It’s clear that The Rise of Skywalker would like to pretend that the events of the The Last Jedi never happened. Han Solo asks Maz where she got the lightsaber from, and she replies that it’s a story “for another time.” Yet we never get to hear how the well-connected alien acquired on the coveted weapon-and whether Luke’s severed hand was still attached to it when she did. In The Force Awakens, Rey finds Luke Skywalker’s old lightsaber in Maz Kanata’s bar. Luke constructs himself another lightsaber, this time a green one. The hand falls down a shaft, and we never find out where it goes.

In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader cuts off his son Luke Skywalker’s weapon-wielding hand, and his lightsaber with it. Where did Maz Kanata get Luke’s lightsaber? Perhaps she is facing her own greatest fear when she sees only herself: loneliness. It’s unclear given this new information what Rey’s adventure into the cave is supposed to mean. Rey’s father was the son of Emperor Palpatine. The revelation in the cave seems to confirm that Rey’s parents don’t matter.Įxcept of course now we know that they do. Later in the movie, Kylo tells Rey that her parents were nobodies-junk traders who traded her for drinking money. When she approaches one of them and asks to be shown her parents, she sees only herself in the reflection. However, she finds herself surrounded by mirrors.

Rey ventured to the cave hoping to find out about her parents. (The scene also presaged the Vader-as-Luke’s-father reveal.)

He cut off Vader’s head and saw himself under Vader’s mask. When Luke visited the cave on Dagobah, he confronted his worst fear: turning to the Dark Side. Luke warns Rey in that movie that the cave has a strong connection to the Dark Side of the Force (like the cave on Dagobah where Luke ventured in The Empire Strikes Back). The Rise of Skywalker ignores several plot points from Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, including Rey’s visit to the cave on Ahch-To.

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