Film Theory: Rey is the Next Darth Vader! (Star Wars Episode 9 The Rise of Skywalker)

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where nothing in this vast universe can stop me from trying to correctly predict something about Star Wars. . That's right, folks, today I'll pay my respects to the age-old belief that if you fail at something, you should try again, even if it threatens to turn you into the Jar Jar Binks of Star Wars theories. I mean, I was wrong about that. Star Wars so many times that even me joking about being wrong about Star Wars is an opening I already used in a previous Star Wars video.

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I end up being wrong once again... But in the words of someone important I forget exactly who: "Let the past die, kill it if necessary" and that's how I killed it by burying it. The middle of the Arizona desert burned my fingerprints to make sure nothing identified me. So I returned to the crime scene with a solid idea of ​​what will happen in the other blockbuster finale ahead of us. later this year: "Star Wars Episode Nine: The Rise of Skywalker" It's a solid

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based on canon lore, solid narrative beats grounded in past

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s, even some necessary business decisions on Disney's part, but again we've seen how much The movie cared about all those things... *BRUH* Today's theory

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ts with one thing: the laugh that set the Internet on fire *Palpatine laughs* No, that's not Pennywise, at the end of the trailer for

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9 we have the iconic laugh of our old friend Sheev, Sheev Palpatine, the raisin-faced evil emperor himself.

I mean, what is this guy doing outside? He's clearly trying to win back the fans. Be a nostalgia. Quick analysis videos like this one that ask that same question but also fill in the obvious layer. villain role that these movies have now after: but I mean outside of little reasons like that from a narrative point of view. What is she doing back here? The last time we saw the Emperor, he was... well... a little deader than a mannequin thrown off the catwalk and exploding into an energy core, why? As? I have a lot of questions and that's our theory today Predicting the role Emperor Palpatine will play in the upcoming Star Wars finale and the nology You don't hear people talk about nine-part series as a nology too often But that's technically the correct term.

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe Sheev Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious, aka the Dark Lord of the Sith, created Rey. That Rey is part of an elaborate plot by the Emperor to continue living even in the face of death. Does it sound extreme right? I know! That's why it's so exciting because it sounds so stupidly absurd and yet you know I wouldn't be stating this in an

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of this show if I didn't have any evidence to back it up: "I feel the conflict in "You, It's Breaking You." : "You're already tearing me apart, Lisa." So no more confrontational friends.

Let me show you what I have. Let's take a look at Sheev himself in Revenge of the Sith. Palpatine tells a young Anakin Skywalker the tragedy of Darth Plagueis, the wise man according to Palpatine: "Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence midi-chlorians to create life. ." Now a quick note here. With the release of the new Star Wars movies, many people have questioned the controversial additions to the universe that were made during the prequels, including most famously, the midichlorians. What are midichlorians? : "Midichlorians are a microscopic life form that resides within all living cells, they continually speak to us telling us the will of the force" Are these things still canonical?

I mean, a lot of Star Wars fans want them not to be, but the official answer is: Yes, yes, they absolutely are. The general rule here is that if it appears in the movies or if it appears in a few select books that were published after 2015, it's still canon. And if we're talking about questionable canonicity, I mean in the Last Jedi Luke uses a Doppelganger Technique to trick Kylo Ren when fans realized it looked like a new Jedi trick that came out of nowhere. Writer and director Rian Johnson took to Twitter to prove that he was in "The Jedi Path," a student manual for the force, a 2010 book that Most didn't consider canon, but to Rian Johnson it was fair game.

So basically, what is and isn't canon in this franchise can best be summed up like this: "So we'll figure it out." " : We Will Use The Force : "That's not how The Force works!" *Chewie Growls* But that disclaimer aside, where were we again? Oh yeah. : "Darth Plagueis was such a Dark Lord of the Sith powerful and so wise that he could use the Force to influence midichlorians to create... Life. So we know that somewhere extreme force sensitivity allows control over life itself. So who is Darth Plagueis? Well, it doesn't matter because he's dead. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew.

Then his apprentice killed him while he was sleeping. When Anakin asks if it is possible to learn the power to create life and preserve people. of dying Palpatine says yes, but not from a Jedi. What Palpatine doesn't tell Anakin at that moment is that Darth Plagueis' apprentice, Darth Sidious, is none other than Emperor Palpatine himself and now we're getting somewhere because this tells us that Palpatine is. In fact, he has the power to create life using the force or at least has knowledge that the force can be used to manipulate life forms in some way, but what cause would he have to do something like that?

