Other mistake: Rey pilots Luke's X-wing to Exegol from Ahch-to. However, the door to Luke's hut on Ahch-to was seen in TLJ to be an X-wing wing. It is even referenced as such in The Last Jedi visual guide which specifically states it's a wing from Luke's fighter. No way to fly it if it's missing a wing, and when it's lifted out of the water we see it has all its wings intact.
Catwalk
3rd Jan 2020
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
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Suggested correction: The novelization explains that Rey repairs the X Wing, saying, "It was old tech, and it had taken some fast thinking and even faster fingers to get it flight worthy - the wing patched with the door to Luke's hut, shield panels scavenged from the TIE wreckage, and a hefty amount of rewiring."
The novelisation fixes the mistake but it remains a mistake in the movies as we see them.
Not everything has to be shown on-screen, Rey and Luke easily could have repaired the X wing.
It was never stated in The Last Jedi that the door was from Luke's X-wing, though... Not once. Nor did the door look like it came from the X-wing, and the X-wing looked intact during the brief shot where we saw it submerged in TLJ. If you need a secondary source to know about the error, it does not qualify as a mistake in The Rise of Skywalker. If anything, it's a mistake in the guide book (that the novelization of TROS tried to fix), not the movie.
9th Jul 2021
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
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."
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