#luke skywalker the last jedi

[jonathanrogersartist]

Anyone else irritated by how both the lovers and haters of The Last Jedi seem to totally miss the point of the ending of Luke's storyline in that film? Haters ignore that Luke redeems himself for his mistakes and goes out with an epic final act that reaffirms the value of mythic stories and why we need heroes, and thus is an explicitly pro-Jedi moral. So Luke's whole story is about him rejecting the cynicism of old age and failure, and snaps out of that insufferable attitude that tries to paint all sides as equally bastardly. It's a story about WHY the fundamental ethos of Star Wars, the dichotomy of genuine good vs absolute evil represented by the Jedi as avatars of ultimate love, and the Sith/Snoke/Whatever as avatars of ultimate hate, is eternally relevant and something we need for spiritual nourishment during dark times. And.... the lovers ignore this too. They tend to latch onto Luke's bitter words from earlier in the movie about how the Jedi were a corrupt and hypocritical institution that needs to end. These kinds of people are passionately anti-Jedi, and LOOOOOOOOOOVE that for a few minutes, a canon SW movie was saying that they all suck. They also unironically take Kylo Ren's 'let the past die' mantra at face value and think that THIS is the moral of that movie. They look at the messages of past Star Wars with a kind of preening disgust, seeing it as childish and one-note at best, damaging and corrupting for society at large, at worst. It is what I'm going to call 'Knight Templar Syndrome.' I speculate that they think old things are automatically dumb or ignorant or worthless, and can only see it through the lens of 'how can I make this so irredeemably problematic in my brain, so that my rejection of it is therefore morally right, and makes me feel like a great person?' So of course, the Jedi as a representation of the wisdom and value of certain 'traditions' were doomed to be targeted by such transparently performative people. And for the first two hours of TLJ, these fans were having the time of their fuckin life. I am also pretty sure I've seen some posts where they take Yoda's words at the burning tree extremely literally, and think that entire scene is also about the need to destroy the past (the literal burning imagery does kinda give this impression at face-value, to be fair), and that Yoda's advice to Luke is "Move forward and never look back," when he is ACTUALLY saying "Move forward with all that you have learned, the good and bad, and make sure the good parts live on." It's little wonder then, that TLJ diehards are completely convinced that Rise of Skywalker ignored/insulted/changed everything about their darling. If they thought Last Jedi was about the need for an ideological scorched-earth, only to then watch Rise be about the reconciliation of the past with the future, then yup, their vicious reaction to it, rife with conspiracy theories, demonization of JJ and Terrio, etc. makes sense.

[stealingpotatoes]

well since ahsoka died and was brought back by the daughter that one time on mortis does that make her some extra spicy force being too?

i love how almost all of tl4j have some relation to mortis

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[shutupcrime]

Some of you are too afraid to admit this but we all know Star Wars works best when it goes full soap opera

[noramsblog]

Listen to the puppet luke

[starwarsfilms]

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)

[softlightsaber]

father’s daughter

[the-force-awakens]

#don't need to know binary to understand that attitude

[darth-memes]

[clonebrainrot]

Hey all I made a poll expanding other to add rogue one and Andor characters go vote in that one. After both these polls finish I will make a final poll comparing the two winners to see who is truly the saddest death on Star Wars.

[334iwatchshit]

please remember that luke skywalker adopted rey and fin a few years after marrying din djarin and and opening his jedi school on mandalor with their green rat son.

[stealingpotatoes]

cant believe the other jedi would look down on such creative thinking

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[shutupcrime]

Love the darth plagueis reveal because it’s 100% giving the energy of your roommate has a date over and you’re peeking out of your room to see if it’s safe to use the kitchen yet

[vikslotus]

bf material

[padmestrilogy]

may the fourth be with you!

[brakken]

Two students corrupted by darkness, facing their masters

(who are both played by Mark Hamill)

[lothcat-lothcat-lothwolf-run]

the whole idea of skybridger get me every damn time because they are literally two sides of the same coin. Same birthday, twin suns and twin moons. Nature and nurture. one who fought from the day they were born and never saw the peace he brought about. the other who lived in a blissful tranquility, but won the battle the rest of the world started. They have the same friends, the same cause, but the thing about parallel lines is that…

they were never ment to meet. Reflections face each other but never can exist in the same plane. Heads and tails are on the opposite sides of the coin. To me, what makes them so effortlessly beautiful is that they are soulmates, in a sense, but two halfs that cannot, and will not meet. They are one and the same, at the right place in the right time, but even then they are meant to be separate.

if things were different…..