Was Mark Hamill right? Should they have written it like this?

Perhaps. The trouble is that the whole story of episodes 7 and 8 is so disjointed, generally crappy and so unlike Star Wars that it’s hard to nitpick at any one thing like this.

I don't have a problem with Rey finding him though he is right based on TLJ it would have seemed more reasonable for Leia to feel where he was. However everything involving Luke should have been rewritten, you really understand the comment Hamill made about the character before the film was released once you see it, its like Johnson didn't understand the character.

The problem is this franchise got sold. There was two ways to make this third trilogy. End the saga by giving conclusions to the original characters and storylines. Or use the movies to launch the next generation heroes of tomorrow. Had Lucas maintained control, we certainly would have gotten the proper epilogue that most of us wanted. Like that stupid Expendables 3 movie. Is this film about the old action heroes or these new kids? You can't have both. You have to choose. You can't have a character be the hero and the mentor. It'd be like Mickey's ghost jumping in the ring and knocking out Drago to save Rocky from making Rocky 5.

by Intothenight :

Mark said that it would have made sense for Lukes twin, Leía, to be the one to find him using their connection as twins, not Rey.

Even though I get that, I also see it from the writers point of view, that they wanted this to be Reys hero story. She is the new ‘luke Skywalker’, the hope of the resistance.

So I actually disagree with him.

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I also disagree with Hamill.


I understand Luke had shut himself off from the force and only when he reconnected did he reach out to Leia and helped to heal her.

If “ just being twins “would have allowed her to find Luke then the public would have been left asking …why the hell did she wait years to do it ?

There are alot of unclear points ..hopefully some can put me in the right direction.

1.When did Luke start searching for the first Jedi temple ? before opening his Jedi school (he wanted to be more prepared as a teacher in the knowledge of the Jedis )or after his fallout with Ben and the destruction of his school?(he hoped the Jedi teachings could help him find a way to stop the First Order).

If it was for the latter reason then why does he tell Rey he is not interested in training her and coming with her to help the Resistance against the First Order?

If he didn’t want to be found or be involved with the Resistance then why did he leave the location of the temple in R2’s memory banks ?

Maybe yes, maybe no.


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