Star Wars 5 Reasons Rey Should Return (& 5 Why She Shouldnt)

Star Wars: 5 Reasons Rey Should Return (& 5 Why She Shouldn’t)

Rey was the central character in the latest Star Wars trilogy, but should she return if there is a new story to be told?

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With the conclusion of Disney’s Star Wars sequel trilogy, fans may have seen the last of Daisy Ridley’s Rey. Throughout the trilogy, Rey went from being a scavenger on a desert planet with no emotional attachments to being the first in a new generation of Jedi. She found out she was the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine and escaped her parentage by taking the name Skywalker.

Fans who complained that Rey was a “Mary Sue” were glad to see her go, but fans who enjoyed watching Ridley’s performance of Rey’s journey are calling for the character to return in her own Disney+ series or a post-Rise of Skywalker film project. Rey’s return could be a good idea, but it could also be a bad one.

10 Should: The End Of Her Character Arc Was Just The Beginning

Rey’s character arc began when she was a nobody on Jakku in The Force Awakens and ended when she defeated Palpatine and buried Luke and Leia’s lightsabers on Tatooine and took their name in The Rise of Skywalker. But as she walked off into the dual sunset in the final moments of The Rise of Skywalker, it felt more like the beginning of her journey than the end of it.

The sky is the limit for Rey now. She’s a powerful Force user and the last surviving Jedi. She can raise a new generation of Jedi in case more villains rise up.

9 Shouldn’t: The Skywalker Saga Is Over

Now that the Skywalker saga is over, it’s time for Star Wars to finally move away from its central bloodline. The stories of three generations of Skywalkers – Anakin, Luke, and Rey – have been told across three movies each.

There are plenty of unexplored corners of the Star Wars universe to dig into in future movies without going back to the Skywalker well.

8 Should: Daisy Ridley Is Too Good To Lose

Daisy Ridley is a terrific actor who’s perfectly suited to the role of Rey. She’s so great as that character that it would be a shame if we never got to see her play the part again.

In the sequel movies, Ridley was too often short-changed with the muddled material she was given. Throughout filming The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams kept flip-flopping who Rey’s parents were, which surely didn’t help Ridley’s performance. She deserves some strong writing to work with.

7 Shouldn’t: Ridley Should Move On To Other Projects

Daisy Ridley has already insinuated that she’s done with Star Wars now that the sequel trilogy’s over, and it’s hard to blame her. The movies faced a lot of backlash and after starring in three of them, she must want to move on to other projects.

Ridley’s an actor. There’s no limit to the number of roles she can play or stories she can tell. She doesn’t want to be stuck playing Rey for the rest of her life.

6 Should: She’s Finally Free Of Her Attachment To Ben Solo

Most of the sequel trilogy was dedicated to pandering to “Reylo” shippers who wanted to see Rey and Ben Solo get it on, despite the fact that the latter murdered the former’s mentor (who was also his own father) and he was generally an A-hole to her. This really held back Rey’s character and prevented her from forging stronger connections with other characters, like Finn.

Now that Ben Solo has sacrificed himself to give Rey life, she’s finally free of her attachment to him and can start to carry her own storylines.

5 Shouldn’t: There Are More Consistent Characters To Focus On

While Rey showed a lot of promise after her introduction in The Force Awakens, the unplanned nature of the sequel trilogy and the fact that several different filmmakers with different ideas played a hand in telling her story meant that her arc and characterization were inconsistent.

There are characters with more consistent characterization to focus on, like Obi-Wan Kenobi (who’s about to get his own Disney+ series) and Ahsoka Tano (who’s set to appear in The Mandalorian).

4 Should: Her Friendship With Finn Is Unresolved

Finn started off the sequel trilogy as one of its most promising characters – a Force-sensitive ex-Stormtrooper who defects to join the Resistance – but by The Rise of Skywalker, he’d been reduced to yelling Rey’s name and failing to get her attention.

According to J.J. Abrams, what Finn was trying to tell Rey throughout the movie, which he never got to tell her because the movie was poorly written, was that he has the Force. There’s at least a miniseries’ worth of story material in that fact alone.

3 Shouldn’t: There Should Never Be Another Trilogy In The Main Saga

Luke, Han, and Leia came back because there was another trilogy set after Return of the Jedi and Rey’s best chance of returning to screens is if there’s another trilogy set after The Rise of Skywalker, but there should never be another trilogy in the main saga. Frankly, there probably shouldn’t have been a sequel trilogy without the involvement of George Lucas.

It’s entirely possible that Disney will drag Daisy Ridley back for Star Wars: Episode X in 30 years (or a lot sooner than that, depending on how business is going), but it wouldn’t be a good idea.

2 Should: She Was Let Down By The Sequels

Whenever anyone bashes the sequel trilogy, the creative team behind the movies hide behind the excuse that those detractors are just sexists who can’t accept a female lead. But there’s no merit to that because, from Leia to Ahsoka, there have always been strong female characters in the Star Wars universe that fans have unanimously championed.

The problem with Rey is that she was poorly written. J.J. Abrams didn’t give her any flaws and Rian Johnson didn’t give her any direction. The Rise of Skywalker negated her growth in The Last Jedi. Rey could’ve been a great character, but the sequels let her down. She can still be great if she’s redeemed by a future Star Wars project.

1 Shouldn’t: The Sequel Trilogy Should Be Forgotten

Since it was passed from J.J. Abrams to Rian Johnson and then back to Abrams again, the Star Wars sequel trilogy is riddled with plot holes. Johnson ignored what he wanted to ignore from Abrams’ story and Abrams ignored what he wanted to ignore from Johnson’s story.

While a small minority of fans are able to overlook the sequel trilogy’s flaws and genuinely enjoy it, the majority of the fan base was infuriated by the confused mess of those movies. That era should be forgotten, at least for the time being.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/star-wars-reasons-rey-should-return/

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