The Episode VIII title was just announced on the Star Wars channel as The Last Jedi!
I like the title and I’m going to talk about what we might see in the movie based on the
title.
So the Last Jedi.
The obvious connection is of course Luke, who currently is the last Jedi.
I think we’ve all been assuming he would train Rey to be a Jedi, but now I’m not
so sure.
We know that Kylo Ren and Snoke are not Sith.
They’re something new.
So maybe Rey will be comparable to them.
Maybe Luke won’t train her to be a Jedi, but train her to be the first of a new Order,
which will literally make Luke the last Jedi.
The new canon has been highlighting some of the downfalls of the Jedi Order from the prequels.
I even touched on this a bit in my Rebels review Sunday.
But things like becoming more clinical than spiritual about finding new potential Jedi
show that the Jedi have somewhat lost their way.
I think the bigger issue, though, is emotional attachment.
It was forbidden in the prequels.
Yet Luke is able to redeem Vader in Return of the Jedi strictly because of his emotional
attachment to his father.
He refuses to fight, claims there is still good in his father, and ultimately spares
his life for the love of his father.
Interesting that in the Force Awakens novelization, Snoke also tells Kylo that emotional attachment
was Vader’s downfall.
The reason he could not stay devoted to the dark side.
So maybe Luke has realized, and honestly I think Yoda had also come to accept this by
the time of the Original Trilogy, that love is an incredibly powerful weapon.
I know that sounds cliche, but maybe Luke tried and failed to teach his first round
of students under the old rules.
We know he’s read Obi-Wan’s journals in the comics, and Lor San Tekka helped him research
the old Jedi.
So maybe Luke was a very cold teacher, which would make him cold to a nephew that already
had a distant relationship with his mother and father.
Maybe lack of emotional connection is what helped drive Kylo to the dark side.
All this is to say that I think Rey will be trained differently.
So what might that look like?
Well I would personally love to see Luke and Rey wreck some face with the Force, but Jedi
aren’t supposed to use the Force to attack.
I’d be okay if that rule went out the window too.
Again to jump back to my latest Rebels review, I called Kanan a stepping stone for the Jedi
as they become more moderate in their beliefs.
It’s intriguing that this episode was released right before the announcement of the title.
There very well could be some clues in there about what’s to come.
The last thing I feel I should talk about is the red color scheme.
Red is obviously connected with the dark side in Star Wars, so this seems to be implying
a darker tone, which at this point is kind of a given.
Everyone expects this to be the Empire Strikes Back of this trilogy.
So I would say another possibility is that Rey rejects Luke’s teachings and abandons
him, which would be another way to make Luke the last Jedi.
I find that option very unlikely, and I don’t think I could handle seeing Luke’s heart
break.
So I’m not going to read too much into the color other than to say, okay, it’s gonna
be darker.
And just because, why don’t I throw in a Snoke theory since those are all the rage.
Maybe Snoke is the last Jedi.
Maybe he actually is Mace Windu or another surviving Jedi from the Republic that’s
come back and he’s pissed.
I doubt that even more than I doubt Rey will leave Luke.
But that’s all I’ve got for now!
What do you guys think of the title?
Do you have any speculation of your own?
Let me know in the comments!
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