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- Now in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we find him in an emotional moment -- “taking one last look” at his friends, including his eternal counterpart R2-D2, BB-8, and D-O.
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- Rey and Kylo Ren team-up. Gone is the cross-universe sexual tension between Star Wars' big-hitters seen in previous instalment, The Last Jedi.
- C-3PO's last stand? "What are you doing there, 3PO?" Oscar Isaacs, as Poe Dameron, asks everyone's favourite pompous protocol droid.
- Top billing for Carrie Fisher. Carrie Fisher (who first played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars movie in 1977) died in December 2016, between the releases of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
- Secondary characters sidelined? There's loads of Rey, Finn (John Boyega) and Poe in the trailer but other key players on the good side of the franchise don't get much of a look-in here.
Oct 22, 2019 · 8. One last look from Threepio. The fussy protocol droid has been with us since the beginning. Now in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we find him in an emotional moment -- “taking one last look” at his friends, including his eternal counterpart R2-D2, BB-8, and D-O.
- Kristin Baver
Apr 10, 2020 · But Threepio doesn’t know that when he’s standing in Babu’s workshop on Kijimi taking one last look at his friends. The finest scene is actually the final moment, when Rey buries the Skywalker lightsabers and takes on a new name, says Kristen.
Skywalker entered the Boonta Eve Classic to help his new friends, unaware that he was also competing for his freedom. He soon caught up to the other racers, passing two before they even noticed him, and he prepared to pass the Troiken Gasgano as they approached Arch Canyon.
- It’s the end of the line for The Skywalker Saga, and this is how it all went down.
- Entering the Unknown Regions and Exegol
- Rey Palpatine
- The Rise of Skywalker Final Battle
- Rey and Kylo Ren's Death
- Top 10 Best Star Wars Movie Moments
- The (Jedi) Voices From the Past
- The Rise of Skywalker Ending Explained
By Scott Collura
Updated: Apr 14, 2020 8:38 pm
Posted: Dec 22, 2019 9:15 pm
Warning: Full spoilers follow for The Rise of Skywalker. Obviously.
For even more on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, find out how much it made opening weekend and how it compares to every other Star Wars movie. Read about the big question fans have about the film which JJ Abrams just answered. Catch up on every cameo in Rise of Skywalker, or find out about the classic Star Wars planet that was snuck into TROS. And should Finn and Poe's bromance have been a romance? Oscar Isaac chimes in!
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the last movie in The Skywalker Saga, which means this ending explained isn’t just for one movie... but for the entire nine-film trilogy which began over 40 years ago!
After much gallivanting around a galaxy far, far away, The Rise of Skywalker spends its finale in the mysterious Unknown Regions, the unexplored area of space beyond the Outer Rim. Yeah, it turns out there’s a lot of worlds out there beyond just the area controlled at various times by the Republic, Empire and First Order.
The Emperor himself has been holing up in the Unknown Regions on the Sith planet Exegol all these years, somehow still alive despite his unfortunate run-in with the Death Star’s reactor core in Return of the Jedi.
While it looks like he has cloning facilities on Exegol, including a tank of Snoke clones (!), it doesn’t seem as though Palpatine himself is a clone. There is a throwaway line, however, about magic and dark science, things only the Sith had mastered. So we’ll chalk his return up to that.
We also know from the Star Wars games and books that Palpatine was keen to take advantage of the resources of the Unknown Regions as part of a contingency plan in case he died, and that First Order shipyards, bases and weapons factories were constructed in the area. So it makes sense that he’d also be hiding out there in the intervening three decades.
He’s been busy though, overseeing the construction of a new fleet of Star Destroyers, which the Emperor has offered to Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. And yeah, these ships each have a planet-killing weapon onboard. Who needs a Death Star these days? In return for this fleet, all the Emperor wants is Ren’s Force-power pen pal Rey, who it turns out is the Emperor’s granddaughter.
Old Palpatine, barely alive now via Sith magic, wants Rey to kill him… which will transfer his essence into her, as well as the souls of all the other Sith contained inside him (which apparently is a thing now -- more on that below), and allow him to rule supreme in a young and powerful body.
