In his final moments, the Ahch-to sunset becomes a blazing twin suns, visually returning the farm boy to his homeworld of Tatooine before he fades away to become one with the Force.įirst up, Luke's death is - like Obi-Wan Kenobi's and Yoda's before him - less about his loss than his transcendence into the Force. Exhausted by the efforted of projecting himself across the galaxy, he collapses on the stone.
Today we're going to take in what happened and ask what it really means.īack on his cliff in the Jedi Temple, Luke hovers over the meditation rock and slowly descends as his projection vanishes. Related: Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Biggest Spoilers and RevealsĪnd what an ending it is! There's no " I am your father" twist at the heart of The Last Jedi - the closest the film gets to it is with the reveal Rey's parents were nobodies, an essential subversion of the Skywalker Saga's familial focus - but a lot of shocking things still go down in the finale, rounding off arcs that have been unfolding for forty years and teasing the future of the franchise. It's a big film, and everything ties together perfectly in the end. Its story takes place over a tight time period, yet is truly sprawling along with the primary dichotomy between Rey and Kylo (and the exploration of Force and order that comes with it), there's a final stand for the Resistance and the First Order fraught with overbearing threat and duplicity, and an undercover mission for Finn and Rose that touches with the dark, opponent truth behind the conflict. Running at 150 minutes long, Episode VIII is the closest the saga has come to being a true " epic".
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