs in a duel and became a successful Darth Vader. And it means Kylo is fighting his way Vader's old castle, where he found a way. Why is not even this background mentioned in the film? Because the fight is the only one that reminds us that Kylo is a powerful hero, who needs to establish him as a threat, as long as he uses most of the movie that Rey puts in, and then switches sides. And, as the film portrays his redemption and rejection of his Sith beliefs, it's worth wondering about his behavior opening the film by killing dozens of hopeless people in order to steal something from them.
Importance of place: Star Wars has held so many times that independent civilians can rescue anything as long as they die shortly afterwards, so in theory, we cannot capture this latest massacre of Kylo's behavior. Still, it is a small shame to realize that we are not expected to know or care about the murderers, and that they are only there because J.J. Abrams wants the movie to start as mindlessly, as mind-blowing action as possible. Speaking of …
How do those TIE fighters follow the Millennium Falcon through hyperspace?
We've spent 40 years watching Star Wars jump into hyperspace not as an icon, a figurative image on the screen, but as a picture of freedom – one way in which all these smugglers and rebels and people in the machine escape the most powerful enemy. After that The Last Jedi
Importance of place: Even if you think that this new technology is simply a precursor to and benefits of existing hyperspace tracker technology, it radically changes the Star Wars universe. Suddenly, there is no way to escape the enemy fire fighter again. Space warfare will mean something completely different now – assuming the writers don't decide to ignore this in the future because it's too slow.
Where was Chewbacca's second big hiding?
Most of these questions come from the immediate storytelling, though Abrams prioritizes the sequence of bad action over creating any kind of context that will explain what that sequence does, or what it means. This one, on the other hand, comes from a disdainful and disrespectful audience that has never been studied.
Finn sees a group of boxers grab Chewbacca and load him into vehicles, in the middle of a complex and open plain where he can hide. He rushes to point the ship to Rey and tells him what Chewbacca is, as it starts in the sky – again, a wide open atmosphere with the appearance of a distance. Afterwards Rey and Kylo fight on a freight train, until Reey arrives at the Force lightning. It goes down, supposedly killing Chewbacca. But all is well! A few minutes later, the First Order revealed that there were two cruise ships, and Chewbacca was in another. Clearly, the second one was invisible. And it's hidden behind the first one. Or maybe this guy traveling by Fenn saw the loading on the first ship was something different a bandolier-wearing Wookiee with a Sith art knife.
Importance of place: Chewbacca's survival is critical to the fandom (he is a long-time favorite) and in this story, given that the remainder of the episode, Hux's death, and Rey's adoption by Kylo all come back to the next rescue. “Your Wookiee is in another castle”, however, it is very important to reveal just how much the filmmakers here cared about making the story come together. They don't even make the slightest attempt to make this fight of this building make sense.
Is the Sith gone?
With Kylo mutated and dead, and Snoke found and dead, and Emperor Palpatine dispersed and dead again, is there anyone left to continue the Sith line? Some learned Siths and various offshoots from Star Wars kindergarten have been killed as well, to the point where it's unclear if anyone is still around to keep the line going.
Importance of place: It is of great importance to the future of the franchise, given how large the Sith loom is in mythos. On the other hand, writers of the Star Wars franchise have repeatedly shown that they can bend their rules to keep the old enemies alive. The Rule of two in The Phantom Menace proclaimed that there were only two Siths at one time, the king and the apprenticeship, but the subsequent news destroyed that line drastically to bring in more opponents of the Sith. As both Emperor and Darth Maul survived a seemingly fatal attack, and there is evidence that Supreme Leader Snoke was just one of many clones, it is always possible that in books or games or movies he later found himself one of the markers. the main villains are back again, or expose another secret reader somewhere else. Perhaps there is an entire planet full of known Snoke clones. You never know when you'll need snakes for something else.
Wait, did the Emperor have a plan for the Serpents left?
A vat full of extra snakes bothers some Polygon employees. Probably not. Those are probably flawless or flawed clones, or backups. Abrams probably put a lot of them into that shot, rather than just one, so no one could mistakenly believe Snoke was resurrected along with the Emperor. Vat-Snakes may have been discarded. There is no need to worry about them until the panel tells us.
