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We’re already aware of a few of the new characters who’ll be introduced in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, including Naomi Ackie’s Jannah, Richard E. Grant’s Allegiant General Pryde and Keri Russell’s Zorii Bliss. But there’s one that we’ve overlooked until now. Literally, in fact, as they’re so teeny-tiny.
Today, however, a Triple Force Friday livestream event unveiled our first look at Babu Frik, a pocket-sized alien with major tech skills. The official Star Wars website described Babu as a “tiny Anzellan droidsmith” who “works among the Spice Runners of Kijimi and can reprogram or modify virtually any droid — regardless of the security measures protecting its systems.” We can only guess how he fits into the plot, but it doesn’t seem ridiculous to suggest that our heroes have to go to him to help them fix up one of the droids.
But which one? BB-8? R2-D2? D-O? There’s an interesting theory going around that he might finally give Threepio back his memories of the Prequel Trilogy. That would be cool, but perhaps he’s enlisted to fix up the droid after he develops those scary red eyes, as glimpsed in the second Rise trailer. There’s also some chatter going around that he’s the same alien seen fixing Kylo Ren’s broken helmet in the first trailer, but don’t believe it as they’re definitely two different characters.
If you’re wondering about exactly how small Babu is, he’ll come as an accessory to a Threepio action figure and this photo of the two items together makes clear that he’s only about the size of the droid’s head. I think every Star Wars fan is now ready to protect Frik with their lives and will riot if anything happens to him in the movie.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is being released to impossibly high expectations. It’s not just the conclusion of Disney’s Sequel Trilogy, but bills itself as the final conclusion to the Skywalker saga that began back in 1977. As such, audiences expect the film to provide some answers to the bigger mysteries of the franchise and now, writer Chris Terrio has revealed the questions he considered when writing the script.
The revelations came in an interview with Empire Magazine, where he said:
“One of them is a simple one: ‘Who is Rey?’, which is a question that people not only wonder about quite literally, but wonder about in the spiritual sense. How can Rey become the spiritual heir to the Jedi? We kept coming back to ‘Who is Rey?’, and how can we give the most satisfying answer to that not only factually – because obviously people are interested in whether there’s more to be learned of Rey’s story – but more importantly who is she as a character? How will she find the courage and will and inner strength and power to carry on what she’s inherited?
The second one is, ‘How strong is the Force? … What is the Force and how strong is the Force?’ Those two things were really important.”
To me, the whole Rey thing sounds worryingly like they’re about to retcon Kylo Ren’s revelations about her past in The Last Jedi: that her parents are simply “filthy junk traders who sold you off for drinking money… dead in a pauper’s grave in the Jakku desert.” I really liked that she’s not part of some long Jedi lineage, as a hereditary Jedi aristocracy just seems kinda regressive. Rey should be able to stand on her own two feet as a warrior, not merely because of the happenstance of who her parents were.
However, if we’re going to learn more about her as a character, then I’m interested. Growing up as a dirt-poor orphan scrounging for junk in a desert has to do a number on you psychologically. She certainly had a far worse childhood than Luke, who at least grew up with Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen there to look after him.
And to be honest, I’m not particularly interested in learning what the Force is, either. The last time someone tried to pin it down it didn’t work out so well. One word: midichlorians.