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Message: [QUOTE="FeedTheDove, post: 2006874, member: 2219"] Couple of things... The Force Awakens was, in many ways, the search for Luke Skywalker. [B]Luke Skywalker[/B] [I]is[/I] [B]the last Jedi[/B] at this point in the story. We are about the see a movie where he is prominently featured. The title isn't telling us anything we don't already know - they might as well call it Luke Skywalker. It doesn't have to mean that this is 'the last film focused on the Jedi' or that the Jedi are going to be gone after this film. That's called speculation - it's interesting and fun to do but it should never ruin your enjoyment of what actually happens. With that being said let's speculate that the title does hint at the end of the Jedi. It honestly wouldn't be too surprising to me from a pure story-driven point of view. Over the past year I have taken a full-on nose dive into all the new canon Star Wars material and one of the many things that stands out to me is the concept of non-Jedi, non-Sith characters who are strong with the force. See: Ezra Bridger, Rey, Ahsoka, Chirrut Imwe, the Bendu, the Father, Daughter, and Son from TCW. These are all examples of characters that are extremely powerful with the force but aren't categorized as Jedi or Sith (Ezra later [I]becomes[/I] a Jedi, Rey likely will [I]become[/I] a Jedi). It [I]seems[/I] like the story group is making a conscious effort to create new stories about powerful force sensitive characters that don't have to be labeled as Jedi or Sith in order to expand our knowledge of the force. There is more to the force than just what the Jedi and Sith teach - we learned from the prequels that the Jedi philosophy is not always flawless. They were largely the cause of their own downfall in the PT. So, I guess what I am saying is if they decided to move the future of Star Wars in a direction that doesn't involve Jedi or Sith, it wouldn't surprise me too much, but it also it doesn't mean there won't be lightsabers and badass force powers. If anything, we'll expand our knowledge of the force and see new powers that we didn't even think were possible. Do I think they would go that direction? Eh, not really. There's too much money to be made because of how legendary the word Jedi has become. [/QUOTE]

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