Worst Star Wars Trilogy Ending? - The Rise Of Skywalker Spoiler Review 

What's the best/worst Star Wars trilogy finale? You can't say Rocky 3.

Palpatine is 3 for 3 hitting himself in the face with his own lightning in trilogy finales.

Palpatines Wife: "Where you going honey?" Palpatine: "I'm running down to the corner of Exogul to get a pack of Snokes"

“I’m Rey” “Rey who?” “Rey’ed Shadow Legends, the most ambitious mobile game...”

“I’m Rey.” “Rey who?” **Looks to distance** “Rey Grievous.” **Extends 2 extra arms and grabs 3 more lightsabers.**

The best part was palpatine showing up and saying maclunkey.

*Rey Palpatine commits identity theft*

Luke's lightsaber talks to itself in two Australian accents for an hour

Rey being revealed as a Palpatine undoes the 'nobody' twist in Last Jedi. It's equivalent to if Luke found out Vader is not really his father.

“I’m Rey.” “Rey who...?” “Rey Maclunkey.”

I thought it was a little weird when Palpatine default danced but it wasn't too bad when Kylo and Rey joined

"I'm Rey" "Rey who?" *Looks into distance and hears a studio laugh track* "Rey mond. And everyone loves me" *Piano outro*

A ancient Sith dagger from 30 years ago 😂

So why was Palpatine's son entirely disposable but his granddaughter 'special' ? 🤔

I didn’t think the movie was too bad, but the moment when Palpatine screamed “MACLUNKEY” and summoned and army of Greedos was a bit weird, even for Star Wars.

The Knights of Ren are the "Golden Company" of Star Wars...

The "ancient sith dagger" macguffin with the 30-year-old deathstar wreckage stencil carved out of it is still one of my favorite elements of bad writing in the whole series. It proves two things: 1. Never get the obvious cocaine-addict Chris Terrio to co-write your movies, ever. 2. Never get in a room, or vehicle with someone who thought The Rise of Skywalker was a good movie. They have the capacity to kill without remorse.

I would have given this movie a pass if they had revealed JarJar was the one who cloned and revived Palpatine

Chewie experienced both Han and Leia 's death.

My favorite part was when Chewie was sitting there mourning the loss of one of his closest friends and the guy from Lost/Lord of the Rings comes by and taps him on the shoulder to tell him to come help. Yeah lets not let Chewie be sad for more than 10 seconds, why would we want to emotionally resonate with someone we have come to love. Oh but he gets a medal so its all okay, good call JJ. On a slight side note, Chewie watched his best fried die (Han), watched his best friends relationship fall apart (Han and Leia), watched his nephew (Kylo, who he helped raise) turn to evil, watched his nephew kill his best friend, had his other friend all but ignore him (Luke), semi watched his nephew kill his good friend Luke, and lost his other good friend Leia. All that happened over the course of a few years, how sad and traumatic is that, why not have Lando come by and mourn with Chewie before they both agree they must continue to fight for their friends they have lost? That would make so much sense.

The joke is C3PO basically has the Last Jedi wiped from his memory

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth, Act V, scene v

It took me far too long to notice why the lightsaber was pulsing

"Anakins made peace with the sand" Sudden urge to draw Anakin making sandcastles.

Palpatine made Snoke, ok fine. Palpatine was in control the whole time, ok fine. Palpatine is surprised by the strength of Rey and Kylo's force connection even though Snoke said that he helped establish the connection to draw Rey in, HOW DOES PALPATINE NOT KNOW ABOUT IT IF HE WAS IN CONTROL THE ENTIRE TIME.

Robot Chicken Palpatine: "If you had made up your mind 5 seconds earlier, we could have ruled the galaxy and maybe I could have gotten laid one more time before I died." Rey: *gets revealed as a Palpatine* Me: Looks like he did.

I'm mildly curious if anyone at Disney ever had anything resembling a trilogy outline.

“Poe is basically Wedge, but we’ll get to that later” *Doesn’t talk about the Wedge Antilles throwaway cameo later at all*

Palpatine: "I am all the sith" Rey: "And I... am Iron Man"

When they show all the Sith in the crowd around the emperor the camera should have had a slight close up on one so you could see a pair of jar jar ears, would of made the film 10x better

Princess Leia: "Chewbacca can have a medal over my dead body!"

I would have loved the end of the C3PO arc to have been, "I've never had a best friend before, why don't you tell me all about these adventures we've had"

Best to Worst endings of star wars: 1.Return Of The Jedi 2.Rise of Skywalker

Wait... Mr Sunday and Mason are trapped in that lightsaber!

