Star Wars: The Last Jedi has created a lot of discussion among fans of the franchise and while some love it and others hate it, there's one scene in particular which everyone has been talking about. We are, of course, referring to Luke Skywalker's showdown with Kylo Ren on Crait at the end of the sequel which saw them do battle before we learned that Luke was little more than a Force projection.
The hints were there (he looked younger and left no footprints behind) but why didn't Kylo Ren realise that his uncle was wielding the blue lightsaber which he and Rey destroyed earlier in the movie?
In a new interview, director Rian Johnson has offered an explanation for Luke's appearance in The Last Jedi's final battle and offers a convincing explanation about why Kylo didn't realise he wasn't there.
"[Luke] is basically tailoring this projection to have maximum effect on Kylo. He knows that Kylo’s Achilles heel is his rage, and so that’s why he kind of makes himself look younger, the way Kylo would’ve last seen him in their confrontation at the temple, and that’s why he decided to bring Kylo’s grandfather’s lightsaber down there -- the lightsaber that Kylo screamed at Rey, ‘that’s mine, that belongs to me.’" As far as Johnson's concerned, Luke believes that Anakin's lightsaber will have a much more visceral impact on the erstwhile Ben Solo than Luke's own green blade.
"We as an audience saw that... The truth is, we see the lightsaber split in half -- Kylo sees a blinding flash of light and is knocked unconscious, and then Rey takes the lightsaber away before he wakes up. So if you really want to dig into it and get an explanation, you can say that he doesn’t 100 percent know what happened to the lightsaber."
It's hard to deny that this is a very convincing explanation as to why Kylo didn't peg on to the fact that Luke was toying with him and why he didn't know that Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber had actually been destroyed. What do you guys think? Be sure to let us know your thoughts on that in the usual place.
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