The Luke Skywalker we saw in The Last Jedi was not the bright-eyed boy we were introduced to in A New Hope. He wasn't even the hero we saw in the end of the original trilogy. No, this Luke Skywalker had (gasp!) changed in the last 35 years since we last saw him, as people tend to do—a fact that a loudmouth minority of troll fans like use to criticize the movie.

Many of these fans leading the movement to remake The Last Jedi don't seem to believe that a man who watched evil triumph again, and his nephew/pupil become an evil murderer, would change his outlook on life a little bit.

In a new interview with IGN, Mark Hamill explains that he based his character arc on what he's observed in real life:

It is tragic. I’m not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he’s involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation—‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘peace and love’.

I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: ‘By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.’ So I’m one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.

How about that?!

People tend to become cynical when exposed to the repeated failures of humanity. Wouldn't it be kind of weird if Skywalker hadn't changed at all in 35 years? In what reality do Star Wars fans live where people exist in a state of arrested development and fail to mature emotionally past a young adult?

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Matt Miller Culture Editor Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.

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