Who will deal jacen the fatal blow?

Jaina or Leia, I'm good with either. Both need something jedi-ish and badass to do, both need to reacknowledge their position as powerful jedi, and with either it would be tense because Jacen's more proficient than both of them at this point. With Luke...he's more powerful, and Jacen would be just one more family tragedy and badguy he whupped.

 

Jacen will finally realize that the greatest danger to peace in the galaxy is Jacen Solo...then he'll stab himself with his saber. What a lovely ending that would be.

 

Nobody has suggested that a thirteen-year-old will kill the Dark Lord of the Sith yet? Wow.

I hope he thought-bombs himself.

 

I think it would be a stretch to assume that Leia would be able to kill off her own son - especially after all that she went through after Anakin's demise. Possibly, she could do such a thing, if she learns to truly tap into her powers, but it would probably destroy her, psychologically-wise.

Jaina is also a likely candidate, since she already doesn't have any more emotional ties with her brother, but I don't see the writers having their BomBad Sith Lord killed off by a woman, even if she's of Skywalker descent.

Ben is the last possibility and the most interesting one, because he's the betrayed student, of sorts - a reversed parallel of Obi-Wan/Anakin and the betrayed mentor. Of course, he's too youg right now, but he has plenty of time to develop right now and to grow into a fully-fledged Knight.

In the end, if neither of these possibilities hold true, I don't have any other expectations except this one - I don't care who gives Jacen the axe, as long as he/she does so in the most painful, slow and sadistic manner possible!

 

As hard as I try, I cannot bring myself to believe that DelRay would throw away the Solo name from the franchise. Jacen not having a male heir, and since Anakin has assumed room temperature...Solo would end with Jacen. Of course, Jaina could have an illegitimate child...I suppose. Judging from her lack of planning and immaturity, it is not out of the question.

The bottom line is, in fact, the bottom line. Removing Solo's from the whole enchilada wouldn't be a very good financial move...so I have to believe that Jacen is brought back from the abyss.

Then again, DelRay has done more stupid things in the past...

 

That would be perfect!!!

I think Ben is the person who will either kill Jacen or turn him back from the darkside. Remember Mara telling Luke that she feels that Ben is somehow linked to Jacen and that he needs to be with him. So either Jacen or Lumiya are somehow messing with Mara's mind or she is getting a prompting from the Force. Either way, I think that her comment was foreshadowing that Ben is going to be involved with either Jacen's death or redemption.

AG88

 

in order of preference:
1. jaina
2. leia
3. ben
4. han or...
5. he should die like a chump choking on jerked dewback meat or something.

 

Perhaps he meets Boba Fett and his granddaughter in a dark alley and they get revenge for Jacen killing Ailyn? Unlikely, but no one has brought up that possibility.

And who's to say Han and Leia can't have another child? As far as I know there's been no mention of what age a woman ceases to be able to bear children in the GFFA. After all we have people fighting and piloting starships well into what would be considered senior citizen age here on Earth.

 

Waru using one of KJA's superweapons and with Callista's help.

 

I would so love for it to be Jaina-she needs to do something important. But that's exactly why she's not likely to do it....

Or, if not dead, shoved into an escape pod and banished to Hoth.

 

Darth Krayt...cause he wants to be the new Sith Lord.

 

I'm still not convinced Jacen's path is really going to look the way people think it is. I'm certain he'll end up a Sith, fully and completely, at least for a time (see the Darth Who contest... way to not spoil your series, DR... ) but I'm honestly not convinced the end of his path is going to be either the basic redemption or death endings that people expect. To the contrary, some of TD's comments in his recent interview suggest to me that the plot has several significant twists in it that we've yet to find out about. His "true enemies" and so forth... Something big is still unrevealed here. Who will deal Jacen the final blow? I'm not even sure that's the right question to be asking.

- Keralys

 

It might be nice to have a Sith defeated in a more random fashion, say in a Thrawn-esque betrayal (from Ben?) with a starship blowing up as a result or something. Actually, I think Jacen will discover he's been played for a fool by the Sith and will wind up helping beat Lumiya down, possibly killed by her.

