Just when you thought Disney and Lucasfilm had finally pivoted away from the extended Skywalker clan when J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker drew the nine-movie arc to a close, along comes the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian to send the internet into meltdown and open up a whole host of new storytelling possibilities.
The de-aging technology may have been pretty ropey, but fans didn’t care because not only did vintage Original Trilogy-era Luke Skywalker return, but he sliced and diced his way through an entire battalion of Dark Troopers, came face to face with Din Djarin and even walked away with Baby Yoda in his arms for good measure.
Inevitably, this has sparked intense speculation that Luke could become an integral part of the small screen mythology moving forward, but a new fan theory claims that Ahsoka could be the catalyst to retcon one of the most unpopular narrative decisions from the already divisive The Last Jedi.
In the eyes of many people, Episode VIII went completely against Luke’s established characterization, turning the galaxy’s shining beacon of hope into a bitter old man who wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything he’s ever believed in, something Mark Hamill admitted he wasn’t too thrilled about.
The live-action Ahsoka already occupies the narrative middle ground between Luke and his father, having served as Anakin’s Padawan before pointing Grogu in the direction of other Jedi in The Mandalorian, and the theory says she could warn Luke about the dangers of carrying on the legacy of the Jedi.
Canonically, we know that Luke starts his own Academy before Ben Solo’s emerging Dark Side powers slowly begins his transformation into Kylo Ren and force his uncle into exile, but there’s clearly plenty of ground to cover in between The Mandalorian and The Force Awakens, and Ahsoka could provide the connective tissue to explain how Luke turned out the way he did when we met him again in The Last Jedi.
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