I really loved the reveal of Rey "Nobody" in TLJ, but come on, if they actually wanted to do something with this concept, they wouldn't write her parents were dead. (1/12)

Like, seriously, Rey literally walks away from what Kylo says to her, becomes the hero and finds a home, but the character feels so solved, that the only thing that feels unsolved is her relationship with Kylo. (2/12)

And if they kept what Johnson said word by word, the third film would be Return of the Jedi again with the same thing of seeing the good in a villain, except that nothing of this would serve her story, only Ben's. (3/12)

If The Last Jedi revealed her parents were alive, Rey could've end up the film struggling between the validity of the answer Kylo gave her or letting go. Then the next one, she could actually meet them and directly confronts them. (4/12)

But for that to happen, Rey's parents or family have to be important to the plot, so she doesn't distance herself from the main mission, so the mission actually becomes personal. So, yeah, they can't be simply "no ones" for that reason. (5/12)

Enter The Rise of Skywalker that make Rey's parents dead heroes, but transfers the "negative" aspect of the answer about her family to someone who is at the center of the plot: Emperor Palpatine. (6/12)

I honestly don't give a damn if Star Wars surrendered itself to bloodlines or not, this is still a relatable story once you stop wanting everything to be the most revolutionary thing ever. (7/12)

Sheev is what Rey's story needed: An actual bad family member that represents everything she doesn't want to be and that she can confronts and tell him to f*ck off. (8/12)

The idea of democratizing the Force is absurd, because the Force is literally in every living thing. The Skywalkers are really one of the few exceptions. I understand that many loved the idea of "no one", but being fucking honest, it's not about power. (9/12)

It's about choice. We always love to treat the bloodlines in Star Wars as if they are privileged because of "power". The irony is that the only character from a famous bloodline who actually got privilege, was the one who was adopted by other family. (10/12)

It sounds good to say "The new protagonist of Star Wars didn't come from something that was connected to the plot", but the consequence of this is: "The new protagonist of Star Wars spent her story chasing a troubled man who came from the family connected to the plot." (11/12)

One year later, these are my thoughts about the whole Nobody, Palpatine thing.

Anyways, stan Rey Skywalker. (12/12)

I've been trying to write this since my last rewatch of the sequel trilogy.