I'm just gonna say it, they still have never made a plastic toy out of the yellow Rey lightsaber they decided to end an entire trilogy on
Narratively they had to show her carrying a new one, or burying the old ones would read as her retiring from being a jedi. But her switching it on made no sense and reminded me of Solo when Darth Maul brandished his lightsaber on a zoom call for no reason
It was just a bizarre toy commercial moment, made way more bizarre by it being one of the final moments of the story, and then made depressing by them really clearly & deliberately dropping all the sequel trilogy characters from all marketing immediately after the film
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