Top Ten Most Anticipated Things in The Rise of Skywalker
Things we’re most anticipating in the last Skywalker saga movie. New trailer dropped so I think it’s an appropriate time to make this list. Also this isn’t a best predictions list, it’s stuff already confirmed of happening or stuff with a very high chance of happening.
This is something we hope will be an epic moment and was teased in all three trailers we've seen for the film. In the first trailer, we heard his laugh at the end, which created lots of hype and fan theories. In the second, we got his voiceover. In the third and final trailer, we got his voiceover and even a glimpse of him, although we didn't see his face.
We haven't seen Palpatine on screen since 2005, and we all thought he died in Return of the Jedi, which came out so long ago. Having the biggest and most evil villain of Star Wars, and one of the most evil in cinematic history, return is something you can't not anticipate.
We aren't 100% sure of this happening yet, but the title suggests it, and there's been plenty of fan speculation. Also, Anakin is still technically the chosen one - not Rey, not Luke, but Anakin. If Palpatine is back, and Anakin is the one to destroy the Sith, his return is inevitable.
Seeing Anakin return would be amazing and would likely create an amazing scene, probably going down as one of the best of the entire year, or decade.
Either we see Hayden Christensen back, or it turns out that Rey is Anakin's or the chosen one's reincarnation or something.
The final battle in the saga. I hope they take a lot of risks that pay off, just like Endgame did. Maybe they might do something similar, like bringing every Jedi out of the Force realm into reality for a bit to defeat the Sith once and for all.
Maybe it will be an epic space battle, combining every hero in the galaxy. Who knows? The directors, hopefully, have created a version that will satisfy us in the future.
Think about it: the final moment in a nine-film saga (not including the anthology movies which will probably still be made in the future) that started in 1977, over 40 years ago, is something everyone is anticipating. The creators and staff of the film have even told us that the final scene, or shot, will be stunning and very memorable, giving us more hype.
JJ Abrams has said himself that this film will not only conclude the sequel trilogy but also the entire saga, including the prequels and originals. Hopefully, the movie answers all previous questions and fixes any plot holes previously formed.
We aren't sure if Rey is evil or not yet since that was just one second in the D23 Rise of Skywalker trailer. It's something we hope we get a good answer to in the film. I'm curious how they will play this out: if she actually does become evil for a little bit due to Kylo and Palpatine's manipulations, if she's possessed, or if it's just a vision. This is something I'm personally looking forward to, and most likely you all are too.
There was a theory that Rey might be a clone, so maybe this evil Rey we saw in the trailer was an evil clone. Or maybe it's going to be a scene similar to Luke Skywalker going into the caves on Dagobah. Either way, this will probably be good.
Kylo Ren is a complex character. In Episode VII, he's fully evil and destructive. In Episode VIII, he is skeptical about which side he should really be on, resisting killing people on the good side like Rey and his mother.
I'm interested to see how his character ends in the saga. Maybe he dies evil or becomes good and lives on.
I was deciding whether to include the last space battle, but that kind of goes with the final battle more. Also, you can get a space battle in any film, but a lightsaber battle only in Star Wars. Lightsabers are one of the main symbols of Star Wars and one of the things that make it iconic.
We've seen some amazing lightsaber battles in the saga, like Anakin vs. Obi-Wan and Vader vs. Luke twice. The last lightsaber battle is something we hope we can call the best and most memorable one.
It better be good. The sequel trilogy doesn't have any amazing lightsaber battles as good as the ones in the prequels or the originals.
Almost forgot about this, but yeah, Lando is returning after all these years. We saw this in two of the trailers where he's flying the Falcon with Chewie as his co-pilot. The last we saw of him was back in 1983. I'm interested to see how he returns to the screen, how he meets the rest of the characters as a friend of Solo, and how he reunites with Leia.
In the last trailer, he says he's giving one last look to his friends, which I'm curious about. Hopefully, it doesn't mean he's going to be turned off forever or destroyed. We got a bit of a tease of this in the D23 trailer where he had red eyes. I'm interested to see what this is all about and what's going to happen to him.
