This week’s round made me realise how tired I am of Luke Skywalker.
Luke Skywalker is a great hero. The character seen in The Last Jedi is not Luke Skywalker.
But TWO Star Wars vs. Babylon 5 matchups! Not fair!!
I’m lukewarm on the new Star Wars, but–
How so?
LUKE warm, HAAA!
The man who saw a sliver of good in Darth Vader does NOT attempt to kill his nephew because he sees a sliver of bad in him.
That is a fundamental flaw in not understanding the character of Luke Skywalker on the part of the screenwriter. Mark Hamill even noticed this.
It’s a fair point, but I wonder if it’s an age thing.
Obi-Wan would have been willing to see Vader killed on a couple of occasions.
Luke has lived alone for some time, growing older. He may view things differently.
I may be overthinking things. In the end, I’m not a huge fan of the post-original trilogy movies. I liked Rogue One, and I think the most recent films are better than the prequels, but yeah, I would call it a change to the character that might be explainable, if not laudable.
He didn’t attempt to kill him.
The thought crossed his mind for an instant, and was gone. He never actually made an attempt, nor was he going to.
But even you said you are tired of Luke Skywalker. Why is that?
My contention is that he went from a well established character going through the classic heroes journey to a wretched old hermit.
You could claim Obi-wan did the same, BUT when the time came Obi-wan took Luke under his wing and started Luke on his journey.
The Luke in the Last Jedi couldn’t even be bothered to train Rey for more than a couple of minutes.
The Last Jedi purposefully deconstruction Star Wars. And having deconstruction a key story that I loved, I came to the realization that now, I just don’t care about Star Wars anymore.
It takes an epic amount of nihilism to destroy a fan that loyal, but the makers of The Last Jedi managed it.
I will note that while you aren’t as down on the new trilogy as I am (I agree however that Rogue One was a good movie) both you and JD aren’t exactly expressing excitement about Star Wars.
This was a hard one, and it made me do something I was sure I would never due… I voted against The Doctor.
…but now I really want to see a version of the Doctor as played by Sir Patrick Stewart.
And after reading Infinity Warps from Marvel, I think it would be fascinating to see a mashup of these matchups where each matchup was made into an amalgam of the heroes.
Not so sure Sir Patrick could be Dr. Who. I think he’d be more like a Dr. Whom….
This week’s round made me realise how tired I am of Luke Skywalker.
Luke Skywalker is a great hero. The character seen in The Last Jedi is not Luke Skywalker.
But TWO Star Wars vs. Babylon 5 matchups! Not fair!!
I’m lukewarm on the new Star Wars, but–
How so?
LUKE warm, HAAA!
The man who saw a sliver of good in Darth Vader does NOT attempt to kill his nephew because he sees a sliver of bad in him.
That is a fundamental flaw in not understanding the character of Luke Skywalker on the part of the screenwriter. Mark Hamill even noticed this.
It’s a fair point, but I wonder if it’s an age thing.
Obi-Wan would have been willing to see Vader killed on a couple of occasions.
Luke has lived alone for some time, growing older. He may view things differently.
I may be overthinking things. In the end, I’m not a huge fan of the post-original trilogy movies. I liked Rogue One, and I think the most recent films are better than the prequels, but yeah, I would call it a change to the character that might be explainable, if not laudable.
He didn’t attempt to kill him.
The thought crossed his mind for an instant, and was gone. He never actually made an attempt, nor was he going to.
But even you said you are tired of Luke Skywalker. Why is that?
My contention is that he went from a well established character going through the classic heroes journey to a wretched old hermit.
You could claim Obi-wan did the same, BUT when the time came Obi-wan took Luke under his wing and started Luke on his journey.
The Luke in the Last Jedi couldn’t even be bothered to train Rey for more than a couple of minutes.
The Last Jedi purposefully deconstruction Star Wars. And having deconstruction a key story that I loved, I came to the realization that now, I just don’t care about Star Wars anymore.
It takes an epic amount of nihilism to destroy a fan that loyal, but the makers of The Last Jedi managed it.
I will note that while you aren’t as down on the new trilogy as I am (I agree however that Rogue One was a good movie) both you and JD aren’t exactly expressing excitement about Star Wars.
This was a hard one, and it made me do something I was sure I would never due… I voted against The Doctor.
…but now I really want to see a version of the Doctor as played by Sir Patrick Stewart.
And after reading Infinity Warps from Marvel, I think it would be fascinating to see a mashup of these matchups where each matchup was made into an amalgam of the heroes.
Not so sure Sir Patrick could be Dr. Who. I think he’d be more like a Dr. Whom….
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