STAR WARS: EPISODE IX — THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

STAR WARS: EPISODE IX — THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. J. J. Abrams, director, script — with Chris Terrio, producer (one of three). Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Chris Terrio, and J. J. Abrams, story — based on characters by George Lucas. Rick Carter and Kevin Jenkins, production design. USA: Lucasfilm, Bad Robot, Digital Makeup Group (digital makeup), Walt Disney Pictures (production) / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (distribution for most of Earth), 2019. See IMDb for details.

Conclusion of the STAR WARS central triad of trilogies.

See, and listen to, for the momentary foregrounding of a wheel and a glimpse of treads — or a tread — (such as one on a tractor or tank in our world) on a relatively small vehicle: that galaxy long ago and far away has little in the way of wheel technology, so the occasional appearance of wheels is notable.

Note also: The scene of C-3PO undergoing a data-download and temporary partial memory-wipe while hard-wired to some sort of device; cf. and contrast visuals of a living-dead Emperor Palpatine in and possibly attached to a body-size device that we can infer maintains him living-dead as opposed to thoroughly- dead dead. The Emperor, his living-dead "life" support, and his mystic Stith entourage are in a wrecked vessel of the space- or water-going (or both?) variety, a vessel of impressive size even by Imperial standards. Horse-analogs with tusks, in frame with the small 'droid on a wheel, and, later galloping across a large Imperial spacecraft.

C-3PO introduces himself as programmed for "human-cyborg relations," in a variation of his identification as a protocol 'droid (the significance of "cyborg" in this usage is not explained).

RDE, Initial Compiler, 24Dec2019