Film opens with the battle of D’qar. Finn is woken up for the evacuation.
Kylo does pull that trigger, but everyone is safely in escape pods because he hesitates. A fleet of ships show up to turn the tide of the pending massacre and rescue the escape pods. Rose’s sister dies. The new fleet jump to hyperspace.
^^^ this gif makes more sense now. Poe and Leia are already in escape pods (hence him looking out to see what’s either become of the Raddus or whether Leia got into her own escape pod) and he turns to see Kylo finally pull the trigger and a big green blast destroys the Raddus. The pods passing by the explosion also look similar to the one Poe is looking out of.
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Rey hands Luke his lightsaber. He lights it up and reminisces before turning it off and telling Rey she should go back to wherever she came from. Rey wont give up that easily and follows him back to a hovel.
He refuses to help her or the Resistance, but then he spots the Falcon.
Aboard the Supremacy Hux tells Snoke Kylo Ren hesitated and allowed the Resistance to escape. Snoke scolds Kylo, calls him weak.
Kylo returns to the elevator and destroys his helmet.
KOBS: At this point the shattered helmet symbolizes that Kylo’s finally had enough, hence why I believe that the helmet smash took place after D’Qar and not before. It makes sense why a) they would focus on the damaged helmet and b) why in the trailer Kylo arrives at the elevator with his helmet on. I assume he kept it on for Snoke’s meeting then afterward took it off and smashed it. (it also makes sense because in the BTS look Kylo appeared to be walking with his helmet on to an unknown location, presumably Snoke’s throne room.
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The fleet arrives at Crait
They discuss strategy and next moves and tempers flare between Holdo and Poe with Leia attempting to keep the peace. Finn tells the Resistance leaders about the Supremacy, which operates not only as a battle station, but a manufacturing plant as well. They devise a plan to sneak aboard and shut it down.
Maz Kanata tells them she knows where to find the best Slicer in the galaxy and he will work for them because he owes her a favor. Poe tells Finn to take BB8 too, then pulls a group of pilots over and asks if they’re satisfied just sitting around waiting or if they want to do something.
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Luke and Chewbacca and Artoo are reunited and we are introduced to Porgs. Luke feels a bit warmer and starts asking Rey questions. He reluctantly tells her he will see what she can do in the morning. In the morning Luke is meditating on a rock overlooking the sea. As sounds of the past echo in his head the sky changes to the twin suns setting on Tatooine. Rey approaches him and when she touches his shoulder the settings go back to normal.
He begins by teaching her to clear her mind reach out and feel the Force. As she does, the rocks around her begin to float. Luke is amazed. The ground splits behind them and the entire boulder rises out of the ground.
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Rey receives short, incomplete pieces of a vision. As someone shouts in clear anguish a temple explodes in the otherwise still night. A robot hand bursts from the debris. Luke is now horrified. He tells her to stop. The boulders come crashing back down and Luke gives the raw strength speech. Rey asks if that was the apprentice Han told her about. Luke tells Rey he wants to show her something.
On the Supremacy Kylo Ren overlooks the manufacturing bay. He is at peace. He suddenly sees the same short pieces of the vision Rey and Luke experienced. He turns, startled, as if looking for someone, but he is alone. He debates going to Snoke and telling him what he just experienced, but decides against it.
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On a world flying First Order flags a small fleet of starfighters flies over a city and bombs it to hell.
Finn Rose and BB8 arrive at Canto Bight. They go to the casino Maz told them they’d find the Slicer at. While asking around Finn joins in on various games. He doesn’t have much luck. An alien approaches and asks if he’d like to bet on the fathier race coming up. Finn bets on the winning racer and wins big. Rose tells him she’s found the Slicer.
(the Fathier is the NeverEnding Story lookin’ thing Rose and Finn were riding in Dubrovnik)
On Crait Holdo tells Leia she is receiving intel that civilian First Order aligned systems are being targeted and they believe the Resistance is behind it. Leia knows immediately Poe has gone rogue.
(this whole speech Poe makes about being the spark now makes more sense– he’s starting to turn his team and himself as a self-justified rogue vigilante. Rian Johnson has said before that the line between good and evil is blurred).
A Star Destroyer bombards a massive city from orbit.
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Finn and Rose bust DJ out of prison and alarms blare. Looking for something to get away on they see the fathier stable. Finn tries to give a stable boy one of his chips from the winnings but the stable boy stubbornly demands the whole purse. Finn finally gives it up after Rose asks “are you serious right now?!” They’re chased back to the ship they flew in on and escape.
Luke leads Rey into a massive, twisted tree and to the protest of some keepers shows her the journal of the whills.
He explains to her this is what he’s been searching for and that the answer to stopping conflict in the galaxy between the light and the dark is in this book, if he could only solve it. He tells her that he will train her.
