Frank Oz was saying that Irvin Kershner said that logic often takes second place in a story. For example, logic took second place when no one questioned how steam was bursting into the damaged Millennium Falcon from the outside, despite the Falcon being in space at the time...where there is no...
The "Force tree" concept existed before Disney even acquired the rights in 2012. Also, the significance of the tree on Ahch-To is that due to the first Jedi Temple being located on the island, and the uneti saplings that Luke tracked leading to the island that housed the tree and the Temple, it...
I can understand and agree with that assessment. The movie is definitely a lot to unpack as a whole, which is why I personally turned to supplemental materials in the effort to fill in any gaps that I felt were present (not many for myself), which I've been pretty successful in doing so far.
I've read very little about Rian Johnson explaining his own mindset about the major key plot points, but I personally had little issue understanding the stuff in the movie that allegedly doesn't work in the established SW universe. But that's just me, I guess. :rolleyes
My mistake. I misread your question as why R2 didn't try to counsel Luke instead of why Yoda didn't try to counsel Luke. Nonetheless, my answer would remain the same in regards to Yoda: Luke was in a depression and shaming himself after what happened with Ben, so he wasn't hearing any of it...
I'm thinking that Yoda probably did try to talk to Luke in some way, but Luke wasn't hearing any of it from anyone, especially after what happened with Ben. Luke was probably in a funk about everything: basically his entire livelihood and purpose in life was gone in an instant because he made a...
Luke had been living his life of solitude until he inevitably died. He cut himself off from the Force and everyone else because of regret, shame, and general blaming of himself for what happened with Ben, which is why he wanted to end the Jedi for good by being the last one. The last one to...
I think that echoes back to my previous statement in that while it would be nice to get the specifics of everything in the movie, if they listed all of the specifics to everything outright, it would be a ridiculous amount of exposition, even more than there already was in the movie. This is why...
No, R2 has had his portion of the map since he downloaded it from the archives from the Empire during the Death Star infiltration mission in ANH. However, Luke did leave him behind while he went off into exile, which is when R2 put himself into low-power mode for the 5-6 years that Luke was in...
On this particular subject, I'll call back to what I responded with in a different post a few pages back. In TFA, Han said that there were a lot of rumors and stories about where Luke went after Ben turned, saying that "the people who knew him the best think he went looking for the first Jedi...