8 hours ago, Red Castle said:I also believe in the legend of Luke Skywalker. I believe in the legend of the man who single-handedly stop an army without even fighting. I believe in the legend of the man who sacrificed himself so that his sister and her group or Resistance could live on to fight another day. I believe in the legend of the man who will inspire a new generation to stand up against oppression. Because at the end, he didn't sit at home and feel sorry for himself, he projected himself to Crait, even though using that power would kill him, and saved the day.
On the contrary, we do need to care about him. Seeing how far Luke as fallen is what makes me care so much about him. We all know how he was during his youth, when he was fighting for the rebellion, we all expected to see him stronger than ever, the legendary Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue. So what happened that broke him so much? I care about that. And I care about seeing him confronting his inner demons and come back at the end as the hero he was before. I care about seeing him, at the end, finally at peace with himself. I care because I can actually relate to him. He's not a superman, he's a man just like everybody else, with his strenghts and his weaknesses.
The way Luke is portrayed in The Last Jedi is, from my personnal opinion, perfect. He's a pacifist. Remember the quote from Yoda ''Wars not make one great''. Since the Return of the Jedi, Luke always tried to avoid confrontation. Even though Yoda and Obi-Wan both tried to push him to kill Vader, Luke didn't want to. During his combat on the Death Star, he tried to avoid as much as possible to face his father, even hiding from him. Until Vader threatened him to turn his sister instead. And that's when the killer instinct kicked in. A dangerous path he took that almost made him kill his father even though he went there with the idea to save him. Same thing happened with Ben. Instinct kicked in and he almost killed his nephew. He then realised that his inner demon was still there and that it could come back at any moment. Maybe next time he could not stop himself. So he decide to go hide and cut himself from the Force so that it would never happen again. Combine that with the shame of being the reason Ben completely turned to the dark side (like I explained to you in another thread not so long ago) and we have the Luke from The Last Jedi.
But even though he's a pacifist, in both fight sequence in TLJ with Luke, we see that he's a real badass. When he confronts Kylo, he dodges all his strike without any real effort. We see that he's in complete control of the fight, that the only reason why he doesn't strike back is because he's not actually there and it would expose the illusion. The only time Kylo actually touch him is when Luke allows him to. He's winning a fight without even fighting. That's incredible. It reminds me of all those samurai duel we see from the old japanese movies, it's brilliant. And when he fights Rey, he shows her two time that he would have win the fight if he wanted to. First he strike her on her back right at the beginning, then he parry all her strike without much effort, and then he disarm her completely. The only reason why he fall back is because she actually light a lightsaber in front of him and he can't parry it with his lightning rod. We see in his face that he wonder if she will actually strike him with it. But he owned her, if it was a lightsaber duel and he wanted to, Rey would be dead. But that's not Luke, he doesn't want to fight. He's now above that.
Now come on. I think that loving or hating The Last Jedi or the way Luke is portrayed is not an indicator of if someone love or hate Star Wars. But to ask this question to someone that is actually defending a Star Wars movie is quite strange. I would personnally ask this question to someone that says that he like Star Wars but hate the Ewoks, the Prequels, the Sequels and everything else Disney made. Him, I would wonder if he actually like Star Wars.
But to answer your question: No, I don't LIKE Star Wars, I LOVE Star Wars. I'm now 37 years old and I grew up with it since I can remember. I played the WEG RPG when I was young, read the books, even was a member of the Star Wars fan club back in the 90s (still have a membership card :P). And I personnally love what Disney is doing with the franchise and don't understand why some people thinks that Star Wars needs to be saved.
This is one of the best rebuttals to the TLJ haters I’ve ever read.