![]() Through a little help from old friend Yoda (Frank Oz), Luke realizes that, while the structures of the Jedi can become shackles, it is their failure - and the wisdom that comes from failure - that speaks to the true power of the Jedi. “But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. “Now that they’re extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified,” Luke says. The Force Awakens sets up Luke as a mythic figure who had gone to find a legendary temple, and The Last Jedi subverts that, revealing him to be a hermit, fearful of the Force to a point that he shuts himself off from it, not wanting to cause any more harm after his mistakes with his nephew Ben. The entire Skywalker saga had focused on the significance of that one family’s bloodline - until The Last Jedi. In that essence, anyone can be a Skywalker - and Rey can represent what the characters of Blake and Morales do. “ Anyone can wear the mask,” Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) says. ![]() “Batman could be anybody.” More recently, the idea was echoed in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “The idea was to be a symbol,” Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) tells Blake. A new dark knight rises, not a Wayne, but an orphan who knew the same struggles. The title for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film applies to a number of moments, but one of the most striking is the very last shot in which John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) steps onto the platform in the Batcave, which then rises and fills the screen before cutting to the title card. The Rise of Skywalker recalls a similar title for a film that focuses on heroic symbols and how legends live on: 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. But the subtitle could apply to no one in particular, as, especially after Johnson’s film, the name “Skywalker” has become a symbol. There are a few characters in The Rise of Skywalker with Skywalker blood - Kylo Ren/Ben Solo (Adam Driver), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and, assumedly, force ghost Luke - and this film could be about the redemption of Ben. It would be cool to tell some new stories in this galaxy…but Luke Skywalker showed up in The Book of Boba Fett literally earlier this year, so I’ll believe it when I see it.But title surely doesn’t have to be literal. That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now. But we are moving on from the Skywalker saga. It’s our job to step away now, but still have a connection to the mythology that George created. Just staying within the construct of storytelling, to keep chipping away at that, I think would be wrong. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently said that they’re looking to leave behind the Skywalker saga: Might Dathan and Miramir ever show up onscreen again? That’s hard to tell. In a new excerpt, it’s revealed that the names of Rey’s parents are Dathan and Miramir.ĭathan is the dad and Miramir the mother, if you were wondering it’s not always clear with these names from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. ![]() For instance, what were their names? That question is answered in the new Star Warsnovel Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher. Then we found out in The Last Jedi that they were “no one”…but then we found out in The Rise of Skywalker that her dad was actually the son of Emperor Palatine (or rather an imperfect clone of him, to be specific), which makes her related to the greatest force of evil in the galaxy.Īnd through it all, we learned very little about Rey’s parents. ![]() At first we heard that Rey (Daisy Ridley) was abandoned by her parents as a child, presumably because they had some secret we would learn in later installments. The Star Wars sequel trilogy was famous for making up the story as it went along.
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