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Everyone get that? Spoilers here. Come get your spoilers! You Sir, step right up and have Star Wars: The Last Jedi completely spoiled!
We good? Can I continue? Has the 3% of the population who hasn't seen the film left the room? Yes? Good.
So the ending of the film has caused a lot of controversy, mostly because Luke used a brand new power, "force-projection" to buy the pathetic band of rebels a chance to escape. Also, Luke looked a lot younger, was using his old-school lightsaber, and was generally doing things that we have never really seen before in a Star Wars flick.
Rian Johnson, the writer and director of the film that has torn a nation asunder, sat down with IGN and weighed in on what exactly was going down at the end of the film. Speaking specifically about how Kylo seeing Luke wielding a destroyed lightsaber should have tipped him off immediately, Johnson had this to say:
“We as an audience saw that. The truth is, we see the lightsaber split in half [but] Kylo sees a blinding flash of light and is knocked unconscious, and then Rey takes the lightsaber away before he wakes up. So if you really want to dig into it and get an explanation, you can say that he doesn’t 100 percent know what happened to the lightsaber.”
Ok sure... maybe. But what about the fact that Luke looked a hell of a lot younger?
Johnson continued:
“[Luke] is basically tailoring this projection to have maximum effect on Kylo. He knows that Kylo’s Achilles heel is his rage, and so that’s why he kind of makes himself look younger, the way Kylo would’ve last seen him in their confrontation at the temple, and that’s why he decided to bring Kylo’s grandfather’s lightsaber down there—the lightsaber that Kylo screamed at Rey, ‘That’s mine, that belongs to me.’”
Well? What do you think, Star Wars fans? Is this sensible? Is it a beleaguered director/writer desperately trying to make sense of his nonsensical plot? Is this trash, or does this make complete sense? Let me know in the comments.