Importance of place: It could have been just plain spectacular without being relevant without proving that Snoke was always a puppy. Of course, that would mean that the one we saw dying might just be one of many, effective as his double body to prevent being killed. The combination of canonical and expired images can provide more meaning.
Why does the Governor change plans in the middle of the climax?
It is amazing how the Emperor announces that Ree will kill him and build his own body and take a galaxy, and then vanish. For a brief moment, the idea that he couldn't solve his problems with a quick and easy kill seems like an enticing conundrum. It's like the bond where Obi-Wan Kenobi takes back Darth Vader A New Hope, when he says, "You can't win, Darth. If you beat me down, I'll have more power than you thought." Vader doesn't listen, and by killing Obi-Wan, Vader puts him in solidarity with the Force. like he can't solve it in the most obvious way … And then … he heals most of h is life, and just kills him, but with obvious consequences.
Importance of place: Well if there is some explanation for this. Usually, when the opponent's plan fails, there is a reason for it – something he did wrong or did not expect. But to read between the lines (and to look at everything The wake of the SkywalkerIt is the same as in Return of the Jedi), we can assume that the reason for the plan failed not because something-something-Force-dyad-magic, but because Rey had to give up his anger and the evil side of killing him, which would give the Emperor a way out of him. Instead, he chased the Jedi and destroyed him with his own power. That's why you don't tell the good people all your bad plans in advance.
What really happened to Rey and Kylo Ren in the end?
The last moments of the characters together play out as the end of Romeo and Juliet, with one of the two you get up just in time to refresh and watch the other die. Except … what actually happens there? It certainly looked like Rey fancied escorting the Jedi and ending the Emperor, and then he died, and that Kylo gave him the rest of his life to recover, and then he died. Except … since Light-Side Force users just came out when they died, why didn't Rey's body disappear when he died, as did Kylo?
Importance of place: There may be a desirable explanation for this, as Rey was not quite ready to transfer, but Kylo was. It's just confusing, because there seems to be no rules on how Light-Side users disappear after death. Speaking of …
Why doesn't Leia's body disappear until Kylo does?
That "not quite ready to transfer" definition is even better now, but it is still confusing that director J.J. Abrams made it a point to show the audience that Leia's body was hanging in a cave under a Rebel base, where all the other Light-Side-visible user's bodies that we had seen had moved within a minute or were dead. (Within a nanosecond, in the case of Obi-Wan Kenobi.) Then Leia and Kylo disappear at the same time.
Importance of place: Probably not. It might just mean the same closure of the family. Not to mention she gives the impression that Leia's self-sacrifice to reach Kylo was more than a cameo, and that she somehow sent her spirit into her body. There are speculations already circulating that Leia didn't die while she was sleeping in those caves – she had just put her life force on Kylo to help Rey, so she wasn't completely dead. Or that Kylo died when the Emperor threw him into a dungeon, and that Kylo who appeared to save Rey was just things he knows, like Luke finally The Last Jedi, indicating to transfer his remaining power to Rey. This is the kind of guess that unconventional storytelling gets you.
Who built this great Emperor ship?
There are many unanswered questions about the Emperor's immediate departure, and the revelation that he had large ships hidden on an unknown planet, with the destructive weapons of the planet that had taken over the Death Star to support it. Who found Palpatine's body in a broken Dead Star II and took him to Exegol, built and invented all these ships? When do they destroy ship-based planets? Was that much of the Emperor's target audience intended for real, living creatures of some kind, or were they phantoms? Also, i Virtual Dictionary has a brief answer: These are the "Sith cultists" who "continue to praise Darth Sidious's efforts to bring about a new Kingdom." It is not clear how they arrived at Exegol, a hidden hidden planet that may not have been possible. , navigate, or leave without any special instructions.
Importance of place: Apparently the authors of The wake of the Skywalker you do not care for any of these things, but it is not hard to be a little confused to see tens of thousands of Sith loyalists gather outside the area, and then be destroyed, without any expressive word. Also, it is worth asking yourself how many of these questions have already been answered in materiality elsewhere. And I'm talking about that …
Is Jannah related to Lando?
