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Post #1144198

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Shopping Maul
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
18-Dec-2017, 2:09 AM

I’m totally on board with Luke’s story in this movie. The shame of that moment - that one second where he contemplated killing Kylo - reminds me of the type of conflict that the prequels tried (and failed IMO) to address with Anakin. It’s the danger of premonition leading to self-fulfilling prophecy. Luke was basically put in the classic ‘would you kill baby Hitler if you could go back in time’ scenario. Luke saw history repeating itself in the most awful way, had an all-too human reaction, and paid a terrible price for it.

To me it doesn’t conflict at all with his actions in ROTJ, but I must confess to never having thought of Luke’s actions in that film as being particularly noble. Making sure he stayed ‘Zen’ and winning Vader a seat in Jedi heaven was of no help whatsoever to the people fighting and dying out in space and on Endor.

So yeah, I loved Luke in this movie.