Actually there are 4 death fake outs, Keri Russle's characters planet was the one blown up, but she managed to survive i guess

28:42 “there are 3 death fake outs!” Actually there are 3 for Kylo alone. I think there are 5 total

How did they get all those ships to arrive so quickly? Lando: "I will pay you all the Alimony and the Child support due, just meet me here!"

The rise of Skywalker occurred during the kiss scene. Change my mind.

I jokingly said that Rey should defeat Palpatine while saying Maclunkey, but after seeing the movie i think i'd unironically prefer that over "I am all the Jedi"

I liked the idea that she was nobody born with great power that decides to do right for the good of the galaxy because she can, not she does good because she doesn’t wanna be like her family

"An absolute cowards move". The entirety of The Rise of Skywalker summed up in one sentence.

Honestly just wanted more cohesion in this trilogy. At least hint at palpatine's return.

If youre gonna try to kill chewbacca maybe dont put them in the trailer in a scene we havent seen yet....

The whole sequel trilogy is just a major clusterfuck.

“I’m Rey” “Rey who” *looks into distance* “Rey Frik”

Can we just appreciate for one second that Ben or James (probably Ben) turned Reys lightsaber into a active sound wave 👏🏻

There couldn’t be clues to Palpatine coming back in 7 & 8 because it clearly wasn’t planned despite anything Jar Jar Abrams says. This is what happens when you have no outline for your story and let each director make it up as you go along.

It's so weird that back in the halcyon days of 2015 I was so excited for The Force Awakens, scroll forward 4 years and I really couldn't care less. Expectations Vs Reality.

Something stupid I thought about was how they keep on insisting that no one will show up in the final battle and they want to make you believe that no one will come help and all I remember was thinking " this is so dumb. It's so obvious someone will come help "

Best part about the "we can't do the Holdo maneuver, it was a one in a million" thing, is that they show a shot of it being done over the forest moon of Endor at the end of the damn movie.

Love the lightsaber soundbar

Emperor: If you kill me I shall take control of your body! I am invincible! I am immortal! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Rey: But wait - what if I have TWO lightsabers??? Emperor: Goddammit.

What I would’ve done is keep Ben Solo alive and have Rey at the end say I’m just Rey.

Ace review guys, but there was two landing craft when chewie got taken, they show you this when he’s being loaded onboard HOWEVER we only see the one taking off and that means they should have seen the other one when they were getting on the ship and Rey would have been able to sense him from that distance if she can from a bloody star destroyer

I can’t not picture the gnome whenever Mason or James says “BUT”

"it's like you murdered someone and then imagined them forgiving you" holy cow that scene is totally different to me now

sadly I didn’t like it it felt to rushed

"as a fan of JJ Abrams work I was expecting a serviceable completion.. I was let down" *wut*? This guy ever see LOST?

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So here’s a question very few have asked, let alone answered: how is this trilogy part of the Skywalker Saga? The original three told a focused story: a son redeeming a father while overthrowing and evil empire. The prequels clearly relate because they tell the story of that father. Together, the six movies tell a cohesive story of the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. So far, so good. Emperor Palpatine ties the story together even more as he is the antagonist throughout. But what about the sequels? Rey is clearly the protagonist but she is not related to Luke nor Anakin. Sure, she’s a Jedi and trains under Leia but that hardly qualifies as the same story. Note these are episodes in a single story but I don’t see how the last three episodes relate. It would be like the last episodes of Friends fast-forwarding 30 years, and not starring any of the children of the main cast. This is clearly a soft reboot, not a continuation. Put another way, Rogue One and Solo are “stand-alone” but both are much more closely tied to the OT than the sequels! Indeed Rogue One ends right where Star Wars starts and the protagonist of Solo is the same character as one of the three main characters in this he OT. So how are the sequels, that have none of the same main characters nor is the protagonist related to the main characters of the previous trilogy? If Ben Solo were the central character of the trilogy, then this could be seen as one unified saga. But with Rey it fails because she doesn’t mesningfully continue the Skywalker storyline. They should have just had a separate trilogy with cameos rather than call it an extension. It’s not a sequel but just cashing in on the name.

I felt rise of skywalker was rushed and not great. It had some fundamental flaws and some weird retcons. I still enjoyed it. A solid Venom/10.

Oye hoyeeeeeeeeee -Babu Frik

I tought it was a bit strange when jar jar binks showed up, said MACLUNKEY and stabbed palpatine in the back with a lightsaber

I heard there was a deleted orgy scene with the Snoke clones. Too bad it was cut for time.

