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#1555459
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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About using the new healing illustration and AI line about Rey gleaning it from the texts. It’s nice to involve the texts from TLJ in the story and show she’s been studying.

And as an added bonus which isn’t necessary but doesn’t hurt anything, if a saga-only viewer wants to have a headcanon about this ability having been lost, they can. But it would not introduce anything to suggest that this was the case, either. After all, Ben seems to know how to do it no-problem. Unless the head-canon-er wants to interpret it as him having learned about it via receiving it.

So it may introduce some slight confusion in that way.

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#1555321
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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I’m with Dominic on this. Neither force healing or the wayfinder really need to be shown in the texts at that point, anyway. With the healing illustration we get something new, and she doesn’t need to see Kylo using the wayfinder. Maybe a quarter-second flash of one wouldn’t hurt to toss in, but it’s unnecessary. It already seemed silly to me in the theater that Rey burned down the TIE only for Luke to point out, “hey be careful, there might be stuff in there that you need.” Also that Kylo must have transferred the wayfinder after Rey destroyed the first TIE on Pasaana.

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#1555115
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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If we put back Palpatine’s line, “I never wanted you dead, I wanted you here,” it would not be clear that he changed his plans. Originally he really did want her alive all along, even when she was a child. The narrative for Ascendant is that he really was trying to have her killed, since he had already invested years and years into Kylo Ren with that mighty Skywalker blood. But when he was redeemed into Ben again, Palpatine made Rey the next target to corrupt and become able to possess. So if that line were reinstated, the audience would take it as the truth and be confused. And since we can’t have that line, the way to clarify he’s changed his plans is to interject something into the hologram scene. Unless we want “the Princess of Alderaan has disrupted my plan but her foolish act will be in vain” to do the heavy lifting. But it still wouldn’t help the audience see through Palpatine stating he always wanted Rey there.

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#1555083
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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The Rey Nobody edit, like all of these fan edits, exists in a parallel universe in which it is the final film that was presented and marketed to the world. (Nevermind that this parallel universe would probably also have its own Hal9000 project.)

In other words, the reader must be assumed to be someone for whom this version simply is the movie, with no other context assumed.