Also remember “it’s about family” I think they wanted to make a few thematic points with Rey choosing to be a Skywalker after learning she was a Palpatine. Unfortunately the film is so stuffed with pandering the message never hits deeper than the average Star Wars commercial out now. Remember when people online would quote that whole thing about some extended version of the idiom “blood is thicker than water” that reinterprets the phrase to mean choosing your family is actually what matters? This movie is like that, it’s also about dyads we’ll just sprinkle that word in to fill up any cracks. It’s almost like they got lost in the sauce, the situation is both over complicated and dumbed down at the same time. Maybe it would have been enough that two Jedi fell in love, no Emperor, you can still reinterpret the rule of two but that would be more in the background of lore discussions rather than the forefront of the plot. The characters suffer the same fate as the fans with their obsession with the past. This was what RJ and TLJ fans were talking about when they said things had to move on, whereas JJ feels going forwards means going backwards. My biggest issue with this trilogy will remain how little it gets to be its own thing, I think they should have broken convention split the finale into 2 movies and delayed IX a year, distance from the impulse and panic that reeks from its rushed misguided choices.
Wouldn’t it have been actually hilarious though if Rey redeemed Palp by the end?
