The Ancient Jedi Texts...

I actually would have loved if Yoda would have just said: "Books? What? What books? Dumb Skywalker. Read, you think I can?" *knocks him on the head again

 

My point is still valid.

 

Those ancient books on Ahch-To, which Rey saved from that force tree may have Journal of the Whills among them.

I have a hunch that entire star wars saga stories of PT, OT and ST are being narrated from the recordings of Journal of the Whills.

If this theory materialises it would be a great way to tie-up the entire Star Wars saga of Skywalker bloodline.

Any ideas who could be the narrator narrating the events of Skywalker saga from Journal of the Whills ?????????

Let's say perhaps Rey is the Narrator

 

The books open a way for stories set in both the future and the past of the GFFA to expand on the Force. Luke's Force-Astral projection is entirely new, he got it out of the ancient texts. Now they can do that forever -- and it opens up endless possibilities -- who wrote the texts, what were the Jedi like back then, what techniques were lost? Every piece added expands the scope of what be done. It was a stealth way of opening that door, which GL opened wider with every movie and added a lot to with TCW.

Too much is made of Rey's "ease" and lack of training. If you watch both movies carefully her fight choreography never goes beyond the skirmish on Jakku -- rough and ready, street fighting really. She wasn't doing crazy PT moves or anything. Her super powers are just another undeveloped idea thrown into TFA. But they were kind of between a rock and a hard place: if they did anything remotely prequel-like the faniverse and critics would have thrown the most apocalyptic tantrum-meltdown ever seen -- VII would have been seen as the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima and the Holocaust combined and we'd still be hearing about it -- so no Jedi, no training, no politics, no romance. But it was 2015, they couldn't have a female lead who was seen in any way as not being as strong as the boys. So they left it a mystery, figuring the next 2 directors would sort it out. RJ obviously didn't think it was worthwhile to "explain" it and I agree. It's done -- she's super Force sensitive -- I just accept it.

And I like to think that Master Thon and Arca Jeth wrote some of those ancient books

 

This was helpful. Thanks.

 

The plot doesn't make a lick of sense. Rey is already a Jedi. She can hold her own with Kylo, beat down highly trained Praetorian Guards, and even kick Luke Skywalker around, so why does she even need the Jedi texts?

Rian doesn't know because he couldn't decide what was in the Jedi texts. If he had, maybe Luke would have had something interesting to share with Rey and the audience. But he didn't.

So why should we care if she has them?

 

Well the novelization of TFA begins with a passage from the Journal of the Whills which shows the storygroup knows quite well what it is doing and where the sage is heading. This is the prophetic passage:

“First comes the day
Then comes the night.
After the darkness
Shines through the light.
The difference, they say,
Is only made right
By the resolving of gray
Through refined Jedi sight.“―Journal of the Whills, 7:477

This is quite literally what TFA and the TLJ are about. The coming of day is Rey in TFA. The night corresponds to various forms of conflict in TFA (the resistance being hammered by the First Order, Luke's depression/grey Luke, Rey/Kylo etc.) Then the light shines true (quite literally visualized by the arrival of Luke on Crait in the Last Jedi) which is the product of Luke resolving of the grey and his refined Jedi sight at the end of the movie.