I mean, she clearly loved her parents. Did her parents have no last names? I knew right away that she was going to say that her name was "Skywalker" but wouldn't it be interested (and not quite "playing it safe") if she did say that her name was "Rey Palpatine"? What if she actually tried to do transform her given name into something else. Shouldn't the message be that bloodlines don't define us?
shareThe movie is called "the rise of skywalker", which I think was announced before the change of script, so I think that is why the weird ending.
shareCome to think of it, Rey has gone from the "daughter of nobody" in The Last Jedi into the granddaughter of the Emperor in this new film. In the end, she retired in Tattoine and identifies herself as "Rey Skywalker" because why not.
shareWhy not just Rey?
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shareIt’s Tatooine. She specifically goes to Luke’s ranch from ANH. It goes to show that Disney should’ve just made Jakku into Tatooine in TFA.
shareNot the same homestead where his uncle and aunt's burned bodies were littered outside the still smoldering building? Luke told Obi-wan he was never returning there.
For the first few moments I thought it might be Tatooine and then thought it would be stupid considering what took place there and how it should be a burned out hovel falling apart by now.
It was most definitely Luke's old home on Tatooine.
shareI believe you. But the old home shouldn't look brand new and is Rey going to become a moisture farmer now? And why would she want to? Wouldn't a more fitting ending be that she decides to become a Jedi teacher and restart The Jedi Order as homage to Luke and Leia?
Sorry for ranting, but that's what Disney SW does to me.
Maybe the Force ghosts had a house cleaning party before Rey got there, they even invited broom boy from "The Last Jedi". That's why Luke and Leia were smiling, they got their daughter's house move-in ready!
shareMary Sue Skypalpy
shareIt's symbolic. She's carrying on the Skywalker legacy.
shareSymbolic of what, single white female(ing) the whole family and stealing their shit?
shareDidn't you notice how Rey stole the Millennium Falcon after Han died and Chewie became her copilot?
shareChewie became her pet after she stole the Falcon. The Falcon should have been Chewie's.
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Chewie never received much respect. Leia insulted him even though he helped rescue her, no medal, no hug from Leia when Han died (Rey stole that too), Rey then Poe steals his ship. Chewie should return to Kashyyyk to be with Mallatobuck and Lumpy.
shareGood Point!
Chewie should take a dump on her grave in Star Wars X.
What a stupid question.
For the same reason nobody from Germany uses the surname “Hitler”
TheCaretaker
Yet Osama is more popular than ever in the muslim world ....
shareYeah, but Anakin Skywalker helped murder the Jedi and caused the deaths of probably billions. Its like trading the name Hitler for Stalin.
shareWhich is why TheCaretaker237, that isn't exactly a stupid question. Luke might as well have changed his name the moment he learned the true identity of his father in Empire Strikes Back if you want to go on a slippery slope.
shareThe majority of people didn't know him as Anakin Skywalker. They knew him as Lord Darth Vader. Also, Palpatine would be the equivalent of Hitler since he was the leader. Vader would be like Heinrich Himmler or Wilhelm Keitel and those names and likely still in use.
Anyway, why try to make sense of a poorly written movie?
No no no.
Darth Vader wasn’t Anakin Skywalker.
Has the whole redemption thing gone over your head then?
Vader died at the end ROTJ and became Anakin Skywalker again. He died as the same man he was before the Dark Side made him Vader. He was already Vader and with the Dark Side when he murdered the young Jedi in ROTS.
Same goes for Ben Solo. Kylo Ren and Ben Solo weren’t the same person, hence the redemption at the end.
Luke Skywalker and his surname is synonymous with saving the galaxy and destroying the Empire. It is also synonymous with the Jedi Order and all things good. The man is a hero.
That’s what Rey chose the name.
It’s nothing like trading Hitler for Stalin. And Stalin wasn’t in the same category as Hitler anyway.
TheCaretaker
"Darth Vader wasn’t Anakin Skywalker. "
Seems like a semantic difference at best to me.
"Has the whole redemption thing gone over your head then? "
In what way did he redeem himself exactly? I mean other than not killing his own son(or Anakin Skywalkers son if were claiming he and Vader aren't the same person) what exactly did he or Kylo Ren do to wash the oceans of blood off their hands? I'm guessing pushing the emperor down a shaft won't mean much when he's walking around Force heaven and runs into those younglings he wasted.
"He died as the same man he was before the Dark Side made him Vader. He was already Vader and with the Dark Side when he murdered the young Jedi in ROTS."
So...was it Vader who also slaughtered those sand people women and children? Or was that okay since they didn't speak basic and therefore had no value?
" It’s nothing like trading Hitler for Stalin. And Stalin wasn’t in the same category as Hitler anyway. "
On that we agree, but only because Stalin had a much, much higher kill count.
Being semantic would suggest that I’m picking apart the meaning of a word to draw a different conclusion when in fact it all means the same.
No, no, no chief.
Hitler and Stalin aren’t the same thing. And that’s an historical fact. Go grab an adult and ask them to run through the history of the Second World War with you, Snowflake.
TheCaretaker
Hahaha, Hitler couldn't hold a candle to amount of people Stalin removed from society. Hell, Stalin even removed them from pictures!
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I really like that they finished on this Rey Skywalker line. It's been a kind of running joke that this multi billion dollar franchise kept rolling along with a main protagonist who didn't have a surname. Thought it was hilarious, even seeing it on all the unsold toys. I mean, why wouldn't she have a surname, even if it wasn't her real one? It was madness she didn't.
But then it was madness that pretty much the only selling point this limp, by committee trilogy seemed to think it had was a mystery around it's main character. Just wish it'd been revealed at the end of the first film and allowed the series to move on from there... But I like the fact that since they didn't, they at least acknowledged it by finishing with such a fine joke.
I think if her parents had used the last name Palpatine it would have tipped her off.
Otherwise, when Kylo broke the news to her she would have been, "Oh, Palpatine, SMDH!"
Anakin is a Palpatine if he was created by the Emperor. That means his son should've been Luke Palpatine. or Skywalker-Palaptine.
shareAs a famous non-binary gender neutral dyke that wears a cape once said, "It will be...when it fits a woman." Same is used when she took the Skywalker name.
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