DisneyJedi wrote:JeanGreyForever wrote:
I honestly don't understand this narrow-minded mentality that characters need to be the exact same people they were 30 years ago. And there's plenty of articles out there that offer substantial evidence that Luke was not OOC in TLJ. I'm so glad we didn't get what the fanbois wanted which was for him to eliminate the entire First Order with one hand gesture.
Yeah. Think about it: Luke had wanted to train a new generation of Jedi, including his own nephew. However, all that literally blows up in his face when it’s realized there’s a bit of the Dark Side in Ben and he nearly acts on instinct. It’s because of his failure to bring back the Jedi that Luke spends God-knows-how long in exile and that everything is his fault, hence why he refuses at first to come out of exile and face the First Order.
Honestly, it’s pretty relatable because I’m sure plenty of folks in real life have hesitated to jump back into their craft or purpose when they let one failure of theirs rule their lives.
Exactly. Some fans are too obstinate and refuse to grow up with the characters themselves or allow the characters to actually grow.
https://www.cbr.com/the-rise-of-kylo-re ... -fan-expo/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/ ... ays_a_lot/
And a lot of people who had issues with Kylo or Luke's characterizations should check out the upcoming comic series by Charles Soule, The Rise of Kylo Ren, that will premiere this December right before the final film comes out. It promises to flesh out Kylo's origin and the reason he turned to the dark side as well as explain the Knights of Ren who will play major roles in the film.
Already a description of Issue 2 of the comic has revealed that Ben didn't kill off Luke's students. The night of the attack, about half of Luke's students assumed that Ben had killed their master so they attacked him. More than likely he killed them in self-defense then before he fled to Snoke, the only person he felt he could trust at that point having been abandoned by all others. The remaining surviving students then followed him to get revenge.
Another theory is that Ben immediately fled with half the students chasing him and the other half, who remained behind possibly searching for Luke to see if he was still alive, were killed by the Knights of Ren who Snoke must have sent so that Luke would assume that Ben was behind the massacre of his students.
