Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Corrected entry: During Luke's story about Leia they are dueling with lightsabers. Leia has a green saber and Luke has blue. Later when Ray has both Luke and Leia's sabers, both are blue.

Correction: The saber that Rey has is Luke's first saber - which he lost in the Empire Strikes Back. He constructed a new Saber in Return of the Jedi which had a green blade.

Correction: Leia's lightsaber is blue.

Correction: I just re-watched the scene and she never blinks.

Corrected entry: The Emperor starts that if Rey kills him he will possess her and continue on in her body. She then proceeds to kill him anyway.

Correction: As Palpatine says, he wants Rey to strike him down in anger and hate, which would result in his spirit passing into her. When Rey kills him, she is not acting in hate or anger; she is defending herself, using her lightsabers to deflect the Force lightning that he unleashes on her, back at him. As Yoda states in "The Empire Strikes Back": "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense. Never for attack."

Catwalk

Corrected entry: Cloning was neither "Dark Science" nor "Secrets only the Sith knew." It was a massively common practice used for decades before this movie, by both sides.

Correction: Presumably the "dark science" that is referenced has to do with cloning someone without having any of their biological matter to duplicate. Palpatine's body is entirely destroyed in Return of the Jedi, and as Poe (in an unfathomably stupid line) states "Somehow, Palpatine has returned." Cloning was obviously well known but the means to bring back Palpatine, though never explained, were secrets only the Sith knew. Somehow. It's contrived and terrible writing but that's what the lines mean.

BaconIsMyBFF

In addition, other clones (like the clone army from 50 years earlier) were individuals who were individually taught and trained. Palpatine managed to clone himself and keep all his memories intact.

LorgSkyegon

Corrected entry: When Rey returns to Tatooine to bury Luke and Leia's lightsabers in the sand, it appears that the Millennium Falcon is missing its landing gear, all that is shown on screen is the ramp and its supports, but no rear landing gear. (02:10:03)

Correction: The Falcon crashed earlier in the film because of malfunctioning landing gear, it's possible that it had not been fixed by the time Rey got to Tatooine.

How did she get out then? The Falcon's access/egress point is a ramp underneath the ship.

Corrected entry: When "Snap" Wexley climbs into his ship before the final assault, he is in an A-Wing fighter. However, when Poe calls out to him as Snap crashes, an X-Wing is shown crashing.

wizard_of_gore

Correction: Snap climbs on top of an A-Wing. He is not shown entering it or piloting it. He is also shown assisting other pilots in prepping for launch. He could easily have climbed on top of the A-Wing to help prep it for flight.

Correction: His scar fades on screen when Rey heals him on the Death Star. As she heals the wound in his stomach, she also heals the wound she gave him the year before in The Force Awakens. It's an intentional detail.

RazorwireRyan

He has the faded scars since the beginning of the movie.

oswal13

Scars do fade over time (and Star Wars is a universe in which you can attach an artificial limb and leave no visible marks), but they are present throughout the film.

Continuity mistake: After the speeder chase, everyone lands in quicksand. In one shot, 3PO is buried headfirst. In the next, he has flipped and his upper body is visible.

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Trivia: C-3PO's final line of dialogue, "Did you hear that?" is also the first line he speaks in the entire series, in Episode IV, "A New Hope."

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Question: If Palpatine wanted Rey alive, as he says to her on Exegol, why did he repeatedly order Kylo to kill her earlier in the movie?

Answer: Palpatine has been manipulating Rey and Kylo Ren from the very start, bringing the pair together and instigating fights between them. He is trying to make Rey stronger so that when he takes over her body, she will be powerful. Palpatine can partially see the future and knows that Kylo will not be successful in actually killing Rey, but that their constant fights will cause the two to grow more powerful. Because he can see part of the future, he knows that eventually Rey will triumph over Kylo and "kill" him, and then come to confront him directly. He doesn't count on Ben Solo coming back to face him which winds up being his undoing.

BaconIsMyBFF

Answer: Not just earlier in the movie, but in the trilogy itself since he is technically also behind Snoke. Yeah I wondered the same. For that matter, why does he not clue her in of his whereabouts but just hopes (what a very Jedi thing to do!) she'll just find the thing that leads it to him? Feels like a plot hole but I didn't bother sending it because I am sure some answer for it will come in the expanded universe or whatever. Of course one could just say it's the Sith way and if Kylo managed to kill her it would completely erase the very last Jedi and erase anything good remaining in Kylo, making the victory of the Dark Side complete. And likewise, if Rey kills him (which she does, in a way!) that will make the Dark Side in her stronger. Curious enough, notice how Kylo wants them both to go to Palpatine, to kill him, instead, so Palpatine's order is meant to make him do something he does not want to.

Sammo

Answer: Emperor Palpatine is a lying bastard. Earlier he wanted her dead because he feared her power. Now that she's actually showed up in the flesh he's trying to flatter her to convince her to join with him (literally in this case). The Emperor is the Star Wars version of Satan/Lucifer; his word is worth less than nothing.

TonyPH

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