But then we find out Snoke was behind the connection and Rey’s parents are “nobodies.” I’m a little disappointed that there isn’t more of a reason for her connection with Anakin’s/Luke’s lightsaber, but I’m okay with this direction for her character’s story. It just so neatly parallels Luke and Leah’s Force-assisted communication. When they started communicating across the galaxy with each other I was really expecting a sibling reveal.

I really can’t talk about Kylo Ren in The Last Jedi without talking about what happened between him and Rey. It’s not too much of a leap to say that those students became the Knights of Ren, which would support my favorite theory for their origin, but where are they now? They’re not mentioned by name in this new film and it seems that if Kylo had a half-dozen force wielders sworn to follow him he should have been using them to hunt down the last of the resistance as well as Rey and Luke.

A “handful” of the students joined Kylo and he slaughtered the others. In The Last Jedi, Luke reveals that he was training 12 students when Kylo destroyed his new Jedi academy. People weren’t even sure whether the Knights of Ren were an order Kylo joined or one that he founded (I was on the “founded” side of the argument, suggesting “Knights of Ren” should be taken as “Knights who follow/belong to Ren”). We caught a brief glimpse of the Knights of Ren in The Force Awakens and learned that Kylo is “master of the knights of Ren,” but that’s about it. This might be my biggest question coming out of the film. Seriously, if you don’t want to learn about major plot points and character arcs in The Last Jedi then get yourself to a theater before you read this blog post. If you haven’t seen The Last Jedi yet now’s the time to stop reading because SPOILER WARNING Can you blame me?Īnd so this is my second post about Kylo Ren on this blog. My siblings seemed to think that was weird, but what can I say - I love a good Idealist-type villain and writing/thinking about personality types is what I do. Honestly, the thing I was most excited for going into The Last Jedi was seeing whether or not I’d still type him as an ENFJ after learning more about his character. While most other fans were debating who Rey’s parent’s could be and what we might learn about Snoke’s origins, I was in the smaller group analyzing Kylo’s character arc and reading every in-canon novel looking for glimpses of his backstory. If you were reading this blog two years ago, you know Kylo Ren is the new Star Wars character I found most intriguing. Note: an updated post about Kylo Ren’s Myers-Briggs type can be found on my Star Wars Personalities blog

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