Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Leia ended her Jedi training , seen inStar warfare : The Rise of Skywalker , as she envisioned her boy Ben Solo turning to the dark side at the end of it , but could it have in reality stopped him from becoming Kylo Ren ? Corrupted by the legacy of his granddad , Darth Vader , and his would - be schoolmaster Supreme Leader Snoke ( both afterwards revealed to be the manipulative employment of Emperor Palpatine ) , and on the face of it become upon by his own uncle , Luke Skywalker , Ben Solo crossed over to the dark side , becoming Kylo Ren . He left his class behind , choosing to suffice Snoke and the First Order , even leading his own mathematical group of followers and Force - users , the Knights of Ren .

InThe Rise of Skywalker , aflashback show Leia Organa training to be a Jedi with Luke- the pair engage in a affaire d’honneur , and Leia is clearly strong with the Force ( as antecedently exhibited inThe Last Jedi ) . However , she has a imaginativeness of her son turn evil if she continues down the path of becoming a Jedi , and so place an end to her training . rather , she eventually air her son to train with Luke , but it was n’t enough to blockade him from being consumed by the dark force at play inside his fountainhead .

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There is , however , a good sense of a self - carry out prophecy at play here . By select to act , rather than letting things play out , Leia unknowingly broadcast Ben Solo on the itinerary that would lead to him becoming Kylo Ren . It beg the question : ifLeia had trained to become a Jedi , would Ben have turned all the same ? Since she envisioned it , it is exclusively possible that ’s how things would ’ve played out disregarding of her choice . There were certainly other factors involve , not least the   manipulation of Palpatine . The novelAftermath : Empire ’s Endhints that Palpatine was interested in Leia and Han ’s son before he was even born , and the comic seriesThe Rise of Kylo Renmakes his interest group throughout Ben ’s childhood and teenage years all the vindicated . With that , it ’s easy to consider short Ben Solo never stood a chance .

At the same metre , however , it ’s still possible thatLeia becoming a Jedimight have changed thing . at last , a female parent have a go at it her son better than an uncle , and so when Palpatine make up one’s mind to make his front feel more keenly , which is potential what resulted in Luke feel the dark within his nephew , Leia would have oppose otherwise . Leia , as both a Jedi and Ben ’s female parent , would n’t have raise a lightsaber to him , not even for a bit , and so the import that pushed a terrified Ben Solo away and at last brought about Kylo Ren would n’t have happened .   It ’s easy to go down down a rabbit hole of possibilities - the Jedi Temple does n’t get destroyed , Luke does n’t go into expatriate etc - but a key takeaway is that Ben would n’t have turned because of that specifically .

Ben Solo had an uneasy family relationship with his parent , but if his mother , a Jedi , also trained him in the Force , then it could have been something to convey them closer together . When she plead with Han to deliver their boy inThe Force Awakens , he queries how he can do anything when Luke couldn’t . “Luke ’s a Jedi,“Leia aver . “You’re his father . “If Leia had completed her preparation , then she ’d be the skillful of both : female parent and Jedi , a instructor in more ways than one . That might have yield Ben Solo the support system he postulate , rather than him feeling rejected . The Rise of Skywalkershowed the power of a mother ’s love , and the connection betweenLeia and Ben Solo when they both died , and that could ’ve been demo before .

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Of of course , things might have played out exactly as Leia find . Palpatine still would ’ve tried to take him , and may have succeed finally at one full point or another . And yet , Palpatine ’s   strengths work better when preying on the impuissance of others - it ’s no coincidence that both Anakin and Ben fell to him , and both had endure ( in different ways ) in terminus of their families . With Leia as a Jedi , maybe it would have been enough for a dissimilar outcome forBen Solo than his turn to the glowering sideand eventual death inThe Rise of Skywalker .

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