We definitely have room for some common ground on this section of your post.
And hanging out in such a nondescript outfit as his Jedi robes, no less.
I get that Luke is something different to different fans, but I assure you that my perception of him has been concurrent with 40 years of religiously following Star Wars. I'm not in any way contorting things to fit what I would otherwise perceive as unjust characterization in the ST. If you can understand that, perhaps you can allow that filmmakers might've had a different take on Luke than you without it meaning that they didn't love the movies, or didn't understand the character. Either way, I suspect we're just killing time here and not moving the needle in either direction.
I think, once again, that Star Wars is a convoluted mess across all of its properties. It?s so convoluted that if I hadn?t grown up loving it before I knew any better, I wouldn?t be able to because it truly tests my ability to suspend my disbelief from an internal logic standpoint.
Your point about the Jedi Robes is another fine example. He?s dressed like Uncle Owen. Those were obviously supposed to be Tatooine desert robes and then for some idiotic reason Lucas decided to have all of the Jedi dress like that when he made the PT. It?s a total unforced error, of which there are too many to list.
Don?t get me started on his reunion with Artoo, the droid that he had somehow forgotten in less than 19 years, who had been on more adventures with him than any other character in the galaxy. He wasn?t just playing coy, there would have been no reason to do that.
It?s a train wreck.
The ST, however had the benefit of all of those mistakes and should have learned from them, but didn?t, which makes it even more unforgivable.
As for Luke, I used to be in these threads defending the films and their characterization of Luke. It?s not the worst thing in the ST, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in the hope that the interpretation served some greater storytelling purpose.
Once TROS was released, and I realized that the movies were literally building a monument to nothing, just haphazardly throwing plot and characterization twists at the wall to see what stuck, it became harder to buy into the characterization of Luke.
