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Rey

Half-a-Dozen Doubles and a Dyad
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and her friends Finn, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and BB-8 go on a mission in search of a Sith Wayfinder.
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Robert Brown
Three Planets, Three Caves, Three Relics
In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and her friends go to three planets during their mission to recover a Sith Wayfinder: the desert planet Pasaana, the…
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Robert Brown
Final Duels
The final lightsaber duels of the three trilogies of the Skywalker Saga are linked in a poetic pattern.
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Timothy Lawrence
Lightsabers in the Sand
At the end of “Part I” of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the exiled Ben Kenobi goes into the desert of Tatooine with a shovel to dig up a wooden chest in which he hid…
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Robert Brown
Laying Down Their Lives
In The Last Jedi, Rey uses the escape pod of the Millennium Falcon to surrender herself to the First Order, so that she can try to turn Kylo Ren back to…
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Robert Brown
Han's Coffins
In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo is frozen in carbonite so that Darth Vader can test carbon-freezing as a means to capture Luke Skywalker.
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Robert Brown
Maz of the Lake
In The Force Awakens, Rey meets the wise old Maz Kanata on the lush green planet Takodana.
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Timothy Lawrence
Raiders of the Lost Wayfinder
The Rise of Skywalker is partially an adventure film about a treasure hunt, with Rey and her friends seeking a Sith Wayfinder to help them find the lost…
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Robert Brown
Fear to Power
In the first and last films of the Skywalker Saga, Palpatine tempts a young woman to give him power through an act of aggression by making her feel…
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Robert Brown
The Lars Homestead
The Lars homestead on the planet Tatooine appears in four of the nine films of the Skywalker Saga.
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Robert Brown
Redeeming Attachments
Across the nine-film Skywalker Saga, there is a movement away from seeing attachment only as a cause for destructive fears and toward seeing attachment…
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Robert Brown
Palpatine the Vampire
Emperor Palpatine's role in the story of The Rise of Skywalker draws several elements from vampire mythology.
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Timothy Lawrence
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