The films showed that women - even poor, destitute women with no connections to powerful men - could play the same role in the franchise as every cocky flyboy or adopted son of a moisture farmer. WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, in theaters now.īesides Reylo, one of the great marketing tools of the Star Wars sequel trilogy was its emphasis on girl power, as well its subversion of class dynamics.
