ST Should Luke be single, married, divorced, or a widower?

You know what's insulting? Calling someone sexist for barely a reason at all and twisting sentences so they fit your agenda. It immediately shuts down any intelligent discourse.

On topic: It is fact that currently high grossing movies don't feature celibate heroes, or at least I don't any. Every action hero I know from the last couple years was in some sort of relationship or at least flirting with women. So why should a JJ Abrams directed movie (who has made sure in Trek that every male had a female love interest) and a mega-superduper blockbuster like Star Wars Episode VII!!!!! feature a celibate hero?

I think Iger said they were moving away from PT spirit and want to bring more of an OT spirit into the ST and in the OT it was never forbidden for Luke to have a girlfriend.

 

^Thank you Darth_Pevra

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Sigh, first off I never stated 'women are only interested in romance and/or cant handle a story without romance' you and only you said that (well till I quoted you anyways ) and even if I did your lying if that is the most sexist things you read here since I my brief time I've already seen a lot worse. Now what I said was romance is widely appealing and thus attracts the widdest customer basis 'aka the general audience' and women in general do find it appealing (I'll add in here, so do men). You are being disengenous and taking me out of context, subsutiting what I say to win a few points here.
Next off let me repeat, most web sites/page from 2002 are down/moved since then. It could take days to find them and worse likely will require a paid subscription with a newspaper to reap their write ups (and yes, I already tried finding some of the more reputable ones I knew of which is blocking me with a please pay for this, which is useless to me since you'd have to pay to see it too since at the rate this is going I doubt you'd trust a quote without a source). You being a gradute student should know how hard it is to find these sites due to google requiring sites to update tech wise to maintain being at the top of the page, worse my pc is fried Im looking from my cell phone. Sorry but that isnt worth the data hit to my cell phone bill. Web pages get archived all the time, you should know this being a graduate student and all, yet for some reason you just ignored this reality. Sadly I cant help but again think its cause you where more concerned with winning points in a debate.

Next off again, taken out of context. I never said it was common knowedge that 'people thought Jedi shpuld be able to marry'. What I said was it was 25 years since 1977 and the release of AotC in 2002 was the first time Star Wars ever stated Jedi couldnt marry. I then said it wasnt well recieved, in part due to lucas not being able to write romance and also because it was unrelatable theme to modern audience. Love/sex sells being celibate has a track record of not selling as well, recently Doctor Who said it best "Monks are not cool" .

Now repeatedly you have taken me out of context. Why should I take anything you say now seriously?

 

Sigh... this bickering is pointless

 

Guys, the 'Basher/Gusher' wars are so 2000's... PT gushers still love the OT, PT Bashers know that some people will always love the PT - The 20Teens's are all about how the EU sucks/rules now!

Just wait until the ST is actually relased, then the fires will burn bright again!

 

Lets lighten the mood a bit.

Yoda told Luke "The force runs strong in your family, pass on what you have learned", this is clealy permission for him to start breeding Jedi babies then to train them

 

Yes, but it was pretty impossible to give him one. The books don't focus on his love life and fans would've been in arms if such an important detail were changed.

 

The Hobbit made a few dollars, and Bilbo wasn't flirting with anyone.

 

Again, based on a series of books. Bad example.

Star Wars VII won't be based on any books.

 

He'll be content with just his precious soon enough.

Next off for anyone who brings up The Hobbit/LotR, Aragon and Arwen say hello. In the 19 endings at the end of RotK there was quite a few other happy romantic endings set up. And I recall some flirting in TTT too, not to mention a hobbit or two getting a crush on a female elf a few times a big one in FotR.

 

No, he doesn't have too. But it is very probable.

 

If general audiences were mortally afraid of heroes who don't flirt, The Hobbit could have been altered in adaptation. But it wasn't altered in this respect, and instead what we have is clear, fact-based evidence that a film with a hero who doesn't flirt can make a lot of money.

 

I hope he has a love interest - Luke deserves it.

 

Bad example. Gandalf, is a Maiar, a spirit formed at the first Music of the Ainur. He's not really capible of romance as mortal being know it. Luke is a human and does have mortal level feelings.

 

The old jedi code, but who cares about them stuffy rules of the PT jedi?

Risking all the inevitable nerdrage was probably not worth the change.

And yes, a movie with a celibate hero can make big bucks. But it might make even more bucks with a love interest around. Current hollywood formula is that the hero has a love interest. You don't see many beta male action movie heroes either as alphas seem to make more money (spidey is one exception).

 

He can be both mentor and father. Two roles rolled in one. Bonus.

 

Feel free to dismiss this,you are entitled to. However if you're willing to be bold, next time you bump into a group randomly talking about the movies just ask them two thing first if they got why Lucas did the whole no marriage rule,second if theyd be able to get behind star wars better if Disney ignored that in ep 7 (try to phrash it from them being able to have more creative writing possibilities). If youre really ventourious ask a group of women... who you know, Disney needs to think about if they want star wars sales to top box office records.
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if I'm reading this right, are you suggesting women will go to see Star Wars if there is some marriage or family involved in the story? if you are, then my GF would totally disagree with you on that. She doesn't go to see Star Wars to see days of our lives, she goes to see a fantasy film set in space.