you can love or hate luke’s storyline in TLJ
but all i can say is this – my little brother has always been terrified of failing – whether that’s not being good enough to do something, not being successful, not getting good grades – it scares him to death pretty much and he has so much anxiety over it that sometimes i find him crying over this – he’s a child and this crippling fear of failure has made him so stressed
we took him to see the Last Jedi and he came out of that movie saying that he wasn’t afraid to fail and not be good at things anymore and I asked him why and he said this:
“because Luke failed and he still came back to save the world. failure is the greatest teacher so we can do better next time.”
Lucas has always said that Star Wars was always meant to be for 12 year olds, to teach them how to cope with life as they grow up and how to deal with society – my brother is 12 and he learned that if the greatest hero in the galaxy can fail and still make it back, then he didn’t need to be afraid either.
and really, isn’t that the whole point of this?