Star Wars Ends A Main Rey Debate With 4 Easy Phrases

The choice to have Luke Skywalker flip his again on all life within the galaxy in Star Wars: The Final Jedi might at all times be divisive, however the ‘pupil’ who renewed his religion, and pulled him out of his exile was simply as controversial. To this date, many detractors and critics nonetheless demand to know: Why did Luke assume Rey was worthy of being educated as a Jedi?

The logic or perceived lack of it behind Luke’s determination, like Rey’s size of coaching, largely is dependent upon an individual’s opinion of Rey total (a quagmire not like some other in Star Wars canon). However there’s one character, greater than some other, with the precise to ask why Luke determined to coach Rey as a Jedi, and why he believed in somebody with Palpatine’s blood in her veins… greater than his personal nephew. Fortunately, Ben Solo has lastly gotten a solution to that thriller, and it is one each fan wants to listen to.

Luke Lastly Tells Kylo Why He Determined To Practice Rey (After Their Betrayal)

The Reply is Completely Excellent, And Due to this fact Kylo Hates It

With the Star Wars: Legacy of Vader collection exploring Kylo Ren’s canon journey between Final Jedi and Rise of Skywalker, the notorious scene of Luke making an attempt to kill Ben as he slept (from Ben’s perspective) fuels a lot of the Supreme Chief’s emotional turmoil. Much more, when his uncle’s years of failure and self-imposed exile are immediately ended to coach his new rival.

After all, Kylo Ren’s want to have this thriller defined to him is closely masked, with the tortured inheritor of the Skywalkers claiming nothing however anger, hatred, and a longing to destroy his household’s legend. It is the rationale Kylo Ren meditates to find his uncle Luke’s spirit, ultimately discovering him in Jedi Heaven a.ok.a. the Netherworld of the Drive.

Luke cuts via all of the controversies, theories, hypothesis, and trolling surrounding his acceptance of Rey as his pupil in Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10. As Kylo calls for to know why this pupil turned Luke’s Padawan in methods Kylo by no means did, Luke ignores any suggestion of ‘sensing’ Rey’s energy, her potential, or the darkish aspect inside her genes. “Why her?” Luke merely shrugs, replying “She wished to study.”

Rey’s Coaching Turns into A Excellent Payoff For Luke’s First Star Wars Story

Rey’s Similarity To Luke Turns into The Total Level of His Exile & Legacy

This assertion from Luke carries extra weight than can be readily obvious, since his story inside the Star Wars saga has been dramatically modified from the place it started. However to start with, Luke Skywalker merely dreamed of journey, believing he was a no one, an orphaned son of “a navigator on a spice freighter.” Moderately than embracing his ‘future,’ as soon as Luke realized the reality, he merely wished to study extra.

Clearly Luke’s want for coaching and information would change into extra impatient and determined in The Empire Strikes Again, however his motivations by no means modified. Luke by no means dreamed of gaining energy, power, and even revenge; his want was at all times for data, information, and classes to show that knowledge into follow. Whether or not from Obi-Wan or Yoda, Luke wished to study.

One can think about this sense of in search of the unknown was totally erased with the founding of Luke’s new Jedi Academy, coaching kids who had been recognized as possessing nice potential within the Drive. For somebody like Ben Solo, the kid of bold, defiant, and mighty galactic heroes, his path couldn’t have been extra totally different from Luke’s. It is no surprise Luke would wrestle with empathy and belief.

However then alongside comes Rey, a no one from a desert world who seeks Luke out with one objective: study what he has to show her. Whether or not Luke noticed himself in Rey, or accepted his position as Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Drive made its plans as plain as day. In the long run, Luke selected to finish his transformation from the one in search of information, to the one passing it on.

Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #10 is obtainable now from Marvel Comics.