Don't give into the Dark side...see it with an open mind

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2018)

First off, let me just say that I understand why star wars purists would hate this. It's because Luke didn't do what the fans wanted him to do. But what people need to ask themselves truthfully is who is Luke? Give us an honest answer.
Episode IV shows Luke destroying the death star and learning a valuable lesson from Obi Wan Kenobi: the force is stronger than death and there are alternatives to fighting.
Episode V shows Luke learning the ways of the Jedi from Yoda, who INITIALLY WARNED Luke was too old to be trained and would be tempted by the Dark Side due to the attachments he has formed to people in his life: Han, Leia, and at the end, his father
Episode VI shows Luke confronting Vader and getting him to turn back to the good side. IS this the act of a Jedi? No. The Jedi forbid attachments to family and that is why they are trained from a young age. The discipline starts early because as Yoda says, the Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Luke had none of this when he began his training not as a boy but as a young man.
Where I am going with all this: was Luke a Jedi? Yes. But is he the gold standard of the Jedi? No way. Given all that, the more I think about it, the more I realized that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is as honest as it could have been and it sets up for a monumental episode IX.
It isnt currently what fans want to hear because they all want Luke to kill Snoke but they are forgetting that is not the way of the Jedi. Luke's death becoming one with the force after his hologram battles kylo ren is reminiscent of Kenobi's first lesson that the force really is stronger than death.
As for the rest, it gave a new vision that George Lucas himself praised. Give it a few years or wait until IX. It will grow on people