Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker co-writer Chris Terrio trusts The Last Jedi’s asks about Rey’s parentage were “too easy.” The young scavenger’s heritage was a topic that ran through the entirety of the sequel trilogy, with The Rise of Skywalker eventually divulging Rey is the granddaughter of none other than Emperor Palpatine. As many have noted by now, that construction appears to be at odds with The Last Jedi, which posited Rey’s mothers were two nothings who sold her away for imbibing money. The Rise of Skywalker attempts to “from a certain point of view” its practice around things by saying Rey’s mothers chose to live as nothings in an effort to protect her from Palpatine’s watch.

Since The Rise of Skywalker premiered some weeks ago, Terrio and conductor J.J. Abrams have defended their inventive select multiple times, arguing that Rey learning she’s a heir of ultimate ill is more devastating than hearing she comes from nothing. While there is something interesting in the heir to the Sith throne reject her blood family and choosing to live as a Skywalker, a lot of followers( especially those that liked The Last Jedi) can’t assist but feel The Rise of Skywalker blatantly retcons the hard “truths” Rey unpacked in the trilogy’s second installment. But as far as Terrio is concerned, The Last Jedi actually took the easy way out.

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Speaking with GQ, Terrio was inevitably asked about Rise of Skywalker’s Rey Palpatine reveal and once again accommodated an explanation. In his attention, The Last Jedi didn’t resolving the problem of Rey’s parentage and there was still more to explore in the third film 😛 TAGEND

Well, we weren’t convinced that it had been clarified, because there’s still this highly troubling vision that Rey had in Episode VII, which is the killed with her mothers leaving the planet. Too, the events of The Last Jedi are literally just after the events of Episode VII–within 48 hours, Rey has had a Force-back to her parents and then the very next day is told “your parents were no one and they were junk sellers. Nothing of that matters.” And we believed in a way that would be too easy because of the idea that Rey had been longing for her parents for so many years. We exactly felt like there was something more going on.

One for this very reason that The Last Jedi writer/ head Rian Johnson chose to form Rey’s mothers nameless junk speculators was because he felt that would be the most difficult thing for her to hear in that moment. She had basically devoted her part life waiting for them to return and find her on Jakku, so to find out they’re dead and didn’t truly are worried about her was a brutal revelation. When looked at it from that perspective, there’s nothing easy about The Last Jedi’s answers at all. As for Rey seeing her mothers in the Force vision, that have been able to simply be chalked up to a traumatic memory( being abandoned by lineage) cooking up to the surface. It wasn’t consequently an show Rey’s parents were people of great importance – specially since The Force Awakens doesn’t do much of got anything to even vaguely establish Rey is related to Emperor Palpatine.

It’s a little amusing Terrio feels this way about The Last Jedi since an argument can be made he and Abrams employed Palpatine as an easy interpretation for everything from Supreme Leader Snoke’s origins to Rey’s controversial preternatural Force cleverness. In some respects, having Palpatine drawing the strings from the darks in the sequel trilogy performed appreciation( the Emperor became the singular yarn that held the three trilogies together ), but his role in The Rise of Skywalker suffered greatly from shortage of proliferation. Many of the Palpatine-centric twists in the film seemed to come out of left field and( unhappily) offset the universe feel smaller after Johnson attempted to help it grow. If the Emperor had been a part of the new cinemas from the beginning, spectators probably would be more accepting of the reveals, but as it stands, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker don’t amply meet eye-to-eye.

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Source: GQ

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