Star Wars: Episode VIII (The Last Jedi) - SPOILERS POSSIBLE*

I'm confused? How do you "finish off" a force ghost? They are already dead...

Who ya gonna call...

 

"We Came, We Saw, We KICKED IT'S FORCE-ASS!"

*Cue Ray Parker Jnr/John Williams mash-up*

 

EC Henry nails it! No, Leia is not flying. It is a Force pull, the same power that Luke displays after seconds of training aboard the Falcon in the original Star Wars movie. As Henry correctly points out, it is one of the first powers that relatively new Force sensitive characters use. Henry even explains that Leia’s survival in the vacuum of space is scientifically accurate, not that scientific accuracy matters in a fantasy saga like Star Wars.

 

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - W.S.

 

Flying or being pulled ..it looked silly.

 

Substance over style. It’s an important story development, but it didn’t look purty.

 

Have any of these people heard of “reality?”

 

I will just wait for someone to do a Phantom Edit-style version of just the good bits before watching LJ again.

 

Star Wars? Reality? Whatever could you possibly mean?

 

Regarding Luke's third lesson to Rey

According to the EW preview of The Last Jedi's deleted scenes, there's this nugget hidden within the article for "Rey and the Raiders of the Caretaker Village."

Here's my interpretation:


"The Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic."


"You can't win, but there are alternatives to fighting." Wisdom resulting from experience. By the way, this is the same lesson Leia wanted Poe to learn.


A Jedi renouncing the ways of his past and the weapon long associated with them. This is not a callous storytelling decision or some ill-considered gag!


My six-year-old daughter's takeaway on what she said was her favorite moment: "Luke won because he never had to fight to begin with." Through his sacrifice, Luke wins the day by covering the Resistance's retreat without adding a single additional casualty on both sides.

My takeaway: Nonviolence as an alternative to fighting, a Jedi living up to their original purpose of serving as guardians of peace and justice.

Or, put more succinctly:



Lesson number three.

 

I think you nailed it.

 

Nice interpretation. To piggyback on that point, “That’s how we’re going to win. Not killing what we hate. Saving what we love.”

 

B...But we didn't see Luke kick ass like I wanted to see since I was twelve and he died from getting tired. Lame! Ruin Johnson ruined my life! #notmystarwars

 

I'm not sure he died from getting tired. The way I see it is this but could certainly be wrong. When Ben and Rey first see each other she fires her gun at him through the wall of the hut, but Ben reacts just as if he's been hit. He grabs his side and jerks as if he's been hit and feels the hit. The next time they "see" each other she is standing in the rain, at the end of the vision there is water on his hand. The next time they seemingly touch hands. This makes me think that even though they aren't really there, there is an aspect of the contact that is most certainly physical. I see this as saying that even though Luke isn't actually there with Ben, he feels each laser blast and light saber cut, just as Ben felt Rey's laser blast and the water from the rain she was standing in by the Falcon.

 

If you couldn't tell, I was parodying the refrain of the " Dizney ruined muh Star Warz" crowd. That oversimplified " Luke committed suicide/ died because he was tired" attitude you see a lot from them. Unlike them I actually can comprehend what was actually on screen without being spoon-fed.
However, I don't think he "died" because he was physically injured by the laser blasts or Ren poking him with the Saber. Force projection across the Galaxy was very taxing to his corpereal form, and he will fully decided to join the Force as his masters did, becoming more powerful than we can possibly imagine....And to troll his old Padawan.

 

To further elaborate, it is possible he feels everything. I just don't think the blasts and the saber actually caused Luke physical harm.its the strain of using that power that kills him.

So technically, yes, he dies from exertion ,but from pulling off one of the greatest feats in all of star wars and winning a passive Victory. Not dropping dead after shoveling snow like the " not muh Star Wars" malcontents make it out to be when they say Luke dies from getting tired.

 

Captain Phasma deleted scene.

 

Maybe it's just me, but that was better than what was in the film.

 

Is 'The Last Jedi' Better With Just the John Williams Music and No Dialogue?


"Of all the counterintuitive opinions about Star Wars, there’s one truly fascinating notion that doesn’t get explored as much as it should: maybe these movies are better without any dialogue. And now one elusive Last Jedi special feature will make you wonder if it’s not better as a silent film.

On Tuesday, Lucasfilm made Star Wars: The Last Jedi available for digital download, and if you watched the film specifically on the Movies Anywhere app, you were able to access a special feature not available anywhere else: The Score-Only Version of The Last Jedi. That’s right, you can watch the entire movie without any dialogue or sound effects at all. And you know what? It might be better that way.

In other words, future Star Wars movies are in trouble when John Williams retires from composing after composing the music for Episode IX. The score-only version of The Last Jedi proves a Star Wars movie may only need unique imagery and music, and really, nothing else. Not even the sound of a lightsaber."

One 'Last Jedi' Special Feature Revives an Epic Fan Argument | Inverse

 

Nothing new as George Lucas states here, that he sees Star Wars movies as silence movies carried by the music.

 

Will those who buy the physical release be able to access the score-only version by redeeming the digital code and watching on Movies Anywhere?