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Begin a montage alternating between Luke training Rey, Kylo Ren training against the Praetorian guards, First Order bombing Republic systems, Republic/Resistance bombing First Order systems.
On a final shot in the montage Rey runs along a cliff side and her appearance changes into the darker robes and different hairstyle.
This means Rey has been training for a while. She might have been given a spare change of clothes (obviously, most of the women in Star Wars Leia knows first-hand about changing their outfits any chance she can get). So now Rey’s in the darker outfit and the half-up hair.
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Poe and his squadron attempt to bomb a parade with General Hux in attendance, but fall victim to ambush. Only Poe makes it out alive, but he’s tracked to Crait.
Poe is scolded harshly by Leia and Holdo wants him imprisoned. He willingly goes to the brig and calls them all cowards.
Finn and co are briefed on how they will infiltrate the Supremacy using a stolen shuttle.
Luke tells Rey there is a place she must visit. Rey doesn’t want to go without her weapons. She finds an underwater cavern and battles a massive sea serpent. In the process of killing it, she’s knocked into the water, but she can’t swim.
She panics and begins to drown and she’s suddenly flooded with visions.
The temple burning, a single dark silhouette standing among the flames arms raised to the sky. Then she sees a kind face smiling down at her “I’ll come back for you sweetheart. I promise.” The man is wearing stormtrooper armor. The scene again changes. A man angrily demands what they’ve done with the child but her parents hold their ground. The man orders them to be executed.
(So now we know. Rey’s dad is a Stormtrooper (RIP ReySky lol) and her mom’s occupation is not specified.. However I think the man angrily demandig what they’ve done with the child –Rey—is incredibly important, you’ll find out later)
Rey opens her eyes and vaults up out of the water. As she gasps for breath she realizes Luke is standing there. She becomes angry with him for not helping her. Luke asks what she saw and Rey finally breaks down and tells him her family is gone.
(Now you’re probably wondering– “KOBS, she’s in her old clothes again, this doesn’t fit with her changing into her darker clothes"– well people have more than one set of clothes and change a bunch of times over the course of their lives (surprise surprise) so she probably had to wear the dark clothes again because these ones are now wet.)
Kylo Ren bolts upright mid meditation. He felt that vision. He knows where Luke and Rey are. He pulls out a device and activates a switch on it. On an unknown planet one by one the Knights of Ren assemble their armour and weapons before loading onto a ship.
KNIGHTS OF REN MOTHAFUKAAAAA! BISH YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE SCRAPPED BUT THEY LIIIIVE
Finn and crew all successfully board the Supremacy and waste no time planting bombs while DJ sets a timer to halt manufacturing. They get caught. Rose is executed
(I actually gasped reading this part I dont want to believe it happened but now I know why they havent been marketing her as much). the bombs go off, and Finn nearly kills Phasma but when he breaks her helmet and sees she’s human he relents.
The battle of Crait is about to begin so Finn stows away on a lander.
Kylo Ren leads a landing party but manages to get lost in the commotion. He discards his belt and flies away from Crait.
(That part ^^ makes me laugh because I just know Kylo was like “BRB Snoke, I gotta go help the FO out.” Lands on Crait, sneaks off while his men get murdered, and runs to his ship like “**** **** **** MUST LEAVE NOW GO GO GO”. Also the knowledge that Snoke does have tracking belt on Kylo fits with him ditching the belt AND AND AND
^^ WHY HIS BELT IS MISSING IN THIS SHOT.)
The Resistance holds off the first wave. The First Order brings in Walkers. Poe is let out of the brig and has an idea to use old mining equipment and literally take the ground right out from underneath the walkers.
Luke is training Rey while she floats some pillars. He makes a comment about her grandfather. She knocks him down with one of the pillars and uses the force to bring her lightsaber to her. She lights it up and demands answers to what he just said.
Luke can’t answer before Kylo Ren and his Knights arrive. Rey is still demanding answers but Luke knocks her to the ground and runs. Kylo Ren and his Knights move towards Rey and she starts running too. The Knights lay waste to everything in sight. Leveling hovels, killing the keepers,
setting fire to the landscape. (Now the fire in the gif below and in the Kylo’s Hand Gif make sense)
Rey steps out and ignites her lightsaber. Kylo tells the Knights “She’s mine.”
They fight. <- (Thank the Force, I really wanted to see this)
On Crait the plan is working and one by one the walkers are falling to their doom below the ground. Snoke orders a fall back.
As Kylo and Rey fight, he tells her Luke will just abandon her as Luke abandoned him. She’s confused by this statement and they share a vision.
