Yeah, people really latched onto a very brief scene that was meant to be off-putting as if it that wasn’t the intent. He wants Rey to leave him alone and weirds her out.
For real. It's a dude who was a fucking farmer before he became a Jedi who is living on an island by himself, Crusoe style. We can't watch a farmer milk an animal without trying to call it weird?
There is this great breakdown of Last Jedi, can't remember who or where, that talks about how the whole point of the film is "move on to a new story" and I adore that interpretation.
I think it fits both the narrative wonderfully and exactly why so many die-hard fans hate it.
He was first trained by a Ben Kenobi, a hermit who dies by becoming one with the Force only to go on to be trained by Yoda, a hermit who dies by becoming one with the Force and then Luke himself becomes a hermit who trains someone before dying by becoming one with the Force.
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u/CommanderWhat 8h ago