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****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** In The Rise of Skywalker, director J.J. Abrams decided to give further backstory to Rey's family. This led to the major reveal that Rey is actually a Palpatine, the granddaughter of the feared Emperor. When Rey and Luke Skywalker talk on Ahch-To, it [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker gave us one last chance to see Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, and it was beautiful. But there was one thing in particular that was a pretty major reveal: Leia actually trained as a Jedi briefly under Luke [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker recently released, and the late Carrie Fisher reprised her role as General Leia Organa one last time, thanks to previously unused footage and the wonders of ILM. J.J. Abrams has previously called Leia "the heart of this story", and in [...]
****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 [...]
Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, officially released on Friday, with Thursday previews the day before! I have seen it several times already, and wanted to wait to write this review until after I had gotten multiple viewings in. This post will include only the faintest of spoilers, and nothing that you wouldn't [...]
There are a ton of TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker that have been released, and I've been trying to keep up with them all. Thankfully, Star Wars has been officially releasing a lot of them, which makes it easy, but they haven't officially released all of them online. But Zcure1 on Twitter has [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday afternoon, Star Wars came to Fortnite with an event themed around the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker! You can read about the event here, which included appearances in-game from J.J. Abrams and the Millennium Falcon, as well as a voiceover from Palpatine. But perhaps most pertinent to our purposes was a brand new [...]
Amazon recently released a special look at The Rise of Skywalker, and the video takes a look back at the saga from a behind-the-scenes perspective. There are interviews with J.J. Abrams, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, and these include interviews both old and new. The video is intended to [...]
So far, I've been keeping up with the publicly released TV spots from Star Wars for the upcoming The Rise of Skywalker, but there have been plenty of official TV spots from the film that have aired that haven't been uploaded to the official Youtube channel. Thankfully, Zcure1 on Twitter does tremendous work and captures [...]
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