#and also all that witbout denying the reality of what jod has seen

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There's the recurring idea through the show of kids being forced to act like adults, and Jod telling them they're sheltered and soft and that they have to look out for themselves.

And the finale carries through on it really well. Jod's thing, the source of his bitterness, was this idea of 'no one is coming to save you'. When Wim says the Jedi are coming, Jod doesn't say the Jedi aren't real, or they're not heroes or anything like that. He says, "The Jedi are dead." And that's what's at his center. To him the Jedi are good, they are heroes. The jedi who trained him was the only one who ever looked out for him and tried to protect him. And she died. It's not that the Jedi aren't good, they're just dead. Good is real to Jod, it's just not enough. It's 'just pinpricks of light'. Good can't protect you. No one can but you.

And the finale picks up that idea and challenges it. Because the kids have learned and grown and are able to use that to save the day, but they don't have to do it alone. Wim's dad and Fern's mom are both right there with them in the end. It's the parents who are actually the ones to bring down the barrier (by listening to their kids, by trusting them, and by having faith that there IS good in the world so they can protect their kids but they don't have to literally hide them away from the world to do so). And then when the barrier is down there is good out there waiting to help. Someone bigger wanting to help! Someone to protect! The pinpricks of light were x-wings waiting to swoop in! The real good guys were REAL.

So Jod is wrong that no one will save you. The kids get to grow without being forced to lose their childhood because they still have grownups to help them.