Some people have interpreted Lando Calrissian's brief interview with Jannah, the chief of the First Order played by Naomi Ackie, as a very funny one. When they say they don't know who you are or where you come from, it says, “Wanna find it?” According to that tone some men used a mysterious pickup line such as “would it hurt when you fell from heaven? ? But let's face it – that's how Lando always sounds. This is likely to discourage future issues. Our best friend The rise of the Skywalker Visual Dictionary
Importance of place: There is no, though it might be based on a future story one way or the other, and it helps to explain why a newly introduced character who contributes nothing to the story other than the one-minute connection of Finn gets so much screen.
What exactly is a dyad, and how do Kylo and Rey interact?
The biggest secret of the last Star Wars trilogy has been the interaction between Kylo Ren and Rey, which allowed them to do things the Force has never used before. The fans have taken this as evidence of a blood relation between them, proof that Rey was Luke's daughter or some other sort of Skywalker. But no – the Emperor only counts for a moment when the climax of the action says that they are both "Dutch." What does that mean?
Importance of place: It is not just important to the plan The wake of the Skywalker; it reaches back to describe the previous two films. Why is this the point of the casting plot incorrectly? Are there any other dyads? What causes two people to be linked to the Force in unprecedented ways, and what can we expect from them going forward?
Who were the Knights of Ren, and are they going now?
Knights of Ren, a group created for Kirlo Ren, is imported The Army Awakens with the idea that they would eventually disappear. However none of the films that you were interested in, and they became one of the three cooked trophies. J.J. Abram sends them back into the middle The wake of the Skywalker long enough for Kylo to kill most of them, but the last trilogy only gives a few sentences, in total, who they are and what they want. They get more back Star Wars spinoff comics, but it is not enough to determine whether there are many of them out there, or what they might want in the post-First Order library.
Importance of place: It actually sounds like it's important to recycle some of the pre-Kylo Ren materials, and to sell a few other toys.
Why is C-3PO organized to understand the Sith runes?
Okay, this is a little weird, but I'm saying: Someone went to the trouble of installing C-3PO to understand forbidden language and not allowed to communicate with anyone? Why do they bother?
Importance of place: It's about the middle of the story, and surprisingly harmful to C-3PO! Good thing no one in this movie is allowed to stay "dead" for long.
What exactly is Han Solo appearing on Kylo?
Harrison Ford's re-emergence of the series he was so happy to leave was not surprising, but it does raise many questions. Han is never an Army user, nor does he appear to be a ghost of the Army The wake of the Skywalker. She could be Kylo & # 39; s memory or illusion, proving to be a welcome reflection of Kylo's decisions. But it is an unsatisfactory answer that goes beyond Kylo's methods for Han's murder – that is, his entire transition back to the light comes because he regrets what he does, so that his father simply approves of his decisions to congratulate himself on feeling shallow and deceiving.
Making Hannah a memory would also be a rare choice in a universe where people obviously live again, and often come back to death. Maybe you're an opinion, which in this series actually means "magical guesses that don't have to follow any rules, ever." But if Han Solo is actually a witness to non-Force-users not only joining the army after death, but also being able to prove it afterwards, he's something new and unprecedented – basically another case of writers violating extended rules in a cool moment, without worrying about how this changes the entire galaxy.
Importance of place: Who knows? Chances are that nothing like this will ever come back in Star Wars, unless Harrison Ford agrees to come back with some other promises.
Are there ghost Force rules?
Why did the dead Darth Vader turn into a ghost Force as the young Anakin Skywalker, but Luke and the dead Leia still look like Old Luke and Leia?
Importance of place: Zero. He is one of those frustrating questions posed since George Lucas' digital journey through the previous Star Wars films. If he didn't feel the need to take revenge on Hayden Christensen Return of the Jedi issue of Special Edition, this will not continue to go up. The important reason is that it is because of the long-lasting hope that the birds of the Force will choose their own look for whatever time period they want. Which means maybe someday we'll see Force ghost Yoda as a kid, him and her CounterfeitChildren's Yoda can interact and become children together.
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