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The Rise of Skywalker’s first MacGuffin is not sensible

We know, the truth that there’s one other plot gap in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ought to come as a shock to nobody. But with all this spare time on our arms, what higher to do than rewatch and nitpick?

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker noticed Rey chasing after a MacGuffin to deliver her to a different MacGuffin to deliver her to Palpatine, who was hiding out on Exegol. The first MacGuffin was a dagger, as soon as in possession of a (model new) baddie named Ochi of Bestoon.

This all begins when Poe delivers the most effective one-liner of all time, which additionally sums up The Rise of Skywalker‘s storytelling: one way or the other, Palpatine has returned. Rey recognises the identify of the planet Exegol and finds in Luke’s diaries that he was on the hunt for the Wayfinder, too, and his journey resulted in Pasana.

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So Rey and her merry band of followers head to Pasana the place they uncover, no not the Wayfinder, however the dagger. Lando says that he and Luke had been searching for a “clue” to result in the Wayfinder however by no means discovered it.

Ignoring the questionable logic of this plot, the dagger itself throws up a giant drawback for the complete Macguffin-Macguffin-Palpatine journey. The dagger has a map in it that one way or the other, magically, aligns with the wreckage of the Death Star, crashed on a moon of Endor.

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There are loads of different wildly not possible issues that needed to have occurred to ensure that the dagger operate, for Rey or anybody else.

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The moon upon which the Death Star II crashed, Kef Bir, is stuffed with turbulent waters, and to suppose that the wreckage hadn’t shifted in any respect in a method which may dislodge the Wayfinder is a stretch. Even if we settle for that the dagger was made with the wreckage’s placement in thoughts, the waves definitely regarded like they may shift some scrap heap round a bit.

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Then there’s the truth that Rey, Poe, and Finn must land on Kef Bir within the actual proper place in order that upon seeing the Death Star II, the dagger would line as much as it. If that they had been perpendicular to the placement, or perhaps a little method up the coast, the dagger once more would have pointed to the flawed spot.

Whoever made the dagger would additionally must understand how the Death Star II crashed, because it may have very simply ended up with the vault part submerged in Kef Bir’s water. Again, the dagger would not have labored.

So all this to say loads of leaps of religion had been wanted to consider that the dagger would do what it was got down to do. Just one other little factor within the Star Wars universe to trigger us consternation.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out there on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K now, in addition to on Disney+, Sky Cinema Premiere and NOW TV.