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Okay so, my feelings on luke skywalker, a thread.
When I was first introduced to SW, I was a kid, and I remember thinking that the original films had nothing special except for Carrie in them. There was no relatable characters besides Leia, and they didn't even really give her much time to develop in the first movie.
I remember first watching ANH and absolutely hating Luke with a passion though, i thought he was the blandest character that I had ever watched, and it wasn't M@rks fault, it was just genuinely not the character for me. So, I didn't make it all the way through the trilogy.
Now, fast forward to when the TFA's trailer came out, I was absolutely fascinated by it and watched all of the films over again now that I was older and fell in love with each one of the characters, and I liked Luke but he still kind of fell flat in dimension for me.
I get that he was made to appeal to boys, and made kind of lifeless so that anyone could put themselves in his shoes, but it just wasn't that great and I found myself loving Han and Leia and Chewie and even Vader, but Palpatine and Luke just fell by the wayside for me.
I even like Anakin and Obi Wan in the prequels more than luke
Anyways, so TFA came out and I came to love Star Wars. One of the things that I loved so much about Rey is that she was nothing like Luke! LMAO I might make a whole different thread on that later.
Fast Forward To the TLJ Trailer, when we would see more of Luke. I remember watching it in my living room for the first time and for the first time ever in my life, I was excited to see Luke Skywalker on screen!!!!
Like, I will not tell you how fucking much I loved this trailer, but when Luke said, "It's time for the Jedi to end" I fucking lost it. I was so excited, because here we would get to see depth and growth in a character (whilst it is negative growth, we still get to see him
not stagnate like he does in the original films) I genuinely could not wait more for a performance than for that movie, and it was an exciting occasion too. I was so hyped up that I was literally bouncing on the car ride to the movie theatre.
Anyways, In TLJ I absolutely learned to love Luke Skywalker's character. His arc was complex and there was a lot explore there, and even if he died I knew that he was going to come back in the next movie and I couldn't wait for that either
Let me tell you something too, just because you love a character doesn't mean that you agree with everything they do. Because I didn't agree with anything that Luke did at all in that film, but I understood it and I loved the writing.
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I cannot put it into more eloquent wording on how much I hate him.
One of the things that I hate most is pandering, and TRoS, in all of it's god awful blue-tinted horror, was pandering to the finest degree. I could go on and on about the atrocities committed in that film from KMT's nonexistent screen time to the butchering of Rey
to the racist undertones in the film, but this thread is about Luke and I am known to go off on a tangent, so I will try my best to just keep it to Luke.
