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Did Daisy Ridley just confirm the rise of Skywalker
will retcon Rey's parents?
- It's been a wild ride for Star Wars fans over the past
couple of weeks and no we're not talking about
Star Tours or Smugglers Run over at Disneyland
because those are literal rides.
If you want a wild one, talk to Mr. Toad.
No we are of course talking about the Mandalorian
and the reveal of that spoiler alert
sweet wee baby Yoda.
I mean seriously, that thing is so damn cute!
It's getting harder and harder to have to wait until
Friday for each new episode.
But luckily our Star Wars fix was sated early this week.
When thanks to the folks over at EW we got
a ton of cool pictures of The Rise of Skywalker
with a bantha sized news dump about this December's
next installment of the Skywalker saga.
And mixed in with all of this info and tidbits
we may have learned a crucial detail from Daisy Ridley
about Rey and her parents
and how it may retcon some of what we learned about them
in The Last Jedi.
- They were nobody
- Or were they?!
Let's break it down.
On the surface The Last Jedi seemed to pretty definitively
close the book on this subject.
Between Rey's force vision of the dark side came
and Kylo Ren forcing her confront her past,
it seemed like the answer to where Rey came from
was that, it doesn't really matter.
She built herself up on her own instead of being some
important who cares because of her lineage.
- They're filthy junk traders.
Sold you off for drinking money.
- Yeah.
Is there any other kind of junk trader?
I mean, if you're not a filthy junk trader
are you really trading junk?
Or are you just like selling antiques?
But it looks like that reveal is definitely going to be
revisited in The Rise of Skywalker.
Daisy Ridley put it like this,
"The parents thing is not satisfied - for her
and for the audience.
That's something she's still trying to figure out -
where does she come from?"
So does that mean she disregarding what she learned
in The Last Jedi?
Well there's a bit more to it than that.
Ridley went on to say, " It's not that she doesn't believe
it, but she feels there's more to the story.
And she needs to figure out what's come before so she can
figure out what to do next..."
So is this a reversal for the Star Wars squeal trilogy?
Is director J.J. Abrams contradicting something that
was laid out in episode eight?
Well, it is possible, but like Rey,
we feel there's more to it.
Honestly this feels kinda like that whole,
a certain point of view, truth bomb
that was dropped in Return Of The Jedi.
We would expect there's going to be a recontextualization
of the filthy junk traders that sold her
for drinking money reveal.
And maybe, maybe that's all they were.
But maybe that's only one part of their life.
Perhaps they were nobody because they had to
kill their Jedi past to hide from the Empire.
So what was revealed could be true
from a certain point of view.
- A certain point of view.
- But it's also equally possible that Rey coming from
nowhere is expanded on instead.
Star Wars does be tricky like that sometimes.
Roses are red, violets are blue
sometimes it be like that
Star Wars really do.
Lucky for us that wasn't the only thing revealed about
Rey in this article.
And considering how tight-lipped everyone has been
about this film so far
well this piece was kind of a goldmine
relatively speaking.
Daisy Ridley also revealed how her force training
has been going on behind the scenes.
"I have skills that have developed, but 'confident' isn't a
work I'd use to describe it."
"She's definitely more in control of everything and can do
new fun stuff, but she's vulnerable and a little insecure
about it all."
Director J.J. Abrams even got in on the fun and hinted
at her past and future saying, "the scavenger who is
desperate and haggling for portions and trying to survive in
the Force Awakens - those specials skills and that special
experience ends up being something that is essential to
saving the galaxy."
Huh.
Character beats and plot points coming full circle
on a Stars Wars film.
Wild!
- Again it's like poetry.
So, if they want...
Hopefully it'll work.
- It's also revealed in the piece that Rey will be spending
more time with C-3PO than any other character
in the movie.
Yeah, I said C-3PO.
And with 3PO's prominence in final trailer, in his heartfelt
and seeming goodbye,
no we're not exactly expecting a happy ending
for this character.
Longtime C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels hinted at big things
in store for the character.
"J.J and writer Chris Terrio came up with this aspect of
3-PO we had not seen before that's remarkably clever.
They go down deep into ancient Star Wars and came up with
something refreshingly new."
So does this mean that 3-PO is a secret Sith Lord
or three Ewoks in a trench coat
or actually isn't fluent in six million forms of
communication?
Actually that sounds like something I should tackle on
Explainiac.
(bell sounds)
As for all the Reylo's out there
Hi Aaron.
Adam Driver had this to say about Kylo's changing
connection with Rey in The Rise Of Skywalker.
"Part of the fun of playing it is the boundaries of it keep
changing.
At times it is more intimate, sometimes less intimate.
Sometimes it's codependent.
And then it's obviously, adversarial."
Intimate.
Codependent.
Adversarial.
I don't know about you,
sounds like spending the holidays with loved ones.
(background laughing)
So with a month until episode 9 hits theaters
have we seen enough to suss out most of the plot?
Old J.J. told EW, "The trailers that have come out are
scratching the surface of what the movie is."
He even said, "there are major action sequences that we've
yet to see any footage from."
Which is exciting for us to say the least
because the trailers already hint at a desert speeder chase,
a lightsaber battle, a space battle
and riding freaking space horses on the side of ship or
who knows maybe even now the Death Star part 12.
What more could we possibly want?
However, one of the most interesting bits of all of this
is Abrams reiterating that
this will be the end of the Skywalker saga
and that The Rise Of Skywalker will not leave
any threads dangling for a future film to latch onto.
This basically confirms that any future Star Wars trilogy
won't be Episodes 10 through 12.
And while there may be movies that take place during
these time periods, like Rogue One did with New Hope,
it won't be about the same story or the same characters.
And honestly, that feels most refreshing of all.
Because as much as we love Star Wars
and love these characters that we've come to get to know
over the past 40 plus years.
We're excited to see the new directions this franchise
could go in.
I mean, it's an entire galaxy...far far away.
It's not just the same six people over and over
until we all die.
But until then, we'll just be happy to see where
The Rise Of Skywalker takes us when it hits theaters
on December 20th.
But what do you folks think?
Do you think Rey's parents are just going to get retconned?
Are you glad we haven't seen everything yet in the trailers?
And do you really think they'd kill off C-3PO?
Let's discuss.
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