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Legacy of Vader: Reign of Kylo Ren: Part 4

What is it ? : Kylo is aboard the Finalizer, asking Hux if the First Order still has the ability to destroy a planet despite the loss of the Supremacy and Starkiller Base. Hux tells him that reducing a planet to rubble would be problematic, but reducing the surface to slag would be possible using Siege Dreadnaughts and Star Destroyers.
2 days earlier on Naboo, Vanee is explaining to Kylo the part that Naboo played in Vaders story that it was where Vader fell in love and the loss of that love drove him. Kylo dismisses this, saying that Vanee surely cannot be saying that Kylo must fall in love to understand Vaders power. So Vanee tells Kylo that the world was also the origin of Palpatine, and he tells how the world prospered under the Empire, and suffered after his fall.
But Kylo isn't interested in Palpatine, so Vanee focuses once again on Vader having something important to him and the loss of that driving him, asking Kylo if he doesn't have anything like that, and Kylo briefly thinks of Rey.
But they are interrupted by two locals, who warn them away from the house, saying a spirit of death came to there after a Queen once lived there, and we see they're thinking of a vengeful spirit form of Vader. They warn that the house is now claimed by one of the family's on Naboo, when suddenly an official arrives with his guards. He tells Kylo that he trespassing, and Kylo lashes out, defeating the official and his guards, with only one of them escaping.
The two locals quickly explain that the power on Naboo is connected to old family's and they are all connected through their history so there's no authorities except the family's. They get back in their boat and leave, as Kylo thinks he understands Vanee's lesson, that Vader saw weaknesses in his history so came back here to destroy that history, and with that he reaches out and force chokes the two locals on their boat.
Back on the Finalizer, Hux asks Kylo if he intends to destroy a planet, but Kylo asks about the progress of his throne, ignoring Hux's response, much to Hux's chagrin.
In the privacy of his quarters, Kylo broadcasts to the people of Naboo that he is unimpressed by them and their stagnant clinging to the past, telling them they've been ruled by Queen's, by an Emperor, but now he is their King!

High Points : I really like the way that Vanee reframes his reasons for bringing Kylo to Naboo, as his attempts to teach Kylo something about loss powering Vader fails, he begins reframing it as if he's teaching Kylo about Palpatine's rise to power instead, but Kylo rejects that as it's Vader he worships not Palpatine, so Vanee once again reframes his lesson back to loss, trying to connect with Kylo. It clearly shows Vanee isn't really teaching Kylo, he's trying to manipulate him and is willing to change his story to achieve that aim.
It's interesting to see a glimpse at what happened to Naboo during the reign of Palpatine and the Empire, and it kind of matches what I always thought. Naboo was quite happy under the rule of Palpatine, he was a "local boy done good", so their Senator was now in charge of the Galaxy, so they saw it as a rise to power and influence of their world. But obviously this led to the world suffering afterwards, not through outside influence, just the loss of their status and influence leading to the world falling into decay.

Low Points : I found the lack of Padme in the story to be kind of odd, as they're walking around her family home, although Kylo thinks it's Palpatine's. Vanee doesn't use the family connection at all, he doesn't even tell Kylo where they really are, that this was where Anakin and Padme spent time together, it's just a mansion fallen into ruin. I'd thought that the lessons about loss would have been something more, the story of his grandmother falling in love, and what effect that had. But Kylo just doesn't seem interested.
And this does make Vanee's scheming seem particularly weak, he's brought Kylo Ren here to teach him a lesson, probably to manipulate the supreme leader of the First Order, but he tells him pretty much the same story as on Tatooine, but less so. Where on Tatooine he told that Vader lost his mum, was a slave, and met the love of his life whose loss powered his rage. On Naboo, he's just saying that he got married here to the love of his life whose loss powered his rage. It's the same story, and doesn't work here as well as it did on Tatooine, I definitely expected more connection with his grandmothers tale to be brought in, but she's not a character in the story he's telling, she's just a reason for Vader experiencing loss.

So what do you really think ? : I actually liked the couple that turns up to rattle off backstory to the current situation on Naboo, and kind of wanted them to be shown to be relatives of Padme, as we know she had sisters. I thought that Kylo having some familial connection to these, but no emotional connection, him manipulating them towards power on Naboo as proof of what he can do. But he just kills them, and even that could have been enhanced if there had even been a suggestion there was a connection between them and him, even a line of dialogue that they were part of the family of the Queen that had lived there.

Final Words : So Kylo, the Supreme Leader of the First Order is declaring himself King of Naboo, which if nothing else is a step down in position surely? With the position of Queen being an elected one, he can perhaps look at himself as deserving of the position while not actually owning it, but it is interesting to see that while he's ignoring Padme's part in his own storyline and history, it's her position he's claiming, not Vaders.

Score : 8/10

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