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What I like about Johnson's presentation is the idea that Luke is forced to forge ahead on his own. What I dislike about it is that in thirty years, he's done zippo, really. Here, we're just five years removed from the destruction of the Death Star. He's still clearly playing an active role in the Republic.

The focus for Luke will be that, over time, this prophecy about balance and the Force has been weighing very heavily on him. I'd intersperse conversation here and there to buttress that aspect. What is balance? Luke believes it was the complete eradication of the fringe elements that sought to control the Force. Moderation will be his watchword.

Moving past this point, Luke will teach Rey, and Rey will come to question Luke's own teachings as well. Rey will take it a step further as the series progresses. And by the end, Luke will come around to accepting that tenets can be true even if the ones teaching them are flawed. Luke's perceptions will be colored by Obi-Wan, who lied to him and set him on a path to kills his father, and his father, who was corrupted by the Sith but left unsatisfied by the Jedi. And he comes to believe they represent the teachings of the Jedi.

But the driving motivator in the first half of this new series will be Luke wrestling with the burden of prophecy. And Luke doesn't have real teachers or long centuries of tradition to run deeply through his veins, carved by generations of thought. He's gotta teach himself, and that only brings questions.

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