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Originally Posted by direwolf
I've read that fans were pissed off when he threw the lightsaber over his shoulder, but personally I thought that was a great moment. People bitching about how "Luke would never act like that." Really? How do you know? A long time has passed since ROTJ, and clearly some horrible s**t went down in the intervening 30 years that this guy feels directly responsible for, mostly involving his own nephew. For me it made sense that he had taken himself out of the game and just wanted to disappear. .
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I didn't mind the lightsaber throw, obviously something happened that made Luke go into exile and that was going to be big character changing moment for him. Old Ben and Obi-Wan we meet were also two very different people 30 years apart due to character defining moments, that's fine.
I didn't like what that moment was. Luke had some concerns about his nephew Ben Solo. So he, very rationally, goes to his tent to kill him. Like how is that at all like the Luke we know? The same Luke who saw the good in his dad, the same dad who literally killed billions of people, not just the men but the women and children too. If he was able to overlook that, but not his nephew who had done nothing...how does that make sense?
Was waiting for a big reveal about how Snoke was able to not just manipulate Ben but Luke as well. But nope. Nothing, Luke just had a bad dream and went to kill his nephew - momentarily though.
The bigger issue was that was the better story line. The whole Casino royale with no payoff side quest was just boring in my mind. But some kid grabbed a mop, so therefore it wasn't useless...