gffa: So, not only does Luke go to Ilum (where the Empire is strip-mining the planet and it’s
gffa: So, not only does Luke go to Ilum (where the Empire is strip-mining the planet and it’s nothing but pain there now, there’s nothing for this child of the Jedi anymore), he goes to Lothal.And he can sense that this place is important, just as he could sense it of Lothal, but also gone. Because the Jedi are gone from Lothal and they weren’t the only pieces of the Jedi left, but Luke isn’t a Master or an Apprentice with a Master right now, Lothal needs them both, it’s not the right place for him.But also just the loss that Luke must be picking up on as he travels these places. Not just his own loss, as a child of a culture that was genocided nearly out of existence, but the loss of these places that once had Jedi. Ilum was a sacred place. Lothal had two Jedi that were brilliant and amazing. So many places in the galaxy touched by the Jedi.And they’re all gone now, locked or buried away in impossible to reach places (for now, at least there’s still a glimmer of hope), or just echoes in the Force. And Luke doesn’t know any of it, doesn’t know what it means because nobody can teach him, they were meant to be there to teach him, but they’re not, there’s just echoing emptiness in the Force.And I’m sad because a fictional story about space wizards got me in the feelings again, because Luke should have been able to be taught this stuff instead of learning it on his own, because he should have been able to meet Kanan and Ezra and see the temple on Lothal.But it’s all just gone. -- source link