space opera

Time for a little RE-WRITE SESSION!!!!

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The Last Jedi starts with Rey passing her lightsaber off to Luke…

Then, it cuts back to the interior of the Millennium Falcon, where Rey is telling whoever (could be Chewy, a droid, herself…), “And that’s how I’ll do it! I’ll hand the legendary sword to the Legendary Skywalker, and he’ll go off and save the galaxy!”

But, when she gets to that island planet, Ahch-To, – there’s no Luke.

So, she spends the majority of the movie searching the island for Luke Skywalker. There’s evidence that he WAS there once, but that was a long, long time ago.

Throughout her searching she has Force Conversations with Kylo Ren, who tells her that he KNOWS where Luke is. In fact, he and his uncle have actually been working together secretly this entire time, working to overthrow those on the dark side of the force once and for all. If she comes to him, he’ll take her to meet Luke Skywalker.

So, she goes to him.

He takes her to his chambers and shows her the pile of ash under Darth Vader’s helmet.

“There he is,” he says.

Rey doesn’t understand what he’s saying, or rather – she doesn’t believe it. Doesn’t WANT to believe it.

They fight.

She escapes.

She finds her way back to Leia, and tells her, “I’m sorry, I couldn’t find him. I couldn’t find Luke. But, I’ll keep looking. I’ll keeping looking until I find him.”

“Stop,” Leia orders her, “you need to stop. Ok? You need to stop. Luke is dead.”

Rey doesn’t understand – so, Leia continues.

“My son killed him. We couldn’t – I couldn’t tell anyone. Without Luke, there would be no more Jedi – there would be no more hope. So, we lied. I lied. Said that he was in hiding. Lost. Better for everyone to spend the rest of their lives fighting and searching for the Last Jedi, then to learn the truth, abandon all hope, and die.”

Now, at the climax of the film, Rey has a decision to make – tell everyone the truth, that Luke Skywalker is dead. That his nephew killed him, and his sister, their leader, covered it all up. Or continue the lie.

Rey chooses to continue the lie.

She tells everyone that she is still looking for Luke.

That she will find him.

She will find the Last Jedi.

“The Skywalker’s WILL return and save us.”

Any Jedi victories that she achieves, she attributes to Luke, taking no credit for herself.

Because, what the galaxy needs most is a SKYWALKER, not a NOBODY.

THE END.

And then, from there we would be waiting for the third and final sequel film, that for now & for all intents and purposes, will remain named, The Rise of Skywalker. The title “The Rise of Skywalker” already makes more sense now though, because now, we the viewers know that there is a LACK and a NEED for a SKYWALKER.

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Would you have enjoyed this version of The Last Jedi more???

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HERE’S WHAT I WOULD’VE DONE: EPISODE 2

SNOKE THEORY (waaaaay past it’s expiration date, I know!)

I think my favorite thing about the sequel trilogy was all of the thought experiments that it gave me.

I mean, if it had been completely perfect then there would’ve been nothing for my writer brain to theorize about, pick apart, or flat-out re-write in my head.

As things stand – oh lordy, are there plenty of things to think about!

(I mean, c’mon, this scene was ridiculous!)

Here’s one that was a theory of mine from waaaay back in the day right after The Last Jedi came out, you know, back when things were iffy in the Star Wars world but nobody had yet witnessed the absolute mess that was The Rise of Skywalker, so people were still generally amicable.

The Last Jedi ended, as you may recall, with a shot of a little slave boy using the Force to call his broom to his hand before staring out at the stars, the writers wanting us to think ‘oh boy, things are changing around here!’. Well, haha, here’s what I have to say to that.

Rewind the film a little bit, and you remember that Kylo killed Snoke, his oppressive, giant, decaying master, to save Rey.

My theory, was that Snoke had discovered the secret of immortality and that Snoke was in fact Darth Plagueis the Wise. The secret to immortality, to not-dying, and the explanation for Snoke’s decaying body was – well, soul jumping.

I think, that Darth Plagueis had learned to soul jump and was jumping from body to body to body and at the end of The Last Jedi, when he got killed, his soul jumped into the body of that little slave boy, and now he was plotting revenge against Kylo, Rey and the galaxy. THAT was why the slave boy suddenly had the Force, even though he hadn’t had it earlier in the film when he’d met Rose and Finn. THAT was why he was looking out at the stars so seriously.

And then, instead of them basically doing a poorer version of that with Palpatine (“somehow – Palpatine returned.”) the third film would’ve seen our heroes having to battle with (and possibly kill/have to think about killing) a child. Not an evil child, but a child that was being possessed by Darth Plagueis. Oh, the drama that could’ve ensued!

Then, you could’ve gone into a whole ‘maybe Palpatine himself WAS Plagueis, maybe there had only ever been Plagueis, maybe Plagueis was the first ever Sith Lord and he was just constantly soul jumping from body to body, and that’s why there was only ever two sith – Plagueis and the body that would eventually BECOME Plagueis! And, if he was the first sith, then maybe Rey was the reincarnation of the first ever Jedi and that’s why she was so strong and important!’. By the way, I have so many thoughts about Rey. You can look forward to many more posts about her and my thoughts and theories (good and bad) on her character.

But basically, yeah, I think (and will always think) that that little slave boy at the end of The Last Jedi was/should’ve been Snoke, still alive, plotting more evil for the galaxies and coming for Reylo’s head.

What do you think???

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