Benedict Benecio Benedictus Bengawan Ruben Corben Solo, you were named after all the names that could be shortened to “Ben” that your mother found online because your father refused to name you “Benjamin”
I just noticed, and it’s a bit of an obvious reach, but every time he killed for the Dark Side, he used his own saber. But when he killed Snoke to save Rey (canon), which is Light af, he used Anakin’s saber.
No, I think you may be onto something. He even finishes the praetorian guard battle with Anakin’s saber.
@loneamidala That’s not a reach, it’s pretty blatantly significant that he killed his abuser/saved Rey’s life with that particular saber. Especially since it’s the same saber that WOULDN’T go to him on Starkiller. But as of TLJ, the Force (and/or even Anakin himself) has deemed Ben more worthy of it.
THIS^
Omg yes I never thought of it that way
Wow. Why did I never put this together?
So apparently, most people did not previouslyrealize or take into account the implications of Ben being able to handle Ani’s saber in TLJ, when he very pointedly couldn’t in TFA. I was wondering why more people weren’t discussing that, even though I see it as one of the most significant developments of the movie and Ben’s arc.
Reylo shippers always talk about how the saber wouldn’t automatically go to Rey, or either of them, this time when they were tug-of-warring over it, but no one really talks about the fact that Ben was able to hold it, and telekinetically manipulate it, and catch it from Rey in the first place.
The point at which I realized this was important for Ben wasn’t even that he could use the saber, but more that it refused to choose Rey over him during their tug of war in the throne room. It barely responds to him in TFA but then is so torn between him and Rey that it splits in two? Yeah that’s highly significant.
Snoke’s origin story doesn’t matter. He’s a metaphor. Where he goes from is less important than what he represents and what the means for other characters.
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