Fallawful said:
d21lewis said:
I agree that TFA started things off on the wrong foot. I wanted to love it. I liked it okay but I personally wanted an original story before diving back into the familiar. When it was over, I said to myself "This is the new crew. Now that this is out the way, let's see where this goes..." and I was excited.
I saw TLJ review scores and I was even more excited. I saw TLJ and...I didn't enjoy it. As an audience member, it wasn't my job to write the story or say "They should have done this." My job was to watch the film and be entertained. I wasn't. I was actually bored and couldn't even turn off my brain and enjoy it in any capacity.
BUT based on your challenge, Luke could have just said something like:
-"I've been expecting you."
-"There are forces at work that you don't yet understand."
-He could have gone there to train at this sacred Jedi training ground to get more powerful for the unknown threat out there. He was "The Last Jedi" and Kylo and his Knights were looking for him.
All pulled directly from my ass in thirty seconds. Probably all sucked but I'm not a writer
*On a different note, if I WAS a writer, I'd have had it be revealed that Finn was "Order 66'd" into joining the rebellion. That he was the reason the First Order was tracking the Rebellion in TLJ. He would spend the rest of the trilogy trying to redeem himself and that's what he would be trying to tell Rey. That's my personal fanfic, though.
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As a random guy on the internet, I will let you know that I feel completely entitled to re-write a movie for the professional writers 
These are honestly not bad. He could have totally been training - and I was thinking that he could have easily created a new Jedi academy in hiding after Kylo wiped out the previous one. The biggest issue remains, though, is that he is unnecessarily not communicating this with anyone in the resistance - or at least helping them while they are actively getting pummelled out there. Even if he had good motives it's very uncharacteristic of Luke to not be there in the first place.
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Makes sense. I'd reason that jumping in when he wasn't ready was the reason Han got captured and he's stuck with a Robo-Hand. He learned not to be impulsive and risk losing everything. And last time just thinking of Leia put her in danger. Couldn't risk communication with "Smoke" out there somewhere.
But again, just my personal "What if" story. I'm mostly happy with what we got. Sooner or later I'm gonna rewatch this trilogy and I suspect with all of the answers I'm going to enjoy the whole thing a lot more. Same thing happened to me with the prequels. I don't ignore the many flaws. I just enjoy them more now.
