Star Wars' New Sequel Brings Back Something We All Wish We Could Forget

For whatever reason, the latest Star Wars sequel has brought back something we wish they’d left behind in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (or, alternatively, something we wish they’d have never done in the first place).

It’ll be a cold day in hell when I say a single nice thing about Star Wars: Episode IX.

I’ve said it a dozen times in articles at this point, but I think Disney’s Sequel Trilogy is overhated. While I understand that longtime fans had some understandable issues with Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, I still think that it’s a good film.

And as far as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is concerned, I think it was the perfect lay-up to what could have been a great trilogy… until, y’know… that ninth film happened.

I have yet to meet or talk to a single person who has anything nice to say about The Rise of Skywalker, and there’s a good reason for that. It treated audiences like morons, and there are lines in that film that are somehow worse than anything that came out of the Prequel films.

However, the worst thing about it by far is the infamous and long-ridiculed return of Emperor Palpatine. The film did an absolutely terrible job of explaining it, but Palpatine’s resurrection was accidentally facilitated by Rey and Ben Solo through “a dyad in the Force”.

Now, to be fair, the concept of the “Force dyad”, which is essentially a magical bond between two Force-sensitive people, was introduced during the events of The Force Awakens.

Clearly, the writers had something different planned for Rey and Ben’s link at this point though, because otherwise they might have, I dunno, hinted that it could result in the return of Palpatine somehow?

Anyway, enough angry rambling; there’s a new Force dyad, and it’s in Disney’s latest Star Wars show, LEGO Star Wars: Pieces of the Past, which is a sequel to the 2024 Disney+ miniseries LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy.

As detailed in an article by The Direct's Klein Felt, Episode 2 of LEGO Star Wars: Pieces of the Past features the second Star Wars Force dyad; siblings Sig and Dev Greebling.

By using their Jedi and Sith powers together, they’re apparently able to literally open a rift in time and space, so at least I can say that the new show is already cooler than Episode IX.

Thankfully, neither LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy nor its sequel are canon, so hopefully this is just a tongue-in-cheek joke by the writers (and not some kind of attempt by Disney to soft-launch a second Force dyad storyline in the canon stories).