I like how when Han comes back he says to his son Ben something an old friend once said to him many years ago ‘Maclunky’

Revenge of the sith ended with a new hope. Return of the jedi ended with the chosen one becoming a jedi again. Rise of Skywalker ended with our favorite characters gone.

Masons delivery on "Just tip the stardestroyer to one side I reckon" Is so damn good.

Watching the documentary for the making of TROS confirms my speculation of the mentality of JJ and the writer's group. Very often you see them go, "you see this in TFA, we want to continue that, but we need to make it compatible with TLJ." And that I think is the main reason why the plot threads in TROS do not follow well from TLJ. Instead of picking up the gauntlet thrown down by TLJ and taking up the challenge, they stepped back and tried going the safe route.

I thought this film was called Star Wars: Rise of Maklunky.

I prefer the alternate ending when they ask Rey’s name and she says.....Rey Maclunkey

This commentary honestly had me thinking: "I'm so glad I didn't watch this movie"

I’ve never once said “What” out loud to a movie till I saw them land in the pit of quick sand

Rey being nobody was the perfect reveal for both her character and Star Wars as it resets it back to how this universe was first presented to us. How some random kid can become something more. I understand the King Arthur influences and it in turn gave us one of the greatest twists in cinema, but for this sequel trilogy, Rey Nobody was a far better choice for the future of Star Wars. Rey Palpatine just makes this another Return of The Jedi theme and story. I understand what the film is saying by choosing your own destiny but again, we already got that lesson. Lol. This just undermines the point The Last Jedi was making and the strides it took to move Star Wars forward outside of Star Wars tropes and TRoS just walks every single one of those ideas backwards. Lol.

So this is a SPOILER kinda So in RoS, Finn tells Rey he has something to tell her and then he never does, it goes nowhere. Apparently in an interview they confirmed he wasn't going to tell her "I love you" or something along those lines like people thought, he was going to tell her that he was also force sensitive which is why he can randomly sense shit throughout the movie. Either they really shouldn't have had it in the movie or it should have been resolved, not answered in a fucking interview after the fact ffs

The so-called Holdo maneuver is the most realistic battle tactic used in real life. Kamikazes in WWII, burning ships crashing into other ships during Spanish Armada by Elizabeth, etc. Also used to accidentally take down the Executor (Vader's ship) in ROTJ. It can be effective but is not a great strategy except as a surprise last-ditch effort.

Just discovered this today... the best, most entertaining and most "listenable" of the SW reviews. Great points, a fun listen. Great job.

the reveal she is a palpatine, in ym opinion, is worse, as it just ret cons the previous film (even tho i dislike the last jedi). The reveal she is a palpatine is just lazy writing and feels like its the writers trying to justyfy bringing back palpatine.

26:43 My theory is that Ian Mcdiarmid is 75 years old and wouldn't sit in a makeup chair for 4 hours this time around if he came back.

Last jedi: Rey’s parents aren’t special and they are no one Rise of Skywalker: Rey’s dad is Palpatine’s son

Yes. I audibly "Noped" in the cinema when she said Skywalker at the end.

this movie was endgame without the emotional payoff

"DO THE MANEUVER" "what maneuver?" "THE BUTT...HIT THE BUTTON"

Jj Abrams kept this one true to the originals... With incest.

"No garbage on christmas!" *talking about Rise of Skywalker* Um.... You have a very different concept of garbage then most people

I thought in last jedi the master code breaker was going to be Lando

Kylo Rens death did feel ambiguous towards the end. Did Leia somehow link her life force with her son's leading to him saving Rey, dying immediately like her mother.

If anyone is wondering, based on being 'spiritual related' Ben and Rey are first cousins once removed. Unless you consider Plagueis the true progenitor of Anakin. And also that if the Sith rule of 2 is an adoption of sorts. Ben and Rey are 2nd cousins with Darth Plagueis being their combined great grandfather by way of adoption/midichlorians manipulation. As well as the previous 1st-once removed because Vader was 'adopted' by Sidious. I don't know why I just spent 5mins working that out. I need to go to bed.

I bet that wasn't even his medal. It Han's or Luke's or something.

