Why it's okay to love Luke in the #mandolorianfinale and also love #TheLastJedi , a humble thread.

The Last Jedi hit in 2017, just into the Trump era. I'd become freshly labeled an exvangelical based on leaving the Conservative church I'd grown up in. I'd filed as a political

Independent. I'd watched people I'd followed as heroes all my life walk away from moral principles I'd believed they'd meant. Rather than being prolife as they'd always touted, they were anti justice, anti fairness, anti blm, and pro cages, pro white supremacy, pro fascist...

In this mindset in my real life, you can see how it would be easy to accept a Luke Skywalker who had given up and who lived in selfish exclusion on the edge of the Galaxy. Every one of my heroes had done worse.
Seeing Luke's conversation with Yoda echoed my experience with

organized religion: those who cared only about dried out husks of tenets and religious law while ignoring those crying out for real mentorship, real heroes, real justice.
Yoda laughing when the Jedi law burned healed something in my heart. It was exactly what I needed to see

And Luke's finale at the end was the selfless act of heroism I so longed to see in reality, but would be denied. Finally, the older mentor comes back to the truth he'd given up on. I know it hurt those who saw Luke as a hero who would never not be that...

and I'm sorry for that pain. I get it.

But for me, who'd watched every former hero of the older generation walk away from honor, from justice, from love...it was so real. And to see Luke come back to the truth...I was sobbing at the end of the movie. It gave me hope to make it

through the next few years of real life, in which, my former heroes would not turn back, but would instead swallow lies and delusion to an extent I would not have believed, burrowing deeper into selfishness and hypocrisy.

I have seen no Boomer from my former tribes turn back

to love like Luke did in TLJ. But this brings me to my new heroes in my new tribes: for instance, Mark Hamill.
What a hero to appreciate and follow, here on Twitter: a caring, giving, truly kind and loving individual. And from what I can tell, he has always been so. So I

celebrate with all my heart, the #Mandolorian finale. The justness, for #LukeSkywalker to be portrayed as the hero that Mark Hamill has always been. I celebrate it. I'm grateful. I cheer on the resurrection of his honor, strength and love. It's just and beautiful.
So, thank you

Jon Favreau, thank you Brian Johnson, thank you Disney. And thank you, Mark Hamill, for being so real in the midst of the false.

I'm grateful to every one of the artists with the vision to help us hope in the darkest times. I needed every bit of it.

*Rian Johnson.

Damn you, autocorrect.