I think the thing that's stopping the Sequels from getting Prequel style revisionism is that they didn't commit to their ideas the same way the Prequels do. The Prequels are bad movies but at least Revenge of the Sith doesn't spend its entire runtime trying to undo the last movie
I never understand why people use Mace Windu as an example of complacency among the Jedi of his era. He was training to fight Sith a thousand years after they were presumed extinct, and he won.
You still have to live in a country with these people. You still have to sit next to them at work and at baseball games.
You hate them. They hate you. Your hate increases because they hate you. Their hate increases because you hate them.
I’m sure that’s sustainable.
If the fate of the galaxy keeps falling to one guy singlehandedly winning a war, it makes the universe feel smaller. What Luke is doing is still important, but the people of the galaxy rising up is what actually saves the day.
Mark Hamill came up with a much darker head canon backstory for Luke becoming a “hermit” in THE LAST JEDI
“I thought, what could make someone give up a devotion to what is basically a religious entity, to give up being a Jedi. Well, the love of a woman. So he falls in love with