Well, frankly, that's all that should really matter.

 

I wholeheartedly agree. I'm just saying it is what it is. Lucas incorporated all that crap into prequels and clone wars about how A) dark side was not strictly about evil but also about emotionality and attachment to worldy shit, B) light side was not strictly about good but also about detachment from emotions in order to dispassionately and selflessly pursue order and justice, C) light and dark were two halves of a whole.

Disney certainly seems to be continuing that trend in Rebels, what with the introduction of the bendu, referencing the ashla and the bogan, bringing back the owl thing from the Father/Son/Duaghter forcewielder arc.

I'm not saying it's not bullshit, I'm just saying the balance between light and dark schtick has been around for a good long while.

 

Yeah, as I recall the usual argument in favor of Grey Jedi is not so much that the Dark Side is as valid as the Light, but that the old Jedi Order's definition of the Light Side and how they trained Jedi to follow it was severely flawed. Namely, that Jedi should not feel emotions, care about other people, or try to interfere with "The Will of the Force."

 

Right, as I recall it was shortly after/in response to the whole Exar Kun thing.

 

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Behind The Scenes.

There were some other cool videos presented at D23 ([like Infinity War trailer and the "live"-action Lion King Circle Of Life scene), but only few found themselves on the Internet.

 

Not going to lie, I welled up a little when Carrie Fisher started talking at the end.

 

"It's a wrap!" -Admiral Ackbar.

I died.

 

Intrigued by that white wolf thing. If the theories about Ahsoka's fate in rebels are anything to go by, it could be pretty important.

 

Dave Filoni already said that theory is bullshit.

 

Because no showrunner has ever lied to fans before to keep a secret. Just sayin.

 

Here's the trailer that debuted during Monday Night Football

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/917570021018046465

 

ITS HERE! FINALLY. please don't suck

 

This is already wildly changing my expectations for plot. It's gonna be EPIC.

 

So... Rey is super special powerful and Kylo is too and Luke is scurr'd? Someone should warn him that fear leads to anger.

 

That trailer is a thing of beauty.

 

I don't buy for one second that Ben and Rey are stronger than Vader (literally Force Jesus), or even stronger than Palp (the guy who kept Force Jesus in check with the centuries of Sith knowledge he obtained from Plagueis' holocrons). And Luke faced down both of them relatively fearlessly.

This makes me think that the line could be a bit of a red herring. Like... it kinda looked like Rey was in pain while she was meditating. Some dark power may have been reaching out to her consciousness, causing the ground to crack, and Luke could've felt it. Maybe it was Snoke. The old power Luke referred to here could be Palp or Vader, and the new power could be Snoke. #tinfoilhat

Also, that trailer was bawse.

P.S. Has anyone been following the Last Jedi theory vids (the ones marked "spoilers") from Star Wars Theory? Start with the Snoke vid. They are so goddamn good and I want them all to turn out to be 100% true.

 

Ben/Rey OTP!

Kek!

 

Man I hope they have some serious Snoke backstory there. Like. I don't know how I can hide my disbelief that he survived the purge then turned, or was bad all along and hid or something. Help me out, Disney

 

If you look at some of the images from the Last Jedi teases, the real-life Snoke seems to have healed or regenerated some small amounts of facial tissue since the Force Awakens hologram appearances. It's given rise to a few really interesting theories that Snoke is some sort of ancient dark side Force Vampire (a bit like Tel Angor or Darth Nihilus) who awoke either in response to or sometime after Order 66, and has been slowly regenerating ever since by corrupting and then leeching the life force from strong Force users.