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Star Wars Episode IXwill end theSkywalker Saga , and through Kylo Ren can show what Darth Vader would ’ve done next had Luke not been able to carry through him . Anakin Skywalker was pay off by the last of the Original Trilogy , but the tale and bequest of Vader populate on through Kylo .
J.J. Abrams needs to do something a act unlike inEpisode IX , having already drive home a relatively safeStar Warsmovie withEpisode VII . And with it close out both the Saga as a whole and the Sequel Trilogy , he also need to drastically up the ante in terms of threat . Some of that may well bea new dangerfrom " The Beyond , " but it should also come through Kylo Ren , now the Supreme Leader of the First Order .
With Anakin redeem by his Word , we did n’t get to see what he was truly capable of . Disney has break even further than that , with a rebranding exercise painting Vader assomething more akin to an antihero . Episode IX , then , can go the other way , and give us a great musical theme of what would ’ve happened had Darth Vader still killed Emperor Palpatine , but for all the faulty ground .
The Last Jedi Was A Reverse Of Return of the Jedi
WhileThe Force Awakensechoed many of the theme and events ofA New Hope , The Last Jedididn’t quite follow the same rhyming structure . for sure , it adopt some elements fromThe Empire Strikes Back , but it also looked closely atReturn of the Jedi- and then flipped it on its head . Episode VIended with Luke deal to resist the enticement of the Dark Side , and assist redeem his father , Anakin . Darth Vader turned against his master , reverting back to the Light Side in his final second .
The Last Jedihas a similar sequence of events aboard the Supremacy . Supreme Leader Snoke takes on the part of Palpatine , Kylo Ren is the Vader pattern , and Rey the Light Side submarine a la Luke . Kylo Ren turns against his master andstrikes him downafter his torture of Rey , mirroring Vader ’s turning after the Emperor ’s torment of Luke . And that ’s where the key divergence comes in .
InReturn of the Jedi , that bring Anakin back to the Light . InEpisode VIII , it only serve to foreground how conflicted Kylo is , and ultimately push him further into the duskiness . He does n’t go with Rey to the Resistance or reclaim the name Ben Solo ; he asks her to join him in ruling the galaxy , now that the somebody above them is out of the style . This is n’t a grand moment of buyback , it ’s one of realization : that he does n’t need a master , and can ensure his own destiny . Snoke was , if anything , holding him back and keeping him down . Free of that , he can be whatever he want . It ’s a canny subversion of the Vader / Palpatine dynamic and leaves Kylo in a fascinating berth lead intoEpisode IX .
Kylo Ren Is Now An Extension Of Vader
Ever since we first match him , Kylo Ren has beenobsessed with his grandad . It ’s even apparent in the trailers forThe Force Awakens . He ’s gone as far as retrieve the distorted remains of Vader ’s helmet , worshipping it like a shrine and promising to finish what he started . And that ’s the path he ’s now firmly select .
To Kylo Ren , Darth Vader is not a hero who deform to the Light at the very closing and helped relieve the day . He’san extremely hefty Sith , who ’d rent nothing and nobody stand in his manner , and was responsible for long time of Imperial rule across the galaxy . By wipe out Snoke , wanting Rey to rule with him , and installing himself as Supreme Leader of the First Order , that ’s now what Kylo can see himself as too . He mimics Vader ’s apparel sense , forge himself a cherry-red lightsaber , and has slain his master .
He is , for all intents and purposes , the second approach of Vader , or like an extension of him . The flavor of Vader - the villainous Sith , not the fallen Jedi - lives on through Kylo Ren . He may say “ let the past die ” , but more than ever he ’s looked to continue his grandfather ’s legacy . That move into what we sleep with ofEpisode IX . Kylo will have fashioned himselfa new helmet , but he ’ll alsohave Vader ’s helmet again too , and he ’s not only fit to finish what he bulge ; he ’s going to do what Vader could n’t .
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Will Star Wars 9 Give Kylo Ren Redemption Or Punishment?
Going intoStar Wars Episode IX , we ’re face with a question that was n’t really asked beforeReturn of the Jedi : Can the bad guy be redeem ? Back then , Luke fight ( or rather , did n’t ) for the good that remained in his father . But we ’ve already realize that play out in the Sequel Trilogy : Rey went to Kylo sense the good in him , and instead witnessed him commit slaying and then enquire her to get together him in ruling the galaxy .
If Vader can be save then anyone can . But will it happen to Kylo ? Should it ? Only J.J. Abrams and Adam Driver know for certain , but here they do have another , passing executable option , and that ’s tokill off Kylo Ren as the unsound bozo . And not just any bad guy rope , but the biggest of the lot . Kylo would , on the face of it , need to pass away for the Skywalker Saga to end ; he is the last of that line , after all . But to just repeat what happened with Anakin would be disingenuous and , frankly , a little wearisome . He kill Han Solo . And we ’ve see it before .
rather , they can go the other way . If not for Luke , Vader would ’ve still killed the Emperor eventually . It ’s what Sith do with their masters . And he ’d have taken his place , with no one to stop him given his peerless power story . He could ’ve been amply unleashed , until he had to be kill in gild to be kibosh . That ’s what they can do with Kylo .
What This Means For Star Wars' Ending
Kylo Ren is going to be ahuge part ofEpisode IX . He ’s now the main Skywalker ( even if he does n’t have the name ) in the net movie of the eponymous saga . Rey is the new hero , but it ’s interested in tell Kylo ’s story almost just as much . To that last , there ’s a proficient fortune a circumstances ofEpisode IXwill be pass exploring Kylo ’s conclusion : the murder he ’s put , the people he ’s turned aside , the dark way of life he ’s choose to walk down , and whether or not he ’ll come back .
But it can also lean heavier into those Dark Side elements . He can fully become what Vader did n’t : an uber - powerful Dark Side Force - drug user without anyone to see him , which is something we have n’t seen in full explored through such a main character before . It is , as far as Star Wars is occupy , without case law , and that ’s a thrilling lieu for the enfranchisement to be in its ninth episode and eleventh pic overall . Had Vader not been redeemed , he would ’ve tried to conquer the Galax urceolata as the head of the Empire . InEpisode IX , Kylo Ren is going to set about to rein the galaxy as the drawing card of the First Order .
Kylo Ren does n’t of a sudden lose the complexness that bring in him so interesting . He ’s still a product of the same rearing , the same inner conflict and turmoil . But to front up to that , and thenchooseto be the " monster " is a decision that does something completely dissimilar , and grant the hero a unequalled challenge to face down and overcome . J.J. Abrams ca n’t just act it safe here . He can not repeatEpisode VIin the same wayThe Force AwakensrepeatedEpisode IV . Having Kylo Ren mature beyond what Vader was is a means of doing that , and also would put Rey in a position where she then has to be a unlike kind of hero to Luke . That makes for a different ending that has shade of what we ’ve seen before - a routine ofReturn of the Jedi , a littleRevenge of the Sith- mean it can help associate everything together while excogitate its own path as well .
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