Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

This story is set after Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens.

Rey hands the light sabre to Luke Skywalker at the mountain cliff. He takes it, tosses it over his shoulder and storms off. Turns out Rey and Chewbacca were sent to persuade Skywalker back to participate in the resistance fight. And Rey seems to have Jedi power which is a strength from within (agree that this stillness within is the song of the soul). She persuades him to teach her and he did eventually. The Power within is both good and bad and it's a choice to choose which side to join. She always chooses the good even when offered a role as co-leader with Kylo Ren who is so handsome. Rey masters the Jedi power in time before Skywalker passes away after his fight with Ren, which is a fight he does as an astral projection. Rey continues to search for her origins and keeps seeing only her own reflection. She is unable to come to terms of her origin, as a child of drunken parents.

She hears one side of the story about Ren's darkness from Skywalker. She also hears from Ren how he was a victim and Skywalker wanted to stab him while he was sleeping. When she is still unable to persuade Skywalker, she leaves the island and makes contact with Leia as she wants to win Ren over to the Force. Skywalker, realising that Rey had left, wants to burn down the library but hesitates. Yoda appears and helped him, reminding him that the library is with Rey.

On the other side, General Leia, now widow of Hans Solo, murdered by their son Kylo Ren, leave their dwelling place before the First Order fleet reaches them. They managed to evacuate with the last of Resistance fighters. Commander Poe counter-fight the First Order, despite orders to pull back and suffered heavy losses. He was demoted to Captain after managing to return at lightspeed. However the First Order managed to track them because they was a tracking device via lightspeed. Ren tracks through and sensing his mother on board, withholds fire. But his other colleague opened fire and General Leia is badly injured, leaving the ship to the hands of Admiral Gial, who eventually sacrificed herself for the fleet.

Rey delivers herself to the Dark side and was sent in cuffs by Ren to Snoke, the scary lizard-like creep. Snoke reveals he was responsible for the psychic touch, and commands Ren to kill Rey. Ren tricks Snoke and killed him using the light sabre. Ren and Rey tussle as Ren convinces Rey to join him. The light sabre explodes and they fall unconscious. Rey wakes up first and escapes with a ship.

Leia awakes and reinstates Poe. Poe, Finn and Rose leaves for the dark side ship to disarm a device. They enlist the help of a code breaker who sold them to the dark side. While in prison, they managed to save the other prisoners, disarm the device and led a way out back to base. They distract Ren's crazy attacks but Skywalker saved the day by being the ultimate distraction as the remaining Force leaves by following the foxes out. Skywalker dies but not before saying goodbye to Leia via astro projection and Rey felt him leave too. Rey uses her Force to lift all the rocks up from there other side of the hill and they escape using a ship which the prisoners got.

The number of Resistance fighters look pathetic and Leia is heartened that they can rebuild.

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