“It was the last night of her training. Leia just freaked out for no reason and bailed on it, even though I was a good teacher. She just gave up. But she said that her saber would be picked up again someday by someone who was up to it.”
Lol, yeah the vague option is basically that.
I’m also going to say again I feel it is convenient she happened to have a vision that someone who use her saber in the future. Having Luke say something like, “but she said that one day, she would finish her journey”. Maybe at the time Leia felt she would return to the Jedi path once she finished her political career, not realizing it would be to train her own Jedi student in these circumstances.
The diplomacy lines hit wrong for me. The Jedi can defend themselves and others sure but they’re not violent by nature. Before the rise of Palpatine the Jedi were negotiators/mediators that were sent out to settle disputes between different parties through non-violent diplomacy.
This new Luke line paints the Jedi as warriors first and that just doesn’t ring true.
True! The Jedi were also agents of diplomacy. So I wonder if it would be better to play up the angle of conflict of interest in being a member of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Senate? Just spitballing here.