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Originally Posted by FlintHillsChiefs
Yea, bringing him back as a force ghost is just another "**** YOU" to the people who hated how Luke was handled in TLJ.
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Yoda, the proverbial "King" of the Jedi, died in isolation on some swamp planet in his little hut and then later came back as a force ghost.
I don't understand why so many think TLJ is such a monstrous departure from what Star Wars was. You can go right down the line of major complaints:
- No backstory on Snoke? What was the emporer's backstory? I remember as a kid always wondering WTF happened to his face! I don't remember anyone being all butt-hurt about the fact we didn't know. Then 30 years later, we found out and it was kinda cool to finally get that piece filled in.
- Snoke would have seen through Ren's intent with the lightsaber? The emporer didn't when vader, with one freakin' arm, picked him up and threw him over the balcony.
- Rey being strong in the force with no training? In Luke's first moments with a lightsaber in his hand and his second attempt in using the force, he is able to deflect - BLINDFOLDED - three laser blasts. At least Rey has been using and fighting for her survival all of her life with a lightsaber-ish type of weapon. Luke was an f'ing farmer!
- Luke abandoning the fight and hiding in Isolation? Yoda and Obi-wan did the same in Episode III.
- Luke deciding to not go with Rey at the end, but rather "fight back" in a different way? Kinda like when he throws his lightsaber away in ROTJ and defeats the emperor by tugging on the heartstrings of his daddy?
- Rey's no-body parents? Who were Anakin's parents? Shmi? A slave.
etc. etc.
If I had my way, none of the anti-capitalism BS, etc. would be in there either.
Keep your liberal bullshit politics out of Star Wars please. But I'm fine with them making the hero a chick, I'm fine with them having her buddy be a black dude, whatever, whatever, it honestly didn't even really occur to me that they were forcing this new all-inclusive cast. There are all sorts of species walking around in SW universe, I'm supposed to be surprised by some ethnicity and gender shifts from one trilogy to the next?
I grew up on Star Wars. It was my first passion - and I don't feel betrayed by what Disney has created so far. They aren't perfect, maybe not even close, but I don't think they are worthy of the vitriol they are receiving. I hope what they get out of this fervor, is to keep the politics of the directors out of the movies. Period. But I hope they don't pull the plug for another 30 years because the "super-fans" scared them back into their shells. I've enjoyed having new SW films to look forward to. The news that they are considering pulling the obi-wan story, and the bobba fett story, and I assume the other trilogies, is a bummer.