Jon Favreau's Luke Skywalker Is More Of A Dick Than Rian Johnson's
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Book of Boba Fett episode 6.
Luke Skywalker has returned to Star Wars once again in The Book of Boba Fett, but the version presented by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni is even more of a dick than the one seen in Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars viewers have seen the beginning and end of Luke’s journey, from Tatooine farmboy to crotchety old island man, the galaxy’s newest hope to its last. Now Lucasfilm is showing what the screen has otherwise avoided: the middle chapters of Luke’s life, after he becomes a fully-fledged Jedi and defeats the Empire.
While Luke’s story after the original Star Wars trilogy was well developed in Legends, canon hasn’t detailed it quite so much, and certainly not on screen. Comics and video games have touched on some of Luke’s actions during this time, but via The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and likely other Disney+ Star Wars shows, there’s a much clearer sense of what Luke’s doing and who he is. The former is not particularly surprising, with Luke an all powerful Jedi looking to rebuild the Order, but the latter, perhaps, is, because this version of Luke isn’t quite the same as before.
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That makes sense, of course: people change, and no character should remain stagnant or exactly the same. But The Book of Boba Fett’s Luke presents a somewhat jarring shift in Luke’s whole demeanour and personality: The Last Jedi was divisive because, in part, of how unlikable Luke was, but The Book of Boba Fett’s is even more so. Luke Skywalker has always been multifaceted, but now he’s, well, a bit of a dick.
It quickly becomes clear in The Book of Boba Fett that something was
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