@alyx i would be extremely surprised if he didn't come back in a fairly big way as a force ghost in the next one but yeah i can defs see your point here

i was honestly hoping [redacted] was going to be someone else who has a story with so many parallels to luke's! but i feel like that was probably impossible b/c of outside constraints. and the scene was definitely good either way. i LOVED the burning of the force tree, i felt like it had so much meta symbolism outside of the movie too. like "we're rebuilding all of this canon but don't worry, we care about all the worldbuilding that's happened over the years"