SPECULATION Luke conceding to train Rey as a Jedi.

I agree mostly with your post, but I disagree with what you say that this mess started with Anakin disobeying the"no marriage" thing. It wasn't really his downfall. The Jedi Council very much disrespected Anakin from the start. Maybe it really began by Qui Gon disobeying.

 

Could Anakin have simply left the Order so he could live openly with Padme?

 

I guess he could have but he was being pulled in different directions if you think about it. I mean the council flat out never trusted and so on, yet at the same time he was their chosen one. Pretty sad the way he was treated by them.

 

I think the foundational mistake was taking Anakin from his mother and training him at that relatively ad advanced age. There was a good reason why children were seperated from their parents before they could form personal attachments to them.

Hopefully the "new Jedi" that will presumably result from the ST will be able to handle such attachments without the sort of risks the PT-era Jedi Council feared would result.

 

I think that is where Rey might have an advantage. She was separated somehow but learned to live on her own. I mean , yes she was waiting on whomever to return but then fate and destiny came into play.

 

Yeap.

I love all the parallels and contrasts the ST is building between the characters

Thus far, primarily Kylo vs Rey and Kylo vs OT Luke. Presumably Rey vs Luke in TLJ.

Hopefully Kylo vs Leia in TLJ too...but who knows....

 

In nature you have flowers blooming and volcanic eruptions.
You have life and death. Both of them are essential for the balance inside the nature.
I believe it's almost the same with the Force.
The balance is something inside the Force itself.
If you are passive, if your actions just allow the Force to find its way, then you are a "Light" user.
If you are not, if you use the Force to reach your personal purposes then you are a "Dark" user.
The power is the same. It's what you are up to that makes the difference, your intentions...
Light is acceptance, Dark is the disire to shape the reality as you wish.
Therefore Balance - on a coscmic level, we might say - it's when the Force Will is ultimately/fully accomplished.
On a personal level, that moment when you are truly and deeply connected to it.

With that being said, I believe the we're all are curious to see what's been of the old rules.
I must confess I'm one of those, who would prefer if Luke never got married.
On the other hand I understand they may chose otherwise for him and/or for Rey.
It depends - I believe - on what they want to do with this trilogy and perhaps with future movies.

If they choose for a blood legacy, then they have to "change" the rules... because we cannot have forever lost child
and it's impossible to think about a mother that doesn't know she had a child...

If their choise it's another no need to change the rules.

But the choise I believe was/will be determinated by this kind of argument.
Not by a narrative prospective that deals with what's being told in the PT...

 

I like how you explained that—I think that's definitely something to consider when looking at the balance of the Force!

I'm definitely in the same boat as you. I just never imagined Luke getting married and I feel like, if they were to go down that path, it would become too similar to the Mara Jade stories of the Expanded Universe (which were fine, but I want these films to be somewhat separate from that because we already have a Solo child who has turned to the dark side).

In general, I think you make some very good points. I just hope they are able to address the changes to the Jedi Order and whatever. Based on that scene in the trailer where Luke and Rey are looking at old Jedi scrolls or whatever it was, I feel like they will definitely go more in-depth with that, so I'm anxious to see how they handle it!

 

A Jedi is a Jedi. A duck is a duck. If you change something it becomes something else.

 

Very poetically put! Thank you for this