And its still awful to watch. 

Lampz now that I've seen it again I'd go

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I rewatched it and this movie is amazing.

Is water wet?

The answer eludes for those whose minds aren't woke. 

How in the world could a Jedi knight with access to immortal Yoda/Obi-Wan/Anakin, 3 of the most powerful jedis in history become this way? Yoda is arguably the greatest jedi ever, anakin the chosen one, Obi-Wan wise beyond his years.

They tried too hard to throw everything from 2 to 6 out the window in episode 8. I don't mind going away from Skywalker family but you don't have to discard everything to get to a clean blackboard.

If you don't learn from the past then the past will continue to simply cycle itself over and over. Luke Skywalker had a chance to leave a lasting legacy on the jedi religion, an improvement going forward. Instead we took a few steps back. All the millennia of jedi teachings and knowledge thrown out the window. It died with Luke. I realize that Rey has the original jedi books, but is that enough? She doesn't even have Jedi training. Luke did get training from Obi-Wan and Yoda, then had access to their immortal beings so his training was complete. Rey just has the books, hopefully immortal Luke returns to complete her training and he isn't completely gone. Episode 9 can still redeem that.

Holy fuck you are dense.

They legit explained how Luke has never made peace with his dark side. Look back at RotJ, he fucked up Vader and sliced off his hand out of pure anger. In Empire, he never made peace with his dark-half in the cave. When he saw the darkness in Kylo, he panicked, because he feared his own darkness and couldn't forgive himself for the mistake he made through his fear (trying to kill his nephew instead of helping him). Real storytelling requires flawed characters, yet I hear about of is wah wah muh Luke Skywalker is weaaak! They ruined himmmm!!

Jesus fucking Christ, grow up people.

Luke had the perfect ending and the best way to move on. Look back at the series, all the masters said Anakin is not the chosen one. Yoga said Luke isn't the chosen one and that there is another. Balance was never restored by either Skywalker. Anakin went too far dark. Luke went too far light. The whole premise of TLJ was to bring the real idea of the force into true balance, which both sides (of light and dark) need to come to peace with each other. Very Buddhist and Taoist belief.

Luke has fallen, just like Obi Wan and Yoga had fallen after Vader's and Palpaltine's rise and they disappeared for decades, and waited until another young Jedi will continue to carry the mantel. Luke lost his hope and cut his own connection from the force. He needed someone with hope to reminded him of what he lost and an old master (yoga) to wake his ass up.

His ending was beauty. He pulled off a miraculously force ability. He imparted a heartfelt message for his nephew, letting him know Luke and his father will never truly leave his side. He gave the time needed for the rebellion to escape. He had his finally farewell with his sisters. And he finally died doing his part to help shape a future, watching the same double suns he saw back in Tatoonie just before he began his first adventure. Coming full circle.

Well said, Rosie.

It does explain that Luke's teaching is still incomplete. Yoga even says he still has a lot to learn.

Luke understands enough about the force to start teaching it, but as soon as the darkness comes up (the hole), he freaked the fucked out and accused Rey for being drawn to the darkside, the same way Kylo was. Like, how more obvious do you need to be? Does there need to be a line where Luke plainly states, "I'm afraid of my darkside!"? Then everybody will still be complaining about how cheap that line is.

I just want to see him acknowledge that he struggles with it, the third lesson (or some other dialogue) could/would have been easy. 

I think the hole was meant to show something else. It was supposed to tell Rey how easy it was for Ben to see the dark side and go along the same path, and he wanted to pass that on to Rey and it also conveys like you said his own struggles with the dark side. Unfortunately she just dove right in and gave no fucks much like Ben, but unlike him she at least wants to stay with the light. The last thing Luke wants is to fuck everyone over again by having Rey turn as well which is why I think he was basically all "and we're done here folks!" 

Looking forward to it.

Luke was always about protecting his family, the ones he loved. He lashed out at Vader because Vader read his mind concerning Leia. Vader said he would turn Leia if he couldn't turn Luke, which is what set off Luke. In 4/5/6, Luke was impulsive but to say he didn't make peace with the dark side is not true. When Luke cut off Vader's hand and Palpatine told Luke to kill Vader, Luke realized he couldn't go there. He looked at his own hand that was still intact and decided he was not going to kill Vader and turn into the very thing he was trying to stop in the process.

In the cave, we see him in fear and that fear leads him to kill Vader. In the process, he becomes Vader himself. That's not the path he chose when it came time for him to decide though. When the time came, he refused to give into his fear, and instead chose to save Vader even if it killed him in the process.

What makes you think that he saw himself in Kylo? Luke saw not himself in Kylo but what he saw was Kylo leading to the next Empire as another Vader to Snoke's Palpatine and a threat to everything Luke/Leia/Han/rebels fought to stop. Remember, Luke said he had realized Snoke already had grasp over Kylo. Luke in the moment thought he could prevent the next new Empire from rising and threatening everything and everyone he loved by stopping Kylo before Kylo would officially join Snoke. At the same moment, he realized he couldn't go all the way without losing himself so he pulls back the moment he opens his lightsaber. That was always Luke - impulsive but not willing to go there. He knew what was at stake but he always reeled himself in and kept things under control.

