YES NOArtist Faith Erin Hicks recently tweeted a very poignant take on Anakin's arc in the Prequels, showing how a young boy from Tatooine was driven to darkness by a group of dispassionate monks who used him as a tool rather than treating him as a person with real wants and needs and desires. Instead, the new Jedi found themselves facing the same terrible end as the old - destroyed by a threat from within that they failed to detect until it was too late. We eventually learn Luke built his own Jedi Academy modeled after the original and tried to establish a new generation of Jedi Knights. Even though Luke Skywalker ushers in a new era for the Jedi by redeeming his father and helping him to overthrow the Emperor, the legacy of the Jedi's failure continues into the sequels. Their hubris is so great that the Jedi wind up losing the battle for the Republic - and their lives - before they even knew it was being fought.
Yet even as they sense the Dark Side growing in power, the Jedi simply watch, wait and put their faith in a vague prophecy about a Chosen One restoring balance to the Force. In Episode I we see the Jedi Order at the height of its power.
When absorbed chronologically, the Skywalker Saga is a story about the failure of the Jedi. Even so, The Rise of Skywalker is a sequel full of missed opportunities - and perhaps nowhere is that more obvious than in how the movie wraps up the story of the Jedi. The pressure of wrapping up not just a trilogy of space fantasy blockbusters but an entire cinematic saga dating back 42 years is too much for any one film to realistically manage.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was never going to be as good as fans wanted it to be.
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