10 Things That Make No Sense About Star Wars Sequels

The biggest and most confusing revelation of the Disney trilogy came in The Rise of Skywalker. Rey, who's parentage had been teased in the first film and dismissed as irrelevant in the second, was discovered to be the granddaughter of the resurrected Emperor Palpatine. Besides being an eye-rollingly contrived plot point, the reveal also opened up a huge question that Star Wars fans have been discussing ever since the premier: who in the name of all that is good and holy slept with Palpatine to make Rey's father?

Fans have already worked out the timeline a bit and the general consensus is that the alleged procreation must have taken place around either the birth of the empire or the fall of the republic. So Palpatine was either a silver-fox supreme chancellor who might have been able to seduce a woman of child-bearing years or a wrinkled, decrepit emperor. Either way, it's disturbing to think that Palpatine knew any woman in the biblical sense, let alone fathered a child with them.

But what kind of woman would want to be with him? Did she want his power to further her own ambitions and used her feminine wiles to do so? Or did she have genuine feelings for him before he revealed his true colors? Was she also a Force user that Palpatine just couldn't bring himself to kill or corrupt? How was she as a mother? Don't give answers that beg more questions, J.J!