How the film handles the past is jarring, because it feels like a rejection of the great mysteries out there in the 'Star Wars' universe.
[Warning: This story contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.]
Last week, Star Wars: The Last Jedi came to audiences of all kinds and left those first viewers with a story to remember. How to remember it, however, is a serious point of contention, as those earliest viewers largely consisted of two audiences: critics, many of whom praised it, and obsessive Star Wars fans, many of whom hated it. Perhaps it’s proper that the film’s own legacy is already becoming muddled, as that fits with the film’s intriguing themes — and for some viewers, its greatest problems.
Luke (Mark Hamill) was the original window into this world for young viewers. There are three key things I learned as a little kid in the opening minutes of the first film: that we are coming in partway through a long story, that a whole galaxy is at war, and that somewhere a young farm boy is doing chores while wishing for adventure and purpose. Luke started out as a conduit by which we could explore — the young man to whom Obi-Wan (Alec Guinness) remarks, "You’ve taken your first step into a larger world.” And feeling like that we are stepping into a world that is much larger than anything that could be shown on screen is what pulled me in as a kid, and still does today.

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