Official Luke Skywalker Episode VIII Discussion Thread

Love the middle one, they never give up in probing him for spoilers. Good job keeping them at bay Mark.

 

Always the caring jedi master of his youngling fans.

 

That's a awesome sketch, they're inevitable TFA meeting.

 

http://comicbook.com/starwars/2017/...l-episode-7-the-force-awakens-jj-abrams-luke/

 

Mark Hamill: “[Does Luke die in The Last Jedi?] Well, you know, we have to promise to keep secrets; we’ll get in big trouble with the bosses.” “I don’t know [who is Rey’s father]; again, you’ll have to wait.” “There’s a lot even I don’t know, so I’m wondering the very same questions.” (February 5, 2017)

 

Mark's being kept on spoiler alert.

 

Read something in a Screen Rant article that I found very interesting. I hadn't thought about this in terms of Luke in the Sequel Trilogy until now:

"Much like Snoke, when it comes to Luke the Aftermath trilogy doesn’t offer much by way of specifics when it comes to what he’s been up to since we left him in Return of the Jedi. In fact, Wendig even dedicates Empire’s End to him— “To Luke S., wherever you are.” This is a smart move, as Lucasfilm no doubt wants to conceal what Luke has been up to until The Last Jedi arrives in theaters. As a result, Luke is absent for most of Life Debt and Empire’s End, only making a return for his nephew’s birth before vanishing again.

Still, though Luke is gone he is not forgotten. Both Han (Harrison Ford) and Leia reflect on Luke’s absence throughout both Life Debt and Empire’s End. Leia, especially, misses her brother, and thinks on his journey to find Jedi artifacts and lore from around the galaxy. Most notably, she has a dream in which she sees Luke “lost among the stars, searching for something and failing, never returning.” Leia might not be a Jedi, but as a child of Anakin Skywalker, she definitely has the Force. Her dream of Luke proves to be foreshadowing for his decision to flee to the first Jedi temple on Ahch-To. Still, the wording is curious. What exactly is Luke failing to find?

The knowledge that Luke is looking for Jedi lore is not exactly a revelation. In The Force Awakens, Han says that Luke went looking for the first Jedi temple after the fall of Kylo Ren. In the comic series Shattered Empire, Luke is on a mission to find branches of a Force sensitive tree with Shara Bey, the mother of Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). What is interesting is how often those writing the new canon, Wendig especially, remind us that this is what Luke is off doing.

Whatever he’s seeking, it’s a powerful enough lure to pull him from his friends’ sides, even after Leia has just given birth. Fans of the saga know that Luke’s loyalty to his friends is one of his defining traits. Whatever he’s looking for out there, it is important enough to cause him to seek his own path."

This whole "Luke has been passionately searching for something for 30 years" plot point does seem like it's being built up due to its importance in the ST. Was it just the First Jedi Temple? Or something that it contains? Or was his search for something else, prior to Ben Solo's fall (when Han says he went off looking for the FJT, as if he hadn't been before)?

I've always assumed he's been in hiding on that planet for a reason. As if he needed something from it, and has since been waiting for the right time to use it. Thoughts?

 

That would be pretty awesome. Reminds me of that TCW episode we never got, that had the Yuuzhan Vong in it.

 

that's a prop I haven't seen in a long time.

So he doesn't have his lightsaber in TLJ ?

 

He may be reffering to this particular prop. Besides, he may also not be allowed to saying anything about possible action sequences involving Luke.

 

It's somewhere inside thayt comfortable robe, amazing that this is thee lightsaber. Hello old friend.