Anakin was always the chosen one. Anakin was the one who actually brought balance to the force. Before Anakin ever became a Jedi, the balance of the force was already out of wack. Palpatine and his padawan Count Dooku had the force out of balance, and they also had control over much of the senate, manipulating things without the Jedi able to see through the force, which was shrouded in shadows by Palpatine. Anakin took Dooku's position under Palpatine by killing him and later becoming Vader. Anakin in the end brought balance by turning back to light and killing Palpatine. , it was Anakin who brought actual balance to the force at the end of episode 6 not Luke or anyone else. Luke was the one who was instrumental in turning Anakin back to light by refusing to kill his father. He was able to resist Palpatine by not giving himself to the dark side as Palpatine wanted. Anyways, that balance attained lasted from the end of ep 6 to the rise of Kylo Ren+Snoke, which was when the balance was once again thrown out of wack.

As for the other chosen one you said Yoda referred to.. You have that quote wrong. In episode 5, Obi-Wan says to Yoda "That boy is our last hope", to which Yoda responds "There is another".. That another person Yoda was referring to as the other hope was actually Luke's twin sister Leia. Yoda was not referring to who the chosen one was at all in that scene but who the last hope was - 2 very different things. Watch that sequence again from episode 5.

Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No, there is another.

Conversation later on explaining who the other hope was:

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope.
LUKE: Yoda spoke of another.
BEN: The other he spoke of is your twin sister.
LUKE: But I have no sister.
BEN: Hmm. To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.
LUKE: Leia! Leia's my sister.

Also, by balance the jedi council was not referring to individual balance but the balance of the force as a whole in the galaxy. It doesn't matter whether Vader was too dark or Luke was too light. I completely understand what you are saying and you are correct from individual perspective that a person ought to be balanced like a grey Jedi. From that perspective, Vader was too dark and Luke was too light but that's not what the jedi council was referring to by the force being out of balance. The balance of the force being unbalanced impacts all living things, and that was what they meant by bringing back balance.

That's fine, and I agree with you here.

You are right about the ending. The Luke we all knew and expected did return. I had no issue with the way they ended episode 8. What I had an issue with was before the ending and the decades that Luke went into exile, closing himself off from the force. The senile old man he had become. Until right before the Yoda scene when Luke opened himself back to the force & last 10 minutes of the movie, I did not recognize that Luke. Luke was always a very optimistic, go-easy sort of guy. Somewhere along the way, he lost himself, his way and went completely away from what made him be him: his love for his family and friends and his belief in the force. Just look at his dialogue throughout episode 8 and the way he acted (except for the last 10 mins). I am sorry but that was nothing like our Luke.

It was still a very good movie as a whole. I already mentioned the technical stuff being very well done from directing, production, cinematography, even the acting was good enough. The ending was decent. I had an issue mainly with how we got to the end. I will explain more about my issues with Luke arc in my post to rosez below.

What led you to think that Luke went into exile because he struggled with the dark side? I don't think Luke was ever worried about turning to the dark side himself, in the canon movies and what transpired since episode 6. With Kylo, Luke was afraid Kylo would turn into the next Vader and he feared for what that would do to everything and everyone he cared for. He remembered what Vader and Palpatine did and he saw the same thing inside Kylo, who was also under the influence of Snoke by then. That was why he lit up the light saber in the tent to stop it before it got there, but he realized instantly that wasn't the jedi way. Kylo brings down the building on top of Luke, kills all of the other padawans by the time Luke gets out of the crumbled building. Luke felt guilty that he didn't realize the evil in Kylo until it was too late. Luke felt it was his fault for what happened to the academy because he didn't (or rather couldn't) do anything about it while he still had the chance. That was plainly said by Luke to Rey. But he just didn't know until it was too late so I don't blame Luke at all.

He never acknowledged that he struggled with the dark side, and I don't think the writers were trying to go all the way there. Maybe we will find out more in episode 9, but I think Luke went in search for answers and lost his way along the path once he didn't find the answers he was searching for. That turned into exile. Not because he was afraid of turning to the dark side. You might absolutely be right and I might be wrong, but I don't get that same sense.

As for feelings... You know, there is a slight difference between feeling and expressing an emotion. Emotions are a stimuli response to something. Feelings are not necessarily the same thing. It is tough to explain. Essentially, emotions are short term response to something but feelings might be longer term.

Think of it this way.. You call me a fuckhead and slap me in the face. I get angry at you. If I wasn't a trained Jedi, I would slap you back and completely lose my composure, perhaps begin to despise you on my path to the dark side. If I were a Jedi, I would not respond with slap back at you but I would still feel anger. I would let the anger flow right through me and keep my composure because I am feeling at peace. It would probably be downright impossible to avoid the emotion of anger altogether but it is definitely possible to control that anger.

Throughout the canon movies, you saw emotions from jedis including Yoda, Obi-Wan and even Windu. But those emotions were always under control. It's all about control and keeping your overall feeling of keeping inner peace.

As a Jedi, you can't let your emotions take control over you. That was the difference between Anakin and Obi-Wan. You saw emotions from Obi-Wan many times (and even Yoda when he found out the younglings were murdered in ep 3) but he never gave in to those emotions. He kept control and let the force do its thing.

Anyways, back to my post you are referring to.. Let me see if I can explain differently.
In the context of my previous post, the belief is every living thing is guided by the force so you have to trust your feelings and let the force guide you. That's not the same as letting your emotions guide you - there is a subtle difference there. Essentially to trust your instincts. You feel your instincts, but your instincts are not an emotion. Do you see the difference there?

The force is very much a living thing that flows through your feelings rather than be something tangible. That is why Obi-Wan told Luke to trust his feelings when shooting into the core of the first death star and to let the force flow through him, to guide him on his path. I don't know if I explained well, falling asleep..