The upcoming novelization for The Rise of Skywalker, written by Rae Carson, reveals that Palpatine's spirit lived on in a clone body. This gives a large part of the answer for how he returned, and the novelization makes it seem almost as if this clone body, which serves as the host for his spirit, can't [...]
One of the big questions that many people had after watching The Rise of Skywalker was this: how did Palpatine return? What we knew from the film is that Palpatine actually did die ("I have died before," he tells Kylo), and that Resistance historian Beaumont Kin mentions dark science and cloning as possibilities And so, [...]
The Star Wars sequel trilogy concluded recently with The Rise of Skywalker, and I'm hoping that means that Lucasfilm will slowly but surely begin to fill in the gaps of the trilogy by more storytelling. None of this is a criticism of the way they've handled things, because of course there are going to be [...]
The Rise of Skywalker featured a short but massively significant revelation about Snoke: he was a creation of Palpatine! When Kylo Ren arrives on Exegol at the beginning of the film, Palpatine tells him, "I made Snoke," and Kylo then sees what looks like two other Snokes in a tank. The implication is clearly that [...]
With the very first words of the opening crawl of The Rise of Skywalker - "the dead speak!" - we are told that Palpatine has returned. The film doesn't explain how, beyond the line "the dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural," but ultimately we know [...]
Now that the sequel trilogy has concluded, we're finally getting a lot more clarity as to the timeline of what was happening in-between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, particularly as it pertains to the events and characters of the sequel trilogy. Thankfully, Pablo Hidalgo's Visual Dictionary for The Rise of Skywalker places [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker brought back Emperor Palpatine from the dead, and here's how they did it: in the opening crawl. It was nothing more elaborate than that, and we didn't really get any further explanation in the film, but the opening crawl [...]
The Rise of Kylo Ren, a comic mini-series written by Charles Soule and drawn by Will Sliney, is a very highly-anticipated look at Ben Solo's descent to the dark side. The series promises to give us a look at Ben Solo, Luke Skywalker, Snoke, and the Knights of Ren. The first issue of the comic, [...]
Throughout the sequel trilogy, Rey has been wondering who she is and how she fits in to this story, waiting for her parents to return. In The Last Jedi, however, it was revealed that Rey's parents were nobodies - a fact important to remember, since Rey herself was the one who admitted this. This was [...]
Today, Star Wars decided that it might be better to try to hype up The Rise of Skywalker without bashing the previous installment (who would've thought?), and they did so by releasing a brand new clip of the upcoming film - and it's incredible! Though this clip was officially released on the Star Wars Facebook [...]
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