“It’s always an honor to witness something or someone transformed by the Force,” the young Padawan Jecky Long told Osha. AcolyteEpisode 4Perhaps it was preparing us all for the carnage that was to occur just a week later. The fifth,leave One Many person’s Transform into the Force. But even in this glimpse into a Jedi’s view of death, there’s one thing that bothers me more than anything. AcolyteLast week’s massacre.
A stranger Paving my own way The climax has an interesting beat as Sol, Mei and Osha make their way through the jungles of Kofal, leaving them alone. AcolyteEpisode 5, “Night”, of ESPN’s The Force Awakens. After the Stranger is carried deep into the forest by a horde of Ambramoths, Sol and Osha (unbeknownst to Sol, Mei is actually her twin sister in disguise) are given a chance to escape their terror and examine the fallen bodies of the two Jedi closest to them in last night’s massacre: Yord, one of Osha’s old friends from her days as a Jedi, and the crumpled forms of Sol’s apprentice, Jecky. It’s a quiet moment between the two, before Sol tells “Osha” that they must hurry up and leave, before running back out of the forest and onto their ship.
At that moment, I felt something was wrong, even with the conversation between Jecky and Osha herself in the previous episode. Is Sol really going to let the bodies of those he cares about rot on a distant planet, just to watch them be brutally murdered? Of course, we have to be realistic. There are about eight bodies to retrieve, including the Wookiee, but there are only two of them, and they are completely exhausted from everything they have endured, and they don’t know when or if the Stranger will return. In fact, we, the audience, watch as the Stranger actually returns to the scene of the battle, stepping over Jecky’s body to recover. His Cortosis HelmetBut still, and the whole of the Jedi Complicated procedures for attachments“The thought of Sol leaving Yord and Jekkie’s bodies there pained me more than seeing them killed. I think the Jedi Order would understand on some level if you at least returned the bodies of your children, Sol! These are children you are in the custody of as a Jedi Master!”
The Jedi have always An interesting relationship Confronting death. On the one hand, they accept and almost distance themselves from the sadness of death, and understand that, as Jecky told Osha, they should welcome and honor their ability to see life transformed into a life force as beings deeply connected to it. Because of that connection, some of them transcend the moment of transformation. Appearing as a SpiritThe Jedi arts are so rare and beautiful, so incomparable to the trickery and alchemy of the dark side, that they are a kind of comfort in themselves.
However, there is a certain reverence shown repeatedly throughout the saga for the physical body remaining after death, which contrasts with the idea of simply shedding it to become more naturally one with the Force. Star Wars In canon, physical cremation is at least a sign of respect for the body that remains after a person’s soul has become one with the Force, as seen in the films with Qui-Gon’s funeral on Naboo and the cremation of Luke’s father’s body on Endor. Clone Warswe witnessed the Order performing a similar cremation ritual, indicating that although the circumstances and context of the war had changed and more Jedi had died, these rituals were still performed, indicating that there was still some respect for the remains while acknowledging the separation of the soul.
Who knows, maybe it really is a painful, but compulsive need. Acolyte Or perhaps in a future episode after Sol reports back to the Order, we’ll see a full recovery team dispatched to Cofar to do what he couldn’t. After all, we’ve already seen a glimpse of Vernestra Law with other Jedi on the jungle planet in a scene that hasn’t aired yet. like Kofal said she Wields a purple light whipIf so, then perhaps it’s a recovery mission that becomes something bigger. But what if instead, the Jedi killed by the Stranger are left to rot, the circumstances of their deaths covered up by the Order’s hubris? That’s perhaps a fate darker than any of the cruel ways the Sith killed them in the first place.
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