Luke: "What the heck? I thought I gave that to Mara..."
Return of the Jedi = Luke (hence the good guys) are making a comeback
I always interpreted it as "The return of the Jedi Anakin Skywalker", actually, as a symbolic thing of him renouncing the dark side.
I'm not sure, but I suspect they won't kill off Luke. It would be weird and pointlessly depressing at this point. But they'll probably toy with making you think he might die. Also, it could imply that Rey might actually refuse Jedi training in some way, or that Luke is uncertain whether he should be continuing to train anyone after all that's gone wrong.
Now I'm (probably incorrectly) imagining a scenario back when they were trying to set up the contracts for Mark Hammill and Harrison Ford, where Harrison Ford was only willing to sign up if they were willing to write him out, and Mark Hammill was only willing to sign up if they would skip the "old mentor dies" beat from Qui Gon and Obi Wan (and also that if they didn't pay him enough, he'd break character and start talking in his Joker voice during inappropriate scenes). That's probably not how it went, but it'd be pretty funny.
Also, are they ever going to invite Billy Dee Williams to be in these movies to return as Lando? Nothing like that's been announced, but it'd be cool.
As far as completely random predictions... I'm really hoping at some point, probably Episode IX, that Kylo Ren's lightsaber will get broken in a way that makes it start spraying messy garden hose-esque energy all over the place, and he's still trying to use it as it burns him (because he's crazy like that).
I'm also vaguely hoping that, rather than the First Order 'coming back strong' like the Empire did, I'd like to see more of a protracted messy decline... they already seemed to be kind of a mess in the first film, what with Kylo Ren being cracked in the head and breaking their own equipment, General Hux' psycho Hitler speech (contrast how calm Tarkin was in Episode IV, or even Captain Needa in Episode V), troops defecting (Finn) or disobeying orders (the guys who turned around in the hallway when Kylo Ren called for guards). I can easily see them having put all their eggs into one basket with Starkiller Base, and I think it would make a newer, more interesting story to show the First Order not as a towering superpower, but as a chaotic, bleeding mess that already seems doomed, so it's less a question of toppling them and more a question of reducing the damage they do on the way down.
Also, regarding the first movie: Kylo Ren is totally a Tobe MacGuire-era spiderman villain. And I approve.
Edited by Mitsukara, 10 February 2017 - 02:17 PM.