5. Returning to the roots of the Force
The woody bookshelf that quickly shows up in the Last Jedi trailer may be a general old space tree, yet we question it. In early Episode VIII photographs, a huge contorted tree sat amidst the set. Hypothesis by many fans is that the prop was a “Force tree,” which is a huge piece of Star Wars’ backstory.
In The Clone Wars’ fifth season finale, a goliath Force-sensitive tree grows amidst the Jedi Temple and watches over youthful Jedi as they are training. In Marvel’s Shattered Empire miniseries, Luke Skywalker discovers that two little twigs from the tree survived the Emperor’s rule. Luke gives one plant to Shara Bey, Poe Dameron’s mom, and keeps the other for himself. It appears to be very likely that Luke planted the sapling on Ach-To. This is the planet where he’s training Rey in the trailer, and that it grew up amid Luke’s exile.
There’s another alternative as well. In the Star Wars Rebels cartoon, there’s an ancient creature named Bendu. He happens to have bark-like skin and aides the ousted Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his apprentice Ezra Bridger, to learn the ways for the Force. Strangely, while Bendu is a to a very effective Force user, he isn’t faithful to either the light or the dark side. Rather, he says, he’s “in the centre,” and stands for the the Force’s centre.
Since Rey expresses “balance” when the wood shows up, it’s simple to perceive how a few fans are interfacing the goliath tree to Bendu and not the Jedi Temple. Obviously, there’s the troublesome truth that Bendu apparently died, or vanished, in Star Wars Rebels’ third season finale. Nevertheless, demise is not really the end in Star Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi’s ghost appears constantly, and Darth Maul figured out how to survive after he was sliced down the middle and dropped into a pit.
6. Grey Shades
It can be stated safely that The Last Jedi trailer doesn’t make Luke resemble the Jedi’s greatest fan. As it is, when Rey lays out the essential principles of the Jedi’s philosophy, there’s a light side and a dark side. Furthermore, they both should be kept in balance and Luke answers by saying “It’s so much bigger.” Towards the end of the trailer, Luke asserts that it’s “time for the Jedi to end.”
Nevertheless, Luke spends the greater part of the short video training Rey on how to utilize the Force. Therefore, he clearly observes some value in the Jedi’s lessons. This dichotomy and Bendu’s debut in the last period of Star Wars Rebels, paves the path for a neutral Force-wielder. This is driving some to induce that Luke has turned into a “Grey Jedi.” Unlike a general Jedi, Grey Jedi aren’t a part of the Jedi order, and can take advantage of both the dark and light sides of the Force without being ruined.
Apart from Bendu, there are a couple of Grey Jedi in Star Wars’ history. This is in spite of the fact that a vast majority of them were tossed out of the official canon when Disney reset the Expanded Universe after purchasing Lucasfilm. Jolee Bindo, a previous Jedi Padawan, was a noteworthy character in the Knights of the Old Republic computer game who portrayed himself as a Grey Jedi. The Jedi Academy Training Manual, a source book for Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars role-playing game, contains a considerable amount of data about the Grey Jedi order (or scarcity in that department), as does the comic book series Star Wars: Legacy, which is set in the Star Wars Universe’s distant future.
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