The Force Awakens tells us that Rey longs to leave Jakku. Rey begins the trilogy not just by escaping the physical prison of her home planet, but by escaping a more psychological prison she’s created for herself. Rey, her parents, and the path of The Force Awakens This huge story turn is set up as if it will sow some self-doubt in her mind - but Rey’s story has always been about letting go of her past. Which wouldn’t otherwise be so confusing, if Rise hadn’t introduced a big revelation about her parentage: Rey is the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine, and the key to an apparently pretty big plot to bring about Sith domination of the galaxy. In the final line of The Rise of Skywalker, Rey codifies her new identity, as Force ghosts of Luke and Leia look on - she is Rey Skywalker, and her destiny is what she makes of it. The movie’s final scene has one answer, but the rest of Rise has a very different one.
Now that The Rise of Skywalker is here, we can finally look at Rey’s journey in its entirety, and see how its final installment definitively answers the question The Force Awakens proposed: Do Rey’s parents matter? And what was the story of Rey about in the end? The hope was that the sequel trilogy, and the final turns in The Rise of Skywalker, would give the same depth to Rey, a character crafted to be his successor both as a Jedi and as the lead of a genre-defining blockbuster franchise.įans have focused with laserlike precision on the question of who Rey’s parents are, a focus that raged on undaunted by the answers provided in The Last Jedi.
The story of Luke Skywalker - how he struggles with fear and anger, grows up and into himself, and finally takes the reins of his own destiny - is intimately known by Star Wars fans.
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