we shall see....let's get it on with a bunch of speculation...
episode VIII has an official title!
http://www.starwars.com/news/the-off...-viii-revealed
we shall see....let's get it on with a bunch of speculation...
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Last edited by OldPhiKap; 01-23-2017 at 11:38 AM.
Jedi can be both singular and plural.
Indeed, you've just missed it. Not sure when the phrase was first used (it might be only be a few years old, although it seems like longer than that to me) but it's been in heavy use since the announcement of the stand-alone films.
I think this title bodes well for substantial inclusion of Luke. Maybe not so well for his good health, though.
He is arguably the last Jedi even while he is still alive so I'm not sure I think it is necessary for him to die for that title to make sense.
Except that we know it's singular because Luke is a worthless whinny ****** who never does anything without the help or prodding of someone else. So it's been 30 years and he hasn't trained another Jedi, not even his sister who is likely as strong in the force as he was...and now she's dead. You are on my list, Luke!
Actually...your humor brings up a really good question. We know that Kylo Ren was trained by Luke. I seem to recall that it was implied that Kylo was not Luke's only pupil. So...unless KR went on an Anakinesque murder spree of all the other padawans, somebody has to be out there still working on being trained, if not already having reached Jedi status.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
I recall from Force Awakens that they said Kylo Ren had killed the other Jedi trainees when he went to the Dark Side. It was Luke's guilt over not being able to protect his Padwan, as well as losing Ben Solo to Snoke, which drove Luke into a self-imposed exile.
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Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
The opening crawl for The Force Awakens specifically identified Luke Skywalker as "the last Jedi," which rules out the existence of any other Jedi as of the beginning of Episode VII. So unless Luke was training a Jedi off-camera during the events of Episode VII (i.e., after the crawl but before Rey arrived), then the title is referring to Luke and/or one or more persons who have yet to become a Jedi.
You want to know a storyline that might be cool? What if Luke was the Last Jedi by choice. He no longer thinks the Jedi are a good thing. After all, aside from the Sith Lords, the forces of evil (the Dark Side) pretty much always seem to be Jedi who have turned. If you have no Jedi, you have no one to turn. If Luke killed Kylo and Snoke and then died himself without training any more Jedi, it would be the ultimate form of balance between the dark and the light... there would be no more masters of either and no one let to teach anyone how to really use the Force.
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Interesting theory. You may be on to something.
I didn't try very hard, and I am sure someone could google and find it.
The original chosen one / force prophecy about bringing balance to the force had something about the "son of sons" or "son of suns" and that it was not actually Anakin but Luke that would bring balance to the Force.
If the trilogy pattern holds, the second movie is dark and the bad guys win before good triumphs over evil in the third act.
Another interesting angle could be the evolution of the Jedi to something else.
If Jedi were discipline and self denial, and Sith was all emotion, maybe a fully balanced Force disciple that exhibited both would be <insert cool new title here> (neither Jith nor Sedi seems to fit the bill). Only by embracing your whole self- good and bad, light and dark, discipline and emotion, could the Force be in balance.
Sounds pretty hippie - er, uh, Zen there, buddy.
I like the idea and understand your thought process there. But I think that most people would be disappointed if the payoff after 40+ years and 9 films, the battle between good and evil was resolved by the elimination of the concepts of good and evil.
I suspect VII will be dark as all get out but can't see the end of Episode 9 being anything other than a victory for the good guys.