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The obstacles recall a moment in the season-two finale of Star Wars Rebels, “Twilight of the Apprentice,” when Ahsoka Tano is required to translate ancient Sith writing, which she calls, “the Old Tongue.” We’ll hear more from Ahsoka later, quite literally.

The “Forbidden” Sith language references a pivotal Star Wars Rebels episode.Īnd the Sith gets deeper! A major plot point of The Rise of Skywalker revolves around C-3P0 being unable to formally translate Sith writing owing to programming limitations.

#STAR WARS RISE OF SKYWALKER MOVIE#

This movie seems to imply that Chewie doesn’t cheat at chess anymore, and is actually just good at chess now. Of course, the joke about Chewie cheating at holochess is a nod to Chewie threatening R2-D2 during a game in the original Star Wars film.

This is a mild retcon, because if you had the old storybooks from the ’80s (like the 1983 Return of the Jedi storybook, for example) you would have learned that Chewie was like 800 years old. When Finn and Poe joke about Chewbacca perpetually winning at holochess (also called Dejarik), they casually mention that Chewie is about 250 years old.

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In the animated series Star Wars Rebels, Sith holocrons tempt the young Jedi Ezra Bridger. Sith holocrons also exist in more contemporary Star Wars canon. The tricky pyramid-shaped MacGuffins of the film look nearly identical to mystical devices called holocrons, which exist in the Star Wars Expanded Universe of the 1990s (and originate with Dark Horse Comics writer Tom Veitch). The Wayfinders look like “holocrons” from the Star Wars books, comics, and cartoons. “Planet killers,” as Poe describes the cannons in The Rise of Skywalker, aren’t that far off from “world devastators.” Moreover, he was shown to have a fleet of “World Devastators” capable of ravaging entire planets. In fact, in that same series, the Emperor sent out a threat to the entire galaxy, declaring his desire for revenge. This is very much in line with an old-school Star Wars comic book called Dark Empire, in which the Emperor does the very same. The Emperor seems to have not only resurrected himself, but also to have cloned Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis), the primary villain from the previous two films. The Emperor’s rebirth, cloning, his evil message, and the Sith Fleet, are all reminiscent of a 1991-1992 Star Wars comic-book series called Dark Empire. Funnily enough, both Ben Solo and Rey seem to have learned this power on their own? When Kylo Ren discovers the Emperor on the planet of Exegol, the reborn Palpatine says, “The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.” This is word-for-word what Palpatine said to Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith, when he’s dangling the promise of death-stopping powers. Palpatine quotes himself from Revenge of the Sith. That film featured Palpatine teasing Anakin Skywalker with the possibility of immortality. At the beginning of the film, the opening text crawl starts with the words “The dead speak!” An exclamation point has only appeared in one other opening text crawl: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

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