The Last Jedi - There At First.. wait

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The Original Trilogy, in Isolation, does very little to imply that Being a Skywalker makes you Special.

We learn that Luke is a Skywalker at the end of the second movie, we learn that Leia is a skywalker in the third (IIRC). Luke's connection to vader lets him redeem Vader at the end, and win the fight against the Emperor, and while that's personally quite significant, the Death Star would have been blown up regardless (Vader and Palpatine might have escaped, but nothing that happened in the throne room had any impact on the fight outside).


It's the Prequel Trilogy that set up Anakin as The Chosen One, birthed via Immaculate Conception by the Force itself, implying Specialness to his bloodline.

Going to disagree. IIRC, most of the characters in the OOT, from Obi-wan to Yoda to Darth Vader and the Emperor, all referred to "destiny". If you have destiny, it follows that you have been chosen to do a specific thing. Everyone who has a destiny has been specially chosen to fulfill it.

Whether everyone has a destiny, or only specific individuals (as in Erfworld) was never spelled out. The point is, though, you can't have destiny without something very like both prophecy and fate. Which means not everyone in the GFFA is an equal. Some, at least, are specially marked out as chosen to fulfill a specific task. Which sounds very divine right of kings-ish.

Respectfully,

Brian P.