I like to watch movies, and it can be an expensive habit. I have a few select favourites – my all time favourite movie being A Night at the Roxbury, followed closely by The Princess Bride. I generally don’t go to the movie theatre much any more because movies these days are just deplorable. One of the last movies I saw in the theatre was Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. I was disappointed by the movie personally, however when I am able to watch it at home I might change my mind.
I find it always takes me two times to watch a movie to really determine if I enjoy it or not. The second viewing gives me a chance to watch the movie hopefully without distraction. When I go to the theatre, I want to watch the movie uninterrupted and with zero distractions, but as is ALWAYS the case, there’s someone in the audience who says something, even an innocuous comment at a non-vital part of the movie ruins the entire movie for me. You can also add to my distraction list people who move around too much in a movie, that too takes away my enjoyment of the entire movie.
I recently watched the latest in the Star Wars saga, Rise of Skywalker, and I was very disappointed in the movie. I found the story itself was terrible.
At this point, if you haven’t seen the movie, stop reading. If you aren’t interested in Star Wars or science fiction movies, you can stop reading this post too.
Keep in mind that as I write this, it is 12:30 am and I have just run through this entire blog post in my head while trying to sleep, and like those great ideas that we all have trying to get to sleep, I felt the need to write it down. And like most of our great ideas that we have when we’re trying to sleep, it might be a little incoherent. This post is being uploaded unedited until Runningfawn gets up and has a chance to edit and fix any glaring errors.
Now…(cue Star Wars theme song)
In the movie, Palpatine says that Rey will be/is the last Jedi or Sith. This is repeated a couple times, even with Kylo Ren being told he would be the last Sith. I find this to be entirely unbelievable.
“Why?”, you ask? “Didn’t you see Episode 3 when Anakin killed all the other Jedi and younglings?” Good point, but let’s explore this line of thought further.
Prior to the massacre at the Jedi temple there were hundreds of Jedi and younglings learning the Jedi way. You would have to assume this has gone on for generations, since most of the characters in Episode 1 knew what a jedi was.
Let’s use an analogy. Say, Jediism is like Christianity. Jesus has 12 apostles, and they went out into the world to teach The Way. Less than two thousand years later Christianity is all over the globe. But my point is this, Christianity went from being The Way, to Catholicism, to Protestantism, to Anabaptist, to many other differing denominations and incarnations. In essence each of the previous incarnations is still around in some form or another.
Jediism should be just like that, there must be a non-original incarnation of Jedi somewhere in the galaxy, with as many people, planets, and systems as there are in the galaxy. There must be many different forms of Jedi teachings. Some Jedi master would have disagreed with the council and felt that jedi is for all people, so he created a reformation, trying to resolve the differences in the Jedi teachings. Somewhere along the way there must have been a Jedi master who said that pacifism is the way to go. Maybe there’s even a Zen Jedi faction.
This would have to be. There couldn’t be just one set of Jedi for the entire galaxy, all following the same code and governed by one council. Knowing how people don’t always agree, there would have to even be several sects of Sith.
Maybe there’s a Church of the Midiclorian out there in the galaxy teaching a different way to use the Force. Perhaps there’s even a Church of the Flying Midiclorian where Jedi wear colanders on their heads. How about a Church of the Latter Day Jedi?
All these things would not only be probable in the Star Wars universe, I say they would have to exist. Therefore only one faction of the Jedi / Sith were killed off and Rey and Kylo Ren would be the last of their particular sect, but that doesn’t mean that they are the last of the Jedi / Sith.
And that is how I see the story as being a terrible story line. Yes, say she is the last of the Skywalker line, even the last of the Palpatine line, but there must be other Jedi out there.
That is all. Did you know, it’s not a pineapple?