Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
In the OT, Luke overcame his anger to save his father - which was one his major goals - and simultaneously defeat the emperor’s effort to turn him [Luke] to the dark side.
In whatever you call TLJ, Luke paused in his fear and didn’t kill the nascent Hitler (as a child) forming before his Jedi eye. At least, that is the story the movies seemed to be telling. One series may have done a better job than the other. Else-wise, 40 years of hindsight has rendered the OT more comprehensible.
To be fair, saving your father and choosing not to be evil has got to be the easier storyline to sell. Hero chooses to be a good guy. Awards all around.
Killing you kin to save millions of strangers from potential death, torture, and oppression is probably a more complex and nuanced storyline. Hero chooses to do evil to accomplish good. Your going to get awards from some; hate mail from others.
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And there in lies the rub.
Luke had his moments of doubt in the OT, but in all cases he was actively facing people who have killed billions of people (the death star) and facing directly the two most responsible for those billions and a helluva lot more. I.e. people who have been proved to be completely evil.
In TLJ, he considers murdering a minor in his sleep, who's completely defenseless on a maybe. A maybe. Force visions are not set in stone. We're told that the same moment we're told force visions exist. There's simply no way he moves to cold blooded murder when Ben had don't nothing wrong at that point. If the prior events of that day showed Ben hacking up a few 3rd graders or something - ok, i'm listening. Still not buying it, but listening. When he'd done nothing, just no.
He hesitated and had self control when dealing with his father and the emperor - neither of whom he knew for @#$% and had killed billions of people. He's going to jump to the same point, actually much FURTHER down the line to evil when dealing with his nephew who was what? late teens early 20's at that point? Family he'd known the kids entire life?
Just no way in hell. There are just too many ways to have handled it at that point.
Try and contrast it however you want - the emperor goaded him in to the initial attack, vader goaded him into going at it again. Both times he did it to their faces ready to face the consequences. Again, against those who were overwhelmingly guilty of the worst things imaginable. Anyone equating that to sneaking up on your nephew in the middle of the night and stabbing him on the back when he'd done nothing evil doesn't get it frankly.
*I* get the 'oh not this again' thing. But there are degrees with dealing with it. That's THE last step in the line, not the first. Even a grumpy Luke would know that.
The crowning achievement of BS in that regard in TLJ is - even if you accept that failed premise, Luke's response is 'Well, i created the problem, sorry universe, it's your problem now - i quit'. If you but RJ's premise, that he'd consider killing him within millimeters of doing so - then when controlling himself and stopping, he's not going to simply through his hands up and quit and dump him on the universe.
The two scenarios (ROTJ/TLJ) are radically different.