You Just Gonna Leave Those Bodies There, Star Wars?

“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in Suggested ReadingThe Best Gadgets of June 2024The Acolyte Will Incorporate More Star Wars LegendsInterview With the Vampire's Season 2 Finale Goes Full Divorce CourtThe Rings of Power | First Fandoms CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishThe Best Gadgets of June 2024The Acolyte Will Incorporate More Star Wars LegendsInterview With the Vampire's Season 2 Finale Goes Full Divorce CourtThe Rings of Power | First Fandoms CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishRelated ContentRelated ContentIn the moment, it struck me as something odd, even with that prior conversation between Jecki and the actual Osha in the earlier episode. Would Sol really leave the bodies of these people he cared about, who he just watched get brutally cut down, to rot on a distant world? Sure there’s some practicalities to think of—there’s like eight bodies to recover, including a Wookiee, and only two of them, they’re completely exhausted by everything they’ve just had to endure, and they have no idea how long or if the Stranger will return to finish them off. Hell, we the audience see that the Stranger does indeed return to the scene of his battle, stepping over Jecki’s lifeless body to recover AdvertisementScreenshot: LucasfilmAdvertisementThe Jedi have always had But on the other, there’s a sort of respect to the physical form that remains after death we see multiple times in the saga that feels contrasted to the idea of simply abandoning a body to more naturally become one with the Force. We see multiple Jedi burial ceremonies in the Star Wars canon, cremations of the physical form that at least give a sense of respect to the body that remains after a person’s spirit has become one with the Force. In the movies, there’s obviously Qui-Gon’s funeral on Naboo, and Luke burning his father’s body on Endor. Even in wartime during The Clone Wars, we still saw the Order conducting similar cremation ceremonies, indicating that even with the changed circumstances and context of the war bringing a lot more dead Jedi with it, these rites were still conducted, indicating there was still some level of reverence for the body even with acknowledgement of the spirit’s separation.AdvertisementWho knows, maybe it really is just a spur-of-the-moment necessity, albeit a painful one; maybe in this week’s Acolyte or some future episode after Sol reports to the Order we’ll see a full recovery team sent to Khofar to do what he couldn’t. After all, we have seen glimpses of as-yet-unbroadcast scenes of Vernestra Rwoh on jungle planet with other Jedi that looks a lot like Khofar—although those are scenes where she Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest

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