 

It would be a stretch ability-wise, but she does, theoretically have the same force-potential as Luke. Psychologically yes, it would be, quite possibly, devastating. However differences include: Anakin died as an extremely young and innocent man, Anakin's death came as a comparative shock - she did not have time to come to terms with it prior to the event. While it nearly broke her, it did not break her, and we should remember this is the woman who survived the utter destruction of her entire family (to her knowledge) and home planet. She's willful and if she decides on her own terms it needs doing, I think she'd be able to. She nearly said as much to Aurra Sing in Tempest. I'm not saying she'd be fine afterwards - far from it, I think it would be horrific for her - I'm just saying I think she'd survive, somehow.

I imagine Jaina feels the descent of her brother more keenly and more painfully than anyone due to the twin bond. Trying to cut herself off is all she can do - pretending to numbness. But I think that it would be just as soul destroying for her as for Leia to kill Jacen.

Good lord I hope that the writers don't engage in that level of conscious sexism. Though you are depressingly correct that so far, most of the girls have been paired off against other bad girls. Leia/Mara/Alema fights, etc.

Or Allana could choose to use the Solo name (cos she's just that proud of daddy!). Or Jaina could marry into a Hapan family or other traditional matriarchy. Or she could marry and not change her name. Or she could shack up with Zekk who doesn't appear to have a surname. Or she could responsibly plan to have children, but not get married for whatever reason.

...eh. Putting aside personal opinions about the relative ick-factor, while it makes sense that the Force might delay aging and advanced medicine in the GFFA might increase lifespan, the characters have been portrayed as aging roughly normally and I think Leia's supposed to look pretty middle-aged by now - it's not consistant with how they've previously portrayed her aging. Unless humans a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away were fairly radically different to us (possible) a woman's reproductive system just doesn't last that long.

 

I think Luke should lure him into a trap and freeze him in carbonite or some other stasis field. Then the characters would be faced with a tough decision. Do you free him and arrest him? Do you leave him frozen? Do you kill him? It would be very morally confusing.

 

...Hence why Jacen turned out such a bad apple. You gotta blame the parents on this one, Han and Leia did a lousy job rasing the brats. Padme was ready to sacrifice her entire career for the twins. At least she knew what being a good parent meant.

 

Hmm, her twins still weren't much motivation for her to stay alive (ref. "she died of a broken heart" etc). There doesn't seem to be much of a history of good parenting in the Skywalker family, frankly.

 

R2-D2

 

Yep. I think the question we can reasonably ask at this point, though, is "Who will deal Lumiya the fatal blow?" Interesting range of possibilities there and low likelihood of massive new factors being introduced.

 

The way I think of it: they managed to raise one kid who deserves to die, one kid who wants to die, and one kid who does die. Why couldn't they give all three traits to one kid and then everyone's happy?

I hope Ben axes Jacen . . . after the latter turns back to the light.

 

I'm starting to believe that Jacen isn't going to become a Sith (or not for long)...while I'm hoping Lumiya is dead, its quite humorous how she manages to die and keep returning...somehow I don't think she's done...I'm also starting to believe there are more sinister forces at work...maybe Krayt's teachers...it seems Jacen has been used to weaken the Galactic Alliance...paving the way for whatever Lumiya's partners had in mind.

 

Good one! I just hate what they've done to the poor Solo family... at least I hear that this series portrays Han and Leia as a loving couple, something they should have been all along.

Padme was ready to sacrifice her entire career for the twins. At least she knew what being a good parent meant. Yeah, that's why she just let herself die at the end, right after her babies were born. As for Han & Leia, Luke insisted that they hide the twins and stay away. They made (I guess) the best decision they could based on the fear Luke pushed them into. Of course, that wasn't an issue when Luke had his own kid, now, was it? The whole Solo family has been treated very terribly, if you ask me, and ending the family name with Jacen's death... so frustrating! Especially after it took so much to convince Leia to have children in the first place...

 

Yeah i died of a broken heart once too.....i got better though.

 

Possibly Jaina- kind of like the duel in Shadow Academy, where the twins were pitted against each other, and saw the other as a Sith. And Jaina being the 'Sword of the Jedi' and all...however, I have doubts about anyone but Luke being able to best Jacen in a fight. In an aerial dogfight, Jaina would blast Jacen from the sky, but Jacen would probably win a one-on-one lightsaber battle.

 

Actually it is the right question. Does Del ray see it as the right question, who knows? But to sweep everything Jacen has done up to this point under the rug and redeem him (or whatever) will be pathetic. To allow Jacen to live would be a crime.