The title of Episode VIII is *drumroll* Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

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Might be a little disappointment by this title....

I get the Yoda reference, but maybe I was expecting fireworks.

Might be a little disappointment by this title....

I get the Yoda reference, but maybe I was expecting fireworks.

It does sort of break with the pattern (IE., the Sith already had their Revenge, and then later the Jedi Returned, so...) - but, then, Anakin's story was quite well finished by the six movies out there, so this new trilogy existing at all is basically just a pasted-on-job. I note that the press material is now directly referring to the movies as 'The Skywalker saga'...I guess to deal with that.

Ep 6 was called return of the jedi and ep 8 is like "sorry no".

That's what i don't like about it. Kylo really killed all that young jedi? Cause... you know, rey duel didn't turn out well for him. I was hoping some apprentices of luke are still around. But alright, let's see how it will turn out.

I'm thinking "Jedi" is plural here.

I'm thinking "Jedi" is plural here.

Yeah, Jedi I always treated like sheep, a noun that is both singular and plural at the same time. Because that's what you get in the language that doesn't borrow words, but instead takes its victim into a back alley, mugs it, and goes through its pockets for loose grammar and vocab to mangle.

Ah Cninja! I didn't notice that! We could indeed be dealing with an "octopi" plural.

And I immediately like it more!

I just hate the whole idea that only one of them can exist or Yoda is telling Luke a completely nonsensical lie. It paints the films into a corner where if they introduce another Jedi (hell yes give us more!) then Yoda's "When I am gone, the last of the Jedi YOU will be" causes huge problems. Why wouldn't Yoda want Luke to have guidance from other Jedi? Why, if Yoda cares so much about the continuity of the order, would he place it solely in the hands of Luke, a hot tempered too-old-to-be-trained son of the guy who murdered Jedi younglings without a second thought.

When I read the title, I subconsciously added the YOU to it from the Yoda reference. But this could indeed be a twist that opens it up, which I sincerely hope it is, rather than Rey being the next "Last of the Jedi" and the order never growing past 1 young powerful force adept and one decrepit old master ready to give up the (force)ghost.

The Star Wars cinematic universe revolves around this fantastic order of characters and yet they constantly try to trickle feed them one at a time into the movies.

This is why I loved the Clone Wars animated series, we actually got to see Jedi, on a large scale, able to act like Jedi.

I have to go with the theory the wonderful Star Wars New Canon Book Club podcast has (I recommend them, they're funny and helpful if you want the jist of the new books without reading them).

Rey isnt going to become a Jedi. The Jedi and the Sith only breeds a perpetual conflict between the dark and the lightside. One rises and the other falls, abd thats not balance. Her and Kylo are going to come to an understanding with the force and realize they need to exist as equal opposites for there to be a balance.

Slightly disappointed that it wasn't: The Force Makes Coffee

Because there was only one Jedi on the Jedi Council

Ah Cninja! I didn't notice that! We could indeed be dealing with an "octopi" plural.

I don't want to be "that guy" but the plural of Octopus is actually Octopuses. I swear it.

The plural of Jedi is Jedi but I always took the title "Return of the Jedi" to be a reference to either Luke returning as a fully trained Jedi night or even more subtley Anakin coming back to the light (maybe both). I don't think it meant the Jedi order had returned because the movie clearly had nothing to do with any Jedi except Luke and Anakin.

Maybe Jedi is more like "deer." Deer or deers are acceptable plural versions.

I dunno why "The Last Jedi" is making me think of a Terminator style movie with them fleeing the First Order

Since this is Disney, I feel like the title is what most people will initially read it as...Rey becomes the last one and Luke dies. Or it's a reference to Luke being the last one (most likely). Either way, a classic Disney story about individualism and female empowerment in some manner. Not that I don't like women, they're fantastic. I just really don't want Disney to keep messing up a good story with cheesy themes/storylines/plot holes for an agenda.

I still have hope for this to be good, but I feel like they're going to cut off the Jedi at Luke and Rey, and continue to completely neuter all the post-GCW EU stories that I loved. I know that EU is already non-cannon, but at least a lot of it is still plausible the way things are.

And feelings are all I have to go off of, so yeah. That's about as educated as it's going to get for me.

The Empire Strikes Back: After the destruction of the evil super weapon...a young, untrained force-sensitive hero goes off to train with a Jedi on a remote planet. Somewhere else in the Galaxy a Sith Lord hunts for the young hero. Near the end of the movie the Young hero learns that they are related to the Sith Lord.

The Last Jedi: After the destruction of the evil super weapon...a young, untrained force-sensitive hero goes off to train with a Jedi on a remote planet. Somewhere else in the Galaxy a Sith Lord hunts for the young hero. Near the end of the movie the Young hero learns that they are related to the Sith Lord.

Force Awakens was an incredible diappointment. I think they can go upwards from there...

A more ambitious theory:

Luke has been chilling in Ireland, I mean a distant planet communing with Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin to bring the end to the Jedi/Sith dual and thus restore balance to the galaxy (Anakin's destiny).

Luke is the last jedi knight and that is now a "good" thing because he's starting up the new Jedi/Sith Knights: ones with control over the whole of the Force, not just the light and the dark.

Crazy...I know...

I like lightsabers! I like spaceships! PEWPEWPEW.

Yay Disney! Moar star wars!

I grew up owning the OT on vhs as the only movies my family owned. I am personally delighted that the franchise and stories are continuing without Jarjar or comments about sand.

That said... the title seems a little flat, but I'm keeping an open mind.

Reminds me of the Stranger Things logo.

Also, it might be nothing...but...Star Wars is in RED for the first time instead of yellow.

The Empire Strikes Back: After the destruction of the evil super weapon...a young, untrained force-sensitive hero goes off to train with a Jedi on a remote planet. Somewhere else in the Galaxy a Sith Lord hunts for the young hero. Near the end of the movie the Young hero learns that they are related to the Sith Lord.

The Last Jedi: After the destruction of the evil super weapon...a young, untrained force-sensitive hero goes off to train with a Jedi on a remote planet. Somewhere else in the Galaxy a Sith Lord hunts for the young hero. Near the end of the movie the Young hero learns that they are related to the Sith Lord.

Next time you get an advanced copy of the script can you at least give a spoiler warning???

Also, it might be nothing...but...Star Wars is in RED for the first time instead of yellow.

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAW1E3JIQZE

Also, it might be nothing...but...Star Wars is in RED for the first time instead of yellow.

Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAW1E3JIQZE

I stand corrected...

It's the red lettering that has me super excited.

I've noticed for some time that Star Wars has been playing a little fast and lose on what is a Jedi. Ahsoka is a Jedi, but then left and isn't a Jedi. Kanan is and isn't. Who knows what Ezra is.

And all it really takes to be a Jedi it seems is for Master Yoda to say you are, and he might not even say it in person.

Kinda Crazy.

I have to go with the theory the wonderful Star Wars New Canon Book Club podcast has (I recommend them, they're funny and helpful if you want the jist of the new books without reading them).

Rey isnt going to become a Jedi. The Jedi and the Sith only breeds a perpetual conflict between the dark and the lightside. One rises and the other falls, abd thats not balance. Her and Kylo are going to come to an understanding with the force and realize they need to exist as equal opposites for there to be a balance.

I agree with this. I'm wondering if Luke has discovered that you have to have balance within the force yourself. Rey becomes some sort of 'grey force user' as a result.