Hardcore Legend said:
The film would have been much better if they had cut to credits as Rey makes the jump to lightspeed.How? The entire movie would have felt like a waste if we didn’t see Luke. Secondly, the scene wasn’t even that long so I’m confused as to how such a brief scene effects the rest of film.
The film isn’t about Luke Skywalker. It is about the search for Luke Skywalker. Nothing says they have to actually meet Luke Skywalker once they discover where he is. They have an entire trilogy to flesh out that storyline. It would be like ending ESB with the entire gang landing on Tatooine and walking up to Jabba’s palace.
What the fuck?
The story is about the search for Luke so obviously the conclusion is the finding him.
ESB is not about the search for Han.
You are correct about ESB not being about the search for Han and that is a valid point. The final scene just seemingly doesn’t fit with how any of the other Saga films end. It takes the falling action of Han’s death/the duel/Starkiller base and inserts another rising action (meeting Luke) for what seems like nostalgia purposes.
It was nice to see Luke Skywalker, don’t get me wrong, but we didn’t actually need to see that cliffhanger. Now they are either going to have to eliminate the customary time jumps that we see in Star Wars, continue the story as if no time has passed or have a midstory jump ahead/use a flashback which are storytelling devices that also don’t fit into the Saga.
I just think it’s unnecessary. People would have moaned if the film ended with the lightspeed jump now because so much was built up about Luke, but in 10 years when you are rewatching the trilogy, it would make more sense.