I haven’t seen TLJ and won’t, and the same will hold true for the Han Solo movie and Ep. IX. People are free to doubt my commitment if they so wish; the world will go on regardless.
What made you avoid this film? After seeing TFA? After the trailer for TLJ? The reviews?
Reviews and general spoilers. Luke is my favourite SW character, and honestly his characterization in ROTJ – the promise that he would go on to recreate the Jedi – is essentially the only major thing I liked from that film. It’s bad enough that TFA introduced the concept that Luke’s nascent Jedi Order was eradicated by his own nephew, but I could’ve lived with it if Luke kept his head up and kept on truckin’. Instead he runs off to hide and wallow in self pity while the galaxy deteriorates in his absence. To me that is complete and utter character assassination; I refuse to dignify the movie’s existence by watching it.
I think the new trilogy should have been it’s own thing and been around the new Jedi Temple or something. With Luke been training new Jedi, and then a new Sith comes out of hiding and turns one of his students. I don’t know, but something like that maybe. i.e. no Star Destroyers and no Storm Troopers as that was destroyed in/around ROTJ. And also because not having those things would make the ST it’s own separate thing kind of like with the prequels.