we would be honored if you would join us hey everyone and
welcome back to another video where we're going to cover luke's point of
view on the last jedi that's right this comes
from the book the secrets of the jedi that you've seen
me cover so many times it's riddled with so much interesting stuff
all from luke's point of view and the best part is that it's canon so let's
begin on luke's point of view of the last jedi
yes himself the jedi order is dead all that's left now are legends or at least
that was supposed to be the case my name is luke skywalker and had everything
gone as i planned i would have been the last jedi though
the age of the jedi has long since passed
most people still remember them as an ancient order of powerful knights
devoted to bringing harmony to the galaxy these peacekeepers numbered in
the thousands ages ago but their number dwindled until
there was only one left me my path to becoming a jedi master was
very different from the one followed by those who came before me still
when i suddenly went from naive farm boy to intergalactic hero
i thought myself worthy enough to carry on their long lost traditions
in doing so i became more than just another rebel fighting against the
empire i became a legend myself i even believed
in my own legend for a time i thought my triumphs were the sign of a
new beginning for the jedi order that i could build a powerful new force
of light from the ashes of a dark empire i almost succeeded in doing so legends
don't always tell the whole story the heroes at their center aren't always the
shining beacons of light we so desperately want them to be they
have flaws and failures at the time my failures
were almost more than i could bear instead of blaming myself for them i
blame the jedi i became convinced the jedi order had done
more harm to the galaxy than good that they were so blinded by their own light
they let the darkness creep in and take control and so
i came here to octu the most unfindable place in the whole galaxy
to die and to let the jedi die with me i closed myself off from the force for
years after that swore off the old ways even tried to
burn the last traces of the order to the ground
i refused to make the same mistakes ever again but by removing myself
so completely from the world i was failing everyone that i loved
everyone who believed in me and everyone who believed in those ancient legends of
noble warriors destined to bring light to the darkness
it had taken years of exile to convince myself i was doing what was right but
all it took was one young girl to show me how wrong i had been
that whole time i focused on letting the jedi die for so long i had almost
forgotten why they lived in the first place
perhaps it's time to walk that path again after all what good are legends
if we can't learn from them luke then goes on to talk about the jedi code just
a little bit so i'm going to read that as well each member of the jedi order
from the youngest initiate to the wisest master was devoted to following the jedi
code there is no emotion there is peace there is no ignorance
there is knowledge there is no passion there is serenity there is no chaos
there is harmony there is no death there is the force the jedi code itself
may seem simple upon reading it but the true challenge is living it
passion can rise to the surface emotions can cloud our thoughts chaos
can spiral us into the unfathomable darkness
we all find ourselves staring into the abyss at times only those who find a way
to rise above the darkness are deemed worthy to become jedi and at
the bottom of this page there's something that you can pull out and it
helps you translate anything in orbish and what this does as it says
it says use the translator below to unlock the wisdom of the jedi
and if you look on the bottom of the page there it'll tell you
something in orabesh and you have to translate it so i went ahead and
translated it and it says always pass on what you have
learned yoda okay so i have a whole bunch of things
to say to this so luke essentially realized something that none of the
other jedi except for maybe count dooku and qui-gon
really understood which was the fact that the jedi were completely
disillusioned they completely cut themselves off from
the real force in the sense that they were just focusing on politics
and they allowed themselves to be consumed by it clouding their judgment
from the real threat which was the sith or rather i should
say were the sith once darth vader came into the picture
what i really like about that is that luke
is thinking outside of the box he's not just thinking like the jedi did with
their dogmatic views that palpatine was talking about to
anakin now on the other side of the coin what i really don't like about this
is that he uses that to pretty much just give up
and then of course it took him you know to the end of the film than episode nine
to really acknowledge the fact that he was wrong
and he shouldn't have done that and you can see that in the excerpt here so it
makes me wonder did he write this just before he
you know passed away on octo or was this later on when he became a ghost and he
started writing stuff in the book and if you're thinking hey how do you do that
when you're a ghost well the guy held his lightsaber and he pulled up his
x-wing with the force after being dead so
i mean obviously you can do some very special things here not to mention yoda
igniting the freaking tree with a lightning bolt anyways that's neither
here no there what i'd like to say more about this
is that luke does indeed acknowledge that it is very difficult to become a
jedi because he goes over the jedi code and one of the things that i took out
from this from what he said is that it's really hard to live these
things so everyone wants to talk about you know
being a jedi and this and that but it's actually more difficult to seize your
emotions when you have you know these fleeting
thoughts or when you have fleeting emotions
or if you have passion or if you have some sort of a impatience like anakin
had all of these things are what make a jedi if you curb them i
think that's something yoda did very well however i also think that was his
downfall i think a jedi can use their emotions to
be better but not to let it get the better of them
what i also don't like about this is that the
luke that we knew from return of the jedi was so optimistic and
so rooted in who he was as a jedi like his father before him
then to all of a sudden go and you know think like this think the jedi were
pretty much the root cause of the evil in the galaxy is just
such a 180 switch and now if you haven't seen my video about
not my luke skywalker a love letter to the sequels please go check that out
because you'll find my very respectful letter to the sequels
and all sequel fans of course all that being said i think
luke skywalker was very right in the sense that he did feel
all jedi had become disillusioned and they were all just kind of pandering
towards the senate into the republic and to politics and they were letting
them control everything that had become of the jedi order the
jedi order were supposed to be something totally diff they're supposed to be
their own standing body that was completely irrelevant from
politics and this and that whatever happened with the government body
should have been happening by itself it's irrelevant to the jedi the jedi
were their own thing they weren't part of the government however
as things progressed they eventually started meddling in
where the government would come and you'll seek their help and then the jedi
would want the government's help to fund things however the problem was
eventually they came to be as we knew them in the prequels
where the jedi were pretty much doing the entire bidding of the republic
and as we know that was governed by the sith lord himself
palpatine so i believe the issue here isn't really that the jedi
cut themselves off entirely from following their passions and this and
that which has its own issues i believe the problem
is that they were so entranced with the idea of being keepers
of the peace they didn't really take a step out of
themselves to see themselves in the third person and
witness what they're really doing that hey we actually are
soldiers what we're doing isn't really correct and i think this is something
that luke skywalker eventually realized and that's what we're reading here in
this book but of course by that time it was too late he had already given up and
he went to that planet to die what i would have preferred is if he had
went to that planet to learn something to learn something he had not
learned before perhaps from the texts or to go somewhere where no
one could find him and he could just meditate in peace and try to connect
himself with the netherworld and really learn
from the force ghosts and advance his teachings there and learning's there
and then he would go back into the fight and you know save his sister and work
with his sister and all that and fight the new empire which
was the first order anyways hope you enjoyed this canon video have an awesome
rest of your day and i'll see you in the next one until
then remember the force will be with you
always
destiny
you