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Kim_Seong-a posted...

To be fair, Luke in RotJ was shown to be susceptible to angry, violent outbursts. His strength of character was how he overcame that internal struggle in the moment, not that he never would have such a struggle. >_>

So I can buy that an adeptly trained Luke experienced some super force Vision which made him feel so strongly that he had a reaction in the real world. And the fact that he was now so much more in control of himself meant that the reaction really *was* for a fraction of a second. It just so happened that Kylo coindentally woke up at the exact fraction of a second it happened.

...granted I feel the movie would've been stronger if we'd actually gotten to see more of Luke/Kylo in that time period besides the inciting incident so the thing would feel less contrived. Replace all that worthless casino bullshit with some flashbacks in the form of force visions so we can actually get a feel for how Luke had evolved up to that point and Kylo's state of mind back then rather than just have it exposited in some lame "two sides of history" metaphor >_>

Yeah the problem with TLJ is that it's crammed into the middle of a trilogy that outright isn't interested in exploring any of it.

Even the casino planet on paper introduces a fairly interesting dynamic. There are forces within the galaxy that profit over a constant war and it is within their interest to keep it going. But it's smack dab in the middle of "New Republic gave up its weapons and whoops now they're all blown up. Hey the Emperor is back!" so it has nowhere to go and it's crammed into a movie that makes it overall feel like filler.

The messages and overall goals of everything in TLJ could have been a lot more fun if they were the vision of an entire trilogy. Oh well.