Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Some secrets remain secrets

Not every mystery brought up by the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi is going to be solved, and it seems like the actors are keeping mum.

At least over at Uproxx, there’s a question about whether or not the lines spoken by Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Last Jedi‘s most recent trailer are addressing Rey or Kylo Ren. From this writer’s point of view, it seems far more likely for Snoke to be addressing Kylo Ren because of the sentence structure, and I’ve thought that since I gave some brief analysis when the trailer dropped earlier this week.

Here’s why: The lines themselves imply that whomever Snoke’s speaking to has been around him long enough for that “raw, untamed power” to become something else or change significantly. Additionally, all of the shots are of the First Order while Snoke speaks, and many of them are of Kylo. That second piece of information is far more circumstantial.

However, to make the opposite case, we know, as Buckie Wells noted, that Rey and Snoke will likely have a face-to-face confrontation in this movie, and perhaps Snoke has known about Rey for longer than just Kylo’s brief mention of her in The Force Awakens. We don’t know when that will happen. However, do either of those cases constitute “finding”? If so, will there be enough time in the movie to make the line make sense?

If it’s the former case (that is, if Snoke already knows who Rey is), then it makes a slight amount of sense. But Rey might still qualify as untrained when she encounters Snoke in The Last Jedi.

Alas, neither the writers over at Uproxx nor I will be able to crow that we were right anytime soon. In the above-linked interview with Andy Serkis, he gives a fairly standard non-answer of “I don’t know” then adds “I really don’t” when pushed by Mike Ryan. (Yours truly is with Ryan in thinking that it’s more likely he’s aware of exactly whom his character is addressing.)

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But hey, at least Serkis also (probably facetiously) said that “of course [Snoke] has friends”.

We were very worried about our current Star Wars villain being lonely.