I thought this was an interesting take:
“The reason I did Mandalorian was that Luke had a beginning and an end. There was no middle. It was like making a trilogy about James Bond as a young boy who first became aware of the Secret Service and wanted to be a part of it. Part two was him training to be an agent. Part three is earning his license to kill — The End. No From Russia With Love, Dr. No or Goldfinger. You never got to see Luke as a Master Jedi at the peak of his powers.”
The episode in question is just magical. Him explaining the Force to Grogu and hearing the Williams musical cues makes it feel like a failed back door pilot. It’s so upsetting that we may never get a proper post-Empire Luke Skywalker series unless Luke Skywalker gets completely recast.
Makes me think the time is right for a dedicated Luke game series.
Felt like one of the weakest parts to me. Star Wars can only stretch it’s wings when freed from the bloody Skywalker family.
He’s right. All anyone has wanted to see since the trailer for Last Jedi was Luke be an absolute badass for once. We got a glimpse of that for Vader in Rouge One, but never for Luke.
The mistake was to not have a single scene where Luke, Han and Leia are all reunited.
We only got a brief moment of Han and Leia, and an even briefer moment of Luke (force projected) and Leia.
Come on, just one moment of fan service before the entire cast dies one by one.
For my money we have more than enough fanservice in media right now. Something like that would mean losing the power of that quiet scene where Luke mourns his friend on the Falcon, knowing that it’s his own bad choices that kept them apart for their final years.
The Last Jedi was the film that made me quit the whole Star Wars franchise altogether.
I bit the bullet and watched Andor and apart from being an actually good series it is Star Wars how it should be done. It ties in with the rest of the universe in a sensible way. It feels like there is more out there. The sequels always felt like a small contained skirmish and not like the galaxy wide conflict it should be.
For me it was that awful Obi-Wan series, which also did some stupid shit with Luke. Never again.
He was right.
Honestly, I mostly liked the Luke bits of episode 8.
The whole trying to kill Kylo thing was dumb, but everything else was fun IMO.
The whole trying to kill Kylo thing was dumb
Good thing he wasn’t, then.
TLJ was one of the best films in the franchise and a beautiful farewell to Luke. Glad he was convinced.
Wow. I starting to think I was the only one in the world that enjoyed TLJ. Now there’s at least two of us!
Narrator: they were the only ones.
It’s an exclusive club. We’re very cool.
Are you really that adamant about snuffing out any sign of joy about something you happened to personally dislike?
That was the exact question I had for Rian Johnson when I was walking out of TLJ!
I thought Carrie Fisher was the one to convince him. She was enthusiastic from the start. And after she saw what she had to work with she died drowning in moon light, strangled by her own bra.
How could it be a mistake… like every kid who saw Star Wars in 77, I revere Hamill. how could taking a fat ass check be a mistake?
Hamill’s mistake is that has always tried to distance himself from Luke Skywalker. He should have embraced it and leverage that fame and resources to his other work.
Returning to Luke Skywalker couldn’t have any negative impact on his career. Outside of his voice work everything else he does is because he is the guy who played Luke.
