RogueLeader said:
I know there have been edits where Luke doesn’t die at the end of TLJ, but there’s really no way to explain his absence in IX if he is actually alive still. The effort might be to try to improve his characterization

I think - given the limited footage - the best way to handle Luke is to frame him as the old Obi-Wan of this trilogy. He’s assumed to have been heavily involved in the “stories we don’t get to see,” and his death is a very natural self-sacrifice that echoes Kenobi’s in ANH.

So basically: remove Johnson’s “Jake Skywalker” mode.

Sometime down the road, I’d love to see a trilogy in which a post-ROTJ Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando are recast, and we see them in adventures that bridge to the ST.