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Post #1046019

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darthrush
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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Date created
12-Feb-2017, 4:07 PM

Tyrphanax said:

If we look at the official canon (which informs the films), I would argue that the Jedi Order at the end of the PT as we have it now are no longer Jedi, but instead a bunch of decadent, complacent soldiers who were maybe more complicit in their downfall than Palpatine was. The public hated them, too (if you watch The Clone Wars, all this becomes even more apparent). Hell, even Yoda at the time was complacent and more interested in fighting than the Force.

Trying to go back to that, or evoking that time seems like it would be a mistake. The Jedi Order was not as infallible or even as good as we were lead to believe by the rose-colored glasses of the OT. In fact, even by the time we get to ROTJ, Luke more or less casts off what Obi-Wan and Yoda tell him (that Vader is beyond help and must be destroyed) and he proves them wrong. If anything, Luke in all his greyness is more a true Jedi than Yoda ever was.

This is how I always have saw it. It’s also why I have a theory that Luke is the true chosen one. When it says bring balance to the force I think it meant what Luke ultimately did. He learned to strike a balance between the light and the dark. The Jedi and the Sith were the two unhealthy extremes and the saga finished (until disney) with Luke becoming a grey jedi. That is always how I viewed the saga.