People very much disagree that it’s time for the Jedi to end
Today saw the release of the first trailer for The Last Jedi, a teaser that, as expected, held back most of its major plot points in favor of some striking imagery, the random hustle-bustle of space battles, and a little Force-yoga instruction from Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker. But more importantly, it confirmed that the title isn’t referring to the last Jedi (as in “We’re happy you’re leasing this apartment. The last Jedi we had in here was a real asshole”), but rather, the final Jedi.
“I only know one truth,” Luke says. “It’s time for the Jedi to end.” And unless he’s merely testing her, or there is some unspoken ellipsis there (“…school lunch programs”), or it’s a prelude to his proposing a newer, cooler gang of Force users (“And it’s time for the Screamin’ Scorpions to begin”), the guy whose entire family has been repeatedly torn apart due to the Jedi’s self-imposed quest, in a galaxy that just keeps coughing up more Sith lords and planet-destroying space balls anyway, thinks that maybe enough is enough already.
On the other hand, as people on the internet counter, no. No it is not.
Since the trailer’s debut, social media has been flooded with devout followers of that hokey religion wielding their most ancient weapons—the Michael Scott GIF, the Tyra Banks GIF, and of course, the White Guy Blinking GIF that for over a thousand generations has been the guardian of peace and justice in the Twitter republic, until people finally knock it off with that shit.
God I am so fucking sick of this GIF.