so, anyone wondering why SW IX is named as it is? Why Palpatine’s laugh is in it? Tor contributor Dr Thanatos has is all figured out…

Here’s the true explanation.

Kylo and Rey, after a climactic battle, are attacked by the Force Ghost of Palpatine. He laughs and suddenly they are on a strange desert planet. One thing leads to another and Rey finds herself with child, who they decide to name Anakin after Kylo’s beloved grandfather.

They then learn that Palpatine transported them through time and space and they are on Tattoine about a hundred years earlier.

Kylo freaks out and decides to leave. Rey says she’ll change, whatever it takes to get him to stay.

Kylo says “It’s not you. It’s Shmee.”

Roll credits.