Star Wars Relearns Luke Skywalker’s Biggest Lesson in LEGO Special

Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past episodes 1-4

13 years after Disney purchased Lucasfilm, Star Wars has definitely relearned the biggest forgotten lesson from Luke Skywalker. In the original trilogy, Luke refused to give up on his father, despite being told that Darth Vader was too far gone. Decades later, it’s now clear that Star Wars has recentered itself back to a core lesson first learned from Luke.

While 2026’s The Mandalorian & Grogu is still several months away, multiple Star Wars projects have recently been released, including LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past. Continuing the adventures of the Greebling brothers in an alternate brick-built galaxy, this new LEGO special proves Star Wars is back on track with one of Luke’s most important lessons.

Luke Skywalker Knew It Back In 1983, Love Is A Strength

Despite the early Jedi Order’s belief and mandates that attachments and the fear of loss could lead to the dark side, Luke Skywalker refused to believe that love and attachments were inherently wrong.

Instead, Luke proved in 1983’s Return of the Jedi that his attachment and love for his father led to Darth Vader’s ultimate redemption, refusing to waver in his belief that there was still good in Anakin Skywalker.

The prequels rightly showed how the fear of loss and our attachments can lead to the dark side, explaining how Anakin was corrupted in the first place. However, the lesson learned from Luke still stood as proof that love can ultimately be a genuine strength, not a weakness or something to be avoided by those of the light.

However, this is something Disney seemed to have forgotten in the sequels, as Luke let his fear of the dark side overrule what many believe should have been an enduring belief that redemption was never outside of reach. Instead, Luke briefly considered killing his own nephew, rather than seeking to help Ben Solo overcome the growing darkness with love.

After The Sequels, Star Wars Has Definitely Relearned Luke’s Most Important Lesson

While the enduring love of his parents and Rey’s compassion led to Kylo Ren’s redemption by the end of The Rise of Skywalker, it didn’t have nearly the same level of impact on audiences as Vader’s redemption, especially after Luke’s initial choices shown in The Last Jedi.

However, Disney’s Star Wars definitely seems to be back on track now, even if the proof comes from the least-expected place: LEGO.

In Pieces of the Past, the young Force-sensitive Sig Greebling is training to be a Jedi under his new Master Bobarian Afol aka “Jedi Bob”. Meanwhile, his brother Dev continues to be a Sith Lord following the events of Rebuild the Galaxy’s first season, where Sig inadvertently rebuilt the entire galaxy when he removed the artifact known as the “Cornerstone.”

However, Pieces of the Past sees Sig similarly refusing to give up on his brother, despite Jedi Bob’s warning of attachments. Surprisingly, the argument first presented by Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi is laid out quite well:

Jedi Bob remains suspicious of “Darth Dev” for the majority of Pieces of the Past, even after the brothers reunite and are forced to work together to fight the rogue Jedi Solitus seeking complete galactic oblivion. However, Bob eventually comes around to Sig’s way of thinking, letting go of the traditional Jedi dogma.

Revealed to be a dyad in the Force, Dev is indeed brought back to the light thanks to his attachment to Sig and the love held between the two brothers that Sig himself never abandoned.

As such, it’s arguably a stronger redemption story than what we saw in the sequels, as the lesson first taught by Luke Skywalker was never forgotten. While the source may be surprising, it’s quite refreshing to see the case arguing for love and attachments as a strength being laid out so clearly in the Disney era.

All episodes of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past are now streaming on Disney+.