This is my second rise of Skywalker video and for this video -
- I am wearing which is apparently my only star wars t-shirt, but it is amazing.
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Let's talk about Rise of Skywalker.
If there is one thing that we all saw coming a mile away in Star Wars Episode nine: Rise of Skywalker, it was the redemption of Ben Solo.
Some sort of Darth Vader- esque sacrifice that Ben makes after deciding to join the light side again, making up for all of the bad things he's done.
So when that happened at the end of Rise of Skywalker-
-I wouldn't say I was surprised but I was definitely severely disappointed.
Because killing Ben Solo immediately after he turns to the light side is boring.
Now to be fair, at this point in the movie I did not expect it to surprise me at all.
But still I think there was an interesting opportunity here.
Because killing Ben is a little too convenient.
He does one good thing to make up for all the evil he's done over the course of these three movies and then he dies.
A real redemption would be earned, something that takes time and effort.
Plus it isn't like all the suffering Kylo Ren caused was Palpatine related.
So stopping Palpatine shouldn't even out what he's done.
Like if anything, Palpatine kind of came out of nowhere.
Like... Absolutely nowhere.
Like out of, literally nowhere.
And I think part of why helping Rey to stop Palpatine made sense as Kylo Ren's Redemption is a failure of scale in the sequel trilogy.
We don't really know what the first order has already done or been doing over the course of these three movies-
-That doesn't relate directly to our heroes.
Like are they occupying other planets?
What are they doing on those planets?
Will there be some sort of cleanup associated with them?
Are they even aware of Palpatine?
Probably not, because like I said, he comes out of nowhere.
So if I could make one more small change to Rise of Skywalker, it would be this:
Ben Solo should not die at the end of this movie.
And here's kind of how I imagined the end of the movie would go:
Rey kills Palpatine, she dies in the process, Kylo gives her some of his life force, She is healed.
Or maybe this is where Leia gives her life force up to save Rey or to save Kylo after he saves Rey.
Or just, Ben giving Rey some of his life force does not kill him.
So Rey gets up and she offers kylo her hand-
-Mirroring the end of the last Jedi.
Rey says: 'Work with me, train the next generation of Jedi.'
Kylo rejects her hand, says: 'No. There's still a lot of First-Order outposts around the galaxy. They won't go quietly.'
'You have your own job to do. Protect the future. Let me take care of the past.'
'You owe it to them.'
Kylo Ren gets up, walks away from Rey.
Rey says: 'Goodbye, Ben solo.'
And Ben says: 'See you around, kid.'
So then we'll also change a couple of other scenes.
Rey's scene at the very end of the movie - Which okay real quick:
What an absolute disaster.
There is nothing for her to do there.
Luke hated Tatooine, Leia was a prisoner of Jabba's on Tatooine.
Why on earth would she go and bury their lightsabers on Tatooine?
Bury them at a Jedi Temple, bury them on Ahch-To, the planet that Luke was exiled on.
At least it's a nice planet, Luke seemed to like it.
Or bury them wherever you ceremonially buried, Han.
Obviously his body is gone, but I'm assuming they did something, gave him some sort of grave or something?
Leave the lightsabers in the Falcon.
That's a nice place that means something to all of our main characters.
Give the lightsabers to Lando or Chewbacca.
Give one to Finn! Because if JJ Abrams is to be believed, Finn is force sensitive now.
So Ben Solo takes his lightsaber.
Rey takes her lightsaber, gives it to Finn and then makes her new yellow lightsaber-
-Which I'm fine with, I like the idea that she makes her own.
So instead of going to Tatooine, the last scene of this movie before the credits takes place on everyone's favourite planet:
Cantonica, in the casino city of Canto Bight.
We're gonna check back on that little kid from the end of eight who's running around scrounging for food.
Maybe he's not like a slave anymore but he's still poor and Rey is going to find him and say:
'I've been looking for you.'
And he'll say: 'who are you?'
She says: 'I'm Rey.'
He says: 'Rey what?'
