We see Rey levitating with her legs crossed while meditating. They also have the power to return in a more ghostly form, offering advice and such. When those who are strong in the Force die, their corporeal selves sometimes vanish peacefully. That Force gives its users, both Light and Dark, a variety of impressive powers: The ability to levitate objects, fire off lightning bolts and, for the first time that I’m aware of, the ability to magically heal others. The Light and Dark sides of the Force are locked in eternal conflict, and we hear at least one reference to the Force needing to be brought “in balance.” (In practice, of course, the Light Side Jedi have always seemed pretty interested in conquering the Dark Side, which leads to a certain spiritual dissonance in worldview messaging, but we move on.) Though Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace offered a naturalistic explanation for it (midichlorians, as you recall), it acts and feels much more spiritual, and leaning heavily into an Eastern understanding of spirituality-a near-Taoist yin-yang sense of the cosmos. The Force is still (ahem) a force in Rise of Skywalker. But the Jedi … well, despite always seemingly on the edge of extinction, the old order still has life in it yet. She’s got other things on her mind: finishing her Jedi training, protecting her friends and, oh yeah, saving the galaxy, too.ĭeath Stars may be a little passe in this new galactic era. Together, they’d be unstoppable.īut Rey has no intention of joining the Dark Side. She could be a powerful ally, he believes, if Rey could somehow be turned to the Dark Side. And honestly, Kylo’s not quite sure he wants Rey dead. The second will be-if all goes well-dead.īut as we’ve seen, Kylo Ren tends to have somewhat violent relationships with his would-be father figures. The first will be Palpatine’s younger, more mobile avatar in the galaxy, the Emperor hopes his spiritual son, if you will. And both First Order Supreme Leader Kylo Ren and wanna-be Jedi Rey figure prominently in it. So (spoiler warning, though you learn about this next point in both the trailers and the second sentence of the movie’s opening crawl) Emperor Palpatine-recently dead but, through the miracles of galactic science and evil, still capable of a nefarious plot or two-has hatched a shiny new plan. The upstart First Order figured they’d improved on the concept by getting back to the basics: What’s the point in building a whole new Death Star when you can just stick a gigantic laser cannon in a planet? As we saw in The Force Awakens, that didn’t go so hot, either. Oh, the Galactic Empire gave the concept a go-twice, actually.
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