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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 7306923" data-attributes="member: 5143">The problem is that I don't want Luke to be just another person who gets caught up in depression. I want the Jedi to be larger than life heroes. I think of them as the Holy Paladins. The ones chosen by the Force to be better than everyone else. They stand up for right. I think of them the same way I do Superman.No one worries about Superman succumbing to depression and taking a day off. Part of his character is that he is above that, he's dependable. He's stronger than normal people.That's how I view Luke. As a larger than life figure who doesn't have to worry about the problems of normal people. He's above that. He sees the future, he knows the will of the Force, which is destiny and luck itself. I could see him temporarily falling into a bit of a funk. But the full blown depression we got just seemed like the sort of thing that shouldn't affect Luke. As Luke himself said, he had become a Legend. To me and to a lot of other people. Legends don't get brought down by mundane things.Of course, that's the point this movie is trying to make. People made him out to be a Legend. But he wasn't one, he was just a normal person who happened to have the Force. The movie was a message directly to people like me that said "You take this too seriously. We don't. Get used to it."I didn't want him to become a Force projection. I wanted him to get into his X-Wing and blow up a bunch of ships, then to face Kylo in real life and beat him back so he was forced to retreat. I then wanted Luke to survive until the next movie so that he could finally teach Rey properly and actually pass on what he had learned, like Yoda told him to.I wanted the story that started in the previous movies to find an actual ending.</blockquote>

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