You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars?

“It’s ever an grant to get to witnesser thing oregon anyone alteration into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha successful The Acolyte’s 4th episode, possibly preparing america each for the carnage that was to travel conscionable a week aboriginal in its fifth, leaving a lot of people transforming into the Force. But adjacent with this little infinitesimal of penetration into a Jedi’s position connected death, there’s 1 happening that’s inactive haunted maine much than thing astir The Acolyte’s massacre past week.

After the Stranger has carved his way done the jungles of Khofar leaving lone Sol, Mae, and Osha standing, there’s an absorbing bushed successful the climax of The Acolyte’s 5th episode, “Night.” Given a accidental to flight the panic aft the Stranger is carried distant into the depths of the forests by a swarm of Umbramoths, Sol and Osha—unbeknownst to him, really Mae, present disguised arsenic her duplicate sister—examine the fallen bodies of the 2 Jedi closest to them from the carnage of the nighttime before: the crumpled forms of Yord, 1 of Osha’s aged friends erstwhile she was inactive with the Jedi; and Jecki, Sol’s ain padawan learner. It’s conscionable a quiescent infinitesimal betwixt the 2 of them, and earlier Sol tells “Osha” successful a hurry that they person to leave, marching backmost retired of the wood and to their ship.

In the moment, it struck maine arsenic thing odd, adjacent with that anterior speech betwixt Jecki and the existent Osha successful the earlier episode. Would Sol truly permission the bodies of these radical helium cared about, who helium conscionable watched get brutally chopped down, to rot connected a distant world? Sure there’s immoderate practicalities to deliberation of—there’s similar 8 bodies to recover, including a Wookiee, and lone 2 of them, they’re wholly exhausted by everything they’ve conscionable had to endure, and they person nary thought however agelong oregon if the Stranger volition instrumentality to decorativeness them off. Hell, we the assemblage spot that the Stranger does so instrumentality to the country of his battle, stepping implicit Jecki’s lifeless assemblage to retrieve his cortosis helmet. But adjacent then, and adjacent with the Jedi’s full complicated rigmarole connected attachment, the thought that Sol would permission Yord and Jecki’s bodies similar that astir tore maine up much than watching them get got did. I deliberation the Jedi Order would beryllium knowing successful portion if you astatine slightest recovered the assemblage of a child, Sol! The kid successful your attraction arsenic a Jedi Master!

Screenshot: Lucasfilm

The Jedi person ever had an absorbing relationship with death—on the 1 hand, accepting and astir distant to the grief of it, knowing that, arsenic Jecki told Osha, that they should clasp and revere being capable to ticker a being alteration into the surviving Force arsenic beings themselves profoundly connected to it. It’s that transportation that yet allows immoderate of them to transcend adjacent beyond that infinitesimal of translation and manifest arsenic a spirit, a Jedi creation truthful uncommon and beautiful, unmatched by the machinations and alchemies of the acheronian side, that it becomes thing of a comfortableness successful and of itself.

But connected the other, there’s a benignant of respect to the carnal signifier that remains aft decease we spot aggregate times successful the saga that feels contrasted to the thought of simply abandoning a assemblage to much people go 1 with the Force. We spot aggregate Jedi burial ceremonies successful the Star Wars canon, cremations of the carnal signifier that astatine slightest springiness a consciousness of respect to the assemblage that remains aft a person’s tone has go 1 with the Force. In the movies, there’s evidently Qui-Gon’s ceremonial connected Naboo, and Luke burning his father’s assemblage connected Endor. Even successful wartime during The Clone Wars, we inactive saw the Order conducting akin cremation ceremonies, indicating that adjacent with the changed circumstances and discourse of the warfare bringing a batch much dormant Jedi with it, these rites were inactive conducted, indicating determination was inactive immoderate level of reverence for the assemblage adjacent with acknowledgement of the spirit’s separation.

Who knows, possibly it truly is conscionable a spur-of-the-moment necessity, albeit a achy one; possibly successful this week’s Acolyte oregon immoderate aboriginal occurrence aft Sol reports to the Order we’ll spot a afloat betterment squad sent to Khofar to bash what helium couldn’t. After all, we person seen glimpses of as-yet-unbroadcast scenes of Vernestra Rwoh connected jungle satellite with different Jedi that looks a batch like Khofar—although those are scenes wherever she wields her purple light-whip, truthful possibly it’s a betterment ngo that becomes thing more, if that’s the case. But if it isn’t, and the Jedi that fell to the Stranger are destined to decompose, the circumstances of their deaths kept hidden by the Order’s hubris? That’s possibly a darker destiny than immoderate of the grim ways the Sith killed them successful the archetypal place.

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