She says: 'Just Rey.'
Of course.
Because also, not to nitpick (not unlike my podcast mostly nitpicking please subscribe)-
-It doesn't make any sense that she goes with Skywalker as her last name.
She spent like a couple of days with Luke Skywalker.
I mean realistically she shouldn't have any last names, she should just be Rey.
But whatever, the kid recognizes her and says: 'Wait, you're a Jedi?'.
She says: 'That's right. And I think you can be one too.'.
And he says: 'You're really a Jedi?'.
She says: 'Yes.'.
He says: 'Can I... you know? can I see the...?'.
And Rey says: 'Yeah, sure.'.
And then she ignites her yellow lightsaber.
The kid is in awe, very excited and then we zoom out and then ray takes the kids hand and Rey, Chewbacca and R2D2-
-Who are hanging out with Rey now because they're friends, walk with this kid into the sunset and that's the end of the movie.
The Jedi have a future and Ray is going to continue Luke's mission of training the next generation of Jedi.
But that's not all because we still need to wrap up Ben Solo.
So I'm gonna give Ben solo a post-credits scene.
And listen, you may be saying Star Wars doesn't post-credit scenes.
Yeah well, they don't need to be like, just setting up sequels.
I think of the good post-credit scenes almost like deleted scenes.
They add to the story but would otherwise disrupt the flow of the rest of the narrative.
So I think of it as more of an epilogue.
So we end episode nine where the sequel trilogy began, on Jakku.
The First Order is still controlling it like local warlords.
They've made a base out of downed AT-AT's and Star Destroyers.
And yes, I call them 'AyTee - AyTee's'.
Even though apparently they're supposed to be called 'At-At's' because then what are the 'AT-ST's' called? 'At-Stts?
So we'll overhear two stormtroopers talking to each other saying that it's weird that they're still doing this.
And then Captain Canady type barks over in order to them:
'You don't serve the Emperor, you serve me. And we will continue to keep order in the galaxy. Now go back to your posts.'
And these Stormtroopers walk over to their posts.
They hear a sound in the AT-AT.
One turns on a flashlight, signals that he's going to investigate and looks into the AT-AT.
And then we see him hit a wall, his light goes out.
Not killed, but knocked out.
The general barks another order: 'What's going on over there?'.
The other stormtroopers turn on their flashlights and investigate.
So then we see everything else from this generals perspective.
One by one all of the lights go out.
Then someone lands outside the general's office and walks over to the door.
The general takes out a blaster.
A tall figure walks by: it's Ben solo and he's dressed However Disney wants to dress him to sell more toys.
I assume some Han Solo style with the blaster holster and a lightsaber holster.
The general recognizes him, says: 'You're-'
Before he can finish the sentence Ben interrupts him: 'Give yourself up. It's over'
(The general) 'Never!'
Then the general grabs his blaster and attempts to assassinate himself.
But the blaster bolt is stopped midair by Ben.
He force pushes the general out of the way of the blaster bolt and then he pulls the general over.
Ben handcuffs the general, goes down to a holding cell where a bunch of locals are being imprisoned.
He uses his mother's blue lightsaber to cut a door into the cell.
The prisoners see Ben, one says: 'You're-'.
Ben cuts in: 'Ben. Ben Solo'.
(Prisoner) 'But you're-'.
(Ben) 'Not anymore.'.
Still shaking the prisoner asks: 'Why- why are you doing this?'.
And then Ben reaches out his hand to the prisoner and says: 'To make things right.'
This is the redemption of Ben Solo.
Not saving one person's life and then dying, doing the hard work to become a better person.
Fixing the galaxy he helped to break, going planet by planet and destroying remaining first-order outposts.
Using his gifts for good.
And a wise man once said: 'Star Wars rhymes.'
This is why I want to use the line 'To make things, right.'.
It'll not only be the last line spoken in the sequel trilogy it was also the first.
And that comparison will demonstrate how far Ben solo has come over the course of these three movies.
And potentially give him something meaningful to do in the future.
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