The Last Jedi: 15 things we know about the new Star Wars movie

Still from Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer (2017). Image via Disney/Lucasfilm.

11.  The lines between good and evil will be blurred

If Luke is disillusioned with the Jedi Order, he’s certainly following in his father’s footsteps. It seems like Rian Johnson may be finishing what George Lucas started by having the Jedi Order appear flawed, as opposed to the unerring good that we believed in as children.

After all, if Anakin had been able to marry Padmé and mourn his mother, would he have become Darth Vader?

That’s a question for another time. But with Supreme Leader Snoke proclaiming in the trailer that “Darkness is rising and Light to meet it”, perhaps the two aren’t so different after all.

Johnson has said that Kylo and Rey are “almost two halves of our protagonist” and given that Kylo wanted to “finish what [Darth Vader] started”, it makes sense that between the two of them, they could bring balance to the Force.

There are certainly gray areas for both characters. Whilst Kylo is hardly good (I, for one, will never forgive him for making me cry in public), he is clearly conflicted. Meanwhile, The Last Jedi teasers seem to imply Rey’s concept of good and evil will be challenged too.

One, simply titled “Tempt”, shows Luke shouting at Rey to “Resist it” — it being something that is calling her.

We know Rey has a run in with Snoke and that the trailers have implied she is raising a lightsaber to Luke as he warns “This is not going to go the way you think”. Again personally, this makes me think Luke is proposing something morally gray, and that Rey will take it upon herself to oppose him. But there’s still the chance that Rey will join the Dark Side as she attempts to find a place for herself in the galaxy.

In any case, it sounds like loyalties are going to be tested. When asked in an interview with Good Morning America whether Rey was going to join the Dark Side, Daisy Ridley said: “The lines are less clear as to good and bad. Rey is trying to find out about herself and about the universe, and those questions don’t entirely fall to the good, nor do they entirely fall to the bad.”

As Nerdist points out, that indicates that we may see our first Gray Jedi in a Skywalker movie. After all, it’s time for the Jedi to learn that there is no such thing as ideological purity.