Rise of Skywalker has a delicate nod to Kylo Ren’s redemption

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is now out there to look at at house, that means followers are choosing up on additional particulars they missed throughout their first viewing.

The controversial finish to the Skywalker Saga actually had followers endlessly debating about its massive twists and revelations. Whether it was the reveal of Rey’s true parentage, the return of Palpatine or its Last Jedi retcons, there was loads to debate.

One of the massive issues was Kylo Ren’s long-awaited Bendemption that noticed him flip to the Light Side and change into Ben Solo once more… just for him to be killed off when he gave his life to avoid wasting Rey.

That’s nonetheless a sore topic for lots of followers, however we’re right here to level out a key element that you just may need missed about Ben Solo.

Let’s recap the occasions of the Bendemption in case you wanted refreshing.

Kylo Ren and Rey have an almighty lightsaber battle on the wreckage of the second Death Star that is interrupted when Leia reaches out by way of the Force to Kylo, resulting in her dying from the trouble.

This distracts him lengthy sufficient for Rey to get the higher hand and fatally stab Kylo together with his personal lightsaber, which has obtained to harm.

But Rey rapidly realises what she’s accomplished and regrets it sufficient to Force-heal Kylo together with her fancy new energy, offering the spark that results in the Bendemption after Ben Solo has an emotional reunion together with his father Han Solo.

You may not have noticed by way of the tears, however Rey’s therapeutic of Ben additionally noticed his facial scar – the results of their first duel on Starkiller Base – disappear in order that Ben himself would not have any scarring.

It’s symbolic, you see.

Some Star Wars followers assume it truly goes one step additional and it is when Han Solo touches Ben’s face that the scar disappears. That could be becoming because it’s the identical place the place Han touched his face after Kylo stabbed him in The Force Awakens.

However, the therapeutic on his face seems to occur throughout Rey’s intervention, which makes extra sense than a reminiscence of his father therapeutic him.

The undeniable fact that Rey was in a position to Force-heal was one other bone of rivalry for some followers provided that it hadn’t been seen earlier than in Star Wars.

But she wasn’t truly the primary to do it as we noticed Baby Yoda The Child in The Mandalorian do it as effectively, so it was technically established in Star Wars canon – even when that episode solely got here out shortly earlier than The Rise of Skywalker.

It took till the novelisation of the film to verify how Rey discovered to do it, although, and sadly it wasn’t from The Child.

Instead, she learnt it from the Jedi texts that she acquired from Ahch-To: “But this would call for a different technique, something she’d learned from the Jedi texts when she was mending Luke’s kyber crystal. This time, she would give.”

Then, presumably, Ben learnt it from their Force dyad connection, that means he may revive Rey at the price of his personal life.

Quite why Rey wasn’t then in a position to revive him to kickstart an infinite cycle of rebirth and demise stays to be defined.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is available for purchase from Prime Video UK, iTunes, Microsoft Store and different UK streaming platforms. You may also purchase it on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K.