(Remember when Rian Johnson said int the Japanese article that Kylo and Rey were going to share an emotional moment that will make the viewer empathize greatly? This is it!)>>>>
Luke walks down a hallway and enters a chamber. Ben Solo sits. Luke tells Ben he has a transmission from his mother. Luke leaves the chamber. Leia’s message plays. She tells him she loves him, she misses him, and she never meant to hurt him. And she tells him his grandfather was Darth Vader.
He loses it. In a blind rage he loses control of his powers and the temple is destroyed. Luke is sent flying through the air and is buried by rubble. He frantically emerges from the debris and can’t believe what he’s seeing, the temple in flames, bodies lying about. He instantly knows what happened. Ben approaches him. Without even looking at him, Luke tells Ben to leave before he kills him. Ben tries to explain he had no control over what just happened and Luke tells him that’s why he has to go.
Rey can’t believe it. She lowers her weapon against Kylo Ren. She feels his pain.
The Knights find Luke and set fire to the twisted tree. He becomes angry and kills them all via force lightning.
<-the fuuuuuck
Kylo convinces Rey to come with him to Snoke. They leave together. Luke is enraged at the loss of the tree and tells Chewbacca it’s time for them to leave. He raises his X wing from the Ocean floor and they leave together.
The Supremacy activates a weapon that grounds all ships and launch another wave. Poe doesn’t know what to do.
Kylo brings Rey before Snoke. Snoke is mad at Kylo for ditching his tracker but pleased he finally brought the girl. Snoke asks Rey who she is. Rey says she doesn’t know. Snoke says let’s find out.
Chewie flies to the other side of Crait to avoid the Supremacy’s energy field while Luke flies to the Supremacy. Chewie pilots the Falcon through the planet running from Tie fighters. When he arrives, Leia is injured in an explosion.
In the throne room Snoke reaches his hand out and appears quite shocked. She’s the granddaughter of the Emperor.
<- So, JJ and Rian were right. her parents don’t matter BUT HER GRANDFATHER SURE ******* DOES. DARTH SIDIOUS. Kylo and her have history going back to the time of the Empire.
Both their Grandparents were Sith Lords. Both of them ruled the galaxy. WTF this isn’t a long stretch but Rey Palpatine WAS a very heavily-proposed theory. This is the one point that keeps me skeptical but I mean…good plot twist I guess?
He seizes her in the air and tells Kylo Ren to kill her. To fulfill his destiny.
Kylo readies to strike but turns and cuts down a Praetorion guard. Snoke drops Rey and she joins in with Kylo to fight the guards. Together they win.
They ready their lightsabers at Snoke who just laughs. He quotes a passage from the journal of the whills. He asks if they know the only way peace is possible and then whisps away like a fog.
Rey and Kylo Ren are confused when a voice behind them says
“Through Order.”
There stands Luke Skywalker, lightsaber hilt in hand, blocking the doorway.
He lights it and it’s red.
<– the fact that Luke has a red Kyber crystal on his necklace makes so much more sense now.
<KOBS: Okay at this point I was like “NOPE. NOPE. IMPOSSIBLE. THIS FAKE. BUT considering that Dark!Luke is being marketed everywhere, and taking the placement of Snoke where Snoke should be in the posters and promos, and Mark opposed to Luke’s arc and Obi Wan being like “certain point of view” and Anakin being “from my point of view the jedi are evil!” and Rian being Rian this is more plausible than one would think. Maybe Luke’s doing this because he believes it’s the right thing. I don’t know. It’ so out of the blue for me>
They fight.
The Resistance inspired by Chewbacca take the fight under ground and secure a victory. They then launch an assault on the Supremacy.
As the ship is rocked the fight between Rey, Ben, and Luke comes to draw and Luke escapes. Ben and Rey look to join the Resistance
. (oh look, he’s called Ben now)
Luke brings up Hux on a hologram and declares the time has come for him to come to the forefront of the movement. He informs Hux that Kylo Ren is no longer an ally of the First Order.
(<- again, WTF)
Aboard the cruiser not everyone is thrilled to see Ben. But he rushes to his mother’s side and tells her it was Luke. She says she knew it, she just didn’t want to believe it. She says he’s lost his way but he still has good in him. She makes him promise he will try to redeem his uncle the way Luke redeemed Vader. He does. She dies.
<- AIUAS!!!!FIUHADOFJH**&#*Q^OADIFJOIJF
Final shot Ben is holding Rey close to his chest looking out of a bay at the stars.
Final Notes: (The final shot is so Reylo, but it’s not too biased or anything which is good because this is a good start for them. Ben now has motivation to bring Luke back, Rey has come to understand and empathize with him, Poe and Finn are probably looking to keep going and defeat the First Order, with Finn having even more of a motivation now. Good people like Rose can’t keep ****in dying like this arrrgh!)
WAT THE FCK DOES THIS ALL MEAN????
Discuss.