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So after Palpatine realises that Ben and Rey are the dyad, he reminisces about the time when he wanted to create a Dyad between himself and Anakin. Darth Plagueis also wanted a Dyad between himself and Palpatine. This is because the power of the Dyad is just so powerful, more so than any Rule of 2 concept. Except Palpatine and Plagueis obviously failed. Ben and Rey’s Dyad is referred to “their power”.
Leia doesn’t want to make same mistake with Rey as she did with Ben, so wont send her away.
Kylo says he wants to rule side by side with Rey when Palps orders him to kill her. Kylo had no intention of killing her. Kylo reconstructs his helmet because it’s a KOR tradition or something to wear the helmet. Kylo has to scavenges the pieces.
Kylo interrogates Chewie when he’s taken captive. Kylo goes into Chewie’s mind and Chewie is throwing memories at him. Han and Chewie when they’re young, Han and Leia cuddling baby Ben, target practice with blaster, Ben used to call him “Uncle Chewie”.
Lando has a missing daughter. Lando finds a holo disc in a secret compartment on the Falcon, the holo is of Chewie holding baby Ben. Baby Ben is giggling and pulling on his fur.
Rose and Rey scene. They’re clearly very good friends. They hug.
The reason why Leia’s health is deteriorating so quickly is because when she got blown out of space in
TLJ there was damage done to her body.
Luke is speaking to Leia all throughout the book telling Leia it’s “time[to go]” she resists the whole book. She thinks about Luke’s last effort to save the resistance in Crait was his ultimate act of hope and sacrifice for Ben. Leia wants to talk to Ben one more time. Leia says something like “I’m Leia Organa Skywalker Solo” - she wants Rey to take up her Skywalker legacy, Ben to take up the Solo legacy, Poe to take up Organa legacy and with all her power she puts in her hope that this one last time will bring Ben back, and it does.
Rey is already building her own lightsaber.
There is so much Reylo in the book, when you get to the kiss, “gratitude” is used becus he just brought her back to life, but there is so much How they feel about each other, what they think about each other, feels like a straight up YA novel.
Finn and Rey referred to as friends lots of times. Force sensitive Finn still not outright but heavily implied. Rey mindtricks Finn in Pasaana. Rey knows Kylo is coming and Finn doesn’t want Rey to go, so Rey has to mindtrick him.
Finn worried about Rey a lot. Says “They started their friendship saving each other”. Rey says something like “Finn would have been a great Jedi” ( host paraphrasing)
As part of his contingency, Palpatine prepared a clone before being yeeted down the shaft as he sensed the flicker of light within Vader. Before his body hit the ground he had learned to project his essence into one of the Clones. This was an imperfect clone. Palpatines son (Rey’s father) is also a clone. The son is one of the clone projects of Palpatine, because they kept trying to make a body for Palps to contain his power. The son is a perfect bodied clone. Palpatine hated the son for being a failure as he had no Force abilities. Palpatine wanted Rey because she was... naturally conceived?
There is also somthn about Plageuis trying to create a clone and failing or something. Lol Clone obsessed!