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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER Teaser Trailer Marks The Return Of The Jedi Knights

By Michelle McCue | April 12, 2019

Today, Director/Writer J.J. Abrams and Producer Kathleen Kennedy were joined by stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac, Billy Dee Williams, Naomi Ackie, Joonas Suotamo and Anthony Daniels, and droids BB-8 and D-0, for a panel discussion at Star Wars Celebration in Chicago, moderated by Stephen Colbert.

It was a day of surprises at Star Wars Celebration for the enthusiastic fans in attendance as the title of the final installment of the Skywalker saga was also revealed, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and along with the first trailer for the film a brand-new teaser poster.

Where do we start!?!? The trailer is brilliantly cut and is very cool!

The nostalgic sound of “Luke and Leia” theme by John Williams from STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI puts this first look at the final film over the edge!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HXwju2UXio

Finn (John Boyega), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) in STAR WARS: EPISODE IX.

Emperor Palpatine is back or is he?! And has he been corrupting Kylo Ren this whole time or has Kylo been a good guy all along? It was chilling to see the Death Star in the last scene of the teaser!

Lando is back! The Falcon is Back! Kudos to J.J. Abrams for pulling at the heart-strings of the diehard fans.

Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) in STAR WARS: EPISODE IX.

Director Rian Johnson’s THE LAST JEDI went against STAR WARS canon and dogma about the Jedi Knights and for some fans (this Geek included), it wasn’t well accepted.

Many disgruntled fans have already spent months arguing that The Last Jedi distorts the Force (Force projection, etc.), but in the behind-the-scenes featurette “Balance the Force,” director Rian Johnson specifically states that he wanted the Force to be viewed as malleable. “The Force is not a superpower,” he says, as reported by GameSpot. “I wanted in this movie to do a little bit of a reset lesson.” After The Force Awakens, many fans thought that Rey’s innate connection to the Force meant she had to be a descendant of Jedi, sparking rumors that Luke Skywalker himself might be her father. However, by widening our understanding of the Force, Johnson also opens up the possibility that neither Rey, nor any other young potential Jedi, has any Jedi blood.

https://www.bustle.com/p/why-everyone-is-angry-about-the-last-jedi-the-most-controversial-star-wars-movie-ever-7638224

Luke Skywalker: Lesson two. Now that they’re extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified. But if your strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.

Rey: That’s not true!

Luke Skywalker: At the height of their powers, they allowed Darth Sidious to rise, create the Empire, and wipe them out. It was a Jedi Master who was responsible for the training and creation of Darth Vader.

As well as the scene between Yoda and Luke.

Luke Skywalker: [Yoda appears as a ghost] Master Yoda.

Yoda: Young Skywalker.

Luke Skywalker: I’m ending all of this. The tree, the texts, the Jedi. I’m going to burn it all down.

Yoda: [Yoda summons lightning to burn down the tree and the Jedi texts. He laughs] Ah, Skywalker. Missed you, have I.

Luke Skywalker: So it is time for the Jedi Order to end.

Yoda: Time it is for you to look past a pile of old books, hmm?

Luke Skywalker: The sacred Jedi texts?

Yoda: Oh, read them, have you? Page-turners they were not. Yes, yes, yes. Wisdom they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl Rey does not already possess. Skywalker, still looking to the horizon. Never here, now, hmm? The need in front of your nose.

Luke Skywalker: I was weak. Unwise.

Yoda: Lost Ben Solo you did. Lose Rey we must not.

Luke Skywalker: I can’t be what she needs me to be.

Yoda: Heeded my words not, did you? Pass on what you have learned. Strength. Mastery. But weakness, folly, failure also. Yes, failure most of all. The greatest teacher, failure is. Luke, we are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

Are generations of Skywalkers and Jedis embodied in Rey? Will the saga conclude with her finally bringing true balance to the Force? I sure hope so because after STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI made us think the Jedi were a buncha selfish asshats, with Yoda and Luke’s conversations, along with them burning the books, tree and temple to the ground, the true Rise of The Skywalkers will be the redemption of the Jedi Knights who were, as Obi-Wan Kenobi said in A NEW HOPE, “For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times… before the Empire.”