And he went to Ahch-To looking for some kind of better answer, from the OLD Old Jedi, hoping the original Sacred Texts from thousands of years ago before corruption set in could give him some insight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
And halfway through translating the old books her realizes they're just saying the same shit he's been studying his whole life and the only answer they have to the problem of evil is "shit happens" and it was ridiculous to imagine reading a book could somehow fix everything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
Which is when he has his breakdown, throws his X-Wing into the ocean, stops showering, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
I love this whole reading and it just makes me like the sequels even more. The idea that evil is cyclical and never fully defeated is so powerful to me right now because it’s so demonstrably true. Accepting that is so hard but so necessary. You pass on the fight.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @mattsaler and
The movie isn't saying that Luke is right to fall into despair after his failure but it is saying that there isn't any "answer" to failure, that you can't get anywhere by dissecting it and trying to make sense of it and trying to undo it or make it never happen again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
The only thing you can do is accept it and move on to the next thing Which, of course, is much easier said than done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Tbh as much as I despise Mary Sue accusations and as absurd as Rey being Rule 63 Ken Palpatine is, I do think it gives more weight to Luke's terror over Rey's "darkness" in TLJ, especially since he says he recognized her from the beginning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
i don't remember him saying he recognized her from the beginning, just that he knows NOW and that Leia knew she was a Palpatine when she started training her Whether this is Luke Force Ghost Afterlife knowledge passed to her or something else isn't clear
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @della_morte_ and
They've left it kind of vague but I prefer the headcanon that lots of people actually knew she was a Palpatine and didn't say anything because it's a sensitive subject
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
It's a neat idea and you lay it out well. I just don't think what happens in the movies (both in TLJ with Luke/Rey and in the aborted search for Ochi, where they never find him or his ship) quite supports it.
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Ochi killing Rey's parents happened years before their hunt for him so them learning about it doesn't depend on that either way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
I mean it could go either way—what we get is obscure enough. But to me there's little to suggest that ANYONE knew Ochi killed Rey's parents until Kylo does his expo dump about it, especially if it was years before and not part of Luke and Lando's tracking.
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @arthur_affect and
But unless Ochi's been spreading bar tales about killing Palpatine's granddaughter's parents, specifically, I dunno where they'd even come across that info since they never catch up with him and they're looking for something *else*
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