CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:
Except people who say that TLJ provides a radical new interpretation of Luke are wrong. Luke has plenty moments of skepticism in the OT. He’s also 35 years older than when we last saw him, and he’s seen a lot. It’s reasonable that a character could develop during that time.
In fact, if Luke were precisely as we left him in ROTJ, that would be less believable.
I didn’t want Luke to be precisely were he was in ROTJ. I wanted him to have successfully established a new, undogmatic Jedi Order, gotten married, and had a ton of sons and daughters (none of whom died or turned to the dark side).
Now maybe that’s the EU’s fault, having planted most (but not all) of those elements in my mind. If I’d never followed post-ROTJ EU Luke, perhaps I’d be more accepting of post-ROTJ Disney Luke. I’ll never know.
Also, given the plot of TFA, how did people not see this coming? Why is it suddenly shocking with TLJ that Luke isn’t a gun-ho optimist let’s fight the FO! Infinite Jedi!
I don’t care much for TFA, either.