Luke's character is consistent from OT to ST.

This will for sure get downvoted, as there are just too many people here who are upset with TLJ, but what I'm about to say is 100% accurate."Luke wouldn't give up on his father, so why would he give up on his nephew?!" How many times have we heard this? The implication is that Luke simply WANTED to believe that there was goodness in his father but DIDN'T WANT to believe that there was goodness in his nephew. He was more or less playing guessing games with each person. It was arbitrary.Are people forgetting that Luke is REALLY strong in the Force? That he can sense the goodness/darkness within people? And that he always acts on what the Force is telling him about the people that he cares about (Han and Leia in TESB, Vader in RotJ, and Ben in TLJ)?Luke tried his hardest to redeem Vader because HE SAW THAT THERE WAS REDEEMABLE GOODNESS IN HIM. He was trying to stoke those flames. DESPITE all the evil stuff Vader had done, Luke SAW that he could be redeemed. So he tried that.It was different with Ben. Instead of seeing the goodness that he saw with Vader, HE SAW IRREDEEMABLE DARKNESS. He saw Ben's twisted soul bringing death and destruction to everything he cared about. He didn't see an innocent boy. He didn't see a future hero. He didn't see anything redeemable or good. He saw an inevitable monster.And IN A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS (by Luke's own admission), he considered sparing the galaxy ANOTHER galactic tyrant (again, since -- per Luke's reading of the Force -- this was inevitable). But -- and a lot of people love to leave this detail out -- he decided against doing it. It was a fleeting thought and nothing more.The fact of the matter is that Ben and Vader are two different characters who were in two completely different situations when Luke got his Force-read on them. He saw that Vader could be redeemed. That's not what he saw with Ben. In both instances, he was acting on what the Force was telling him about those people.So he is completely consistent from trilogy to trilogy.If you don't like the creative decision, then that's fine. But to pretend like this isn't who Luke is is just wrong. He always acts on what the Force tells him. He's done so since ANH. In Ben's case, the Force was suggesting that he was GOING to be an evil monster. It makes sense that Luke would AT LEAST have an instinct to save the galaxy from that.That's our flawed hero. Always been flawed. Always will be. No one is perfect. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/2Ioifxt