Talking About 'Star Wars': My reply to 'Why was Luke Skywalker made to look so weak and cowardly in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and is it possible to bring him back?'
© 2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Why was Luke Skywalker made to look so weak and cowardly in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and is it possible to bring him back? Luke Skywalker was neither weak nor cowardly in Star Wars - Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Only those viewers who either don’t understand human nature or invested much of their devotion to the “lore” of the Star Wars Expanded Universe like to think that the Luke they see in The Last Jedi is a coward or weak. As a matter of fact, the old EU (now wisely called Legends) Luke Skywalker was never portrayed in a way that was either believable or consistent . Only a few writers, including Hugo Award-winning Timothy Zahn, ever wrote stories or plot lines that showed Luke as a realistic character with human flaws or weaknesses. In those stories and specifically Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy, EU Luke was so faithful to Original Trilogy Luke that I could hear actor Mark Hamill’s voice in my head whenever I read his dialogue. (I could also s