10 Times Star Wars Broke The Fourth Wall

Of all the moments that split Star Wars fanatics right down the middle coming out of Rian Johnson's eighth Episode of the Skywalker Saga, Kylo Ren telling Rey to "let the past die" felt like arguably the most pointed and eye-catching of the lot.

For many, this line summed up Johnson's approach to his feature as a whole, preferring to take the franchise in a bold new direction and leave the type of tired and already told tale many had come to expect from this Skywalker-centric epic in the past.

And the delivery of Ren's speech later in the film, revealing to Rey that not only should the Sith, Jedi, Rebels "all die" but that the conflicted Jedi herself was a "nobody", also left many feeling as though Johnson had made a point out of poking a hole in the fourth wall and laughing off all of the MANY theories fans had heading into the flick when it came to Rey's part in the story, too.

Despite some feeling bizarrely attacked by this meta theme of letting the past die throughout the divisive flick, though, it's clear Johnson was simply looking to build on what fans knew and loved about those prior features and move the series on, as evidenced in Rey's arc in the The Last Jedi.