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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
So if Snoke and the First Order were obsessed with finding Luke, what the eff happened to that storyline in this movie? It was basically ignored as a plot point until Rey confronted Snoke on his ship and he tried to read her mind. Did Rey even mention it to Luke when she visited him?
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Very little time passed between the ending of TFA and the start of this one, so I guess the First Order was just taking the time to finish off the Resistance.
But if they could just finish off the Resistance, why did they really need to find Luke? One exiled Jedi shouldn't be taking up that much of their time. Hell, neither Jedi in the OT had any significant part in the Rebellion, and both were battle hardened Clone Wars commanders whose experience would have been invaluable. Merely driving Luke away would have been enough.
Maybe it was about revenge, and the dark side had them overcome by the quest of it, and them trying to focus on getting revenge against Luke made them miss what was going on around them, meaning dwelling on the past was their downfall. What a nicely tied up story that could have been, that goes with the theme this movie was trying to cram down our throats while simultaneously holding onto the past with books and the Falcon and such.
Yeah it's sloppy. But for me that is what sums the movie up. They just whiffed on the setup TFA made for them, which was the movie's most forgivable quality. That it set up the ability to go somewhere new and interesting with the characters...and this just didn't deliver. It was right there, and elements were in the movie, but they just didn't get explored.