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It takes a lot to keep a sense of continuity within a universe as vast as that of Star Wars. Since Disney bought Lucasfilm and relaunched a singular canon for all Star Wars stories going forward across various forms of media, creatives haven't had the same free rein that they once did to build out their own Star Wars stories outside of the movies. This was something that writer Jason Aaron addressed at a convention recently. 

At Fan Expo Canada, Aaron, who was the writer behind the 2015 relaunch of Star Wars comics from Marvel, spoke about minor activities he was told he couldn't write, because of the events in the Star Wars sequel trilogy at the time. Aaron said, “Doing the comics, we were very much the low men on the totem pole. And it was ‘Well you can’t do this, because they’re doing something in a movie that’s similar.’ But they’re not the same at all though. I was told at one point, ‘Oh, Luke Skywalker can’t go fishing, because he catches a fish at one point in [The Last Jedi].’ I was like, ‘Is that the only time he’s ever going to go fishing? How’d he learn how to fish?’ But I think I got to do that in that issue. But it’s frustrating stuff like that at times.”

Aaron's run on Star Wars originally was set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back - years and years before the events of The Last Jedi. And to be fair, Luke is living off the land remarkably well on his remote island in The Last Jedi, especially given that the guy grew up on a desert planet. As the saying goes, with age comes experience and wisdom. So it's already implicit that Luke would have learned some helpful survival skills sometime before the events of The Last Jedi, as Aaron notes. 

Personally? I would love to read a comic book series about Luke Skywalker nurturing various hobbies. But I would imagine that that wouldn't be very high on Lucasfilm's list of priorities, either. 

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