Wedge Antilles Courtesy of Lucasfilm, via IMDb. And if you don’t think that eats me up, that it haunts me every day, every minute, then you don’t know a damn thing.” – Poe Dameron, ‘Resistance Reborn’ĭespite his mistakes, Poe Dameron lives and breathes the Resistance and is a true hero. I disobeyed a direct order, I got people killed, I undermined my commander, and led a mutiny.

We’re reminded of why Poe is meant to be a leader, which then helps solidify why he is ultimately the one to take on the role of acting General of the Resistance in The Rise of Skywalker. Poe spends much of the novel attempting to come to terms with all of this while also trying to continue moving forward. He feels immense guilt and is incredibly hard on himself about the things that he’s done. One of the strengths of novelizations like this, that isn’t typically found in cinematic media, is that we’re able to take a step inside Poe’s head and hear his thoughts and reflections on the events that occurred in The Last Jedi. Resistance Reborn follows Poe’s story as he works under General Leia to help rebuild the Resistance from the ashes that remain. The Last Jedi saw the Resistance left in tattered remains after their narrow escape from Crait, an army reduced to a mere handful of fighters.

Resistance Reborn is an exceptionally important chapter in the Star Wars universe and the Skywalker Saga, because it fills in some of the gap of time between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. With the “loss” of the wildly popular Expanded Universe, new canonical books were an essential need for Star Wars audiences. This has given fans additional media that expands upon the cinematic stories in between the films (not to mention the companion novels that follow the script of the films as well, which offer new perspectives).

Though the endless existing Star Wars Expanded Universe written media collection was delegated to a large non-canonical umbrella dubbed Legends in anticipation of the release of The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm has released a variety of canonical novels since then. Poe Dameron’s Guilt Wedge Antilles Princess Leia Floating Through Space Finn’s Relationship Status Acceptance of the First Order Rebuilding the Resistance

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