First, look at this festive Luke gif I made:
Anyway, Luke hasn't been in any of the trailers for The Force Awakens, leading many to assume he has gone dark side and it's going to be a dramatic reveal. There are many valid points to this theory, and in all honesty it does make sense but NO.
No.
If Luke ends up dark side it throws the whole ending of Return of the Jedi out the window. The scene when Luke tosses his lightsaber to the side saying "Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed, your highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me." will now be meaningless. On top of that, and I would say even more importantly, it would completely ruin Vader's redemption. Darth Vader's image suffered enough in the prequels; please don't also murder his legacy.
However, it also wouldn't be very fitting for Luke to be some shining paragon of the light side of the force. We clearly saw him taking several steps to the dark side, and Yoda knew what he was talking about when he thought it would be a bad idea to continue Luke's training. With this in mind, I'm really hoping when Luke is revealed he is massively powerful (as he should be) but as some kind of gray Jedi, not light or dark. I want to see a Luke that has had a thirty year struggle with the dark side, but never gave in. This would be so much more interesting to me than watching him be some Sith bastard while Han and Leia cry over it.
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