Thank you I think I understand your point better now – Luke sees himself as a failure. That’s fine, I’m quite happy with that, and that would be a natural and interesting progression for the character. I can’t argue with anything you say.

Also, I (like many fans who had issues with Last Jedi) am totally fine with grizzled, grumpy, depressed, lost, helpless Luke. It was a good decision by Johnson and Hamill played it wonderfully. Of all the OT characters, Luke was always the one who changed most between films: from brash kid, to frustrated and petulant young man, to serene Jedi Knight. Change is good.

But then we got the reason behind it all. Is he self-loathing because his Jedi school failed? No. Because his nephew was groomed by Snoke? No. Because the Jedi order itself was rotten? No. The root of it all is that he contemplated murdering his innocent nephew.

Nope. Not having it.

And it was at that moment I knew Luke was going to die a meaningless death. And as he died, so did Star Wars.

But we’ll always have The Force Awakens – and what might’ve been.