Like anyone who has obsessively watched the original Star Wars movie series along with the Prequel series(who doesn’t love Obi-wan and crew?), I was extremely excited when at the end of The Force Awakens Luke Skywalker was finally found. Of course we the fans were immediately shown that the Luke Skywalker that was found was not the Luke we know and love from the previous movies.
This was a Luke Skywalker that has fallen from Grace. In the movie “The Last Jedi” he keeps repeating that the Jedi need to end. Which sparked many different debates across the internet. The main conclusion, that I at least have come up with, is that yes the Jedi needs to end, if only because, the Jedi was an organization that prided itself on producing only Jedi that followed the light. The Order frowned on any that followed the Dark side of the force. But the main colossal truth is that you can’t have light without the dark. In the Force Awakens Snoke did tell Kylo Ren that his equal in the light would rise, the more he turned to the dark. There is always two in every movie, two sith and two Jedi. Now that Snoke is dead, it is completely possible that another Sith will rise, and the same could be said for
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The same could be said about Luke’s Death. A new Jedi could possibly rise, the only way they can correct the main thing that was wrong about the Jedi, is if they finally acknowledge that Jedi, has both light and dark within them, and that the Balance of the Force is actually the ability to harness both sides of the force in harmony. Not just choosing one side over the other. It’s something that both Kylo Ren and Rey of Jakku will have to discover if they want to finally end the pointless war. The First Order has to go down so that the new generation can be one with both sides of the Force. Rey learning about the Jedi on the Island that had both Light and Dark within was a good way to show that maybe at the heart of the Jedi, they did teach Balancing the light and dark, but somewhere along the way those teachings were lost. I hope that’s where the story is going atleast.
In the Last Jedi, we could see that Kylo Ren is starting to finally become less Kylo and more Ben Solo, but of course we still need to see the Knights of Ren. So we don’t know for sure if he will stay dark or if by some chance, some hope he becomes the Ben Solo, that his mother has always believed to be inside of him. A lot more questions were asked at the end of the Last Jedi, especially with the reveal that Rey of Jakku is not one of the Skywalkers or even the daughter of some long lost Jedi. It has been revealed (thanks Kylo Ren) that her parents were just run of the mill drunkards who has been long since dead. Rey’s journey has now started, and who knows how its going to end!