The Grey

I don't believe there will be Grey Jedi or Sith. As Pablo Hidalgo has stated, "I don't understand Grey Jedi. You're either a Jedi or you aren't." This will probably carry onto Episode 8, and Luke will definitely be the Last Jedi, and Rey will become something else. But I'm extremely hesitant to even say that, considering how much the Jedi are a part of the mythology. Commercially, as well, getting rid of Jedi might be a bad idea. Any movie after this, the casual movie goer sees a good guy with a lightsaber will be like, "Oh, that's a Jedi!". That's if they decide to get rid of the Jedi and make Rey something else.

HOWEVER, I can see the Jedi going more to their roots when they served the Force ENTIRELY. Less narrow minded, freer, I think. More liberal Jedi but not TOO MUCH, like a Jedi practicing the Light and Dark sides of the Force. Jedi who use the Dark side will destroy what we know of the Dark side. That it is corrupting and that it will forever dominate your destiny. The recent content continuously implies that by the time of the Clone Wars the Jedi had lost themselves and served the Senate more than the Force.

 

Bendu wasn't going to actively help others like the Jedi, nor was he going to conquer and dominate the galaxy like the Sith. He stayed aloof but would (and did) lash out if disturbed. One could argue that Luke in TFA behaved somewhat like Bendu, in that he hide out on Ahch-To instead of helping his sister and the Resistance against the FO. Hopefully there will be a good explanation in TLJ for why Luke had done that.

 

I never was into the Bendu thing....I've always thought the character was instrumental in Kanan's path (and his blindness to be also simbolic).
Bendu helped Kanan character to face his "gray".
I mean, Kanan never felt sicure of his own training, of his own path as a Jedi.
He felt incomplete, he doubted to be able to train Erza in a proper way etc.
Their (Kanan and Bendu) dialogue in the last episode and the last lines of Kanan showed him finally moving forward.

 

Maybe LF uses this concept of "grey force users" within the connection between Rey and Kylo Ren. If they are combining their powers (the light and the dark), then they become kinda like "grey force users". Only by this combination they can bring balance to the force and they will form a new order of force users.
(@Joe12Hawk, I think you made me thinking like this.)

 

Bendu wasn't a jedi, he has his own path.

 

Bendu was provoked. when the fleet vamoosed, he ultimately did not pursue them.

if Bendu is both the Light and the Dark as he claims, then it only makes sense that he has the capacity to use both to defend himself, his home, his sanctity.
these people came to make war on his peaceful island. uncool.

would he have killed them all? we don't actually know.

 

Bendu = plaguesis

 

I think it highlights that being "in the middle" or neutral is not quite the altruistic thing many perceive it to be.
It could be a very selfish thing.

 

And Rey's mother.

 

And Rey's daddy.
That's right. We got ourselves a Maury Povich situation folks.

 

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I don't think Lucasfilm will do that cuz of Pablo's believing George Lucas's interpretation of the Force is the only the one that counts. The Force is perspectival and I think George himself understood that unlike Pablo.

 

I think that, if you are simply a follower of the force like what we sw in R1, then it's entirely possible to be "grey" or in the middle. It's just that I think the people with lightsabers such as the jedi and sith follow a certain set of rules that define what's "good" and what's "bad". So someone who is a jedi CAN become grey but they will no longer be a jedi or a sith. I think the closest anyone has come to being grey is Quinlan Vos but he still follows the jedi code - sort of. In order to start a new order, Luke would have to either adhere to the ways of the jedi that HE was taught by Yoda and Obi-Wan and/or use the ancient traditions of the jedi when he went to find the first jedi temple or whatever to start his new order.

 

I disagree the old Jedi could never be heroes like Leia, Luke or even Han. There beliefs themselves I think we're flawed just as there political ties to the Republic were corrupt. That seems logical to me anyway.

 

yeah the old jedi were definitely heroes as well as the modern jedi with obi-wan and all. It's not that their beliefs were flawed but they had to adapt to the atmosphere of the galaxy as everything evolved. Maybe they lost their main purpose over time as a result though but regardless heroes can and will exist on all sides, both dark and the light