It’s a trap!

by w3woody

If you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, this contains spoilers. You may wish to stop.

‘The Last Jedi’ Ending Almost Cut the Mysterious Broom Boy”

Ultimately, though, he stuck with Broom Boy. With this final moment, Johnson is expanding the Star Wars universe in a clever, concise way. As he says in the quote above, “we now have a galaxy that has seen this beacon of hope and is getting inspired to fight the good fight.”

That said, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before there is an entire spin-off comic book about Broom Boy, and his many sweeping adventures.

Do you know why “Broom Boy” as the person at the very last scene worked?

Because he represented the idea of hope: the hope of a young boy (or girl) looking up at the stars and seeing all the potential of the universe. He’s the younger version of us: of when we were young and we daydreamed of distant shores, and had all the potential in the world in front of us. And he’s special–but special in a way which we all can be, if we just stop paying attention to how we grab the broom.

Which is why I think it would be a serious mistake to develop him as a character in the Star Wars universe.

Because when he stops being that “every child with a dream” and becomes a specific person with specific powers and specific adventures–he stops representing that hope and those dreams of all of us.

And he becomes special–separate from you and I, no longer representing our hope and dreams. And his power stops being the power of faith and becomes a high midichlorian count: a genetic aberration which makes him one of the “chosen few”, a Bodhisattva by right of birth rather than what we all can become if we just believed.