Jj Abrams Rey s Parents on the Table Again
Spoilers for Star Wars: The Ascent of Skywalker follow below.
One of the big questions—and for some, concerns—going into The Rise of Skywalker concerned Rey's parents. While The Force Awakens set up a mystery about who Rey's parents were, having sold Rey (Daisy Ridley) into slavery and left her on Jakuu as a child, author/director Rian Johnson'southward The Last Jedi provided a dramatic answer: her parents were nobodies. It's not that this answer in and of itself is considerately "the best" reply, only it was that it fit perfectly in line with the thematic thrust of The Terminal Jedi. From Rey to Finn to Poe to Rose to Holdo, that movie was about challenging the traditional ideas of "heroism" and proving that, at the end of the 24-hour interval, anyone has the capability to stand to adversity and challenge evil head on, regardless of parentage or regality. TL;DR Rey doesn't have to be a Skywalker to be a badass Jedi.
The respond was also devastating to Rey in that she had hoped all this time that her parents left her on Jakuu for a reason, and would exist back for her posthaste. The worst possible thing she could learn after that Throne Room showdown was that her parents were expressionless nobodies who sold her into slavery for some spare change. She'due south felt alone her whole life, and in that moment Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) makes her feel somehow even lonelier. The perfect position for someone he's hoping to turn to the Nighttime Side.
Well The Rise of Skywalker kind of says "hogwash" to all of that, every bit writers J.J. Abrams and Chris Terrio instead posit that Rey's parents were actually related to Emperor Palpatine—specifically her father was Palpatine's son—which thus makes Rey a Palpatine.
Then, um, why? Abrams explained his decision at the Academy screening of Rise of Skywalker last week, noting that "you're nobody" wasn't quite devastating enough for his taste:
"I think one of the themes of the pic is that anyone tin can be annihilation regardless of where y'all're from, and I don't know if it resonates for anybody but I think in that location are quite a few people who appreciate that idea of not coming from a place that you're non particularly excited about post-obit or proud of. And though I completely empathize 'you're nobody' is a devastating thing, to me the more than painful, the more shocking thing was the idea that y'all're from the worst possible place. And is that matter that you feel that you know is part of yous somehow, that you're haunted by, is that your destiny? And the idea that there are things more than powerful than blood, every bit Luke says, that thing was a really important thing to convey for usa."
I'd counter that The Last Jedi already sets this up pretty perfectly. Rey isn't "proud" to come up from people who sold her off willingly just to make money, and recreating herself as a powerful Jedi is well-nigh the biggest counter to her heritage that I can call up of. And while I understand that Abrams is basically saying that the theme of Rise of Skywalker is, "What if you institute out you were Hitler's granddaughter?" I don't remember that tracks. For one, the film isn't interested in delving into the politics or credo of the Sith other than "they're bad," simply for another, Palpatine isn't just some random fascist. He'southward an iconic Star Wars character. Palpatine as a stand-in for Hitler doesn't work because he's so bogged down in mythology from past films, and Rise of Skywalker actively embraces that mythology.
Regardless, Abrams went farther to annotation that the idea of making Rey a Palpatine was to create a sense of inevitability for the unabridged Star Wars saga, and underlined the film's connections to today's resurgence of Nazis:
"This whole trilogy, seven, 8, and 9, is actually sort of about the generation that follows the Great Generation, and the thought of bringing balance to the forcefulness—which is the whole bespeak of the Chosen One, Anakin, and the original trilogy. What I loved was the idea that rest brought to the force doesn't mean that it's forever. It's not immediately everlasting, and I think the idea that if nosotros're not careful, the ultimate evil will rise over again. Nosotros have to be proactive in doing what nosotros can to maintain the balance, and how does the generation that follows the Neat Generation do that? The idea that these two main characters, both the grandchildren of these crucially important characters, Palpatine and Skywalker, the idea of these ii houses coming together in this next generation felt like in that location was an inevitability to it. And if 1 were to picket I through IX 50 or 100 years from at present, hopefully you'd feel like these stories were inevitable."
Again, that'southward an admirable theme, and I don't think Abrams is existence disingenuous hither, but I too think Rising of Skywalker fails to effectively execute this theme. This thought of a second generation fighting the resurgence of an ancient evil doesn't come into full view until Rise of Skywalker, which "reveals" that Palpatine has been pulling the strings all along—but the reveal poses more questions than answers, and again getting bogged downwards in mythology hinders the film's thematic impact.
Co-author Chris Terrio was also on-hand for the Academy screening and also discussed the whole Rey'due south parents thing, saying that The Concluding Jedi didn't create a "present-tense dramatic problem" for the story:
"We had a post-information technology in our room that said, 'You don't detect who you are, y'all create it,' and if Act 2, the middle act from Rian [Johnson], was discovering who you lot are, we felt like nosotros actually needed to take on the idea of recreating who she is. And of grade to find out she'south a Palpatine is a present-tense dramatic problem. You can discover out you come from nothing and that'south non necessarily [a present-tense dramatic problem]… I come from a family of teamsters, I come from a great illustrious royal family unit, that's not a present-tense problem for me on this stage. If I found out I come from a family unit of the greatest enemies of J.J. Abrams and he has hired me and is my boss, and that's my deep dark clandestine, that'due south a present-tense dramatic problem. It'southward more interesting for Daisy to play and for us it was a more interesting story."
Now this, honestly, is kind of B.South. Rey finding out she's Palpatine is no less a present-tense dramatic problem than finding out she's a nobody. Information technology would have been far more interesting to witness this "nobody" rising upwards as the galaxy's primary hero while the last Skywalker (Kylo Ren) fights for the Dark Side, and and so to see the dramatic arc of fighting for Ben Solo's soul. This "nobody" is tasked with bringing the Sith/First Lodge/Whatsoever-the-hell down, just she's also compelled to save Ben Solo from himself based on her relationship with Luke, Han, and Leia.
As well, doesn't "create who you are" fit directly into Rey being a nobody? Wouldn't Rey existence a Palpatine be more than of a recreation than a creation? This movie makes less sense the longer I retrieve near it…
For more than on Rise of Skywalker, check out what Abrams had to say about the film'due south criticisms and our breakdowns of that whole Forcefulness Dyad affair, Palpatine's render, and Rey's lightsaber.
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