Star Wars Rise of Skywalker ending EXPLAINED: What does the final scene mean?

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker brings the Skywalker saga to a beautiful end. Fans will love the Easter eggs littered around the movie, all of which make this an epic space opera like no other. But what did THAT final scene mean, and what was its significance?

***WARNING – Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spoilers

What did the final scene in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker mean?

In the final scene, after the epic battle which saw Rey (played by Daisy Ridley) and the almost reincarnated Ben Solo (Adam Driver) take on Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), Ben sadly faded away after fans got their wish of a bit of Reylo action.

Ben saved Rey after her Life Force had been utterly drained in her defeat of Palpatine, so he passed some of his Life Force to her.

She woke up, for the pair to kiss before he fell back, and quickly faded as he was well and truly spent.

This left Rey to return to the Resistance in Luke Skywalker’s X-wing, leading the Resistance home after the Sith had been finally defeated once and for all.

Rey returned to the Resistance base to find everyone celebrating their defeat of the Sith.

X-wing pilots were hugging and cheering, while Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) congratulated one another on a job well done, as the generals of the Resistance army.

When Rey saw Finn and Poe, she welled up, and the three fighters had a tender embrace where they all wept on each other’s shoulders, aware of how close they came to being obliterated.

After this, the final scene saw Rey and BB-8 head to Tatooine, to the home where Luke Skywalker grew up without knowledge of his parentage.

She relived some of his memories, taking a piece of metal from the sand and skidding down to the home, where she looked around before picking up a piece of cloth.

Rey wrapped two lightsabers in the cloth: the lightsaber of Leia and the lightsaber of Luke.

She then returned to the outside of the home where she knelt down and placed the lightsabers onto the sand.

Using The Force, she buried the lightsabers deep into the sand, signalling an end to the Jedi Order after it finally defeated the Sith.

As she did this, a woman walked nearby, and enquired about who Rey was.

This echoed a moment earlier in the film when the Resistance group went in search of the Sith wayfinder, and Rey was questioned by a child about what her family name was.

Rey was unable to answer, but by the end of The Rise of Skywalker, she knew herself and where she truly came from.

Despite this not technically being the right answer, Rey saw the Force ghosts of Leia and Luke, nodding at her so she felt able to reply: “Rey Skywalker.”

With this, Rey and BB-8 wandered off in the desert, and stared at the twin suns of Tatooine, echoing Luke’s similar action in Star Wars: A New Hope.

Luke regularly stared at the double suns, and now Rey has done the same after finally allowing herself to be the Jedi Luke believed she could be.

The film is full of Easter eggs and throwbacks, but this final scene signals a huge throwback which, as far as we know for now, will mean there is peace throughout the galaxy.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is in cinemas now

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