Books Comics JTTLJ: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

Is it any good? I've added it to the Amazon UK list.

 

I'll probably get this. I recently got a two-volume manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. I had the story already in book and Kindle Lovecraft collections.

 

The manga's pretty good, at least at visualizing the stories -- which I suppose is the point of it. The exogorth story felt particularly emotional, and it was fun to see a few of these ideas visualized. Luke-as-C-3PO was great, and the Lugubrious Mote story was suitably cartoonish and stylized.

 

But was Luke at Jakku?

 

We are all Luke Skywalker at Jakku.

 

The Exogorth story was always one of my favorites from the book. It was really nice to read the manga. The weavers of the Luminous Mist are pretty awesome, and I like that they call Luke "Bright Heart."

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I still suspect the scavenger character at Jakku was actually Lor San Tekka, and not Luke. But that's just my opinion, currently.

 

Been reading it.

It's rarely -if ever- explained how Luke arrived at those places.

Take Lew'el. This Flux woman knows the Aya story, but she doesn't seem to be Aya. And Aya is not present when Luke and Aya's grandma talk. How did Flux know? Did she arrive on the planet after Luke left and talked to grandma and/or Aya? Flux' 'I am Change' at the end sound ominous - looks like she will probably arrive at whatever place Luke arrives before her.

Did Palpatine want Luke, and others, in Lew'el? She had survived ROTJ and, apparently, was behind some ugly moments during Leia's pregnancy (Aftermath novels)

Weird, but Rey seems to be a part of it too. That talk about the Tide...'it could shift the tide', Rey says in TLJ. Rey knows how to swim after having been on Jakku since she was 5-6. Her and that sea skiff in TROS, again out of nowhere. This book and TLJ overlapped (final months of 2017 - Snoke, the audience was told, had trained at least one other apprentice)

That 'deluge' in the title is maybe not innocent and has a mythological meaning. The lew'elians were refugees from some kind of cataclismic war, thousands of years ago -thousands of worlds being destroyed.
What was that about Palpatine's 'it is your birthright to rule here. It is in your blood, our blood'? That throne was thousands of years old. Had Palpatine discovered something about his own lineage?

The mizzlewump leak (2013) had a 'loredump': the sith had been founded by Ruin, an ancestor of Palpatine, 2000 years ago. Presumably, those ideas came from Lucas. This is the Plagueis novel, supervised by him:

'Nothing will stop the return of the sith'. Palpatine calls Exegol 'home', Rey's home. Cosinga Palpatine to his son, our Palpatine(Plagueis novel again):

I mean, just as you make a character a scavenger or a farmboy in order for his/her arc to be ample enough (scavenger>jedi), the same could be true when it came to her backstory and/or back-backstory. You displace its origins far away both in space and in time.

If Rey was 'all the jedi' and 'a thousand generations' lived in her then Lew'el, the ignored and isolated planet with an ancestral FS family in it (the first we know of, Skywalkers aside) would allow for the ample (back)backstory possible.

Also, fishing in the deluge. Jesus was a fisher of men, and Aya was 'fished' (she tells Luke about leaving her planet and explore the force), but maybe Luke himself was already being fished in the deluge too. According to PH:

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Yeah, I really enjoyed this - the JG Jones chapter paintings, Liu's writing. It kind of got entirely eclipsed by TLJ.