This started out with my just throwing all my feelings after watching TLJ onto a timeline, but whenI thought about it more, I realised there were several things I wanted to bring out, particularly around how Luke deals (or doesn't) with both guilt, and the sense of responsibility he feels from being the last jedi, rightly or wrongly - and the way he reacts to both by cutting himself off from everyone in his life who would argue with what's in his head. For all the emphasis on him being a jedi, a jedi master, the last jedi master, the founder of the last jedi temple... none of those were things that ever made him happy, and by isolating himself, he cut off everything good in his life and locked himself into stasis. His friendships with Han and Leia are things that brought him joy, and I really loved that at least at the end, the thing he did first was make that last connection with Leia. His life would've been so different if he'd acted differently, but one of the best things about TLJ was the way that he'd acted was entirely consistent with what we knew of his character, even though it was wrong and painful (and stupid, as Yoda or Obi-Wan would've told him, if he'd let them)...
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This started out with my just throwing all my feelings after watching TLJ onto a timeline, but whenI thought about it more, I realised there were several things I wanted to bring out, particularly around how Luke deals (or doesn't) with both guilt, and the sense of responsibility he feels from being the last jedi, rightly or wrongly - and the way he reacts to both by cutting himself off from everyone in his life who would argue with what's in his head. For all the emphasis on him being a jedi, a jedi master, the last jedi master, the founder of the last jedi temple... none of those were things that ever made him happy, and by isolating himself, he cut off everything good in his life and locked himself into stasis. His friendships with Han and Leia are things that brought him joy, and I really loved that at least at the end, the thing he did first was make that last connection with Leia. His life would've been so different if he'd acted differently, but one of the best things about TLJ was the way that he'd acted was entirely consistent with what we knew of his character, even though it was wrong and painful (and stupid, as Yoda or Obi-Wan would've told him, if he'd let them)...