10 Things That Make No Sense About Star Wars Sequels
8. Why Did Yoda Destroy The Tree If Rey Had Already Taken The Sacred Texts?
In the emotional climax of The Last Jedi, Luke contemplates destroying a sacred tree that houses the last of the Jedi scriptures. He is confronted by the Force Ghost of Yoda, there to guide him once again. As Luke reconsiders his options and hesitates at the base of the tree, Yoda uses the force to drop a lightning bolt on the secret library, burning in in front of Luke. The message is clear: Luke's redemption and the Resistance's salvation doesn't lie in retelling and nit-picking the stories of the past, but by using them to inspire the stories of the future.
While this galvanizes Luke into action, it's later shown to be entirely pointless. At the very end of the film, it's shown that Rey took the Jedi texts before she left Luke to his pity-party, ensuring that the Jedi Order will continue in the same manner that it operated previously. The same methods, teachings, and ideals the Order exhibited back in the previous films will live on through Rey reading their old textbooks.
Luke had spent the better part of the movie trying to tell Rey that she couldn't do things the way the Jedi did and Yoda's whole point of being in the movie was to drive home the point that the past should be respected but should be used as literal fuel for the fire. But it turns out, he blew up a tree for nothing.