Anna Daniels
In The Rise of Skywalker, Kylo Ren engages in a battle with Rey (Daisy Ridley) atop the remnants of the Death Star. Just when Kylo’s about to strike Rey down, his mother, Leia, uses the last bit of her Force strength to reach out to her wayward son. The connection stops Kylo in his tracks, allowing Rey to get the upper hand and mortally wound him. Instead of allowing him to die, however, Rey she uses her Force healing abilities to stitch Kylo’s wound back together, then escapes on his ship while he processes the fact that she has just saved his life. While Kylo has a crisis of confidence, unsure whether to continue on his dark side path or return to the light, he hears a familiar voice behind him: that of his father.
With Han having died years earlier at the hands of the young villain, and having not been a Jedi who would have been able to learn how to come back as a Force ghost, the figure that stands before Kylo is simply a figment of his memory come back to speak with him. Kylo uses the moment change what he would do to his father in their final meeting, echoing the exact words he used before killing him in The Force Awakens: “I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.”
But this time, he uses the words as a prelude to finally shedding the skin of Kylo Ren and tossing his Sith saber into the raging waters around the fallen Death Star.
Written by: Looper
