ST Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) in Episode VII

Wookieepedia. According to them it came from "Star Wars Card Trader."

 

new trading cards for Luke, Rey etc. (no idea why Rey and Kylo are rated higher with their power abilities as Luke):

 

Kylo will pee his pants if Luke would stare at him like this, bad ass.

 

Jesus, who designs these things?

 

Topps

 

One of the most epic moments in any Batman film at 2:26.

 

Makes sense. They have a history of terrible designs. I was a baseball card collector in my youth, and I distinctly remember being revolted by the first '88 Topps pack I opened.

 

yep I agree, but sadly no better trading cards are there.

 

He was perfect!

 

I just read a story that quoted Mark as saying that he thought while reading the script for the first time that the scene on Starkiller when the lightsaber was wiggling in the snow was going to be his reveal. That would have been pretty cool.

 

It would have been a cool moment, but in context would be pretty hard to explain (and since we don't know exactly why he went away, or what he was doing, there may well be a very good reason that that didn't happen)

 

I'm thinking Luke can merge with the force at will.

 

Sure, it would be cool, but at the same time, it would raise a lot of issues.... how could Luke suddenly appear on SKB on the exact same spot as Rey and Kylo? How did he get there?

TFA ending is as close as perfect it could be, in my point of view.

We climbed those steps together with Rey. The anticipation in the theather was amazing. We knew exactly that the big reveal was coming. The beautiful images, the subtle music, the simbology of the moment, all this after our heads are still trying to process the death of Han.... wow....

Mark Hamill is a very good actor. He managed to convey so much emotion in a single look.

TFA story and ending represent our path coming to TFA. We wanted to find the heroes of our past. We went searching for them. This was our objective, and TFA mirrored OUR PATH into Rey's story.

 

I was disappointed that they didn't have more of Mark Hamill in the movie. This is one of the reasons why it wasn't as good as it could have been.

 

Think of this way then, Episode 8 is going to be all the more exciting because we'll have more Luke!

 

Agreed 100%. The reveal of Luke on the mountaintop is so much more epic and mystical a scene than if he were to pop up just in time for the SKB fight. That would have been an action movie moment. Instead, we got a mythic moment.

 

I don't care for that scene at all. It did absolutely nothing for me. I'm not sure what's supposed to be mystical, epic or mythic about Luke Skywalker standing there looking sad. That's not even Luke Skywalker.

It's entirely reliant on the mere iconic existence of Luke Skywalker...without being in any way even remotely reminiscent of Luke Skywalker.

It's an attempt at nostalgia mining...that forgot the nostalgia.

You want a scene like that to work?

Have Luke swing in on a rope, or suddenly take off a helmet (a surprise reveal), here to rescue you. Or something like that. It has to be in some way reminiscent of Luke Skywalker, not just him standing there.

Really, Luke doesn't cut much of an imposing figure that him just standing has any effect. Vader in the darkness, with his fists on his hips, that's an image that has an effect. Luke, not so much.

 

I just saw this, it's pretty epic. I'm not sure what the rules are on posting video links on here so remove the space

vid.me/ 2Wu0

 

Yeah, and I thought of those moments.

I mean, I could add this one, too.

We know those scenes have meaning, we know why they resonate with us.

Hint: He's not just standing there. The funeral pyre scene has his father's burning remains, and the pic I posted has him looking on the ghost of his father united with the ghosts of his mentors.

The binary sunset is clearly representative of a bored youth yearning for something more. Or something like that.


What in the scene in TFA makes you feel anything? What makes you say "wow, that's Luke Skywalker"?

Myths explain things, represent things. What's being represented there? And how does it relate to Luke Skywalker as a character?

I'm not sure how you can feel anything when the scene has no context. I'm not sure how him standing there makes you go, "whoa, that's so Luke Skywalker".

 

As in many myths, he's a mysterious old sage. As for meaning? Based on the fact that we know Luke "walked away from everything" after his Jedi Temple was destroyed, I think he's strongly akin to the Fisher King - a figure of ancient Celtic myth. And Rey (Percival) is there to awaken him from his slumber - even replicating, in reverse, an exchange of a sword. The scene has extraordinary mythic meaning for me.