The Shadows of the Past Trilogy
Episode 8: The Last Jedi Part 8
After this, the battle takes place as in the
original movie, between Phasma and Finn.
Then Finn and Rose and BB8 escape, fleeing towards the planet of
Crait. As for Luke, he is seen lying broken
in a dark crevasse of the ship. Then
Yoda suddenly appears.
“Luke,” says Yoda. “Time, it is not, for you to die…not
yet. Wake!”
Luke’s eyes then open wide as he
looks up. “Master
Yoda?”
“One last thing, you must
do. Then rest, you may.”
Luke shakes his head. Weariness has taken hold of him. “I can’t do it anymore, Master. I’ve failed.
I failed everyone. I failed
you. I failed Obi-Wan. I failed Leia and Han…and Jacen! I couldn’t save him…I…”
Yoda cracks him on the
head. “Our greatest teacher, failure
is,” says Yoda. “Oh Skywalker… missed
you I have.” Then Yoda gives his speech
to Luke, as in the original movie when Yoda appears to him on Ahch-To without,
of course, the tree being set on fire and such.
When he finishes his speech,
Yoda says, “Now…up you must get.
Quickly!” And with that, Luke
struggles to push himself to his feet.
He is obviously exhausted and injured.
He staggers through the darkness, struggling to push himself to keep going.
Then the rest of the story
carries on much as the original movie did.
The First Order corners the Resistance who fights a final, daring battle
against them on Crait. Rey arrives with
the Falcon, and Luke appears as a phantom onto the battlefield. However, he looks as he does throughout the Last Jedi, so Kylo
will believe it is him, and so will everyone else.
Instead of being on Ahch-To when
he dies, however, Luke had stolen a First Order ship, and he had landed some
distance away, on Crait. As he sits,
meditating on a cliff side overlooking the entire battle from a considerable
distance, Luke’s eyes open and he stares at the sun in the sky. He smiles, finally at peace, just as in the
original movie. Then he fades away and
vanishes to become one with the Force.
And so, the Resistance escapes,
what’s left of it, aboard the Falcon.
And with the First Order Fleet in disarray and all sorts of debris
hovering in space, the Falcon easily avoids any further entanglements. It escapes into hyperspace, and the story ends just as it did in the original.
And The Last Jedi comes to an
end.
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