Even According to Johnson.....

There's really only two feasible reasons for him to be there, aside from just being a hermit like in TLJ: he went into hiding in order to be protected from Snoke and the First Order, which I find pretty dumb since he's powerful, and I also doubt he'd abandon his sister and best friend, and nephew, and the galaxy at large, when they'd need him most...or he is off on a 'Jedi retreat' which I find pretty meh because I don't see why he'd do that when, again, he is needed to be there.

I guess a possible third option would be that he is secretly training students, but Abrams basically put the kibosh on that since Luke was clearly alone on the island. And even then, I doubt he'd be in hiding for years with his students due to the circumstances set up in TFA.

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