RUMOR General Star Wars: The Force Awakens News & Rumors Thread

Maybe Luke knows of an impending threat and is in hiding because he's trying to draw out the threat by having ,whatever the threat is, it exposing itself by looking for Luke, and that's when Luke will reveal himself and snuff out the threat before the galaxy gets destroyed. However, he's actually killed the person who wasn't really in charge and that threat exposes itself in VIII, setting up the most epic confrontation in SW History in IX.

 

Actually, I think your original point stands. The re-releases very literally kept the franchise alive. If they had not been a success and the effects had not been deemed a success, Lucas would not have gone further with the prequels.

 

Leave, yes. Give them no way to contact him if he is needed and never check in, no.[/QUOTE]

Honestly how do we know he didn't/wasn't in contact with them until a certain point ? Secondly, if he legitimately wanted to protect the ones he loved from giving away his location or contact to a nefarious party why would he? Finally, no matter his reason for leaving it seems as though the entire plot of TFA revolves around it so I'm pretty sure no one here knows the whole scoop. Different ideas resonate differently with people -- i guess. Your idea what Jedi should do vs mine are probably quite different than everyone else's.

 

I think this is expanding beyond what the original post I responded to was saying. If I understand, they were saying he was on a spiritual journey and chose to not contact them, not that he was protecting them by not contacting them or letting them know where he was going. That is more like what I am saying, that he is in self imposed isolation for a reason beyond spiritual elightenment. My point has been that if Luke just up and left to seek enlightenment or become a better Jedi and didn't bother contacting them because he was busy meditating, then that is a poor story point that makes Luke look foolish. I think he has to leave for a very specific reason that forces him, in his opinion, to exile himself. This is all subjective, of course.

EDIT: You didn't quote me properly and the format was messed up. I think I fixed it, though.

 

I hope we don't see any silly prequel Jedi stuff like attachment bans, maximum age to begin training, Tatooine robes, two lightsaber colors for an entire army of Jedi, etc.

 

What I'm more intrigued about, is that since he started a Jedi order, when exactly would he gone into self isolation? I think that it wouldn't have been during his time establishing the new Jedi order, unless he has a new council to train and watch over while he goes on to self-isolation. And then while he's gone, the temple is destroyed, and The KOR are students who feel betrayed by Luke for not being there when the temple was destroyed, blaming him for everything. And, as one of us users pointed out, Luke could have just sensed the events of his friends' lives through the force, and maybe reached to Leia through the force and their "twin powers" knowing that he's still alive. And then Luke stays maybe on Skellig until he is ready to face the KOR, and this is the real awakening, in that Luke comes back for the light side of the force . Again, obviously, PURE SPECULATION

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Technically, Luke is wearing a more formal/regal and lighter version of the "Tatooine" robes.

 

I think he leaves because something happens to the Jedi he was training. I think Kylo is his nephew and turned on the order while Luke was away (short term business, not a protracted spiritual journey). I think he needs to be in exile to protect his family and himself from being discovered by the KOR. Something like what Yoda and Ben did when they realized they were no match for the Emperor. I believe he is on a spiritual journey while in exile, but I don't believe that is the only reason he is gone as the original poster did.

 

I agree, and I think the cloaked figure wee see in teaser #2 is him following his 'academy's' destruction (flashback scene)

Fire either comes from a pyre or ruins

 

New Jedi, new rules.

 

I also agree with what you're saying. Maybe he didn't intend to initially go on a spiritual journey when he first went into exile, but he also is trying to hide his force signature, similar to what the Sith had done prior to the events of TPM.

 

Exactly my point. Considering what happened to his father, I doubt Luke is going to want to do things the way the prequel Jedi did them.

 

I like the Jedi order and the rules. IMHO, Luke may have been being trained over the years by someone using mediation. I honestly believe that he is trained in the Jedi Order and will follow the rules of the Jedi Order. But that's just me.

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oh, we had three lightsaber colors....... one was purple, lol

 

If Luke stays within the rules of the Order isn't he just repeating their mistakes? I thought it was pretty clearly established over the last six movies that the Jedi were pretty much wrong about everything.

 

I always looked at the order as trying or falling into playing the police of the galaxy. That didn't sound like that was originally the role of the Jedi but as time went on it seemed like it.

 

Fortune - Most of the story team for the next Star Wars film is female

http://fortune.com/2015/10/13/kathleen-kennedy-star-wars/

 

I like the Diversity they are going for, very cool

 

Exactly.
They were wrong about the Sith, they were wrong about the Republic, they were wrong about Anakin, they were wrong about emtion/attachment...
The only thing they were right about is "We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers." It was becoming soldiers that got them all killed.
Basically, the Jedi should have distanced themselves from politics.

If Luke rebuilds a Jedi order based on the principles of the last jedi Order, it's just asking for trouble.

 

That's it !

If Luke and Leia are only Jedi survivals. Only Jedi can teach another one. No ? So I think Luke can teach own childrens or Leias. If Luke (because he is the one who was teached byYoda)teach young Solo boy/girl and he failed ..who knows. Maybe it can bring some kind of different problem into the Skywalker family. Not only for Han and Leia like partners but also for Luke like a person and teacher.
I still bealive Kylo and Rey are Solo/Skywalkers family members.
Leia cant decide which side of force choose because her role is mother and because this we are know about Skywalkers and ..Han? He is Solo and about light in him we cant doubt.
Sorry for grammar but only in english we trust