This stuff about Yoda and the founding documents of the Jedi religion puts me in mind of something from the Prequels, namely, the dreaded Chosen One nonsense.

I wouldn’t consider this at all except that Rian somewhat of a prequel apologist from what I’ve heard. But when seen with that lens, the Last Jedi actually puts forward a good argument for why Rey might just be this Chosen One.

(And lest we forget, the first line of the ST is about how there’s no balance in the Force.)

Rey’s parents are ‘nobody’, in that she was intentionally conceived as a Force sensitive individual by the Force itself and not by any special lineage. In essence, everyone who is Force sensitive has been ‘chosen’ by the Force. Furthermore, she is the first person in this universe emphasizing the balance of the Force as opposed to adhering to one aspect over another. She takes death and violence as a fact of life just as much as peace and benevolence.

The biggest piece of evidence for me, however, is that Yoda implies that he has read the first Jedi books, and this may be where the prophecy originated.

“A prophecy…that misread, could have been.”

Since these are the only Jedi texts that we know of, this is the only writing established in this universe to be misread. And what better medium for a long-forgotten bit of lore than the original Jedi books.

One could make the argument that Kylo Ren is the subject of the prophecy, but he is in no way balanced, having learned all the wrong lessons from Luke’s school. In fact, he’s probably more Sith-like than many Sith with his obsession with power and murdering his master. So if Rey ends up destroying him in Episode 9, we may have the answer to the most perplexing question in the prequels.

Just like poetry. 😉