People on the internet have been wondering why the Star Wars logo surrounding the new title is red, when most of the previous films’ logos have been white or yellow. One theory put forward, possibly jokingly, on Reddit is that Lucasfilm is making a sentence with its new titles: “The Force Awakens The Last Jedi.” Perhaps Luke can finish what his father started, and will abandon the idea of seeing a group of acolytes taking The Force’s name in vain to do with it as they see fit. Luke’s father was foretold to bring balance to the force, which he sort of did by killing the Emperor and redeeming himself. Given that Luke’s last attempt to restart the Jedi resulted in an angry kid killing all his fellow pupils, much like his grandfather had before him, perhaps Luke would have enough sense to not try to restart the religion after killing off the last remaining supporters of the Sith. Luke is the “last” Jedi, but when there is peace, he can possibly start training new recruits to be Jedi again. Perhaps this will be a film about him joining his sister to help dismantle the First Order. Luke was set up in the previous film as “the last Jedi,” but was in the film for a grand total of about 20 seconds. It also makes it seem like there might not be any Jedi in Episode IX. This would seem to mirror the fatalism that dominated the most recent Star Wars offshoot film, Rogue One, which killed off its characters in the third act after spending the first two acts building them up, because it had to.
Whoever the last Jedi is, this will be the last time he or she is heard from. There are a few ways to interpret the other part of the title, too.
So a group of Jedi taking on the evil empire would be a welcome addition. In any case, it’s been a long time (not in real time, but chronologically in the films) since we’ve seen a lightsaber battle with more than two people involved. Think about all the other incidental characters in The Force Awakens: Perhaps the last Jedi (or one of them) is fighter pilot Poe Dameron, or a convert like the underutilized Captain Phasma (the shiny Stormtrooper, played by Gwendoline Christie). Perhaps The Last Jedi refers to a group of Jedi, that Luke leads with Rey, or other characters from the last film, to fight against the First Order and Kylo Ren. One early theory that’s been sweeping around the internet is about the grammar of the word “Jedi.” Much like sheep, fish, and aircraft, the word is the same in its singular and plural forms. Just joking-but amazingly enough, there’s an argument out there for the idea. Finn, like Anakin, Luke, and Rey, also seems to be an orphan, if that’s a criteria for whom Lucasfilm chooses for its Jedi protagonists. Remember, Luke, too, was very poor with a lightsaber at first, and was also cocky and headstrong before he learned a bit of humility over the course of the original trilogy. He walked away from everything.”Ī bit of a long shot, but given this former Stormtrooper’s innate desire to do what he believes to be right, and his seeming interest in fighting with a lightsaber-even if he was terrible with it-could make Finn a surprise choice as the last Jedi. One boy, an apprentice turned against him, destroyed it all. In The Force Awakens, Han Solo tells Rey: “ was training a new generation of Jedi. At the end of The Force Awakens, she stands in front of Luke, silently holding his lightsaber, and it seems very plausible that she would like to be trained by him. While corollaries doesn’t necessary mean causation here, it does seem entirely likely that after Luke, Rey will be the last Jedi (at least for now). She also seems to sympathize with the Rebellion-recall the Rebel Starfighter helmet she wears as she eats dinner, as Luke did when he interrogated C-3PO about the Rebellion.
And like Luke, she longs to know about her parents. (And one of those parents could even be Luke, which could make her, like her father before her, the last Jedi in the family line.) Rey, like Anakin and Luke, lives on a desolate sand-filled planet and is a seriously talented pilot. She also has a similar origin story as the previous two trilogies’ protagonists.