The Rise of Skywalker... What does it mean?

Rise of Skywalker. I've had some time to stew over the meaning of this title for a while now, ever since the teaser popped out a little bit ago. (read through my breakdown of that trailer here). So, what's the "Skywalker" in "Rise of Skywalker?"

First let's look at the titles of the endings of each SW trilogy...

Let's take a look back at the end of each subsequent trilogy. We have: Revenge of the Sith, Return of the Jedi, and now Rise of Skywalker. (That "R" alliteration with the titles isn't chance, by the way!)

We all know that the stories in the Star Wars galaxy tend to repeat themselves, with new characters and intentions, so I believe that the intention here is to signify that "Skywalker" isn't a person, but a belief, or what the new "Jedi" will become. 

There is a huge push in the last couple of years in Star Wars to make it clear that the Jedi weren't a perfect sect. Anakin was meant to bring balance to the Force, but does balance have to mean only good wins?

There must be a balance... between Dark and Light.  

Check out this sequence in The Last Jedi (which, in itself means the Jedi are done...). Rey has begun her lessons with Luke and he has her focus on everything around her. This is what she feels and describes:

Although Rey has the ancient Jedi texts, I think she will use them not to recreate the Jedi, but to trace back the origins to the first Jedi, and see where the split happened between the Jedi and the Sith. Take the Prime Jedi...

From The Last Jedi Visual Dictionary, this is an image of the Prime Jedi in a state of meditation and balance

This is theoretically the first Jedi. Notice the balance between dark and light. What went wrong? Was it something as tragic as what happened in The Dark Crystal movie? (for those of you who don't know what I mean, in the land of Dark Crystal there was once a peaceful group of beings who grew greedy and split the pure crystal in the land, and thus split the beings into two groups: the gentle Mystics and the evil Skeksis. Very similar to the Jedi and the Sith...)

There is a new Dark Crystal prequel coming up... and I think that its story will show the split of the original beings of Light. 

The Jedi are flawed. The Sith are flawed. Together, they can become strong. 

Rey will go on a spiritual pilgrimage. To get back to the roots of what the Jedi were originally, and try to start a new Order of her own. The Skywalker Order. 

Already, the movement has begun. I read the book: "The Legends of Luke Skywalker" by Ken Liu,  (see my "meh" review on Goodreads) and in it, the legend of Luke Skywalker was spun across the galaxy. Everyone had a different idea about who or what he was and what he stood for. But one thing was true in all of them: he was legendary. 

So, people will forget who he was, but they will know the symbol that he now is. Check out the kids at the end of The Last Jedi. The stable kids in the Fathier arena are all gathered telling stories of the legend, Luke Skywalker. 

A nice replica of the stand-off on Crait. 

And who do the kids all want to be? A Skywalker. Not just Luke Skywalker, they all want to be like him. And the spark has lit that fire. When Rey christens her new Order of Force users the Skywalkers, all these kids and people all around will want to join. To bring Balance. 

Magic Broom boy will be a Skywalker, someday. 

So that's it for now. What do you think? Am I way off base? Am I overthinking things? Will the Rise of Skywalker be just Kylo Ren's return to the light side? 

By the way, give the Kylo Ren Reacts to the Rise of Skywalker Teaser a view. It is of course pretty funny, but also he gets strangely poignant toward the end and really focuses on the music portion of things. I had been brewing these ideas lately and then I saw someone else react the same way. I have a good feeling about this...

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