Well, even if we don't. I hear a lot about this in movies. It has been very well established through supplemental canonical materials, such as the mangled Empire Aftermath novels in the latest expanded edition of Jedi, that Emperor Palpatine gave numerous contingency orders in the event of his untimely and untimely death and when I say numerous contingency plans , I don't mean one. I don't mean two or even ten. I'm talking about 150. I guess it's better to be over-prepared, as he says in the novel quote after an empire. Sorry, it just sounds wrong in my usual voice. I try this again Frog voice: Frog voice, I am the Emperor As I say after the novel: "If an empire cannot protect its Emperor, then that Empire must be considered a failure.

It collapses not only because its central figure has missing". , but because he must not be allowed to remain!" In short, these contingency plans were intended to be a final screw for everyone who had anything to do with his death, but as the most extreme screw possible, since you know, the mass death entails on a galactic scale, a giant plan of self-destruction that will eradicate the rebels and at the same time eliminate most of their former Empire Eliminating all the weaknesses within it so that its strongest elements remain alive and rebuild to be. stronger than before. In fact, I've talked in depth about one of these particular plans in Game Theory: Operation Cinder which was the contingency plan that featured prominently in Star Wars Battlefront 2 again, a canonical source. lore where satellites were used to permanently change the climate of planets into hostile and deadly storms?

So we've established that Palpatine has control over life and has a bunch of plans in place for his untimely death. It's also worth noting here that one element of his contingency plan directly resulted in the creation of the first order. Yes, I'm sure. He wasn't the only one wondering where these guys came from at the beginning of Star Wars Episode Seven. You go through episode six with happy dancing teddy bears and another Death Star explosion that gets a final kick in the Empire's balls and then suddenly the Force Awakens

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ts where it's like, "Oh yeah, "Now there are other new kids." I mean he was in the theater thinking, "What?!

Where are they coming from?" I'm sorry. All we're told is that Luke leaves and suddenly the rebellion says, "Oops. We let the Nazis into space. Oh yeah, and PS: they have a bigger death ball too." Dear rebellion, here's some real talk. A space wizard goes on vacation and can't spot a giant planet of death sneaking right under your nose. Maybe you shouldn't be the one in charge of things. Oh, and by the way, you scroll through a minute of text vs. movies. set up everything I'm supposed to know Sorry, that's not enough information for me! Anyway, rant aside, the First Order was born in a rather convoluted manner, but nonetheless, it was born from Palpatine's contingency plans, true to his plan, the weak parts of the Empire were driven away, those that remained were They retreated to the unknown regions of space aboard Emperor Palpatine's megaship. "The Eclipse" came back stronger.

They returned as The First Order as the quote from the book says: "It's time to start over. That's our first order. To start over. And do it right, this time." Look, there it is: "First Order." So we have contingency plans, force-driven life control, and a connection to the events we see in the movies. But what does all this have to do with Rey and Rise of Skywalker? Because yes, I remember that was the thesis. I started this whole episode with friends, buckle up because it's time we talk about the Jakku Observatory. Yes, the same Jakku where Rey stayed and grew up in the Jakku observatory was part of a galaxy-wide network of observatories built by none other than Emperor Palpatine himself as part of those death contingency plans.

Not much is said about the Jakku observatory, but we do know some crucial details about it. One: that it housed ancient Sith relics. Two: that when building it he had to drill to the center of the planet and three: that Palpatine openly says that he considers the Jakku very important to his plans. To quote from the book: Palpatine told him that the world was once green...overgrown. with green and home of oceans. He said that although the surface of the world shows it, the core still has that vital spark of life essence... "Are you ready?" Did Rax ask Palpatine's former advisor? "I am Palpatine and he is still alive.

We will find him again in the darkness. Everything has been arranged as our master predicted." So we have a mysterious station that houses powerful relics of ancient forces built by the Emperor, who is paranoid about dying, that drills to the core of a planet that we are explicitly told has untapped life essence and all this stuff. is happening in Rey's house. planet, a planet where, of course, he has no memories of his parents or his childhood. A desert planet that, according to the trailer for episode nine of Star Wars, we will visit again in this latest

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That doesn't get your midichlorians and a twist that I don't know what it will do. So we have a motive, a method, and a location, all of which come from Palpatine's side. But what about the King herself? Has there been any hint that this is the possible origin of him in the movies? Well, yes, there's actually been a lot of evidence that we've certainly seen signs of a possible connection to the Dark Side in her, and it all starts here, the mirror cave from The Last Jedi. When she begins her training with Luke in The Last Jedi, she is immediately drawn to this mysterious underground tunnel that symbolically leads directly into darkness.

