Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Novel Doesn’t Include Ben’s Force Ghost Either

The new novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker sheds some light on many important subjects about the last entry in the saga, but there’s still no Ben Solo Force Ghost at the end.

When Star Wars films receive the novelization treatment, they usually give us a lot of insight into intricate plot details that the theatrical cut didn’t manage to include. Unfortunately for Episode IX, though, not even a series of books could hope to cover all the unexplained narrative threads and plot holes. Three months after its release, The Rise of Skywalker is currently one of the most divisive movies in the saga and the fact that it’s failed to live up to box office expectations doesn’t help matters, either.

Most of the critics bashed Abrams’ concluding act of the Sequel Trilogy for its shallow resolutions and fan-service moments that go against what Rian Johnson set up in The Last Jedi, though some genuinely think that the film was rushed and incomplete.

In fact, there’s so much wasted potential in The Rise of Skywalker that people think it should’ve been two movies. Namely, many were disappointed that they didn’t see Ben Solo as a Force Ghost at the end of the film alongside Luke and Leia, especially since the last scene directly mirrors Return of the Jedi when the ghosts of Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin appear to Luke.

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Ben went through the same journey as his grandfather and ultimately embraced the Light Side again, so it’d only make sense to have him as a Force Ghost at the end of the movie, right? Well, apparently Abrams didn’t share this popular opinion and as a user on Twitter reported, not even the novelization includes any mention of Ben’s Force Ghost, though they did say that there’s some added information in his death scene which fans might find hopeful.

While these extra tidbits of information do little to undo the damage caused by the lackluster resolutions of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, fans will at least get a chance to have a more cohesive story, even if it means that they must approach other sources to find their answers.

Tell us, though, what were you expecting to see in the last entry of the Skywalker Saga? Sound off in the usual place below.

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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Novel Confirms Palpatine Was A Clone

Though the upcoming novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn’t officially on sale for a couple more weeks, advanced copies of Rae Carson’s book were sold at this weekend’s C2E2 in Chicago. And already, passages from the novel are beginning to emerge online, including an excerpt recently shared by ScreenRant that confirms a popular fan theory about Emperor Palpatine.

Despite being the most hyped-up development of the Sequel Trilogy finale, Palpatine’s comeback gets only the briefest and vaguest of justifications in the film itself. Fans have therefore had to rely on the movie’s spinoff material to learn more about how the villain survived his fate in Return of the Jedi, and in the space of two paragraphs, the novelization offers perhaps the most developed explanation yet:

“All the vials were empty of liquid save one, which was nearly depleted. Kylo peered closer. He’d seen this apparatus before, too, when he’d studied the Clone Wars as a boy. The liquid flowing into the living nightmare before him was fighting a losing battle to sustain the Emperor’s putrid flesh.

“‘What could you give me?’ Kylo asked. Emperor Palpatine lived, after a fashion, and Kylo could feel in his very bones that this clone body sheltered the Emperor’s actual spirit. It was an imperfect vessel, though, unable to contain his immense power. It couldn’t last much longer.”

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Even before The Rise of Skywalker reached theaters, there was much speculation that cloning technology played a role in Palpatine’s return, and this short passage seems to confirm just that. Specifically, it sounds like Palpatine’s spirit was transferred into a clone of his original body, though this new body’s physical decline makes it necessary for Sheev to find another vessel.

It’s strange to think that such an important detail was revealed in a few lines of a tie-in novel, and yet the film itself couldn’t put aside 20 seconds for an explanation. What’s more, this seems to be a recurring pattern for J.J. Abrams’ latest feature.

For example, while the movie never clarifies where the Emperor’s enormous fleet came from, the film’s Visual Dictionary tells us both who built Palpatine’s ships and where they got the parts from. We can expect the novelization of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to fill in a few more blanks when the book hits shelves on March 17th.

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