When audienceslast saw Rey Skywalker, she announced her new name and the credits rolled.
Meaning, this is now the most future-facing Star Wars thing in existence.
But the Force doesnt always make things easy.
What is Rey Skywalker thinking?Image: Lucasfilm
So you keep trying, thats all you might do.
I came from something evil.
Sometimes I still want to run from that.
Im Rey, Rey Skywalker.
Im all the Jedi.
So Ive got that going for me.
Luke Skywalker was my master.
So was his sister Leia.
And her son, Ben, gave his life for me.
I took the Skywalker name to honor them and their legacy.
Master Skywalker taught me that in his first lesson on Ahch-To.
I knew right away Id never forget it.
That Id never be the same.
I grew up in the desert and yet every night I dreamt of an island.
A tiny dot in an endless sea.
I saw it so clearly.
But I never imagined it might be real.
And waiting for me.
Ben was right about letting go of the past.
But not about killing it.
My task is to make something new.
Not by killing the past but by building on all thats good in it.
The early Jedi sought to bind the galaxys wounds.
They looked at what was broken and saw how to fix it.
When I read that I thought, Well, Im good at that already.
Ive studied the sacred texts of the Jedi.
Do you know what the most important pages are?
So many thoughts here.
First and foremost is Reys interpretation of Ben Solo/Kylo Rens philosophy.
That Rey has considered those thoughts and come up with her own spin on them shows some real growth.
She also talks about her task which is to make something new.
That is a very pointed hint at this New Jedi Order coming in the next few years.
That shes ready to fix things that are broken in the galaxy.
Why specifically she took the Skywalker name.
And that shes seen the movie Caddyshack.
Because So Ive got that going for me is 100% a reference to that.
Apparently, theres a Ben Solo crystal out there too.
We wonder what secrets that holds.
So these sentiments probably dont have a direct correlationbut just by their nature, theyre in the same ballpark.
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