
She does this in the sequence with the gigantic worm in the caverns beneath Pasaana, and later during the Death Star duel with Kylo Ren after stabbing him in the torso with her lightsaber. Through her training with Leia, she’s tapped into the ability to use the Force to heal wounds. When Episode IX begins, it’s clear that Rey has grown significantly more powerful since the end of The Last Jedi.


One particularly persuasive argument making the rounds on the Star Wars speculation subreddit claims that one of the “new” Force abilities introduced in Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian is actually something we’ve seen before, in both the original trilogy and the prequels. Even amid the abundance of recent evidence to suggest the story of Episode IX came together on the fly, online theorists are still looking for clues of an overarching plan.

The Rise of Skywalker has been out for just about a month now, and while a vocal group of Star Wars fans are saltier than Crait about how the Skywalker saga played out, others are just looking to make the best of the hand J.J.
