I seem to recall an interview with Mark Hamill from a long time ago where he mentioned that Lucas asked if he's like to come back in like 30 years and play the Old Ben like roll as Luke. Implying the old hermit wizard type role rather than "Luke Skywalker, Grand Jedi Master" that was in the EU. TLJ touches sort of on both. There was the legendary Luke Skywalker, who never lived up to what people imagined him to be (the Great Jedi Master), and than his disillusioned hermit self who wants to die "alone" for what he thinks he's done to the Galaxy, because he knows he's not the legend everyone wanted him to be.
Logical. I was never one of the "Rey is a Skywalker!!!" (or Kenobi) crowd, as it made the SW galaxy seem small if new characters just had to be related. That was a problem in the PT, where a once single purpose character like Boba Fett was shoehorned into being a clone "son" of Jango / the basis of Palpatine's troopers. It was not necessary and as anyone would guess, was milking Boba's popularity to ridiculous degrees, making everyone as related as what one would see in a daytime soap opera. To that end. just because Rey is strong in the force did not mean she had to come from the strongest force-attuned family in the galaxy, just as Yoda, Windu, Dooku and other powerful force-users were not from that line. I know some want the Skywalker story to continue through another generation, but that would have been served by having Luke's legacy be the master of a new generation of Jedi that played out on screen, instead of it being a spoken backstory to Ren's fall.
What I wanted was for Han and Leia to be allowed to build a small hovel in the one spot on Coruscant that was left untouched--that they greened it up a little. (Orowood) Luke would have visited the couple. Han would be cleaning his blaster, it falling to pieces. Luke leaves, lost in skyscrapers after a few steps. he..feels something--goes back--and sees the hovel in flames. "Not again"
Nope. We learned within the last year via a concept artist that Luke was described as being a "Col Kurtz-like figure dwelling in a cave" during pre-Abrams development on The Force Awakens, and that George personally approved concept art depicting Luke almost exactly as he ended up appearing both at the conclusion of TFA and throughout the majority of The Last Jedi. This is not something that can be disputed: the concept of Luke's role in the Sequel Trilogy came directly from George and was fully approved by him.
Well, this is going to go like this: I've read Behind the Scenes details that inform us that Johnson was overseen by Kennedy and the story group, that Abrams was aware and had come to a similar conclusion as Johnson regarding some story elements. From a post regarding notes from the Last Jedi Art book: Now, I don't agree with everything Rian Johnson did. But, I'm not going to heap blame at him just because it sounds good.
You are about as factually wrong as it is possible to be based on very easily accessible, widely diseminated, and verifiable information.
Johnson's script wasn't edited very much because it didn't need to be. And it resulted in a film that I believe a wide majority of people - both Star Wars fans and general audiences - would list as one of the best in the franchise.
It really did though. Someone should (at the very least) have brought up how people keep coming and going from the looooong chase at will without any real effort. Even with excuses as to why, that kind of thing destroys any tension regarding them getting away. It makes the people on both sides of the chase look foolish.
Lol! No empire strikes back was far superior. That casino scene alone made it the worst since phantom menace.
The casino scene felt like it had a point to the world building, which is more than I can say for a lot of TPM, sadly.
Ridiculous hyperbole does not do you any favors, especially when you are deliberately ignoring the wider context of my comments in an attempt to puff up your own opinion. The Last Jedi is disliked and/or hated by a small segment of the Star Wars fandom, but the large majority of the fandom, as well as general audiences, signalled with their wallets and words that the divisiveness generated by it was an outlier and not an actual indicator of its quality. You are perfectly entitled to dislike the film, but disliking the film does not give you the right to contravene the facts, which are that it is viewed in a very positive light by both the large majority of the SW fandom and by general audiences.
Nothing to add to this thread per se, but I just wanted to say that the title is one of the most amusing I've seen here in a long time, and when I see a new response in the "The Summer of Mark Hamill's Discontent" thread, it makes me smile a little. Hamill seems just like the kind of guy to make an account and respond to this thread if he ever sees it. EDIT: I do have something to add, in reflection having no scenes with Luke/Han together in the new trilogy cements the idea that the storyline is looking forward with new characters and that the original core of Leia, Luke and Han no longer exists as it did - each of these characters has to help the new characters and not make the focus of the story about Luke, Leia Han, but rather Rey, Finn, Poe. It does seem like a deliberate decision, much as I wanted to see all three reunite together myself.
I still can't help but wonder how different the story for TLJ would have played out, and where it would have lead Ep IX, if they knew in advance Carrie Fisher wouldn't be able to do Ep IX.
Mmmmmm....no. Not even close. Glad you liked it, but the movie had a very mixed reaction from audiences so I highly doubt it places very high on many "best of" lists.