By: Dominic Jones
At the end of Return of the Jedi, it was strongly implied that Leia would go on to become a Jedi Knight. The books and novel of Legends went down that road, but in Star Wars: The Force Awakens she appears to not be one. IGN's Terri Schwartz asked director JJ Abrams why Leia did not become a Jedi and Abrams explained the thought process behind this decision, including the fact that both George Lucas and Carrie Fisher had input on it. Check out Abrams' answer below,
I really like this response. As Qui-Gon says, "training to become a Jedi is not an easy challenge" so it makes sense that someone like Leia, who has committed her life to the military, would not want to take time away from that to lift rocks with her mind in a swamp.
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19 comments:
She has a choice just like everyone else. Just because you're force sensitive doesn't mean you go and join a holy crusade or a cult of monks. For starters, she clearly was in love with Han, at least at one point, and probably still; we already know how that fits into the Jedi code.
And as we know from both the OT and later in the EU, she is and has always been a political figure and had dedicated her life to public service... being a Jedi Knight would require her to abandon that post to train and focus on the Jedi path. It's so implausible that it isn't even fun to talk about it lol
Really... Leia as a Jedi Knight makes about as much sense as Luke being Kylo. smh.
Now Rey on the other hand... now there's a chick I can see being a badass Jedi Knight...
1. You can train a Jedi anywhere, and her brother being the Jedi doing the training, you'd think he could work around her schedule.
2. So, he he trying to say Force Powers wouldn't be useful in a military career? Sorry, Force awareness, enhanced reflexes, greatly increased combat capability, enhanced physical prowess, not a good use of her time.
3. Is he saying girls are less capable than boys? Her twin brother managed to become a Jedi with less than a year of actual training under a Jedi. Guess girls just aren't as smart, or maybe she's just lazy.
But then EU Leia was only a General, Chief of State, Mother, Diplomat, and Jedi.
do you even know what a jedi is? she doesn't have to be a jedi to be force sensitive and working for the light side of the force. she would use all those force powers as a diplomat and a chief of state as well as a mother and all those other things, too. a jedi is basically a samurai monk...
being a jedi isn't a designation and not everybody and anybody just becomes a jedi. yoda spoke extensively on the jedi commitment... you know.. the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. luke has made a lifelong commitment to being jedi knight which would explain why he isn't trying to start families (rey is not his daughter) or even lead a normal life (he may very well be in self-imposed exile in order to continue on the jedi path)
this also has nothing to do with the fact she's a girl. there have been plenty of force sensitive women that have either been jedi, sith or neither (adi gallia, shaak ti, asohka tano, luminara, depa baliba, barriss, asajj ventress... and it looks very highly likely, Rey, too).
in other words, no not stupid.
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