Originally posted by Eli VantoFrom the film:
So this technique-Was Luke actually peering into Kylo's future there??😕
I saw darkness. I'd sensed it building in him. I'd seen it in moments during his training.But then I looked inside, and it was beyond what I ever imagined. Snoke had already turned his heart. He would bring destruction, and pain, and death, and the end of everything I loved because of what he would become...
From the novel:
Luke Skywalker looks down at his nephew Ben Solo. The Jedi Master's eyes are closed. The Force is aboil with danger. Worry shadows Luke's face as he extends his hand, reaching out with the Force--reaching into the sleeping Ben's mind.The boy remains still, his face untroubled. And Luke's eyes remain shut. But he can see: fire, and ruin, and the sightless eyes of the dead. And he can hear: screams, and the howl of lightsabers, and the roar of explosions.
Darkness--expanding from this slim, dark-haired boy to shroud everything--and the cacophony of terror that will accompany it. Luke draws his hand back, as if burned. The Force around Ben has always been shot through with veins of darkness, but what he's seen is beyond anything he'd feared to find...
Luke read his mind/emotions, and 'worst-case-deduced' what Ben would become based on what he sensed at the time.
tl;dr
Rian is a fucking idiot.