| Nuvendil said: Kylo Ren and Snoke can read minds, even when not putting forth effort they can sense basic intentions (not that that's always sufficient as Snoke found out). Luke knew that and I doubt he was aware that Snoke was dead. He knew he needed to keep Ren absolutely distracted. That's why he showed up looking like he did years ago when Ren last saw him. That's why he was so brazen and made it appear he was so powerful. That's why he taunted him. If he told them, he knew there was a chance Ren would read their minds and find out his plan. He needed to bet they would figure it out and escape *after* he had Ren distracted. And he didn't have to worry about Ren reading his mind because, obviously, he wasn't actually there. |
That's an interesting explanation that makes a lot more sense than anything else I've heard, but wouldn't it all go to waste as soon as someone inside the base decided to make a run for it? Wouldn't Kylo (or Snoke, if he was alive and paying attention to what was going on) notice the change in intentions as soon as the Resistance decided to flee? I suppose you can make the argument that maybe Kylo would have been so distracted by Luke that he wouldn't notice the change in thoughts going on in the base, but the alive-in-this-hypothetical-scenario Snoke wouldn't be directly focused on Luke and that same distraction wouldn't apply; he'd still be just as likely to read the thoughts of the Resistance as he was before.
Also, by that logic, if Kylo was consistently reading intentions, shouldn't he have been able to discern Luke was an apparition (or at least figure out something was up), since there were no thoughts, and by extension intentions, to read? And wouldn't Luke be concerned with Snoke quickly figuring out his projection by that same reasoning; no thoughts/intentions to read?
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