The Rise of Skywalker 2nd Trailer
Aug. 27th, 2019 02:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorSo who's seen the second Star Wars trailer for The Rise of Skywalker? The first part's all old stuff but then they do finally show new scenes for the movie.
I have some wild theorizing below, so if you prefer to avoid any and all theories in case they might be true, you might want to avoid it. They're just whatever stuff my brain comes up with though, so unlikely to be true. I also discuss some details of the trailer, so there's trailer spoilers too.
So lots of exciting scenes here. The first new scene shows Finn, Rey, Poe, and friends looking out over a huge group of people on the desert planet. The last scene with Rey in the cloak and the fancy folding double-bladed red lightsaber really intrigues me. I just want to put my wild theory for this scene out there, even though it's not the most likely: a Rey clone. So maybe Rey defeats Kylo Ren but then she has to face this clone of herself. Maybe the Rey clone is Palpatine's new apprentice. In fact, maybe Rey herself was a clone from the same batch who was taken by former Imperials who looted Palpatine's stuff after he 'died'. Maybe Palpatine is also a clone and he's been training clone Rey for a while now so when Rey has to fight this Dark Side version of herself she's forced to use all her ability to defeat her.
Also, I said I wasn't really interested in Rey being a Skywalker, and I still really like the idea of Rey not being a Skywalker. But get this: what if she's actually a clone of Shmi Skywalker? Then she would be a Skywalker but it would make sense why neither Luke nor Leia knew anything about her. What if Shmi is not only the first*, but also, the last Skywalker, and that is what is meant by the Rise of Skywalker? And thus the cycle ends where it began.
Of course, this is all just me coming up with the wildest stuff I can for fun, so no one should be surprised if the movie turns out completely different, but I will always try to come up with an excuse to add more clones to the plot. Maybe I'll flesh this out more in an AU someday, but other people are free to explore this idea as well if it appeals to them.
*Obviously she had parents (or did she dundundun...maybe she just manifested, fully formed, from the Force), but perhaps she was the first to have Force powers or the first to hold that name. Note that Qui-Gon never checked her midichlorian level, only Anakin's, and we know that Jedi can't always detect other Force users since they didn't detect Palpatine.
I have some wild theorizing below, so if you prefer to avoid any and all theories in case they might be true, you might want to avoid it. They're just whatever stuff my brain comes up with though, so unlikely to be true. I also discuss some details of the trailer, so there's trailer spoilers too.
So lots of exciting scenes here. The first new scene shows Finn, Rey, Poe, and friends looking out over a huge group of people on the desert planet. The last scene with Rey in the cloak and the fancy folding double-bladed red lightsaber really intrigues me. I just want to put my wild theory for this scene out there, even though it's not the most likely: a Rey clone. So maybe Rey defeats Kylo Ren but then she has to face this clone of herself. Maybe the Rey clone is Palpatine's new apprentice. In fact, maybe Rey herself was a clone from the same batch who was taken by former Imperials who looted Palpatine's stuff after he 'died'. Maybe Palpatine is also a clone and he's been training clone Rey for a while now so when Rey has to fight this Dark Side version of herself she's forced to use all her ability to defeat her.
Also, I said I wasn't really interested in Rey being a Skywalker, and I still really like the idea of Rey not being a Skywalker. But get this: what if she's actually a clone of Shmi Skywalker? Then she would be a Skywalker but it would make sense why neither Luke nor Leia knew anything about her. What if Shmi is not only the first*, but also, the last Skywalker, and that is what is meant by the Rise of Skywalker? And thus the cycle ends where it began.
Of course, this is all just me coming up with the wildest stuff I can for fun, so no one should be surprised if the movie turns out completely different, but I will always try to come up with an excuse to add more clones to the plot. Maybe I'll flesh this out more in an AU someday, but other people are free to explore this idea as well if it appeals to them.
*Obviously she had parents (or did she dundundun...maybe she just manifested, fully formed, from the Force), but perhaps she was the first to have Force powers or the first to hold that name. Note that Qui-Gon never checked her midichlorian level, only Anakin's, and we know that Jedi can't always detect other Force users since they didn't detect Palpatine.
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Date: 2019-08-28 07:49 am (UTC)I'm also thoroughly delighted by all the Shmi Skywalker theories that abound! I think possibly my favorite theory is that Rey is Shmi reincarnated and time is a flat circle so Rey is both the beginning and the end. Yes, its pure crack. But its so delightfully fucked up!
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Date: 2019-08-29 12:58 am (UTC)And oh, who else is coming up with Rey = Shmi Skywalker theories? I haven't seen that yet and I feel I am missing out!