A guy enslaves the entire galaxy.
Luke: Theres still good in him.
A guy does nothing, but learns from him.
Luke: Fuck um, he give me the willies!!!
Technically, I mean there was 2-3 decades between those thoughts.
Did we watch the same movie? He didn’t kill him, and didn’t want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.
This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let’s be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.
I think most people get confused by the different flashback perspectives…
In the scene the pic is from, Luke couldn’t have killed Ben even if he wanted to!
He wasn’t physically there, and would have more reasonably dropped the star destroyer on Ben than stabbed him with a laser sword.
Yes, that too!
That y’all think that’s the actual problem is why I don’t respect Last Jedi stans
I mean, he almost did kill his father. Yoda was right, Luke is reckless, and this was the trained, more disciplined Luke. He fell right into the Emperor’s trap, and if the Emperor hadn’t been himself blinded in his joy of attacking, he would have realized Vader just got compromised.
spot on. SW fans are some of the most media illiterate ppl i’ve ever seen. they mostly just make up their own movie in their head and then are shocked and appalled that other ppl don’t share their view.
He was luke… warm.
YYYEEEEEAAAAHHHH!
Horrifically stupid Disney writing.
Luckily Disney Star Wars is not canonical.
Wasn’t that Charles Barkley?
You might be right, i just had this one on hand
Holup
cute, i chuckled.
TLJ is second only to ESB in the saga.
Interesting perspective. Can’t tell if that makes you a fan of the last Jedi or have a low opinion of Star Wars in general.
In the near decade since TLJ premiered I’ve litigated my problems with it countless times but it’s probably the best movie in the sequel trilogy. Personally I’d rank The Force Awakens as the better Star Wars movie. Despite it being a basic rehash of the high points of various parts of ANH and the saga, it at least wasn’t a tonal miss like TLJ or a series killing stinker like Rise of Skywalker.
My rankings go ESB > RotJ > RotS > ANH > TPM > TFA > AotC > TLJ > RoS
obvi i disagree on the tonal miss, but we can all come together to lament TRoS.
for me, TFA is a better movie than both TPM and AotC, but as you said, it is completely a rehash. JJ’s ST movies completely fail in originality compared to the PT. only TLJ actually tried to spin out something new for the universe.
If the authors followed the rejection of the entire main story-line by rejecting the main characters and making something really different, it would be better. (Keeping Yoda was fine, though.)
I didn’t want something different. I like Star Wars. I wanted more Star Wars building on the universe. If you don’t like Star Wars watch something else. The entire sequel trilogy sucks ass. They had a fuckton of EU material to draw on and we got shit.
I mean, how close are most people to their nephews really.
Compared to your relationship with your deadbeat dad who is also Space Rommel?
I really really wish someone competent would reboot the entire thing from the very beginning and do a long-term investment into the story like the slow-burn and complex lead-ins of the early Marvel films between Iron Man and End Game.
Like, write a mature, adult-themed violent arch that covers more complex shit like relationships and political inteigue, like early 5 seasons of Game of Thrones, and also make a completely separate kid-friendly arch that prudes, Mormons and families can enjoy together as well.
you know that meme of a baby holding a gun crying, like he shot his dog?
star wars needs to be that dog
let it die
the story is told
Well now that Andor is done sure
So… like Andor?
Maybe those three really good blockbusters from the 70s and 80s can just be nothing more than exactly that, and we can stop pulverizing the dead horse into a thin film of gore.
