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

No divorced characters, please. It's been overused in every single romcom and 'family movie' of the 90's.

That being said, I wouldn't mind if Luke was single and didn't have kids. If it best serves the story for Luke to be a celibate monk, then so be it. I do not see him as the type to just pick up girls on every planet...his character is way too wholesome for that.

Of course my fangirl self has grown rather attached to the EU Luke who relates well to kids, and I would squee to no end seeing Luke with a family of his own. (yes, I am a helpless romantic. )

Another possibility: single 'dad' raising his orphaned niece/nephew/adoptive child.

 

Mara should be Luke's 4th and 6th ex wife (and wear an eye-patch).

 

I'm a woman and if I had to chose I'd rather watch a movie about people with relationships than about celibate monk-types. If Luke is celibate because he follows the PT rules then the new protagonist would also have to remain celibate, unless they want to repeat Anakin/Padmé (I sure hope not!).

Also there's the thing that chick-flicks are often marketed towards women while action films are marketed towards males. Are you suggesting that hollywood doesn't know its own market research? I'm certain they research heavily in this kind of questions.

 

Mara should be Luke's 4th and 6th ex wife (and wear an eye-patch).
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better yet, have her in it for 10 seconds, have Luke wake up in cold sweat and proclaim "this is disturbing, Jedi aren't supposed to have nightmares"

you please everybody that way


Darth_Pevra: each to their own,

and I'm suggesting we live in the 21st century, not every woman wants to watch days of our lives, nothing to do with market research

 

I just meant a fantasy film in space would be even better to the masses if it had romance too. The women part was more meant as a random group of people vs the stereotypicial nerdy male Star Wars fans to be asked that question who already have debated this to death. So it was just a poorly phrashed 'dont only ask obivious fanboy/girls' ask a grandpa, ask a teacher, ask a random coworker, etc... Nothing else to see there, move along.

Please also dont bring up Days of our lives... your putting words in my mouth

 

Lol, I am certainly not someone who watches soaps. Don't even know what "days of our lives" is. But I've seen enough movies to have a general impression on how Hollywood crafts its stories.

 

I have never seen a 'chick flick' at the theatre - I loathe such manufactured garbage.

 

Firefly has minimal romance?
Jayne is into Kaylee
Mal is into Inara
Wash and Zoe are together
Simon is into Kaylee

So many love angles you could easily lose track. The only male crew member who isn't into romance is Book, and he's the resident monk.

Actually the Inara/Mal stuff was pretty annoying and I would say I'm not very big on romances in general. I would even go so far and say I think like the stereotypical male most of the time (and write like one, if my reviewers are to be believed). Conventional romance doesn't appeal to me much.
But I rather have that Luke, extrovert that he is, stays grounded in reality (and a girlfriend helps with this) instead of becoming the next blathering PT-monk who knows nothing about life and emotions. Like Ryus said Obi-Wan 2.0 I don't want to see.

Plus, my personal likes and dislikes are in this case irrelevant. They don't influence how Hollywood makes its movies.

 

Why should he make that choice? It seems weird that OT-Luke would do this. He never showed signs of celibacy.

 

Well said. I'm not calling for Luke to be celibate, but if he's forced to be a sentimentalized married father and the younger generation spends the whole film recreating Han and Leia's bicker-flirting ESB romance, I'll probably just shake my head and wait for the non-Abrams material to start arriving.

 

Luke should be married with an only child, hopefully a young daughter. Sure, it can be Mara Jade. Like I've always said, these films should not adhere to any post-ROTJ continuity. Wipe the slate clean.

 

Are you saying the daughter can be Mara Jade or the mother? Im fine with Luke having a daughter, but why would his daughters last name be Jade?

It should be the iconic last name of the series, Skywalker

 

Eh, either works for me. They can't have middle names? Haven't you heard of Chew-lacca-bacca?

 

Next thing you're going to be telling me Doctor Who doesnt have time travel.

 

Married to Leia.

 

^Doctor Who, not The Doctor. learn the difference

 

Beat you to fixing it

 

Those three things are definitely where Star Wars excels. (Especially the villains)

I'm a fangirl and shipper. But I think when it comes to romance in a fantasy epic, less is more, and the rest should be to the audience's imagination. In regards to the PT, specifically Anakin and Padme's scenes, they should have gone with a lot less.