Six years after its release in 2017, Star Wars: The Last Jedi remains one of the most divisive entries in the iconic film series’ long history. While many criticisms of the film are justifiable, others seem to have been born out of no more than predetermined expectations from the die-hard fandom. Expectations come with the territory when one indulges in a sprawling film series and are perfectly valid to carry into a movie, but they should never get in the way of the story being told on the screen.One expectation fans had heading into Star Wars: The Last Jedi was that Supreme Leader Snoke was going to amount to more than just a tall, shadowy hologram to fill the role Emperor Palpatine made famous in the original trilogy. However, despite the overly obvious hints toward that made in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there was no unwritten rule to suggest this needed to be the case. Kylo Ren’s decision to assassinate his former master made perfect sense for the story Star Wars: The Last Jedi was telling and was the exact stepping stone Luke Skywalker’s troubled nephew needed in his ascension — whether it subverted the predetermined expectations or not.After all, Kylo Ren wasn’t just a villain — he was a main character of the sequel trilogy, arguably more than Darth Vader was in the original trilogy. While audiences were offered plenty about Darth Vader’s story in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, it was always as a peripheral to the story of Luke Skywalker. In Star Wars’ sequel trilogy, viewers learned about Kylo Ren right alongside the discoveries made within Rey’s own journey. With that in mind, there was no reason Kylo Ren needed to follow Darth Vader’s trajectory beat-by-beat to the point that he had a long-term “master” looming over his every move the entire time. By killing off Snoke, Kylo Ren became a more dangerous villain and would have worked perfectly as The Rise of Skywalker’s sole primary antagonist.
Six years after its release in 2017, Star Wars: The Last Jedi remains one of the most divisive entries in the iconic film series’ long history. While many criticisms of the film are justifiable, others seem to have been born out of no more than predetermined expectations from the die-hard fandom. Expectations come with the territory when one indulges in a sprawling film series and are perfectly valid to carry into a movie, but they should never get in the way of the story being told on the screen.
One expectation fans had heading into Star Wars: The Last Jedi was that Supreme Leader Snoke was going to amount to more than just a tall, shadowy hologram to fill the role Emperor Palpatine made famous in the original trilogy. However, despite the overly obvious hints toward that made in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there was no unwritten rule to suggest this needed to be the case. Kylo Ren’s decision to assassinate his former master made perfect sense for the story Star Wars: The Last Jedi was telling and was the exact stepping stone Luke Skywalker’s troubled nephew needed in his ascension — whether it subverted the predetermined expectations or not.
After all, Kylo Ren wasn’t just a villain — he was a main character of the sequel trilogy, arguably more than Darth Vader was in the original trilogy. While audiences were offered plenty about Darth Vader’s story in A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, it was always as a peripheral to the story of Luke Skywalker. In Star Wars’ sequel trilogy, viewers learned about Kylo Ren right alongside the discoveries made within Rey’s own journey. With that in mind, there was no reason Kylo Ren needed to follow Darth Vader’s trajectory beat-by-beat to the point that he had a long-term “master” looming over his every move the entire time. By killing off Snoke, Kylo Ren became a more dangerous villain and would have worked perfectly as The Rise of Skywalker’s sole primary antagonist.
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