STAR WARS Legend Mark Hamill Reiterates That His Time As Luke Skywalker Has Reached Its End

@TheJustinHammer - I didn't say I love it either

@TheJustinHammer - that’s an unfair outline, you’re just picking the things you didn’t like. Luke’s arc was brilliant and was actually in line with George Lucas’

@TheJustinHammer - you’re essentially writing off a whole trilogy because you didn’t like that Luke drank green titty milk. It’s one of the most stupid criticisms people come up with. Luke’s arc was brilliant. We’re not supposed to like where he was when we meet him again.

He doesn’t just “die because force projection”. The reason he chose to force project rather than go there was because he didn’t want to put his nephew in a situation where he killed more family. Luke’s death was easily one of the strongest parts of the trilogy and I guarantee in years time people will say how good the last Jedi was

@TheJustinHammer - All he knew at the time was that the brief moment he was tempted to kill Ben (whether that was just his own poor judgement or if he was influenced by Snoke or Palpatine) had led to the destruction of everything he'd built, the deaths of most of his other students, and was the final thing that drove his nephew to the Dark Side and in doing so helped the First Order rise as a huge threat to the Republic he'd helped restore. What we're meant to see across those films is that Luke has been pushed to his limit and lost his way - that he's human and he has a breaking point too. He'd lost hope. And he wouldn't have known that a random girl in the middle of nowhere and a random Stormtrooper would end up embroiled in events that would draw Han back into the fray leading to his death.

And yes, that's how he died. Ben says earlier in the film when he Rey appears to him "you're not doing this, the effort would kill you".

Clearly it's a very difficult and advanced Force technique. He's not just moving some rocks or shooting a bit of lightning - again, he's sending his mind/spirit across a galaxy and making it physically manifest in front of people. Now, I get that maybe you're disappointed he didn't go out in a blaze of glory, some huge fight or whatever, but Star Wars, the Force, the Jedi - all of that was just as much about ideas of spirituality as it was about fighting. So his death was not only a sacrifice, but also acted as a symbolic representation of him reconnecting to the spiritual and giving himself wholely to The Force after having lost his faith in it many years before.

So yeah, if you didn't like it then fair enough, these things are subjective and that's your opinion, I'm not gonna try and change your mind I'll just tell you my thoughts on it. But you're definitely oversimplifying it by dismissing is as "force projection made him too tired."

@TheJustinHammer - and don't forget, Luke was the ultimate Jedi according the comic books, novels, etc. that are canon, and a force projection as a distraction is the best he has in his bag of tricks. He resisted the ultimate evil (Palps) as a new Jedi, but nearly killed his nephew due to a dream? Come on...

@TheJustinHammer - also, if they could weaponize hyperspace, why wouldn't they shoot a ship straight through the Death Star?

@TheJustinHammer - Im beginning to wonder if you have even watched The Last Jedi or just watched some youtube people recite the film

@TheJustinHammer - Sometimes you are pretty civil and sometimes you are out for blood. Its odd to say the least