I really liked the fact that they made him look like Obi-Wan with the light robes and the beard.
Good reference.

Why does this seem so awkward?

Also, nice to see he learned from his fathers mistakes. He's got the high ground.

Congratulations, You got the high ground, Now what's the next step of your master plan?

Why am I not even surprised this image exists?

Lack of music, mainly

Here you go.

Because this scene is absolutely meaningless. What's Luke supposed to do with the Lightsaber? It's his old one yes, but he made his own new one that feels much more like his "real one" because he crafted it himself and that is actually Anakin's old Lightsaber.
Also Rey and Luke have absolutely no connection to each other. At least none that was explained in this movie so she's just some stranger girl holding him his old Lightsaber into his face almost crying and nobody even knows why she looks like that.

To me it feels like an incredibly forced seen because WHY THE **** WOULD THEY SEND REY TO FIND LUKE. THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HER. WHY DOESN'T LEIA ************** GO?

Seriously if this was Leia instead of Rey this scene would be so much better

>Also Rey and Luke have absolutely no connection to each other
Mighty big implication you have there

They have not interacted in this movie at all. Of course they are somehow connected through the force but they are strangers

Luke didn't look like he was gonna break out in tears for no reason because he saw Yoda

So, the returning of a Knight's father's sword is meaningless... Okay.

Same basis. Also Rey has some sort of connection to the Skywalker line, obviously. Without going spoiler zone, the scene where she first finds the saber is proof, what connection? Unknown. But it's ******* there.

Yeah there is a connection. But magic unexplained and unclear force connection because destiny? maybe? doesn't really translate well into an identifiable human emotion, which is why this scene doesn't make sense and feels awkward

I think it makes sense because she was supposed to find him to train, obviously. I thought it was going to be in Episode 8 that she finds him but meh.

That and again, she's returning his father's lightsaber to him. A blade he wielded himself, it has meaning to -him- and that's why she's offering it up. Just like a young Knight bringing a family sword back to their original owner's. That's how I see it at least.

Yeah of course she's supposed to train with him. We all knew that before we even watched the movie because there is noone else who could train her. So it feels even worse if it feels that the characters act this way because the script demands it so rather than actually having own character motivations that make sense in their story and that lead up to certain events that need to happen. There is no build up for Rey to go to Luke, not personal motivation, no reasoning, no character. She just does it because the movie script says so, so it really had no emotional impact on me. It felt more like a scene "that needed to happen" rather than a scene that happened as a result of the plot.

And even if Luke has reason to be emotional about his sword, he never went and searched for it. He didn't have any emotional attachment in the original trilogy. He just let it go and built a new one. Imagine if Luke got the blue lightsaber back in ROTJ. Would it have meant anything? No not at all. It would actually feel like a step back because his self crafted green light saber was a symbol of him becoming a full, true Jedi.
It's not like anyone ever gave it to him before he went full hermit mode and it's not like Maz bothered to give it to him so it didn't really have any meaning until Rey touched it and she then was spiritually connected to him because force.

Doesn't change that these characters have absolutely no emotional connection to each other

Can something be both underwhelming and epic?

it looks really ******* stupid if you haven't just watched the rest of the movie

The only part of that scene I found underwhelming was that it didn't end with him using the force to take it right before the credits rolled.

Damn right!