“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” much like “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” before it, is seemingly refusing to leave the global conversation months after its release.
Part of that has been due to the film’s recent release on home video, and part of it is due to the recent novelization of the film which has drawn much discussion for the way it attempts to clear up many of the muddled narrative’s inconsistencies and unanswered questions.
Now more points from the book have come up vis Digital Spy, one dealing with Kylo Ren and events of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.
In the book it says that it was due to Chewbacca’s shooting of Kylo after he killed Han that Kylo was at a disadvantage in the fight with Rey. That is apparently how the new Force wielder was able to beat the trained Jedi in a lightsaber duel.
Another quote goes into Kylo’s ‘lie’ about Rey’s parents being nobodies, here’s what it says:
“He’d glimpsed her parents in a vision, a poor, frightened couple eking out a meagre existence, surviving on the edge of desperation. He hadn’t been lying when he’d told her they were nothing, nobodies. But Force visions were filled with tricky truths and potential realities. Maybe he had missed something. Bringing all the power of the Force to bear, Kylo Ren demanded, ‘Who is she?’ The rotting remnant of Emperor Palpatine smiled.”
Kylo Ren’s story arc and redemption was one of the film’s more clumsily handled elements according to several reviews. The film made $1.07 billion worldwide in its theatrical run, the smallest of the sequel trilogy and nearly only half the total of ‘Force Awakens’.
