Star Wars: Rey’s 5 Best Moments In The Sequel Trilogy (& 5 We Didn’t Like)
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Rey is the main character of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. From The Force Awakens to Rise of Skywalker, here are her best and worst moments.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brought the epic story started way back in 1977 to a dramatic and entertaining end. And the movie finally sheds light on the character of Rey who, up to this point, was something of a mystery. It was revealed that Daisy Ridley’s character was the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine, who she later defeats thanks to some vital help from Ben Solo.
We now look back at Rey across the three sequel trilogy movies and judge her best and worst moments.
10 Best: Standing Up And Escaping Kylo Ren
After an epic battle on the planet of Takodana in The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren takes Rey as his prisoner. The villain had already captured and tortured Resistance pilot Poe Dameron earlier in the movie and you get a sense that she’s in for a similarly tough ordeal.
Except that doesn’t happen. Not only is Rey able to stand up to Kylo, leaving the First Order fighter reeling in the process, but she’s also able to use a Jedi mind trick to bamboozle two Stormtroopers and escape. You know that, from this moment on, she’s only going to get more and more powerful.
9 Didn’t Like: Fighting Luke on Ach To
While we love the character of Rey, we feel that her worst outing from the sequel trilogy was in 2017’s The Last Jedi. There’s a scene in that movie where she’s eager to get information from Luke Skywalker and, growing increasingly angry, she battles the Jedi knight and threatens him with her lightsaber.
This is something we just feel was a little bit out of character for her at the time. It’s no big deal, she doesn’t kill Luke or anything, but it’s a scene that we felt the blockbuster could have done without. We’d rather the duo work together so it was infuriating to see them going against each other instead.
8 Best: Defeating Kylo Ren In The Woods
At the end of The Force Awakens, Rey is knocked unconscious by Kylo Ren. In her absence, Finn attempts to defeat the dark side user with Luke and Anakin Skywalker’s old lightsaber – only to end up having half of his back sliced up. It then looks as if Kylo will obtain the weapon he wants but, in a dramatic twist, it goes to Rey instead.
It’s a truly beautiful moment, made even greater by John Williams’ excellent score, and the Jakku scavenger then proceeds to beat Kylo in a duel. This shows just how strong she is and makes her all the more intriguing as well.
7 Didn’t Like: Getting Beaten Down By Snoke
Believing she’s capable of turning Kylo Ren back to the light side of the force, Rey agrees to become the prisoner of both Adam Driver’s character and the villainous Supreme Leader Snoke. But this shows just how naive the character can be.
Snoke throws her around like a ragdoll and is easily able to overcome her as she attempts to put up a fight. She comes across so weak in these scenes and it’s the only time across all three movies where she appears genuinely helpless. For that reason it makes this list: it was a scene that just didn’t do her any favors whatsoever.
6 Best: Lifting Rocks
“The force isn’t about lifting rocks,” Luke Skywalker says to Rey in The Last Jedi. This is at a point where the Jedi Knight is at his most down and gloomy, failing to give much sufficient advice to his new student.
But, later on, it emerges the force CAN be about lifting rocks. Rey uses the force to raise boulders preventing the Resistance from escaping the planet of Crait while under siege from Kylo Ren and the accelerating First Order. Had it not been for her fine intervention then the Resistance would likely have ended on that day.
5 Didn’t Like: Admitting Her Parents Are Nobodies
Up until the epic fight that takes place on Snoke’s Star Destroyer, everybody was still speculating who Rey was. Was she the daughter of Han Solo? The child of Leia Organa? A Kenobi? A Skywalker? There were so many theories that had taken the internet by storm.
But then not only is it revealed that Rey’s a nobody – it’s also revealed she’s KNOWN this the entire time. She knows she’s nothing special but Disney had led audiences into believing she was. Nobody was happy with this and it was no surprise when this decision was retconned in The Rise of Skywalker.
4 Best: Healing Kylo Ren
Rey cuts a far angrier figure in The Rise of Skywalker than she does in the previous two installments of the sequel trilogy. And with her temper rising, she taps into the dark side of the force to impale Kylo Ren during an enthralling showdown on the remains of the second Death Star.
What happens next, though, is extremely touching and shows that Rey has enough light inside her to avoid going down a dark and evil path. She force heals Kylo’s wound, despite the duo being enemies, and flees to Ach To. It’s another indicator of both her immense power and loving heart.
3 Didn’t Like: Being Selfish
When we first see Rey after The Last Jedi, she’s on the planet of Ajan Kloss. Here, she’s attempting to reach out to the Jedi of the past all while the likes of Chewbacca, Poe Dameron, Finn, and R2-D2 are putting their lives in danger on a tricky mission.
The gang returns and Rey berates them for damaging the falcon – despite the fact she’s their BEST PILOT and BEST FIGHTER. She shows an astonishingly selfish side to her when she refuses to apologize to Poe for hurting his droid BB-8, too.
2 Best: Defeating Palpatine
It genuinely looks as if Palpatine is about to reign supreme when he faces off against both Rey and Ben Solo towards the end of The Rise of Skywalker. He manages to drain life from both of them in order to rejuvenate himself and restore his body to the one we saw back in 1983’s Return of the Jedi.
Ben Solo is thrown down a pit and looks to be dead but Rey, on her own, is able to achieve victory. She stands up to Palpatine, calls on the Jedi of the past to help her in her quest before repelling the Sith Lord’s lightning right back into his face. This finally kills off the old Emperor and brings peace to the galaxy once again.
1 Didn’t Like: Lightning Chewbacca (Or Not)
It’s a given that Rey is extremely powerful. But that didn’t mean people weren’t shocked when, in The Rise of Skywalker, she force lightnings a ship she believes to be carrying Chewbacca, who had been captured by the Knights of Ren on the sand planet of Pasana.
However, we didn’t like this moment because, while it’s intended to make Rey less of a golden girl, it just doesn’t work. This is because it’s revealed that Chewbacca wasn’t actually on the ship to begin with. You’d think Rey would have known there were more ships in the nearby proximity but plot, right?
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