Felt like the Palpatine thing ruined it for me entirely

Honestly my Star Wars story starts with Revenge of the Sith and ends with Return of the Jedi... everything else, I could do without

The way I read the Holdo Maneuver is that it's actually pretty tricky because 1. you need a large ship to have a far enough hyper-jump window to reach a ship they're not practically touching 2. It only works at a specific range/angle/against ships too large to move out of the way 3. They didn't know it would work 4. She didn't write down any of the math so nobody knows exactly how it was done

Force Lightning, Choke, Scissors... Jedi: "Poor predictable Palpatine. Always going for Lightning." Palpatine: "Good old Lightning! Nothing beats that!"

Really good, entertaining breakdown guys. I’m a fan. My main problem with the trilogy on the whole, and what becomes apparent in this movie, is a lack of a plan, and reactionary retconny things. I feel like this trilogy is a cautionary tale. Have a destination in mind instead of the pushing and pulling between JJ and Rian Johnson.

Marry Christmas! Nothing anyone did in star wars mattered and everyone died for nothing. Palpatine wins🤦‍♀️

Please hear me out. I had some ideas on how it may help the franchise. Rey should have been Anakin reincarnated, explaining why she is so strong, her connection to the skywalkers, why Anakin's saber called out to her, why Anakin's ghost was absent, ect. Both he and Palpatine come back but in different ways, where Palpatine just puts his soul in another clone body, while Anakin, fearing the return of the sith, gives up his immortality and reincarnates into a completely different body. Rey and Finn also fall in love. Never was that big of a fan of Reylo personally as I always saw them having more of a brother/sister relationship than a romantic one. Rey would also actually have to train as well. xD Instead of just learning stuff that even the chosen one had to train for. She'd still be gifted but I felt she learned stuff too easily. You also could have not had starkiller base. Don't even mention planet destroyers until the final movie, where they release a coupe dozen star destroyers but they destroy well known planets like, Dantooine, Hoth, ect. Luke's order still exists and he runs it along with Leia. Rey joins with Luke's new order and after Luke sacrifices himself to prevent Palpatine from killing them, 4 main Jedi go to Exegol to defeat the emperor. Rey, a scavenger and former slave who freed herself and the reincarnation of the chosen one. Finn, a storm trooper that was part of an experiment to artificially create force sensitive storm troopers. Ben, formerly known as Kylo and a former knight of ren, and Poe, a former Jedi from Luke's order and became a bounty hunter who uses the force. Poe, Finn, Rey and Ben join together to fight hoards of sith marauders and sith troopers and finally face the emperor. Leia unites the warring factions that were manipulated by the sith as well as the knights of ren and snoke and his loyalists. There are light sided, dark sided and even gray sided orders shown here, and they all have their own beliefs and agenda. I would have the Guardians of the Breath, The Imperial Knights and even The Order of Revan. Sequel trilogy would not have to be exactly like Legends. In fact, I'd prefer it'd go in a different direction. As good as Legends was, it wasn't perfect either. Like with Dark Empire, Palpatine just comes back, but here, I feel Anakin would return but in a different way. Rey to be Anakin reincarnated and show that the chosen one doesn't just disappear, but return in different forms over time. Rey technically fulfills the prophecy since she is the reincarnation of the chosen one and she destroys Palpatine once and for all. Her being the reincarnation of the chosen one would really make the sequel trilogy feel like it's part of the Skywalker Saga. Think about it. Prequels showed Anakin's life as a Jedi, then the originals showed his life as a Sith and with the sequel trilogy, it would show the reincarnation of Anakin: Rey, living a new life and a new adventure. Now be honest, tell me what you think. I personally think something like this would have made the sequels amazing.

I was so surprised when Rey decided to make her last name Maclunky

I feel like Finn was completely wasted as well as Poe's character arc being stretched way too thin, I think if they had killed Poe off (in a world where multi-film contracts don't exist to maximize action figure sales) at some point early on in The Last Jedi, or even towards the end of The Force Awakens, Finn would have been able to have taken Poe's place in The Last Jedi and maybe would have had anything to do in The Rise Of Skywalker

I would not use China’s box office as a “Normal” box office without nostalgia. I mean all transformers movies do great over there, all of them. Like really well

Every time I come to this video I find myself taken aback by how satisfying the waveform on the lightsaber is. So like... thanks Ben!

I enjoyed certain parts of the film, but the way in pretty much ignored or went back on most of Last Jedi seriously got on my nerves & the way things ended for Ben and Rey, in particular, just makes me confused, and means that I can't think favourably of the film. I mean, why let Ben get his redemption and help him accept that he's just been a puppet before immediately offing him, and why return Rey back to a sand planet with nothing but a droid for company when Force Awakens was her escaping all that?