Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker - 10 Reasons To Be Worried

10. All The Fan Service

As the “final” installment of the saga, there’s a good chance that Abrams and co. will pack in a lot of fan service. Fan service isn’t inherently a bad thing, but too much of it can be detrimental to the film.

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This film could easily go the Avengers: Endgame route of having many, many callbacks to previous films. And as great as Endgame was, it suffered from going a bit overboard with it.

The "Darth Rey" we see in the D23 Expo trailer is another example of fan service. There are theories that she may actually be the villain. We don't know the context of Darth Rey just yet, so unless the theories are correct (which, given this trilogy's track record with fan theories, don't count on it), this is likely just a money shot from a dream sequence.

Then there's the possible reveal that Rey is actually, in fact, a Skywalker, or perhaps a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which brings us to...

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