[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

The prequels were bad, but they didn't affect the original trilogy or the EU from the novels at the time, so they're easy to overlook or pick some good parts out of. With the new trilogy not only did it completely erase decades of lore from the books that many fans grew up with, it shat all over the original trilogy. Palpatine still alive, Luke being an angry hermit instead of leading a new Jedi order, Leia still being a rebel leader, then dying having accomplished nothing. I don't see how you can be a fan of the original movies and accept the new ones at all

The Luke as a beaten down recluse idea actually came from George Lucas himself.


https://www.gamesradar.com/star-wars...kywalker-dead/

Pages from the book, posted on Twitter, reveal that Lucas was going to kill Luke Skywalker in Episode 8, similar to what happened in Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The book also notes that a female Jedi Knight who is trained by Luke was always going to be the central character and that Luke was going to be a Colonel Kurtz-type character – Kurtz being the elusive maniac in Apocalypse Now.


"Years before The Last Jedi began development, the treatment left behind by George Lucas in 2012 also had Episode VIII be the one wherein Luke Skywalker would die," reads one page.



"Rey was on a mission to seek out Luke Skywalker, who had disappeared. As described by George Lucas, Rey is like Willard going up river seeking out Colonel Kurtz, an allusion to Apocalypse Now. The story had Rey find Luke on a Jedi temple planet, but he is a recluse, withdrawn into a very dark space and needs to be drawn back from despair."