(If you want to learn about Palpatine’s family, I’m sure a canonical tie-in novel about his wife or his son or whatever is already on the way.) Rey’s proficiency with the Force wasn’t a fluke after all it was in her blood all along. So it’s soon revealed that Rey’s grandfather is actually Emperor Palpatine, and that her "scumbag" parents were actually a noble, loving couple who rejected Palpatine and abandoned Rey to protect her. That was clearly intended to be the final answer, and it should have stayed that way-but having originally raised the question in The Force Awakens, Abrams couldn’t resist mucking around with the answer.
The Last Jedi found a clever way to zigzag around all the fan theories: The mysteriously orphaned Rey really was a nobody, whose parents were random scumbags who sold her off for a quick fix. The subject was hotly contested at the release of The Force Awakens, and the odds-on favorites were that Rey was either a Skywalker or a Kenobi. This is as good a time as any to address the biggest and dumbest retcon in Rise of Skywalker: The question of Rey’s lineage. That’s just the start of the many half-explained geegaws that will drive the plot forward, as a Sith dagger leads to a Sith wayfinder leads to a bunch of bullshit that leads to Emperor Palpatine’s big goofy chair. Each of those Destoyers is, somehow, equipped with a Death Star-style cannon powerful enough to destroy a planet. In the meantime, Palpatine has also managed to assemble his own army, complete with what looks like thousands of Star Destroyers. Has he really just been sitting around on a never-before-mentioned Sith planet this whole time, telling Snoke what to do and waiting until… I don’t know, until he remembers radio exists? Apparently. How did Palpatine survive his apparent death at the end of Return of the Jedi? Don’t worry about it. Because yes: Emperor Palpatine really is alive, and it only takes a couple of minutes for him to win Kylo Ren to his cause. Abrams has turned in a Star Wars movie that is only surprising in how unsurprising it is.
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