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Post #1144789

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TavorX
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
18-Dec-2017, 10:04 PM

I’ve not been able to see it a second time yet, but this story point still bothers me, and hopefully someone can me make sense of it.
Luke went on this amazing rant on how the Force and the Jedi Order were seriously flawed; how dare the high and mighty Jedi claim the Force as vanity, right? He goes on to teach Rey the ways of the Force, but not because she must become a Jedi, but in order to learn why not to learn the Force in same manner as the Jedi in the past have. She must find that balance, at least that seemed to be Luke’s intention.
However… Rey eventually leaves and then Yoda appears. Was that whole interaction between him and Luke basically Yoda telling Luke, “No, the Jedi Order is fine”; dismissing the whole rant Luke made earlier? Plus at the end, Luke says there is indeed a last “Jedi”, of course referring to Rey.

Basically what I’m asking is that we’re keeping the status-quo that Jedi are mighty heroes, and that those teachings are A-OK? Because if that’s the case, I seriously would love the risk taken to have Rey, as many had hoped, to be a more “gray” Force user that subscribed to neither dogma of Jedi or Sith but instead synthesizing both sides to have more whole-view of it all. But by the end, it’s like Rey is still this super bright light of goody-two-shoes Jedi…

What’s everyone else’s take on this?