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Post #1153930

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Mrebo
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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4-Jan-2018, 12:44 PM

Creox said:

After thinking about this for a while longer (this site has that effect doesn’t it? :😃

I think a lot of the angst with TLJ comes from the marked difference in presentation between the OT and this film…Luke in the OT and the story in general is one of mythology as we all know but it was also written and filmed like a mythological tale. The hero’s are right and the villains wrong…the contrast is deep and wide between the two…very black and white.

We see it as a parable and a story in that very light.

With TLJ we see that changed quite drastically imo. Luke is a Jedi master but he is also very human with human flaws and frailties. We see the rebellion/resistance repeatedly fail and that is a jolt for those of us who have been waiting to see the OT style of story telling. It was for me but in hindsight I was happier for it as it opens this franchise and story to open up into many more possibilities. Looking back at the EU the main plot is always similar to one another.

I felt a closer affiliation with Luke in TLJ because we’ve all failed and messed things up but he was able to find a reason to pick himself up and realize he was wrong…he made things right as he could.

Under the broad theme of good v evil, The OT dealt with complex themes and characters. It dealt with failure and duplicity by the good guys. Telling you to go kill a guy who is, unknown to you, your father is a really shabby thing. It’s very ends justifies the means. The idea that Vader, established as repentlessly evil, could be saved is profound. We do need to scratch just below the surface, but there is tons of complexity.

The problem in TLJ is not that Luke failed but how he handled that failure.