Star Wars 9 trailer The Rise of Skywalker

Yesterday saw the arrival of the new trailer for Star Wars 9 aka The Rise of Skywalker. A few days ago there was the new trailer for The Mandalorian TV show. Sadly, I find myself slightly more excited about the latter. But Star Wars 9 is the culmination of the whole Skywalker trilogy so maybe this will have some cool twists and reveals. If it is a let down like the last one then that will finally tilt me to being more a Star Trek fan and not be so undecided in the life-paralysing choice of which franchise is better. Unless the Mandalorian is great.

There are already, roughly, a billion theories about what is happening. Here is what I think. I reckon Rey is a clone of Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker. The film presumably involves a Skywalker because of the title. It is unlikely to be Leia and Kylo Ren/ Ben Solo isn’t likely to be classed as a Skywalker, just half of one. So it is likely to be one of the other recurring characters that is strong with the force – which leaves Rey. Plus she the lighsaber called to her in The Force Awakens. Plus she is the hero.

So who cloned her? Emperor Palpatine. Palp is back! His gnarled fingers are all over this. What I would like is if Palpatine wanted to ensure the dark side wins out so he clones Vader as a backup in case some rebels do something dickish like blow up the Death Star. Clones are well established in Star Wars. Also, based on science from Jurassic Park, it is easy to make a female clone from a male. Rey kind of looks like Shmi, Vader’s mum. There is also the weird thing of Anakin having no daddy Skywalker, so maybe that is tied in.

There was frequent talk of Vader being ‘the One’ so maybe he still can be. I would love it if Rey realises there is no such thing as really good and really bad and then becomes the first to be able to use both sets of powers as a neutral Jedi and “bring balance to the Force’. Anyway, that is just a theory and it isn’t entirely new. There are others that are good, such as https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/cvrcaz/the_rise_of_skywalker_snoke_rey_palpatine_all/

Without further ado, here is the trailer. The first minute is a recap of old stuff, just to remind you that Star Wars can be pretty cool and also that it is all about the Skywalker family.