The Rise of Skywalker novelization | by Rae Carson
THIS BOOK IS BRINGING THE REY/ROSE FEELINGS
AND THEY ARE SUCH GOOD FEELINGS!!
NOW EVERYONE PLEASE GET ON SOME POST-TROS SHIPPING FIC FOR THESE TWO BECAUSE “Whenever [Rose] spoke to Rey, it was all Rey could do to keep from spilling all her fears and worries to her friend.” and “Before she could figure [out what she was trying to say], Rose enveloped her in a hug.” ARE SOME PRIME SHIPPING MATERIAL AND I’M CRYING ABOUT THEM
COME ON, GIVE ME THIS, STAR WARS AND STAR WARS FANDOM
Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures | Season 1 + Season 2
#LOOK ALL I’M SAYING IS THAT WE BETTER SOMEDAY GET A SEASON 3 #AND HAVE THIS SAME SEQUENCE WITH ANAKIN SKYWALKER #*BANGS FIST ON THE TABLE* #GIVE ME GOA ANAKIN TWIRLING AND SPINNING WITH THEM!! #WITH SIDIOUS’ SHADOW IN THE BACKGROUND
To celebrate the occasion, here’s some of my favourite ladies from fiction!
Row 1: Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Sephy Hadley (Noughts and Crosses), Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Rose Tico (Star Wars), Elsa (Frozen/Disney), Melissa Chartres (The Last Man on Earth)
Row 2: Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings/Middle Earth), Quinn Ergon (Final Space), The Thirteenth Doctor (Doctor Who), Princess Bubblegum (Adventure Time), Jane Foster (Thor/MCU), Amy Santiago (Brooklyn 99)
Row 3: Brook Soso (Orange is the New Black), Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Erica Dundee (The Last Man on Earth), Kitty Winter (Sherlock Holmes), Rose Tyler (Doctor Who), Briony Tallis (Atonement)
Row 4: Meredith Quill (Guardians of the Galaxy/MCU), Missandei (Game of Thrones), Rey (Star Wars), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Carol Pilbasian (The Last Man on Earth), Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Disney)
Row 5: Sansa Stark (Game of Thrones), Ash Graven (Final Space), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog/Disney), Sophia Burset (Orange is the New Black), Misty (Pokemon), Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
Row 6: Bill Potts (Doctor Who), Mary Brown (Paddington), Mako Mori (Pacific Rim), Gwen Stacy (Spider-Man), Jackie Tyler (Doctor Who), Ursula Ditkovich (Spider-Man)
Row 7: Yaz Khan (Doctor Who), Mary Jane Watson (Spider-Man), Marceline (Adventure Time), Michelle (10 Cloverfield Lane,), Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow/MCU), Mantis (Guardians of the Galaxy (MCU)
Finn was not present, obviously, when Rey kissed Kylo Ren, and I started wondering what on earth (/Tatooine) he made of the whole situation.
REY: Hey Finn Kylo Ren turned good again and then we fought my evil grandfather who wanted me to rule the galaxy as Empress and then all the Jedi came to me and I died and Kylo saved me with Force Healing and gave his life to me and I snogged him then he died.
FINN: …. okay cool?
But in all seriousness I think Finn learning the details of Rey vs Palpatine would make a pretty good fanfic. IF I can do it! So far I have one paragraph:
At that moment Finn hated Kylo Ren, and Ben Solo, more than he had ever hated anything. More than Captain Phasma, more than General Hux, more even than the people who had wrenched him away from his parents as a toddler. And then, after a moment, he didn’t. Maybe that was the Force. Finn wasn’t sure he liked the idea of it messing with his emotions.
So – is there any point warning for Star Wars spoilers anymore? – at the end of Rise of Skywalker, this kiss happens.
(gif from here. I guess there’s a camrip of the movie already?)
I’m not a Reylo shipper, but it was effective, I guess. Adam Driver’s acting in that scene was stellar, which made it mostly worth it overall. Except. EXCEPT…
Rey and Ben are related! (Probably.)
So in a canonical Star Wars comic from last year, this scene happens,
which seems to confirm the Palpatine = technically Anakin’s father theory that’s been in the air ever since Revenge of the Sith came out. Okay cool! But Palpatine is also Rey’s grandfather, and Anakin is Ben’s…
See? You see what I mean?!
Why’s the question mark there? Well, because some of the Star Wars story people (holy heck, that’s a job? Sweet) have come out and said Palpatine is absolutely not Anakin’s father and all that stuff in the comic was a vision or a metaphor etc etc etc, but… it’s Star Wars. There’s pretty much no strict canon at all anymore, so heck, let’s assume that purely based on Palpatine’s Revenge of the Sith speech and the fact that he keeps calling Anakin “son” that he’s his, uh, I guess “Force Dad.”
So what does this make Rey and Ben? I have no idea, but let’s just say they’re closely enough related that they probably shouldn’t be kissing. (And that’s even without getting into the weirdness of Ben’s parents constantly serving as surrogate parents to Rey.)
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker is intended to be the end of the nine-chapter Skywalker saga. The film put a ton of effort into attempting to establish this satisfying ending, and it paid off in plenty of ways. In just one example, Rey ends […]
Anakin told Padme in Revenge of the Sith, “Love can’t save you, Padme. Only my new powers can do that.” As it turns out, his new powers couldn’t save; but years later, his grandson proves that love can.
and the way it connects the Prequels and Sequels in another little circle. I keep thinking of that simple, very kinda… pointed? sentence from George Lucas a while back, “Love people. That’s basically all Star Wars is.”
I noticed during my first viewing of the movie, when Ben places his hand on Rey and starts giving his life to her, all you can hear is breathing. It sounds like the noise we’ve come to associate with Darth Vader, the sound of the mask keeping him alive, the air in the mechanics reminding us there was a person in there. And then… the same thing again with Ben, in his last moments. There was a person in there.
(God, I love Star Wars, you guys. I just really, really love Star Wars.)
