It’s taken me a lot of time and self-reflection to begin dissecting The Last Jedi with a renewed and critical focus. I originally wrote a post out of pure disbelief and anger shortly after seeing TLJ several times in theaters and then re-watching the entire saga from the prequels to Solo – but that previous post was more to discuss how badly TLJ botched the character of Luke Skywalker. I examined Luke’s character in each film and discussed over several points, citing sources from the films, why he would not (as currently presented) be the character we get in TLJ. The Luke issue alone is something I could spend several posts on, but I wanted to take a moment to discuss another very sad side-effect…