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Post #1144936

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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
19-Dec-2017, 1:53 AM

I thought TLJ sold it great. They reference his act of compassion in RotJ and how it brought him to legendary status and how this led to Luke’s downfall. TLJ shows that Luke wasn’t yet fully realized as a hero, and that he still was grappling with how his actions in RotJ changed how others and he saw himself.

I’m not trolling here but I genuinely don’t understand (and haven’t since 1983) what was so great about Luke’s actions in ROTJ. Apart from removing himself so as not to endanger the mission (which was noble but certainly doesn’t inspire confidence in the notion of a new Jedi Order) all he did was get a bedside conversion for his war-criminal father. Nothing Luke did in that final scene was of any benefit to the war effort at all. At best you could say his actions inadvertently prevented Palpatine’s possible escape, but that was just a lucky by-product of Luke’s refusal to do anything. How did he gain legendary status from this?