What am I missing, the Rise of Skywalker… The movie didn’t resolve the battle between the Resistance and First Order. In the film, Kylo Ren is the new supreme leader of the First Order. He finds the Sith Holocron/Wayfinder, which takes him to Papa Palpatine. Palpatine offers Kylo Ren an even more impressive fleet, the final order. Cue the music, original trilogy star destroyers breaking through the planets surface.
Palpatine tells Kylo to kill Rey. Kylo fines her, they fight, she stabs him, Harrison Ford million dollar cameo, Kylo is now Ben Solo again. He goes back to Palpatine, the resistance fleet follows the trail left by Rey and they fight the Final Order military and win. Palpatine dies for reals this time, Ben Solo sacrifices himself to revive Rey. Rey goes to Tattooine for no real reason. Saga is over
… But doesn’t the First Order still exist, at full strength? Although Hux was killed, wouldn’t there still be a leadership structure in place? They would never know that Kylo Ren turned away from the Dark side and became Ben Solo. And then he almost immediately dies, so there wasn’t time. The resistance fought the Final Order /Palpatine‘s fleet, not the First Order, correct?