Luke and Yoda’s burning of the sacred Jedi texts is rather undercut by the fact that Yoda is quite literally fucking with and lying to Luke. Again. You know, for old times sake. Because Yoda almost certainly is 100% aware of the fact that Rey plundered the old texts (and can we get a goddamn holocron up in the movies? Please?) and put them on the Falcon before haring off to go try and redeem Kylo Ren. His last meeting with Luke is therefore predicated on dishonesty and deception in order to manipulate Luke into the proper state of mind, which is, I suppose, classic Yoda.
As for DJ’s being cognizant of the Rebel plans, he gets that intel because he’s listening to Poe and Finn yell at each other over the commlink while he’s hacking the door, and Poe lets slip that information then. It’s really quick and could have been handled better from a writing and cinematography standpoint; but that’s when the relevant information passed to him.
Ironically, Kylo Ren is a better Sith Lord than Vader ever was. He achieved the sine qua non of a successful Sith; he learned everything he could from his master, then killed him and took his place.
I like TLJ, it’s not a bad movie, but… well, to put too fine a point on it, the new trilogy absolutely depends on burning down everything the protagonists of the original trilogy accomplished in order for the new protagonists to accomplish the same things all over again. And that leaves a very, very sour taste in my mouth.
Also, if they’re really committing this strongly to “Luke is a complete failure and doesn’t refound the Jedi Order and when he tries everyone dies” then fuck you for spending four years making me care about Ezra Bridger, Disney. That’s not cool.
Ok, first of all we should probably tag spoilers if we’re not going to keep them below the cut…
My memory might be wrong, but I don’t think it’s possible for DJ(?) to have overheard over the com-link, because Poe didn’t know about the real plan until Leia shuts down the mutiny and knocks him unconscious, right?
I did miss Rey grabbing the old texts, but I don’t think that was the important thing as much as it was about inspiring Luke to reconnect with the Force, reach out to Leia, and save the Rebellion.
Which is why I have a problem with “complete failure.” If my understanding of the reality vs. legend thing: sure, Luke failed Ben, but he ultimately succeeded with Rey (although I would have liked to see her react to Luke’s intervention; that was a weird missing link).
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