There is one thing that I feel like is possible they could clarify in IX. It’s there in TFA and TLJ, though it’s vague, but basically it’s the concept of the awakening. I think that both Kylo Ren and Rey have both been granted (for whatever reason) incredible force capabilities. Training, for them, isn’t so much gaining skills as it is learning what to do with the skills they are being granted. When you look at it this way, it’s not so much important how Rey has these skills or even why, but what she chooses to do with them that makes her story compelling.

On a similar train of thought, when the announced the title of TFA, I thought it was possible that there was an awakening in the force that had caused people all over to suddenly be in tune with the force. After seeing the film, I thought it might just refer to Rey, though I kept the possibility at the back of my mind. With TLJ’s ending, I think there’s still a chance I might not have been too far off.

We’ll see what IX holds.