Literally the whole point of Luke showing up and making a scene is inspiring hope across the galaxy.
“The Rebellion is reborn today.”
The Resistance won’t be able to fit on the Falcon for long. This is made pretty clear in the film.
Yeah, but that all depends how the FO will rule the galaxy. It’s not two major organisations backed by various systems like in the OT. In ANH many systems were rebellung against the Empire, because it was oppressing the galaxy. Now it’s hundreds of thousands of troops versus fifty people. If the FO are smart, there won’t be a Resistance ever.
Luke didn’t just inspire little kids with brooms. He inspired everyone who sympathizes with the Resistance’s plight, including, as is implied, their allies in the Outer Rim.
Sympathy that will only last if the FO are an oppressive force. The Resistance have no allies. Their socalled allies in the outer rim didn’t answer.
If the FO set up a benevolent form of government, the Resistance will never rise again, and quickly fade into obscurity. That is as decisive a victory as victories can be. It’s completely up to the FO to drop the ball.
First of all, the FO does not control the galaxy yet. They are in the process of picking up the pieces during the course of TLJ, that is why the quest for Luke is so dire (Rey states this outright in the film). Their ruling style is irrelevant. They are a fascist regime that favors the wealthy and corrupt. The only way the gain power is by leveling whole communities. The goal is to stop them before they can take full control.
And the allies didn’t answer because “the spark has gone out.” Luke reignited the spark. That’s literally the whole point of the climax.
According to the info from the film, the FO will take full control in weeks. That seems a very short time frame for our miniscule group of rebels.
But don’t you understand that it’s not just the “minuscule” group anymore by the end because of Luke?
Rebellions require organisation, a base of operations, personel, extensive training, equipment, and financial resources to support all of the previous. Boys with brooms ain’t gonna cut it. That’s an other thing TLJ threw out of the window, a sense of realism in conflicts, and a sense of scale and time. The FO almost instanteneously wiped out the New Republic at the start of FO, and now the Rebellion has to be rebuild from scratch, much like at the end of ROTS. It took the Alliance two decades to build their organisation between the PT and the OT, but I’m sure by episode IX there will be a full fledged Rebel Alliance ready to resume control of the galaxy, where if the film adhered to previous Star Wars continuity, Rey should be looking for the next new hope.
Even at it’s height, the rebellion was not always in unison. Leia’s group is almost wiped out. The other groups may have just been in fear that they weren’t up to the task. It doesn’t mean they won’t help later.
And your concept of Luke is off. ROTJ starts with him accepting that Vader is his father. The scene was cut, but is shows us where he was at when the movie starts. He isn’t shaken to the core about it. At the end of TESB he is upset that Ben didn’t tell him, not over the revelation. In ROTJ he then goes on to carry out a plan to free Han, rejoin the Alliance, land on Endor, help get the strike force in position until he realizes Vader is there and he is endangering the mission. Even his surrender is done with self assuredness and confidence. The danger to his friends brings out his attacks. But even then, everything he does works. ROTJ is a great success for Luke.
Then he goes to rebuild the Jedi order and things go south. Nothing goes his way. How would the Luke of the OT react? That is where we differ. I feel that the Luke we see in ROTJ is confident and the events TFA and TLJ describe would destroy that confidence and lead to the Luke we see in TLJ. It is the same dejection we see in TESB, but older and grumpier and greatly magnified. I don’t know why you think that side won’t come out again. Human nature says it will. That ultimately is what makes Star Wars compelling - the human side of these archtypes. I am not ignoring ROTJ, but neither am I ignoring the rest of Luke’s journey, which you are by focusing on where he was in ROTJ. I’m not ignoring it as much as saying it didn’t last and he reverted to his older personality traits.