Luke Skywalker was orphaned. PTSD. Survivor syndrome. Imposter syndrome. Finds out his dad is the galaxy& #39;s top fascist villain. Compassionate and big-hearted. Also fear and anger, impatience, rashness. TLJ didn& #39;t ruin Luke. It lifted the hood and poked at the actual person

Luke isn& #39;t the same character he was in the OT because nobody stays the same. The young golden hero of OT has fears and foibles and vulnerabilities. He& #39;s a person. I never got Luke more than I did after I saw TLJ. He was trying to save people. He was scared. He made mistakes.

Rather than messing things up further, he ran away, he hid. He thought he was a failure as a teacher. He didn& #39;t set out to murder anyone. Imagine the pain of him believing he& #39;d failed Han and Leia& #39;s kid, of all people.

So rather than seeing this as a ruination of the character, TLJ added layers and revealed and remember also that he came around in the end. The whole point was you can hide for a time but sooner or later you have to stop running. Luke stepped up, he went out a hero.

Luke also fully came into his own as one of the greatest Jedi. It& #39;s like he had some final steps in his own training to complete.