DarkBuster22904 posted... The character assassination of Luke Skywalker is what poisons the well.
I'm sorry. I dont care how "human" it is, post ROTJ Luke would never even consider executing Ben in cold blood. Not even for a second. And he CERTAINLY wouldn't fuck off to mope himself to death, leaving his friends and family to die another the hands of a mess he made.
Luke was meant to be the Superman character. The incorruptible for e, who succeeded in all the places where his father failed. Anakin's power with Padme's compassion. Tye actual hope for the future, the Jedi's wisdom tempered with actual love. Yes, it's unrealistic. You know what else is unrealistic? Goddamn space wizards. It's a fantasy. It's like writing a sequel to Lord of the Rings where Aragorn decided to genocide the shire out of fear that lingering Ring corruption would get Sam.
What we're left with is a Luke whose arc barely matters. He's gone from a narrative foil to vader, to just a stepping stone in Vader and Rey's stories to prop them up.
I don't get why people are so against the idea of that either. Why does every character have to be flawed and have to be jaded and cynical and be at a super low point? What's so wrong with Luke being a successful Jedi with a whole school? And why is it seen as a negative to want something like that?