We saw a Star War! Last Jedi spoiler thread

[doctorbadwolf]

It's there as misdirection. For the audience not to immediately know Luke's gambit is an illusion, we have to know he has a way back.

I think the two are far enough apart (beginning and end of the movie) that there is more to it than just this.

Specifically, it reinforces the idea that Luke went there to die, and has no plans to return. Who knows if the ship would even fly after all that time.

Also someone else mentioned how he got there without an astromech droid. I am 99% sure the answer is, the Force.

 

[MarkB]

I think the two are far enough apart (beginning and end of the movie) that there is more to it than just this.

Specifically, it reinforces the idea that Luke went there to die, and has no plans to return. Who knows if the ship would even fly after all that time.

Also someone else mentioned how he got there without an astromech droid. I am 99% sure the answer is, the Force.

Personally, for half the final battle I was 100% expecting Luke to come swooping in with his X-Wing. When Rey and Chewie came in with the Falcon, I thought it was Luke until we got a good look at the ship. When Finn was doing his suicide run at the Ram Cannon, I was expecting Luke to swoop in from behind and snipe it with proton torpedoes.

 

[Water Bob]

We see Luke's X-Wing under water at Ach-to. If he's grown from ESB, he can pull it out of the water. Don't show it without a payoff -- because if you're just doing that, you have to answer the question of how Luke got there in the first place without an Astromech (since canonically that's how an X-wing's hyperspace calculations get done).

I know in the D6 SW game, where a lot of canon originates, there is a Force Power for Hyperspace Navigation. Not saying that's what Luke used, but maybe.

 

[Water Bob]

Personally, for half the final battle I was 100% expecting Luke to come swooping in with his X-Wing. When Rey and Chewie came in with the Falcon, I thought it was Luke until we got a good look at the ship. When Finn was doing his suicide run at the Ram Cannon, I was expecting Luke to swoop in from behind and snipe it with proton torpedoes.

I thought the same.

 

[Gadget]

I would like to re-iterate that Luke's force projection clasps hands with Leia and gives her the "fuzzy dice" from the Falcon (which Kylo Ren later finds, picks up, and watches disappear as Luke becomes one with the Force). More misdirection or cheating? You decide.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I be fair, Olgar, the flying Leia was just real world physics+using the force to move objects.

Oh, I get it.

But staying out there at that distance for that long, then flying back, just broke my suspension of disbelief.

If instead, she'd just caught herself on the edge of the bridge, clawing her way back, then used the Force to get the rest of the way -- dramatic, you're not sure if she makes it or not -- I'd have been cheering. But the flying nun act was just lazy and dumb.

There's a similar scene in one of the Wraith Squadron books, and it's much, much better done.

 

[pukunui]

Yeah, that whole scene *looked* terrible ... but, c'mon, this is Carrie Fisher we're talking about here. She probably thought it was hilarious. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she agreed to it (or even suggested it) as a way of giving diehard fans the middle finger or something.

 

[trappedslider]

I know in the D6 SW game, where a lot of canon used to originate

Fix'd for you

Remember folks, canon is now only the movies and what Disney produces via books. The only previously published material still considered canon are the six original trilogy/prequel trilogy films, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series and film, and the stand-alone Dark Horse Comics arc Star Wars: Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir; which was based on unproduced scripts from The Clone Wars TV series


Speaking of canon and The Last Jedi https://screenrant.com/star-wars-last-jedi-darth-revan-easter-egg/ cool little Easter egg.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Water Bob]

Fix'd for you

Remember folks, canon is now only the movies and what Disney produces via books.

Look again. Lots of stuff originated in the WEG D6 Star Wars game shows up in the new films and made cannon. Like the Juggernaut used in Rogue One.