I see what you’re getting at, but this is why Johnson’s vision of the character doesn’t fit mine, or Mark Hamill’s, or huge swathes of Star Wars fans. He made the character go through double-backflip contortions to get him to the place he wanted for his script, rather than just let the character evolve naturally.

Luke led “a life of failure”? Really? I know that’s what Johnson wants us to think, because it suits the story he wants to tell, but it just isn’t true.

By my reckoning, Luke’s life achievements were that as a young man he destroyed the Death Star, thereby saving countless trillions of lives.

When he was older he turned his father back to the light side, causing the defeat and overthrow of the Emperor and the fall of the tyrannous Galactic Empire. If that’s a failed life, I’d like to see a successful one.

Perhaps we are meant to think of Yoda that way; it’s clear that Johnson does. And what were Yoda’s achievements exactly? He sat on his cushion while a Sith Lord rose to become Chancellor of the Republic, then watched the Republic crumble into dust. How he has the nerve to lecture Luke I have no idea.

Luke is a failure in Last Jedi because Johnson wrote a nonsensical backstory for him, involving him considering murdering his innocent nephew as he slept. There’s bad writing, then there’s bad writing, and then there’s Last Jedi.

Compare and contrast to Wrath of Khan, where fan favourite Spock dies. Were fans outraged at this betrayal? No, most fans revere that film, and Spock’s sacrifice as the high point of the entire series.

What a shame. What a mess.