Letting go vs Killing the past, and Luke's misunderstanding of the nature of The Force
I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I liked The Last Jedi, but after several viewings there are some things that don't sit right with me. There are details like:
I find this interesting, and someone smarter than me I hope can explain it. George Lucas once said during the prequel trilogies that Anakin's flaw is that he doesn't let go. The Jedi preached non-attachment. He turned because of his deep fear of losing his mother and wife.
The past is the past. If you hold onto it, you're not following the Jedi way. Kylo Ren took this lesson and perverted it. He's holding onto the past and knows he shouldn't or doesn't want to. So he's letting go by killing his past - his father, mother, uncle. I find this dark twist interesting. He even used it against Rey in the throne room when she was resisting joining him. But the memes... I don't think people understand the root of this perversion of Jedi values. Maybe Kylo was trying to learn from Anakin's fatal flaw and was forcefully detaching. But you can lose your attachment to the past without having to get violent about it.
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This one bugs me. If the force is offering you something you need, why should you resist? It's The Force, not The Devil.
Luke is now a Jedi hater. He starts Rey's lessons about why the Jedi need to end. She connects, senses darkness and goes for it, drawn to the dark underneath the island. Like Luke didn't see his same failure in the cave enough to have some sympathy.
But his response confuses me. The lesson of balance means acknowledging the dark side. The material world is made of opposites. Good and evil are subjective. Everything is made of both. Knowing that, wouldn't a better evolution for the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy be to better understand this, and to acknowledge, appreciate and accept the Jedis' shortcomings instead of wanting to kill the past? Does anyone else see the connection between these two thoughts? I suppose not if this trilogy is intent on killing its past.
At any rate, it sucks to see your childhood hero having succumbed to bitterness and rejection of the very thing that made him so powerful - saved his life, saved thousands of others including friends and family. You'd think after a thousand years maybe the Jedi had lessons in one of those books that addresses this very state of being? I mean, we here on Earth do, and we don't live in a galaxy far, far away.
- Anachronistic jokes, can you hear me now?
- Why did the bombers fly so close together that they nearly all got wiped out when one exploded?
- Why withhold the details of your escape plan from the clear heir apparent to The Resistance?
- Useless Canto Bight
- Did PETA pay some production costs?
- How does Po know Maz and shouldn't Fin be driving the conversation?
Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.
The past is the past. If you hold onto it, you're not following the Jedi way. Kylo Ren took this lesson and perverted it. He's holding onto the past and knows he shouldn't or doesn't want to. So he's letting go by killing his past - his father, mother, uncle. I find this dark twist interesting. He even used it against Rey in the throne room when she was resisting joining him. But the memes... I don't think people understand the root of this perversion of Jedi values. Maybe Kylo was trying to learn from Anakin's fatal flaw and was forcefully detaching. But you can lose your attachment to the past without having to get violent about it.
It offered something you needed and you didn't even try to stop yourself.
Luke is now a Jedi hater. He starts Rey's lessons about why the Jedi need to end. She connects, senses darkness and goes for it, drawn to the dark underneath the island. Like Luke didn't see his same failure in the cave enough to have some sympathy.
But his response confuses me. The lesson of balance means acknowledging the dark side. The material world is made of opposites. Good and evil are subjective. Everything is made of both. Knowing that, wouldn't a better evolution for the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy be to better understand this, and to acknowledge, appreciate and accept the Jedis' shortcomings instead of wanting to kill the past? Does anyone else see the connection between these two thoughts? I suppose not if this trilogy is intent on killing its past.
At any rate, it sucks to see your childhood hero having succumbed to bitterness and rejection of the very thing that made him so powerful - saved his life, saved thousands of others including friends and family. You'd think after a thousand years maybe the Jedi had lessons in one of those books that addresses this very state of being? I mean, we here on Earth do, and we don't live in a galaxy far, far away.
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