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Originally Posted by djsFlames
It was explained, but doesn't mean we buy into Luke Skywalker, the guy who walked into certain death to insist upon a goodness that may or may not have still existed in his father, ending up that way because of what happened there from his perspective.
Bold, but not true to the character, imo. The Luke we got to know in the three previous movies would not have dwelled upon that to the point of being driven into recluse life cut off from the force and denouncing it. Maybe someone else (in which case it might've been interesting), but not Luke.
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That’s a fair argument but even then if that’s true then I think this is where I actually fault JJ more than Rian though.
JJ was the one who set up Luke as the recluse who was not around in TFA.
Rian had to come up with some reason to explain that and I think he did a good job of that.
He kind of follows the OT story, even if it’s a bit more aggressive in tone. Luke’s following in his mentors footsteps. Yoda was a recluse who went into hiding in Dagobah, and at first refused to train Luke because of the fear he had of repeating the mistakes that led to Anakin turning to the dark side.
Luke has those same fears here with Rey, and knowing that he failed Kylo. As for Luke giving up on Kylo I think they tried to explain that in the vision, with Luke saying he had never seen so much darkness in one individual before and he took responsibility for that.
Remember the insinuation here is that Kylo also slaughtered the rest of the young Jedi, so that would be weighing heavily on Luke.
The only real difference here is that at the time of Yodas introduction in the OT nobody had a clue who he was, except for the crazy animal in the swamp.