Good Force, I don’t get why people are making such a big deal of Luke freaking out one time. He turned his lightsaber on after being bombarded by the dark side Force coming from Ben, and he immediately felt ashamed and was about to turn it off and leave. Just because he helped Vader 30 years ago doesn’t make him infallible.
I think that the fact that Luke decided to go to Ben alone in the middle of the night and literally invade his mind is out of character.
And then, from my understanding, he pulled a “Jedi council on Vader” type of thing very similar to how it happened in RotS. And that’s weird because Luke’s Jedi Order would theoretically be the one to step aside from the dogmatic view of the old Jedi. That was so emphasized with Luke disagreeing with his masters every step of the way, with Luke being his own type of Jedi.
Qui-Gon and Luke are very similar in several ways, and Qui-Gon wasn’t accepted by the old Jedi Order. But even though Luke was totally aware of what happened in the prequels, he decided to start teaching the ways of the Jedi in a way he knew was wrong, and he made the same mistake that the old Jedi did too.
That’s one of the inconsistencies that bothered me in his character. I wouldn’t find it unbelievable had it been explained. Except it wasn’t.