A Writers View

Instead of that scene in The Rise of Skywalker where Ben saw his Dad, Han, on the destroyed Death Star in the middle of the ocean, they should’ve done this…

On that planet, there was the Millennium Falcon. It was downed and out of commission, because Rey and company had crashed it. Rey and Finn ended up using other ships to get to the Death Star, while Poe supposedly stayed back to try and fix the Falcon, and then ultimately all we saw was Rey leaving in Kylo’s tie fighter.

So instead – let’s have it that Poe & company (Finn, and those ex-trooper [I think that’s what they were] guys) leave the Falcon. Because, they don’t have the parts, or the time, or whatever, I don’t know it doesn’t matter (just like logic didn’t seem to matter in that entire movie!). But, they just leave the planet on some other ship (because, apparently, all of the ships work, even if they’ve been under the ocean for ages!), and they leave the Falcon behind, to be picked up at a later date.

So now, Kyle/Ben is all alone on that planet with nothing but himself, his regrets, and his father’s old ship.

After Rey leaves him, he wanders the island alone until he finds the Falcon.

He goes inside.

As he walks around the ship, ghosts of memories from his childhood haunt every corner. He sees (we the audience see) images of himself, hearing the echoing vibrations of times long past.

One ghost of him in the cockpit as a tiny kid, Han teaching him to fly. One of him slightly older, Leia ignoring him to take care of a newly orphaned Poe Dameron. Another one of him, younger again, seeing Han and Leia fighting. They’re arguing about how Leia’s always leaving them, leaving her husband and son to go and be a General, and about how she looks down on Han. Ben remembers, and hears her talking about how much she needs someone strong by her side (this shows why ultimately Ben wanted to become so powerful, he wanted to be that strong someone for his mother).

As he continues to walk, he sees another slightly older memory of himself, between the ages of 7-10. Han and Leia have called Uncle Luke over to help them deal with their “weird” kid who’s hearing voices. We hear flippant but concerned comment from Han about how, “we’ve got a little Vader here, huh?”. Ben remembers Uncle Luke telling him to “listen to those voices. Those are old masters.”

Have that memory fade into another one of an angry teenage Ben fighting with Han, saying something about something that Uncle Luke said. To which Han responds with, “then why don’t you make Uncle Luke your dad!” and so on and so forth, the memory fades on their shouts as the camera pans around to Kylo Ren again, looking at all of this, reliving all of those moments over again, all the emotions, good and bad, plain on his face.

Then, everything fades to silence. The only thing we can hear is Kylo/Ben’s trouble breathing for a breath of one, two…

Then, from behind him we hear Han Solo say, “Welcome home, kid.”

The rest of their exchange can play out the way that it did in the movie, with the aknowledgements and apologies, and Kylo casting off the name of Kylo and becoming Ben again.

But then, instead of Ben rushing to rescue Rey in an old waterlogged ship that he has not connection to, he rushes off to save her in his father’s ship. In the Millennium Falcon.

Aaaaaaagh it could’ve been so good, and so much more emotional!!!

Because, Kylo has no connection to the Death Star or that ship that he flew in the end (I can’t remember what that ship was called!), but he HAS a connection to the Millennium Falcon! It would’ve been so much more meaningful to have the father son reconciliation scene take place on a family ship.

Anyways, my dog is screaming at me and I have to go and take him out for a walk now!

What do you think of this scene re-write??

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