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The Rise of Skywalker

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
Ironically Bionic
At the end of Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine preserves Anakin Skywalker’s life, after he was severely maimed and burned on Mustafar, by having medical…
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Robert Brown
Mustafar and Exegol
The third film of the prequel trilogy and the third film of the sequel trilogy feature the two most hellish planets in the Skywalker Saga.
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Robert Brown
Snoke and Mirrors
In the Skywalker Saga, there are two characters who are dressed in gold while sitting on thrones: the protocol droid C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, and…
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Robert Brown
Snoke the Great and Powerful
In The Force Awakens, the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke is introduced through a massive hologram that projects him looking down upon Kylo Ren and…
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Robert Brown
Strange Bedfellows
A shared feature of two Lucasfilm franchises, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, is the recurring partnership of villains who seek supernatural power with…
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Robert Brown
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
Like Father, Like Son
After his return to the light side in The Rise of Skywalker, Ben Solo makes some comic gestures that recall the mannerisms of his father, Han Solo.
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Robert Brown
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