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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\'t know whether it belongs to \
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[http://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\'t know whether it belongs to \
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\'t know whether it belongs to \
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[http://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD \
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/ Dolls in Psuedo Paradise]] probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD \\\"Dolls in Psuedo Paradise\\\" [[https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/]] probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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I feel like the the story that comes with the Touhou music CD \\\"Dolls in Psuedo Paradise\\\" (https://kafkafuura.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/hourai-ningyou/) probably belongs here, but I don\\\'t know whether it belongs to \\\"Video Games\\\", \\\"Music\\\" or some other section.
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The simple fact is that it IS CharacterDerailment in a variety of ways. It is a derailment of Luke's core values, not just in the movies, but in every other non Disney-canon and LegcyOfTheForce story as well. Luke is not the person who would try and murder someone in his sleep, even if it was a brief moment of instinct that he let go of. Luke isn't the kind of person who gives up on someone, especially if he can tell there is good in them or even if there's a chance that sparing them and trying to redeem them is the right thing. Darth Vader by comparison had 20+ years worth of murders and atrocities and Luke didn't give up on him. He stopped himself right before he killed Darth Vader in anger. In the JediAcademyTrilogy, Luke forgave Kyp Durron, who destroyed a solar system and tried to kill him and his other students, but Luke never gave up hope that Kyp could find redemption, even as his other students (and writers) felt like he shouldn't have allowed him to stay afterwards. And he was vindicated, because even though Kyp would never live down his actions when possessed by Exar Kun, he still managed to rise above his own faults and become a respectable Jedi Master. And Luke did think he might have made a mistake for a time, but he didn't give up hope. He sought out answers to make sure he could fix them. He didn't run away from his students, he didn't try to kill them because he was afraid. Much as KJA did a lot of things wrong, he understood Luke's character far better than Rian Johnson does.
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The simple fact is that it IS CharacterDerailment in a variety of ways. It is a derailment of Luke\'s core values, not just in the movies, but in every other non Disney-canon and LegacyOfTheForce story as well. Luke is not the person who would try and murder someone in his sleep, even if it was a brief moment of instinct that he let go of. Luke isn\'t the kind of person who gives up on someone, especially if he can tell there is good in them or even if there\'s a chance that sparing them and trying to redeem them is the right thing. Darth Vader by comparison had 20+ years worth of murders and atrocities and Luke didn\'t give up on him. He stopped himself right before he killed Darth Vader in anger. In the JediAcademyTrilogy, Luke forgave Kyp Durron, who destroyed a solar system and tried to kill him and his other students, but Luke never gave up hope that Kyp could find redemption, even as his other students (and writers) felt like he shouldn\'t have allowed him to stay afterwards. And he was vindicated, because even though Kyp would never live down his actions when possessed by Exar Kun, he still managed to rise above his own faults and become a respectable Jedi Master. And Luke did think he might have made a mistake for a time, but he didn\'t give up hope. He sought out answers to make sure he could fix them. He didn\'t run away from his students, he didn\'t try to kill them because he was afraid. Much as KJA did a lot of things wrong, he understood Luke\'s character far better than Rian Johnson does.
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Now, what did Ben Solo do to deserve this? Why did Luke feel this was necessary to kill this kid and then not work to redeem him like he did with Vader, who did far worse? When Ben was his student, all we get is that Snoke had turned him, but not whether or not Ben had done anything remotely evil at the time. Remember, Anakin was tainted by his murder of the Sand People and that didn't automatically turn him to the dark side. But here, we don't even get any evidence of what Kylo Ren might have done before the fact. This IS CharacterDerailment, I'm sorry, but it is the truth. Luke Skywalker is not a perfect paragon, he makes mistakes, he lets his emotions dictate him sometimes but he's not the kind of person who looms over someone and tries to stab him in his sleep. He's not the person who gives up and goes into hiding hoping to die. He is not someone who would refuse to redeem his nephew and let evil rule the galaxy. And make no mistake, Luke is letting evil rule the galaxy and he knows that if the Sith or other Dark Side users are allowed to do what they want, they will do far worse than the Jedi. He would do whatever it took to find out what happened and how to stop it and redeem his nephew. Because Luke is still a hero and a good person. He does face temptations, but at the end of the day, he wouldn't abandon his friends and their son like these movies suggest he would. It's not who Luke Skywalker is.
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Now, what did Ben Solo do to deserve this? Why did Luke feel this was necessary to kill this kid and then not work to redeem him like he did with Vader, who did far worse? When Ben was his student, all we get is that Snoke had turned him, but not whether or not Ben had done anything remotely evil at the time. Remember, Anakin was tainted by his murder of the Sand People and that didn\'t automatically turn him to the dark side. But here, we don\'t even get any evidence of what Kylo Ren might have done before the fact. This IS CharacterDerailment, I\'m sorry, but it is the truth. Luke Skywalker is not a perfect paragon, he makes mistakes, he lets his emotions dictate him sometimes but he\'s not the kind of person who looms over someone and tries to stab him in his sleep. He\'s not the person who gives up and goes into hiding hoping to die. He is not someone who would refuse to redeem his nephew and let evil rule the galaxy. And make no mistake, Luke is letting evil rule the galaxy and he knows that if the Sith or other Dark Side users are allowed to do what they want, they will do far worse than the Jedi. He would do whatever it took to find out what happened and how to stop it and redeem his nephew. Because Luke is still a hero and a good person. He does face temptations, but at the end of the day, he wouldn\'t abandon his friends and their son like these movies suggest he would. It\'s not who Luke Skywalker is.
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Setting aside whether it could have worked or not, the reason fans hate this version of Luke and call it derailment is indeed because the film explicitly ignores his core character values to put him in a place that the story requires. That's bad writing first of all, because if you have to outright ignore who a character is in order to have him be the kind of person the story requires him to be, then you have failed in telling a compelling narrative. And no amount of AllThereInTheManual will fix that, because one, you don't get points if you don't put it in the movie, Disney and LucasFilm's insistence on trying to make all of the canon novels relevant and must reads only screw over the movies and everything else because you shouldn't have to read something in order to understand this. Again, it's terrible writing and presentation. If your story does not stand on its own without supplementary material, then you need to rethink your storytelling method. And two, because ultimately it won't change the fact that you still completely ignored why fans loved the character, why people call him an icon and why he is considered the definitive hero. The Luke Skywalker we see in TheLastJedi, is a pale imitation of Luke Skywalker.
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Setting aside whether it could have worked or not, the reason fans hate this version of Luke and call it derailment is indeed because the film explicitly ignores his core character values to put him in a place that the story requires. That\'s bad writing first of all, because if you have to outright ignore who a character is in order to have him be the kind of person the story requires him to be, then you have failed in telling a compelling narrative. And no amount of AllThereInTheManual will fix that, because one, you don\'t get points if you don\'t put it in the movie, Disney and LucasFilm\'s insistence on trying to make all of the canon novels relevant and must reads only screw over the movies and everything else because you shouldn\'t have to read something in order to understand this. Again, it\'s terrible writing and presentation. If your story does not stand on its own without supplementary material, then you need to rethink your storytelling method. And two, because ultimately it won\'t change the fact that you still completely ignored why fans loved the character, why people call him an icon and why he is considered the definitive hero. The Luke Skywalker we see in TheLastJedi, is a pale imitation of Luke Skywalker.
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