Kylo Ren is not being redeemed

SPOILER FREE

You might be correct in some aspects of how he will be “redeemed.” Although we all know that Rey and Kylo have a special force bond, especially somewhat romantic tension between the two that will most likely get resolved in the final episode.

In TLJ, Rey was willing to turn a blind eye for him and seemed to “forget” everything “bad” that he has ever done in the Force Awakens. He offed a pretty important character and to my knowledge Rey did not even confront him about it. Instead throughout TLJ, she begged him to join her and even tried to establish a real connection with him. Now I’m not sure about the rest of the galaxy but in this new Star Wars trilogy, I don’t think that’s even relevant. I don’t remember if there was any higher authority or justice system being imposed or shown especially one that is targeting Kylo Ren for war crimes. For such a bad guy he shouldn’t have showed mercy and spared the life of someone he knew all his life in TLJ.

Fast forward to TROS. The sizzle reel we’ve just seen, it’s all misdirection. Classic JJ Abrams move. All the fight scenes we just saw, are misdirections. I believe that it’s actually Ben training Rey or both of them training each other. BECAUSE at some point in the final episode, they find out about Palapatine’s existence. It was confirmed that they knew and that Palpatine didn’t just make his presence known out of nowhere. Ben and Rey knew and most likely will put aside their differences and came up with a plan. Thus began training to fight Palpatine and possibly Rey’s dark side clone IF her dark side clone IS a clone and NOT a vision but we’ll find out in December.

All of this is just a theory. We’ll know for sure where and how JJ Abrams will end the final episode!

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