Star Wars Proves The Sequels Made A Mistake With Luke's Exile
Star Wars tie-ins have proved the sequel trilogy made a mistake with Luke Skywalker's exile. Writer and director J.J. Abrams is famed for his "Mystery Box" approach to storytelling, where he establishes a number of mysteries at the beginning of a story that will drive the rest of the narrative. He took just this approach when he launched the sequel trilogy with Star Wars: The Force Awakens — but unfortunately he didn't actually have answers planned out to many of the questions his film raised. Luke Skywalker's mysterious self-imposed exile was the perfect example, because he knew he needed Luke to have disappeared, but he hadn't really figured out why it had happened.
It fell to Rian Johnson to explain this in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Speaking shortly after the sequel's release, Johnson explained he'd found Luke Skywalker's exile challenging. In his view, Luke had clearly gone down a very dark path, pulling himself out of the fight and hiding in "the most unfindable place in the galaxy," a place so remote "it took an entire movie for the most heroic, smartest people in the galaxy to even find him." Johnson concluded Luke's motives had to be found in tragedy, and he came up with an introspective tale in which a moment of weakness had destroyed Luke's relationship with his nephew Ben and led to the slaughter of his other Jedi trainees. The idea proved controversial, with many heartbroken not to see the heroic, seasoned Jedi Master they'd always imagined Luke to become. And now, oddly enough, Lucasfilm's latest tie-ins have pointed out there were indeed other options.
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One alternative explanation hails from Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The High
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