But Luke changes his tune after his conversation with Yoda, returns to save his friends, WITHOUT killing Kylo, leaving the door open for his possible redemption, and goes out expressing hope that Rey will get the Jedi going again after all. He strayed for the seven or so years between Kylo’s fall and the start of the ST, but by the end of the movie his faith in the Jedi is restored. The beginning of the movie deconstructs the whole Jedi thing, sure, but I don’t understand how people aren’t seeing that the last act reconstructs it.
Yes, but my frustration is that the ST is not forging it’s own path. It’s leaving us in a similar place as TESB, with more Empire versus tebels, another new hope, and sacrifices the classic characters and their socalled legendary status to get there. Luke has to go to rock bottom, only to be brought back to a state similar to his state at the end of ROTJ, only now having had a hand in the galaxy’s suffering, such that a far less developed and almost too perfect and somewhat ahallow new hope can take his place.