{"id":930,"date":"2024-09-18T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dulcipass.net\/?p=930"},"modified":"2024-09-18T23:56:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T23:56:42","slug":"with-a-star-wars-jedi-threequel-coming-does-this-mean-cal-kestis-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dulcipass.net\/index.php\/2024\/09\/18\/with-a-star-wars-jedi-threequel-coming-does-this-mean-cal-kestis-must-die\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Star Wars Jedi threequel coming, does this mean Cal Kestis\u2026 must die?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans of the Star Wars Jedi games, including yours truly, got some good news out of an EA investor relations presentation Tuesday about the future of the series. According to Video Games Chronicle<\/a>, the company has a third game in the works, intended to be \u201cthe final chapter of this thrilling story\u201d after Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order<\/a><\/em> and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor<\/a><\/em>, two games starring the original character (and one of my favorite Star Wars gingers<\/a>) Cal Kestis. But despite the word \u201csurvivor\u201d in the title of that most recent game, the greater Star Wars universe probably does not have good things in store for Cal.<\/p>\n

I received the news of this new game with no trepidation because it did not initially occur to me that Cal might be about to meet his predestined end. That is until my co-worker Clayton Ashley typed into Polygon\u2019s Slack: \u201cI wonder if he will die in this one,\u201d to which my other co-worker Pete Volk responded, \u201c[twisted version] I wonder which Disney Plus show he will have a cameo in.\u201d Both plausible options for Cal\u2019s future! But the former seems a bit more likely, I would say.<\/p>\n

Cal Kestis may have avoided Order 66, but given the time period in which he exists, his days are numbered as a Jedi on the Empire\u2019s bad side. Also, like so many other Star Wars characters invented to exist in time periods that predate A New Hope<\/em>, we already know he doesn\u2019t show up for any of those events. (And we can only hope he doesn\u2019t get edited into any of them. No one is asking for that. No one!)<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean his story, and its ending, can\u2019t still be fascinating. Rogue One<\/em> proved that stories about characters who intend to die for their cause \u2014 with the audience knowing ahead of time that this will almost certainly be the case for them \u2014 can be just as poignant and narratively rich as stories where the ending is harder to guess.<\/p>\n

I guess I\u2019m saying, if Cal Kestis has to die, I\u2019m excited to see how it plays out. Does that sound weird? Whatever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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