Why Luke didn’t train Leia to be strong with the Force is my big question. Ben obviously was deep-seated emotions, at the least Only Child syndrome, and at the worst oppositional defiant disorder, and perhaps even a bit of a sociopath/psychotic.Īs far as Luke training Ben, we don’t know all the details, except than “Han was, well, Han about it.” (“I have a bad feeling about this” perhaps, *shrug*), and Leia being insistent that Luke could help Ben’s emotional problems, bring Ben balance, put some pressure on Luke not to fail his sister. He felt the only course of action was to kill the Jedi religion, since all it seems to do is create the ultimate monsters of evil for the galaxy, and that the Sith are always waiting in the shadows to take advantage of the arrogant Jedi who feel that they can properly train troubled youth. In other words, Luke thought he wouldn’t get burned playing with matches, but he did, and he let one hell of a fire happen.
He failed his other Jedi Academy by letting Ben Solo kill the Jedi Academy whom he felt were a threat and and the other join his Knights of Ren, a group that is rather mysterious as to who they are, if they’re still around, and also now Luke’s judgement of those Jedi students was being clouded once again by a Sith. He created the Legend monster and almost turned towards the Dark side to prevent another Vader. Luke was probably thinking “this time it’ll be different, because I am LEGEND LUKE SkYWALKER!” Luke’s ego got the best of him and everyone else. Yes, he surrendered against Vader and ultimately got his father back, who destroyed the Emperor, but Luke bought into the legend that he became, so much so that his arrogance got the best of him, thinking he could rebuild the Jedi again, despite the fact that the Jedi created their own downfall before.big time.
The amount of guilt and shame, to let down his whole family, his sister, brother-in-law, his nephew, the galaxy even, was all too much. Luke felt he was the monster “I was weak” he tells Yoda on the Island. In a similar way, despite Hammil's objections, Luke is also just repeating what Obi-Wan and Yoda did: he created a monster (or let a monstrous force corrupt a person), then hid away from the galaxy and let the monster take over until he was too old to do much about it.Ah, but the difference here is that Luke not only created a monster, but Luke also almost went over to the Dark side even contemplating killing his nephew.