{"id":671,"date":"2026-09-09T20:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fevered.earth\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:45:47","slug":"scene-7-air-fryer-vader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fevered.earth\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/scene-7-air-fryer-vader\/","title":{"rendered":"Scene #7: Air Fryer Vader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Part 7 of 43 Individual Scenes from \u2018Rise of Skywalker\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The load-bearing part of this scene is also the shortest – the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it recap of the relevant events of the previous movies as Kylo Ren attempts to call Rey on the force telephone. This the closest this film ever comes to a hard dependency on its predecessors, incorporating flashes of Han Solo’s death from The Force Awakens<\/em> in amongst the images of Rey sitting on a cool evil throne and that sort of thing. Like everything else in Rise of Skywalker<\/em>, this crucial context is blasted through at high speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Otherwise this is a dumping ground for otherwise useless footage: Rey performs a training montage which seems built around the idea that she’s going to find wielding a lightsaber hard work, given her affinity for a good solid staff, but the idea is never returned to. I do feel like ‘crossing a rope bridge’ would be an occasion where I personally would not want a lightsaber involved, connection to the universal force or no. Her red-eyed training droid seems particularly aggressive as if it may be going rogue, but once she smashes it the question never comes up. Hope they aren’t expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile Kylo is ringing Rey on the force telephone again, but we can’t really know that from this scene – only that he’s mildly distracting her from afar. And to do so, he’s either defrosting Vader’s helmet or he’s just baked it in an oven – either way he’s rightly wearing gloves to touch it – but there’s no connection between Vader and Rey so it’s unclear how one is aiding in sending visions to the other. I think we just needed to see that he’s got the thing because it’s used in an action sequence later. I will say here that something that is done well throughout this film is the contrast between the sterile, glossy, all-white interiors of the First Order sets versus the various alien planets (even if the planets themselves are a little derivative). It makes the smash cuts back and forth between Rey and Ren very effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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