Are you serious?
Luke had a "vision" of Ben turning to the dark side, and decided to murder him in his sleep. FUCKING LUKE SKYWALKER. MURDERING HIS NEPHEW IN HIS SLEEP.
Compare that to all the emotional build up happening over three movies and the final throne room scene which leads to this.
If you are not able to see a difference in cinematic skill there, why are you even posting here?
Any real Jedi would know to take a "vision" very seriously. Just like he believed the vision he had on Dagobah about Han and Leia on Cloud City, he also believed the vision he had about Ben. His visions seem to come true after all. In that moment of weakness, due to that vision, he did nearly strike Ben down, but he controlled his emotions and did not.
Everyone saying that a Jedi Master would never do this, they are thinking of Jedi Masters from the old kree who lived and breathed the religion and had fellow followers surrounding them. Luke didn't have this, he was on his own and had to learn everything on his own. And people saying that he shouldn't give in to his feelings because he mastered them ..... even in the old EU he followed his emotions and got married, Luke following his emotions isn't new.
Another thing you are forgetting, we haven't seen Luke's journey for about 18-20 years or so, just like we didn't see Obi's journey for 18-20 years. What the eff made Obi sit on his arse for all that time doing nothing? Seeing Obi in the prequel trilogy and seeing how his character is in that trilogy, it doesn't make sense. It makes zero sense that all these Jedi would sit on their fat arses and do absolutely nothing about the Empire.
You forget, facing Vader was Luke's final trial as a Jedi according to Yoda. He hadn't mastered his emotions yet, and that was the test. Would he strike him down, or would he spare him? Vader purposely pushed him to the edge to draw him out, and of course that threw Luke into a rage, he was being taunted. There's a big difference between facing an admirable foe whose taunting you on your final trial, and being a Jedi Master who pulls their saber on a student while they're sleeping.
Another thing that really pisses me off about the sequel trilogy is that retroactively hurt the original 6 movies. The entire saga was basically about Anakin's fall, and redemption. He was the chosen one who would destroy the Sith by killing Palpatine, and killing most of the Jedi so that they can be renewed with new faith. The Jedi had grown blind and arrogant with their power, so their numbers probably needed to be reduced to help bring balance to the force. But GOT'CHA, Vader isn't the chosen one after all, it's Rey...everything is about fucking Rey. She's the one who kills Palpatine. What a crock of shit. They basically voided Anakin's redemption completely with that bull shit.
In realistic terms, I wouldn't consider anyone who trained on their own as a Jedi master. If you compare what it takes to become a Jedi master in the prequel trilogy to what it takes to become a "Jedi master" in the original trilogy, it's a load of shit. And as I mentioned above, Lukes visions tend to become true and that is why he
nearly acted on it.
Also, the "entire" saga was not about Anakin's downfall and redemption. In 1977, 1980 and 1983 Anakin was not the chosen one, Palpatine didn't exist, the Jedi hadn't grown blind and arrogant and their numbers didn't need reducing. When Vader overthrew the Empire it was just a nice happy moment for father and son to "rekindle" their relationship. The entire story was all about Luke, the prequel trilogy just retroactively changed things. I mean shit, did people whinge and cry about the prequel trilogy retroactively hurting the original trilogy because Luke was no longer the "saviour"? No they didn't but there were plenty of other things to complain about.
If it's OK for the prequel trilogy to change the focus of the saga than it should be OK for the sequel trilogy to change the focus of the saga.
Writing out more details involved in the out of character bollocks, doesn't make it any less out of character bollocks.
Luke had already been through the process of mastering his emotions, letting go of fear, anger and hate, then using his selfless heroism to guide him in redeeming his father, even at the potential cost of his life.
Any intent to kill to solve a problem, no matter how fleeting, contradicts his established character and simply cannot coexist with the fact of his being a Jedi Master.
The scene and it's explanation is simply wrong and bad writing.
Can you show me where I can see the missing 18 years of Luke's life to prove that he had indeed mastered his emotions during that time period? If it's ok for you to make up headcannon that he had no trials and tribulations for that 18 year time span than it's ok for other fans to make headcannon that he did have other trials and tribulations to get through in that 18 year gap.
Did you even see RotJ? Seems you didn't even remotely understand Luke's hero journey, and what kind of person he is.
You are making the same mistake RJ does. You are bending someones character to fit your lame narrative.
Luke is by definition not a greyish morality person.
He is the good boy. He might be tempted by evil, but he resists because he simply is who he is.
His main character trait is optimism. And that's what we see by the end of RotJ. He redeemed his father with this character trait of his.
This fitting of a narrative into something that is not meant to be seen this way is the big problem of TLJ in a nutshell.
Someone wanted to forcefully shove his story into a greater framework where this story simply doesn't fit.
edit/add: also what Stilton writes below...
This is such a weird ... thing.
It's OK for Anakin and many other Jedi to be tempted by the dark side but not Luke? I mean, this is something that the prequel trilogy and the Clone Wars cartoon constantly keep hitting you over the head about. That it can be quite easy to slip to the dark side. There are actually many Jedi Masters who do exactly that, turn to the dark side, even with their entire kree to help and support them. Yet with Luke, who has absolutely no help or support, it's not OK for him to be tempted by the dark side?
Also, have you seen the montages of Luke whinging and whining? His main trait is far from optimism.
From what i gather there are two things that support this theory that K.Kennedy is out and the sequel trilogy is being dropped:
1) star wars celebration was cancelled until 2022 which is inline with this idea that KK will get out when the contract is done.
2) Disney introduced the concept of multiple universes in the canon.
Everything else is expeculation based on rumors. I still hope something comes true out of this just for the salt.
Everything you are saying is speculation, just have a look at the dates of Star Wars celebration in America.
April 1999
May 2002
April 2005
May 2007
July 2008
August 2010
August 2012
April 2015
April 2017
April 2019
It's not a yearly thing. There aren't any movies to promote right now. Disney were already delaying their movies before Covid hit.
I hope the rumours aren't true just for the salt.