Nice find!

I think Kylo is stupid. He couldn't understand a force ghost from a man...

Interesting idea

It’s always cool and interesting to see connections in pop culture to history. When it comes down to it, there is no truly original idea anymore, it’s just a combination of the same ideas and stories and themes we have seen before. I love when filmmakers use these old stories in a fresh new way.

Nothing happend at Crait, 34 ABY [This post was made by First Order gang]

I agree with you wholeheartedly, @Jedi Sarith LeKit .

Violence, as easy and final and it can be, is rarely the best alternative to put one’s ideas across. Historically, non-violent protests has been more effective, and their practitioners, more renowned for their deeds than, say, an army general.

A few other examples I could give are Rosa Park’s defiant “no” when asked to vacate her bus seat for a white man in 1955, or Ghandi’s Satyagraha marches to protest English rule over India. Both have gained reputations as honorable, upstanding people in the civil rights movement, and will only down in history as heroes of their time.

I understand your point as to non-violence being among the Jedi’s core values, but, as is seen countless times in both movies and books, they usually resort to “agressive negotiations” when talking has failed.

I can’t in good heart compare the Jedi to heroes such as Tank Man or Ghandi. The problem with that line of reasoning is that, unlike true pacifists, the Jedi had no qualms with using lethal force when peace had failed them. There are exceptions, of course—the Clone War and other galaxy-spanning conflicts—but I still wouldn’t call the Jedi practicing pacifists. Maybe in theory, they were, but not in reality.

Luke Skywalker saving the Resistance at the end of TLJ is perhaps the most Jedi thing I’ve ever seen in Star Wars.

He doesn’t come in with his X-Wing and blast them apart, or show up with his green lightsaber and cut them down, or even decimate them with a god-like Force push.

He just walks up to them, baits Kylo Ren into facing him, using calm wisdom to stoke Ren’s anger and distract them from the escaping Resistance fighters. I think that scene becomes even more powerful when viewed in the historical context, like you insightfully pointed out.

It adds further precedence to TLJ’s idea that we can all be heroes, we can all stand up to bullies and oppression, and we don’t have to hurt anyone to do so - our weapons are forgiveness and wisdom.

What a [REDACTED] time in our history.

For whatever reason the parallel popped into my head and I did a Google Search to see if it had already been spotted. Imagine my surprise to find not only this article as one of the top results, but also that I’d already awarded a couple of upvotes to the responses here. Funny how these things work sometimes.

But you know what else comes to mind, nearly 2 years after the OP? @Theo0005 pointed out that Kylo couldn’t tell the difference between a Force projection and a real man, in the same way that several characters in Rian Johnson’s 2019 film Knives Out couldn’t tell a prop knife from a real weapon (which as a recurring motif probably deserves a thread of its own)