mcoractual
Well-Known Member
I think you maybe confuse nostalgia with what came before.
You don't just alter the fundamental nature of a character 'just cause'. Not even with a 30 second explanation. Just from a pure literary standpoint, it's something drives me nuts when i see in other shows or movies as well. You don't have a character screw up something they've conquered previously as a contrived plot point.
I can buy luke ostracizing himself.
I can buy luke rejecting the force
Things that can be argued that were necessary for TLJ.
I flatly reject that luke was going to literally stab his nephew in the back while he slept. It's not letting the dark side win, it's #$%ing cowardly beyond belief.
It's an established character. Those are things that are totally against the character and there's no real explanation of why he's resorting to something so drastic. They could maybe have pulled it off if they were doing an Arrow style flashback showing the training, etc throw all 3 flicks, but it doesn't work without a massive build up.
Luke was not ever really above being pouty. In the aftermath of ROTJ the new republic could have rejected jedi and wanted nothing to do with him so he could have packed up shop and gone off. I'm not saying it's gold, but better than what they went with..
I mean, i can put it in a personal setting. A number of us have kids and/or nieces and nephews. There's not a situation I can conceive of where i'd stab my nephew in the back. Period. Let alone over a 'maybe'. I can think of a number of things that would make me have serious conversations about him with my sister, but that's about it. I CAN concieve of a situation where i'd do what i could to kill someone in the vain of the emperor or vader..
If you can't conceive of killing a family member over it, how could anyone else?
Again, the flaw is in the writing/execution. If you want to correlate this situation to his facing vader/emperor, fine. They both killed billions of people. Literally. In the end, luke rejected the idea of killing them. Yet, we're supposed to believe he's willing to kill a close family member who's done nothing wrong to this point. He's just had a vision that he might. As we've been told, visions are not reliable. Nostalgia and feeling aside, it doesn't add up. You didn't do something in the past when there were many more reasons to do so, but you are willing to do it 20 years later on a maybe??
Subverting. Your. Expectations.
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