@CotWatch @starwarstufff @leiaspacebunss @JimmyMacRadio @jasonswank #forceawakens @TRBpodcasts #sequels @MarkHamill @laceygilleran #starwars #lukesykwalker This is a long post with misspellings and terrible punctuation sorry in advance . I also wanted to say I hated the sequels but if you like them, I respect that this post is not about disrespecting anybody that likes anything this is just my story that I was reminded by this being on TV. Let me start by saying this. I am kidding my parents today I lost both parents both brothers and my sister all younger in life. The force awakens is on tv and it brought it back to me so I wanted to share this . I grew up really poor. No power or water a lot of the time. My parents saved to take me to a movie. I was a huge Star Wars fan. after a new, Hope my dad went out to the woods and tore a stick down and painted it blue for me. I loved my light saber that he made me. They took me to see Empire strikes back and we had saved for a couple of weeks to take us all to the movies and I remember going in with my blue stick. all of a sudden Luke came out with a green light saber and I started crying. I remember my dad the next day taking the stick and making me a new one by spray painting it green. That is probably the best memory of my life now fast-forward many years later I remember seeing this in the movies and there was my childhood hero again and I could not help myself crying. The last movie I saw with my parents as a kid before my mom got sick and I lost her to cancer and my dad a few years later was empire strikes back and all my childhood emotions came back To me. Here I was with my 13 year old stepson doing the same thing my dad with me when I was 10. I could not believe it. The great Luke skywalker coming back to save the day. I don’t think the younger generation understands how inspirational movie characters like Luke were to very poor nobodies like myself. We didn’t have social media we just had imaginations and backyard stick fights. I couldn’t wait till the last jedi. I was so excited for @rianjohnson and to see what he did with Luke. They were going make him a hero again how could they not. This is Luke. They already killed Han. Leia is doing what she does best and now Luke is coming, we didn’t get all together but Luke leia chewy and Rey and Finn were going do it. I started with the last Jedi and I am watching the space fight in the beginning but I just could wait to get to that planet. Let’s see Luke, what are we doing? We should have started with Luke! He’s going take Rey and train her. He has annakins light saber back,. My sticksThen this happened 😡 what ?? Why would you throw that? It’s been 30 plus years since you lost that and you just throw it away!! Come on rian what are we doing? I will go on to say that yes in the end they made loop the hero, but I was extremely disappointed how they did look in this movie. I would’ve wrote the movie a whole different way, but I respect other peoples opinions I feel like the character building with Luke could’ve been better and we always don’t need a redemption story and Star Wars. That is something that has been happening over and over and over and I think it’s a tired fact. Sometimes just let a hero be a hero. That is my worthless opinion and I’m sorry for this, but I just wanted to say all of this because watching this on TV just brought back all of those emotions. Today would’ve been my mom’s 75th birthday. I lost her almost 35 years ago and seen the movies that they loved and I loved always brings back memories.