The Last Jedi has me more convinced than ever that Snoke is/was Plagueis. Backup inside.

“It belongs to everyone” sounds a lot like the secular Buddhism that’s popular in California. There is no enlightened thought, no real beliefs, no wisdom- everyone just has it. No need to cultivate mindfulness, no reason to change your ways of thinking. It doesn’t belong to someone like the Jedi-the light side doesn’t really exist.

Within Star Wars, these developments cause more problems for future stories. The Skywalkers, in your telling, are the aberrations that must end. The dark and the light are compatible- who needs to pick a side? Just conform to what everyone else believes. We’re all equal in every way! Everyone has the force!

As the idea of a space-faring galaxy still influenced by an inter-connected power which binds nature together, this fucking stinks. The force never belonged to Sith or Jedi- but they both discovered and used it. Without a Jedi faction, the dark siders will walk all over everyone else. This, I know, conflicts with modern political science thought, but if you cannot defend your enlightened beliefs, someone else will walk in and usurp them.

If everyone can use the force equally, there is no Star Wars to begin with. The series lacks any sense if you go down that road, becoming a bland, homogenized galaxy devoid of soul and heart. Funny how Luke’s story is the heart of the franchise and Yoda, or more acurately the light, is it’s soul. The gray is not desirable- it is death. Harmony between light and dark makes no sense. So, a new protagonist that has all the powers, none of the curiousity and wonder, none of the discipline and wisdom? She’s soulless, created by a vacuous story group. If she truly started from nothing and become someone over the series, that’d be a start, however much of a copy it is. She lacks belief, though, and she lacks any reason for her strength and growth in the force. It’s as if putting on a blind fold and pretending the character is empowering and new doesn’t really make for a good, understandable character. It makes for an action figure and a headline. Luke’s story, of a plucky hero taken from a farm somewhere who realizes his destiny, is far more empowering. Ironic.

So what I mean is: I don’t think Snoke was planned to be anyone in particular. I think they had multiple ideas going, like being Plagueis, or a ghost, or just an old woman, and decided they’d gauge the audience reaction. The similarities to Plagueis, then, were hammered to give them an out if they need it. I think someone (one of the newer writers) who wrote TLJ decided that Snoke dying was a cheap enough twist, and that they could discard everything that hinted he was someone special, as a way of driving home a theme rather than building a character.

That person has miserably failed as a writer, but succeeded as a company leech.

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