![]() ![]() We first see Luke with his back to us and then, as Rey approaches, he slowly turns to reveal his face. The movie has been letting us stew on that for two hours-building in every frame without any kind of release-then condensing the power of it into a few choice shots. What's that going to do to a guy whose flirtations with the dark side have gotten pretty intense over the years? So we spend the movie biting our nails down to nubbins and mulling over a bunch of questions: what would Luke look like now? What kind of secrets is he carrying? Dude, his nephew just iced his best friend (who's also the nephew's dad), and thanks to the miracle of the Force, he got a front-row seat to the whole thing. ![]() When we last left him, he was still a young man (Mark Hamill was 31 when Return of the Jedi opened). He was the last piece of the original film's cast to arrive (we still have our fingers crossed for a Lando Calrissian sighting in Episode VIII), and considering that the film's iconic text scroll literally starts with his name, he's the one we've been presumably hoping to see the most. ![]() There's the sheer emotional impact of seeing Luke again for the first time since Return of the Jedi. We'll start with the whole stunning, shocking awesomeness of what went down in the ending: Rey goes through the wringer, tries to deny her destiny, gets tortured by a freaky emo Sith Lord, almost sees her only friend die, and then gets into a Whack-at-Each-Other-Until-Someone-Falls-Over lightsaber duel in the middle of a crumbling planet-size Starkiller Base.Īll to keep one Luke Skywalker safe and protected until she can get to him.Īfter all that, we finally arrive at Hidden Island Planet to find the guy that most of us are presumably all pumped to see-the last of the Jedi and perhaps the only remaining hope for the new order-found by a young woman who seems destined to take up his mantle. ![]()
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