SPOILER The focus of this new Trilogy is...

Be honest. If Luke hooked up with someone and they had a daughter wouldn't that suddenly become the greatest untold story in Star Wars. It would demand telling. If you don't want Anthology films about he big 3 with younger actors then you should be careful what incredible stories you put them in between trilogies.

 

Novels and animated series would be better way.

 

Not for the story of how Luke fell in Love. Its too big a story.

 

I could see Luke falling in love and having a child because he did not follow the golden rules. He was/is the supposed last Jedi,so he and Anakin both were kinda rebels in their own right.

 

I promise if Luke has any offspring let alone Rey there are only 3 ways to do it justice.

Spoiler: Even though I will be referencing speculation you still might want to look away

1- Flashback- this might happen perhaps it will be part of force visions and such who knows. Some people hate the idea of flashback, some are okay if it fits within the plot like a story retelling, vision or some such. Others can't stand the idea of flashbacks and even if they are force induced shenanigans the just don't fit.
2- Luke's old girl is still a major player. I have heard wild speculation that Phasma is Luke's lover and Rey's mom. Essentially she is Mara Jade.
3- Luke has a child and they plan on doing an anthology of the wooing of baby Skywalker's mom.

 

#2 would be wild for sure

 

Luke having an attachment and having a child would not be all that out there. In Heir to the Jedi, Luke gets very close to the female character he borrows the ship from. If he meets someone on his adventures shortly after ROTJ it could see him thinking he could build the Jedi order and a family at the same time. It would make it even more tragic if both came crumbling down at the same time.

 

He is not the Last Jedi. He is the New Hope. He is the Returned Jedi. He is supposed to bring them back to what they were supposed to truly be at the beginning. Not what they were in the PT but what they are supposed to be at the core. Pure and undefiled Jedi. That does not mean he goes by all the baggage of PT Jedi it simply means he should be bringing the idea of what the Jedi at the best were supposed to be.

 

Luke ignites his saber to face Phasma and she pulls off her helmet. You owe me $10,000 in child support credits!

 

Poor Luke lol

 

I´m honest. I don´t need to see that. I lived happily many years just with a reference to "clone wars" without actually seeing it. If they need to tell the story of Luke and the girl, I´m fine with book. If it has to be graphic, ok, a cartoon.....but I´m definitely against live action.

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That makes Yoda another liar, next to Obi-Wan and Leia, right?

 

Mmmm I'm rather thinking that it would be nice to have some interesting backstory not shown or told us; the way we imagined what the Clone Wars were, or the way we imagined how Anakin became Vader.
If VII opens and we learn that Luke has a daughter but we don't know the hows and whys - so what? The movie will be all the richer for having an "invisible" backstory that helps anchor the new story. We can speculate and imagine to our heart's content and it will make the movie experience feel deeper...just like the original trilogy.

 

True but in official stories that the creator of the series openly and repeatedly said. That the authors of those books did it different than he would or will do eventually. So as cool as the stories were there was always that sort of its true till Lucas changes it.

I was not calling your truthiness into question. I apologize if that is how it came out. I was using "be honest" as in "consider this." I guess you have a point that some back story is simply setting. As for Yoda being a liar. His admonition about being the last jedi was in the context of passing on his knowledge so that he would not remain the last jedi.

 

My friend no need to appologize for anything, I enjoy conversations here not only with those of similar thoughts, but also those who disagree or just have a different oppinion, this is how we sometimes are able to see behind our horizon...I really believe Luke is the last Jedi at the end of ROTJ and Yoda told him that to motivate him to teach others, to tell him he has a sister...
As for the mistery - I also believe sometimes not knowing the backstory of a character or past events is more favourable than explaining all the unnecesary details. How Anakin became Darth Vader is one example - imagine we don´t see this onscreen. There was no need to show us Vaders armor. And I could have show my kids the movies in the right order, with the surprise in E5.....Boba Fett - another character who´s mistery is significant part of his coolnes. I have no problem with the books - fans who needs to explore those corners would have this option. But most of the moviegoers, and I dare to say most of the fanboys - would rather see something new. And that´s tricky because it is much more difficult to create completely new characters with unseen story arcs than to explote to dry the old ones....I´m happy with what I´ve seen in the past movies and I didn´t need to see the OLD heroes again. I was hoping when new movies were announced that it will be 50-100 years in the future, with new heroes, new villains, no rebels or empire...