In The Last Jedi, Finn is completely separated from Rey in a way that seemed to have frustrated Boyega himself and in interviews around that movie, he appeared to confirm that Finn was not Force sensitive at all. More recently, Boyega has not only been critiquing The Last Jedi in interviews, he revealed on Twitter that he was “adamant” his character be more involved in The Rise of Skywalker and the film delivered.
Finn’s burgeoning powers can only be a good thing if Star Wars wants to serve up more Force-wielding heroes its wide audience can identify with. I only wish his Force glow up didn’t come alongside this needless over-explanation of Rey’s skills. I also wish it didn’t go hand-in-hand with turns of the plot that make no sense at all, like Luke and Leia knowing about Rey’s origins and neglecting to tell her. Wouldn’t the Skywalker twins, of all people, understand the importance of letting Rey in on her complicated heritage?
I can see real potential for a great story there about the daughter of Darth Vader telling the granddaughter of Palpatine that she does not have to follow some predetermined path set by her bad ancestors. But if that story is meant to be in Rise, it’s bungled. Leia tells Rey: “Don’t be afraid of who you are.” But doesn’t Rey go on to reject every speck of Palpatine inside of her, going so far to scrub it clean by adopting the Skywalker name?
The need to connect Rey to the Palpatine line rather than just have her exist as a new kind of hero in her own right feels like it comes from the same place of skittishness that compelled Lucasfilm to add Vader and the Force back into Rogue One: A Star War Story when the initial plan was to craft a plot almost entirely free of the Skywalkers and their mystical mumbo jumbo. With the exception of a Cassian Andor series, the Star Wars Disney+ plans, too, are bound up in the iconography of the original trilogy whether it’s the Baby Yoda draw of The Mandalorian or the coming return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. All of which is part of Hollywood’s ongoing fear of trying to sell audiences on anything new.
As for Rey— introducing a mid-story twist in our hero’s backstory is, I must admit, a classic Star Wars move. In the first ever film, Luke learned that Vader killed his father, Anakin. In the sequel, he discovered that Vader was his father and by the time The Return of the Jedi rolled around, the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi basically had to say to Luke: “It was a metaphor, heard of it?” Hand-waving and changing the narrative? Oh it’s not just for Jedi mind tricks anymore. But for fans of Rey from Nowhere, who seemed like a new hope of what a Star Wars hero might be, this latest turn of the screw is particularly disappointing.
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