Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (Spoilers for Episode 7)

zoogs said:
By the way, on the Skywalkers: Kylo Ren is a one, and if Rey isn't, he's likely the last of the Skywalker line. The story of this trilogy may be a passing of the torch in the infinite battle between dark and light; the last Skywalker fails to carry on the legacy but a new hero rises through her own nature and not genealogy. I'm sure Disney intends to milk much more from Star Wars at some point, and moving on from The Skywalker Chronicles would be an important task to accomplish at some point. There's no greater opportunity than now.

A little about Jedi love, Kenobi's love interest is now canon and so is her death at the hands of Darth Maul, whose comic book-like survival-as-fanservice is also canon.
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Hope all of this doesn't bleed too much into the main movies.
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I'm grabbing this thought from something I read online, but it also falls into what I think exactly, just more eloquently:

"If Kylo Ren is the only legacy child, what is the message of the Skywalker Saga - that the bloodline will always be drawn to the dark? That’s terrible and negates everything that happened in ROTJ - if this is the case most people in the GFFA could be forgiven for thinking that all of the Skywalkers should be sterilized and they’d all be much better off. But if Rey is a Skywalker there is a message of hope - the Skywalker bloodline has the capacity for light and dark, to drag the galaxy into chaos, but ultimately to save it again - they represent the true balance of the Force, keeping the dark and light sides in harmony with one another."

I 100% understand why people do not want the main lead to be a Skywalker (especially when the most visible bad guy is one), but to me there is too much symbolism and parallels to Luke/Anakin in a movie that was pulling a lot from the previous movies to point me to another answer. With Daisy's interview about it being obvious in the movie, didn't like 90% of the people who walked out of the movie thinking she was Luke's kid?

 
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It would be a little dark for the Skywalkers, but not too much so long as Luke remains pure. If Rey becomes his spiritual heir, it's still hereditary, but by choice and not by lineage. I think that's a powerful statement that both preserves Luke's legacy, builds on what he did in ROTJ, and emphasizes the point that while Skywalker did a lot for the light side, 'light' is not something they own, and thus it's a tradition that they pass on.

It must happen, eventually, right? Skywalkers will not rule as a steward dynasty of Good in the universe. It would most honor the originals that Luke himself cements his legacy by finding someone to successfully hand it off to. Hope for Light >>>> hope for a particular family's redemption.

 
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Good points and at this point the only 2 Rey theories I can accept are the Rey Skywalker or Rey Nobody, but I also feel like the Saga stories should have Skywalkers as the main characters. While I expect VIII to feature Luke prominently, the story is still Rey's and I expect that we're not going to push each other off of our mountains.

 
whateveritis1224 said:
...but I also feel like the Saga stories should have Skywalkers as the main characters. While I expect VIII to feature Luke prominently, the story is still Rey's and I expect that we're not going to push each other off of our mountains.
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This is where I'm stuck at, as well, particularly as it relates back to Rey and her parents. The first six films were all about the Skywalkers. Even TFA, which largely features Rey, is anchored by the need to find Luke. Having Rey's parents be some kind of bombshell that takes away from the Skywalkers just doesn't seem to fit well with me.

 
Enhance89 said:
whateveritis1224 said:
...but I also feel like the Saga stories should have Skywalkers as the main characters. While I expect VIII to feature Luke prominently, the story is still Rey's and I expect that we're not going to push each other off of our mountains.
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This is where I'm stuck at, as well, particularly as it relates back to Rey and her parents. The first six films were all about the Skywalkers. Even TFA, which largely features Rey, is anchored by the need to find Luke. Having Rey's parents be some kind of bombshell that takes away from the Skywalkers just doesn't seem to fit well with me.
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Also its possible that the bombshell about Rey might not be the who (TFA points more to Rey being Luke's daughter than any other theory), but the how/why Rey was left on Jakku.

 
Weird that they announce this. It's not like people aren't going to see the movie. Maybe they're trying to soften the blow?

 
knapplc said:
Weird that they announce this. It's not like people aren't going to see the movie. Maybe they're trying to soften the blow?
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Lot of talk in that TFA name was announced 2 weeks before the first trailer. Might mean there is a teaser during the Super Bowl (as it is now 2 weeks away).

 
whateveritis1224 said:
knapplc said:
Weird that they announce this. It's not like people aren't going to see the movie. Maybe they're trying to soften the blow?
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Lot of talk in that TFA name was announced 2 weeks before the first trailer. Might mean there is a teaser during the Super Bowl (as it is now 2 weeks away).
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God I hope so. I think the first teaser trailer for TFA was released more than a year before it's premiere, and we're already about 11 months way from TLJ.

 
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Of Luke dying. He's been the major face of the franchise since 1977.

But I think they missed an opportunity here. "I am your father" was one of the most iconic moments in movie history. Luke's surprise death could be the same. Han's was basically a foregone conclusion, since Harrison Ford had been begging to be killed off since the first movie, but Luke's death will be a huge moment. Surprising the audience with it could have been another iconic moment. Now we know.

 
knapplc said:
Of Luke dying. He's been the major face of the franchise since 1977.But I think they missed an opportunity here. "I am your father" was one of the most iconic moments in movie history. Luke's surprise death could be the same. Han's was basically a foregone conclusion, since Harrison Ford had been begging to be killed off since the first movie, but Luke's death will be a huge moment. Surprising the audience with it could have been another iconic moment. Now we know.
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You are assuming Jedi in this title is singular instead of plural.

And if it is sungular, Luke is the last Jedi. Rey is at best a paduwan learner if the movie picks up where it left off.

 
Everyone is assuming that the subtitle is singular, but I don't know why. The last Jedi can refer to more than one person.

 
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