Quote Originally Posted by OopsIdiditagain View Post
No, moving back to cliche is the main reason the sequels fell off. Making her a Palpatine went against her original character arc and overall theme of the sequel series. The whole point of the Last Jedi was to show that anyone can be a great Jedi, despite their heritage. It was supposed to show that the force wasn't biased towards certain families, it's a force of nature. Rey's "heroes journey" was coming to terms with the fact that her parents weren't great Jedi masters and she was just an orphan. Then Rise of the Skywalker went and contradicted all of this. I really don't understand why they felt the need to give Rey a connection to the Skywalker family drama, they already had Kylo for that. Rey being overpowered from the jump is ok because the force is a soft power system.
Because The Last Jedi showed Kylo would take over the story if he was the only Skywalker left - The Last Jedi screwed over Rey and Finn by changing their stories, and promoted Kylo at their expense without actually making him any more than he already was.

That while “Rey’s heroes’ journey was about learning her parents weren’t great Jedi masters” thing was some bullshit, and sure as **** wasn’t egalitarian. The Skywalkers were already that, Finn was already the egalitarian Everyman, and Reyks Hero’ Journey in the previous film was about finding her own family - in Finn.

But screw that. We need to care about Kylo, no matter how shitty and inadequate he is as anything besides a contrasting antagonist.

People disconnected from Rey after TFA because she went from having *something* people could relate to, as an abandoned child drawn towards another fellow sufferer in Finn and finding belonging with an OT3 character, to be a pimped out to Kylo Ren.

Things got immeasurably worse when we were told to focus on Ben Solo. He sucks ass.