Anyway, all points lead to Exegol in the film as the Resistance faces the new fleet of the First Order, which is now calling itself the Final Order. While Poe leads the battle in the air, Finn and Naomi Ackie's new character Jannah head up the ground team, which has to take out the communications array on the lead Star Destroyer… or something.
It’s a little confusing, really. They end up switching between several different targets to accomplish this, but the main goal is to prevent the fleet’s ships from communicating with one another and stop them from being able to navigate out of the Unknown Regions while the Resistance, hopefully, can take them out.
Meanwhile, down on the planet, Rey, who since learning of her true lineage has been struggling with the idea that she could turn to the Dark Side, confronts the Emperor. He’s maybe not more machine now than man, but he’s still twisted and evil and hanging from some kind of weird device that presumably helps keep him semi-alive.
Things also become very reminiscent of Return of the Jedi from here on out, with Palpatine trying to get a young Jedi to kill him and turn to the Dark Side while a space battle rages above them… a battle which he is also manipulating. And there’s even a babyface turn in both films, where a bad guy becomes good.
The final confrontation between Rey and the Emperor takes place in front of a vast arena full of non-descript Sith worshippers, as Palpatine tempts Rey to strike him down, taunting her by disabling all the Resistance ships above with Force lightning. Who those Sith worshippers are isn’t clear. Maybe they’re clones of Palpatine? Or could they be some kind of physical manifestation of the many Sith who came before the Emperor? Maybe they’re just there for the free show.
And then Ben Solo arrives, having forsaken the Dark Side and his Kylo Ren identity earlier in the film after his mother Leia died and he had a vision of his father, Han Solo, where the dead hero told Ben it wasn’t too late to change his ways. Taking up his grandfather and uncle’s lightsaber while Rey wields Leia’s saber, the two face off against the Emperor and his guards.
Rey is seemingly down for the count as the Emperor brags about carrying all the Sith who came before within him. Which sounds like another new Force power? Did he always carry them with him? Is Darth Maul in him too? It sounds… not fun for the Sith.
But Rey calls out to the Jedi who preceded her, and we hear their voices, from Obi-Wan to Yoda to Qui-Gonn to Ahsoka and more. Reinvigorated and rising against the Emperor, she deflects his Force lightning with both Skywalker sabers, disintegrating him along the way.
In doing this, she breaks the cycle of passing down the Sith power through murdering the former master: Since she killed him with his own power instead of striking him down, we see all the Sith die with him. Unfortunately, the exertion is too much, and she also dies.
Meanwhile, Lando and Chewie arrive in the skies above, and they’ve brought a ton of ships with them to help take out the Star Destroyers after Finn and Jannah destroy the communications array. Go, team! And yeah, never mind that there were only like 20 members of the Resistance left at the end of The Last Jedi, and nobody came to help when they put out a call. Now all the people, not just military types, show up for the fight.
Back on the planet, an injured Ben climbs out of the pit and uses another new Force power introduced in this film to not just heal Rey but bring her back to life. Interestingly, this sounds a lot like what Anakin Skywalker had been promised by the Emperor when he foresaw Padme’s death. So then the question must be asked: Did Ben just make a Sith power a Jedi power too?
Regardless, he saves her life, they kiss, and then Ben dies, his final act of redemption being sacrificing himself for her. But before the pair can play a game of endless life-force swapping, his body disappears as he becomes one with the Force while we see the same thing happen to his mother Leia’s body back at the Resistance base.
So The Resistance finally win and the Jedi definitively have destroyed the Sith once and for all. After Rey, Finn, Poe and the rest celebrate, Rey heads to Tatooine and the old Lars moisture farm where Luke grew up. There, she buries Luke and Leia’s sabers... even though Leia had no association with Tatooine. She also reveals that she has constructed her own yellow lightsaber. An old woman passes by and asks her name, and Rey answers, as she sees Luke and Leia’s Force Ghosts smiling at her, that it’s Rey Skywalker. And so we have the rise of Skywalker.
The final shot of the film is Rey and BB-8 facing the binary sunset, just as Luke did all those years earlier.
Dec 22, 2019 · Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brings the Skywalker Saga to an end. Have any questions about the ending? We're here to answer them.
Dec 30, 2019 · He told them he wanted to take one final look at them--his friends--before his "life," as he knew it, ended. Then a few scenes later, R2-D2 reinstated his memory and everything was fine.