That's not all, Rey relents even after Luke warned her against it. She descends into the cave to find her parents. It's a clear parallel to Luke's trip to the cave and Dagobah during her training, but instead of being afraid of what she sees inside her as Luke, Rey is calm and says herself: But here's the most big. The good thing, when Rey asks to see her parents, she sees two figures transform into one and then a reflection of herself appears. It's strange, it's like the cave is playing a joke on her, even though she feels comfortable in this place and apparently has mastered the use of it, she ends up not getting the answers she wanted from this.

I mean, this cave is the biggest idiot in the world or He actually answered the questions she asked. Consider this: Maybe it doesn't show her parents because she has Maybe it shows her two figures merging into one because she only has one father: Palpatine, who is then revealed to be herself because that's all she has. there is. There's Palpatine and then she's a clone of Palpatine or a little girl who was manipulated by Palpatine or whatever symbolism and explanation you want, she chooses. I'm not exactly sure what she is, just that she was created or manipulated in some way by Palpatine as a revenge plot.

Finally, let's think about what this would mean for the story. First, it would address one of the biggest mysteries of these last three films in a new and satisfying way instead of Rey's parentage being literally a throwaway plot thread, something used to shackle us or makesome broader comment about not being special. Suddenly you'd have a payoff established and believable within existing lore, clones and force manipulation are canonical things that every casual fan of the series knows that Mary Poppins doesn't need to fly through space this time and then. from the controversial reception of the last film and then going solo after it.

Wars needs something huge that will please almost all audiences who are going to see this. It's also pretty easy to work this back into the story as it progresses. I mean, I'm sure Kylo Ren in the last Jedi tells Rey that his parents are nobody. , but how would he know the emperor's plot? How could he know the emperor's plot? He especially wouldn't know about the Emperor's secret plan because this was Palpatine's last big secret. Sheeve's contingency plans brought his empire to light through the first order and now the highly force-sensitive girl with questionable ancestry who happens to be on the planet where he has a strange laboratory is starting to be drawn to the side. dark.

I don't know about you, but she certainly seems like a viable candidate for Palpatine's replacement. Thematically. It also works well: she makes all 9 movies in this franchise about the heroes and villains of Skywalker and Palpatine. The prequels are about Anakin Skywalker growing up under the guidance of Darth Sidious, a corrupting force. Then we have the original trilogy about Anakin and Skywalker's Luke dealing with Palpatine and his Emperor at the height of his power and now this new trilogy is about the new wave of Skywalker Luke passing it on to Kylo Ren, who remembers that he is Leia's son. a Skywalker Even if she never so called to deal with Palpatine from beyond the grave in the form of Rey.

There's also that good George Lucas quote we mention all the time. Palpatine actually sets up the potential for a story that he rhymes with Kylo Ren, the character. who we have seen as Rey's counterpart throughout these films. He's a villain...sort of, but at the end of The Force Awakens we see him flirt with being good in the Last Jedi, that struggle continues. Meanwhile, we have Rey, who has been flirting. with the darkness. She's exposed to it more and more. So if Kylo emerged from the darkness and Ray descended into it, BAM Classic Star Wars counterpoint parallelism.

It's poetic. It's satisfying and damn. What a great twist for the girl to be the main villain. And most importantly, if this theory were true, it would be steeped in enough substantiated lore and established characterization that fans wouldn't have petitions to remake the whole damn thing. But Once again, I've made a strong case for theories that would have reflected excellent storytelling in the past that were wrong before, but you know, okay, I'm not bitter... much! There you have it, theorists, Rey was created by Palpatine or his loyal followers in the event of his death on Jakku at the Jakku Observatory.

That's why we hear her laugh, why by the end of Rise of Skywalker she will have become a complete villain, Rey explains. natural talents with the strength of her inclination towards the dark side and the return of Palpatine in the

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film, all while being super poetic and emphasizing the classic Star Wars themes of the struggles between good and evil. And let's be realistic. It's a great twist that this girl who's been established as our heroine is the ultimate villain all along, but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory and a cut. So that Empire must be considered.

Oh, I need a glass of water. After that voice wasn't even close, I don't even know why I try. Why did I choose to write that into the script like here? Let me write to you as an opportunity to show the Internet how terrible I am at impressions. At least it sounds different, I guess it's the frog voice.