Anyone else think Mark Hamill needs our help?

Enough has been said about whether Mark likes or dislikes what Rian did with Luke, so I'll respond just to the last paragraph. I understand disliking what they did with Luke in TLJ, but trying to claim that people who like what was done with Luke in TLJ want to cut to themselves off from moral virtues that Jedi represent is sad, just sad. The reason why people like is because at the end, Luke triumphs over evil, ridicules it and brings hope to the whole galaxy and does it so in a non-violent way that made him a Jedi in the first place. He understands that, while the Jedi Order as an organization was deeply flawed, people of the galaxy need Jedi as guiding beacons for their everyday struggles and symbols of virtue, dignity and righteousness.


PS. If you want to blame someone for Luke's exile, blame Abrams, not Johnson. Abrams was the one who came up with it and left all the dirty work of explaining why would Luke have ever done something like that to Rian, similarly to all other dangling plot threads from TFA left for other directors to tie.

 

There is also the practical issue of Hamill not wanting to spoil the end of the movie. Of course, he is going to say: "when I first read the script....etc.", "but when I saw the final result I was completely convinced by Rian's vision.....etc.". The first part is spoiler free, the second part isn't. Hamill is not going to spoil Luke's depiction in the third act of the movie.

So a pratical issue of 'not trying to spoil the movie' is the actual source of many misreadings of Hamill's comments.

 

Phew! From the thread title and first line I was expecting him to have a stroke or breakdown at 37:10.

 

No worries, the man's as fit as a fiddle - just another victim of conspiracy hyperbole!

Let me put this into the universe - Mark's on-screen character is so strong and selfless his Force ghost presence will have more definition than all the live action around him in Episode 9.

 

Kylo Ren is that you? You're a sneaky new supreme leader.

 

I love it how as soon as a difficult question is presented to the cast, they all look at Adam Driver. The Supreme Leader is wise.

 

I wont blame them (RJ, JJ or KK) but I will do the oposite: Thanks all of you for making this ST so interesting. Great new characters, great performances of the old ones (Hamill, Ford and Fisher), gratefull to bring the magic back! The dark times (PT) and the liiight (ST).

 

Me neither. But people blame Luke's exile on Rian while it has been known from TFA's premiere that he went into hiding.

 

Mark knows his fans love and support him.

And that many of us look forward to his essential Return in Episode IX.

Luke Skywalker's presence there is not an option, as I see it, but required if the New Jedi are to rise and not repeat the mistakes of the self-defeated Jedi Order of Old.

Luke can help Rey see past the doctrinal and historic limits of the ancient Jedi manuscripts and her own dangerous inexperience at this key point in Star Wars galactic history.

In that role, Luke can help Rey fulfill the vision set forth in the Journal of the Whills:

"First comes the day
Then comes the night.
After the darkness
Shines through the light.
The difference, they say,
Is only made right
By the resolving of gray
Through refined Jedi sight." ​

 

I think Mark is going to be fine, but I think the OP needs help.

 

I think KK needs the most help.

 

I think Mark has made it pretty clear that he's not afraid of Mickey Mouse.

I'd let the man speak for himself.

 

Anyone else think OP needs our help?

 

OP doesn't need our help, he just needs to STFU. (the F stands for Felucia. I promise)

 

We've got an original thinker here! Strike him down!

 

Yes. Very original.

 

Where's the originality?