That Death Star he blew up blew up Aldaraan. That planet is really, really blown up. Blowing up a giant ball of death filled with soldiers is very different to blowing up a planet of civilians. I don’t think people are calling Luke a pacifist, let alone a perfect one. He’s a solider in the rebellion. I see a ton of twisting who Luke Skywalker is portrayed to be in the OT by people who want to belittle people’s disappointment with his portrayal in The Last Jedi. Suddenly he’s this brash and easily beat down weak Jedi. Don’t make him destroying the Death Star negative as if wasn’t being guided by a being who ascended into the force as he did it, and attuned himself to the force to do so. He came face to face with the two most powerful evil beings at the time (that were known of), and despite finding himself in a position that Anakin was in above Dooku and failed, he CHOSE to do what was right, instead of succumbing to Palpatine’s egging(? If that’s the right word) on. 30 years have passed since the events of Return. We don’t have information on the 20-25 years leading up to this encounter between Luke and Ben. It is perfectly acceptable to enjoy the failure of Luke as a piece of the narrative, or to be dissatisfied with the choice, but to say that this falls in line with Luke as we see him grow and come into his own throughout the OT is not fair to the character. We watch him rise above these temptations, and become the legend that people talk about in TFA. The legend that we watch fall in The Last Jedi. He has faults, that’s clear, but I see so much of people belittling Luke’s choices or contribution, when that goes directly in opposition to the movie. He was a hero, he became a legend, which is important for us seeing his fall. If he’s not a good person who tries to do right and is rather successful at it, then his mistake wasn’t lighting his saber, it was not finishing Ben there, cause so far, despite Rey protest, he has been proven right. Ben is dead, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren reigns. I’m hoping one of the shows they do after Rebels will focus on Luke after Return and show his transition and trials leading up to the fall of his new order. I don’t think his failure is impossible, I just think people are twisting what we have seen in the OT to fit their narrative in opposition to the people who fiercely hate the Luke narrative in TLJ, when the truth, like it is in TLJ, is somewhere in between.