Luke sets a torch to the logs stacked under a funeral pyre where his father’s body lies, again dressed in black mask and helmet. He stands, watching sadly, as the flames leap higher to consume Darth Vader , Anakin Skywalker.
#so basically what this means is Luke is a true Jedi #the lightsaber is not what defines him as a Jedi nor does it control his destiny and his life #a lightsaber is only a tool #what makes Luke a Jedi is his compassion and empathy which he makes most clear in this moment #this very moment when he throws away his lightsaber and puts himself at the mercy of love and of the Force #you might say that Luke is perhaps the first Jedi in this sense
abandoned his Jedi training to save Han and Leia on Bespin despite Obi Wan’s and Yoda’s warnings
gave his father, who was an evil warlord for over 20 years, a proper Jedi funeral
would not kill his enemies even though it was the easy way out
never ended up picking up power converters at Tosche Station
childhood nickname was “Wormie”
perfect cinnamon roll, too Good for this world, too Pure
i mean he did kill his enemies, let’s not forget that massacre at jabba’s palace there
Yes, but he also tried to bargain for Han’s life before resorting to violence. He’s more like his mother; try and be diplomatic and if that doesn’t work, violence is the last resort.
Also, I was referring to more Palps and Vader. No matter how much Palpatine taunted him, Luke refused to strike him down.
very true, but even then, was destroying the ship and killing everyone left on board entirely necessary? also, he let himself in jabba’s palace by force choking the guards – that’s to show that he may still be close to the dark side, that he may turn like his father (which is silly of course, but that’s what was the goal for the audience)
i think after that bout of violence he smooths out; after he speaks with yoda i feel like there is a change, and that change is what allowed him to stand up to palpatine without violence.
I think the whole scene at Jabba’s was to set up the fact that Luke was pretty damn close to the Dark Side. That’s his whole character, actually. Here is this pretty innocent kid who dreams of far off places, but is angry and impatient. Unlike his father, he learns to control those feelings and use them for good, but he struggles with them throughout his journey of becoming a Jedi Knight.
With Luke, he tries to be diplomatic, but when it doesn’t work his anger gets the best of him and he does some pretty questionable things. When he figures it all out, when he learns “control” as Yoda told him, then he’s able to find peace with himself. Who knows, maybe to him, he felt like killing the guards was the only way to get to Leia or to escape. That and it was a rescue mission, so you gotta do what you gotta do haha
Luke isn’t The Punisher but at the same time, outside of special cases like the Emperor/Vader, he generally doesn’t hesitate to kill enemy combatants. In our first glimpse of Luke after ROTJ (in the comics), he’s behaving more like the guy who wrecked Jabba’s palace:
The dialogue is even a callback to Jabba’s palace (“That’s the last mistake you’ll ever make”). Which isn’t to say I think he’s back to skirting the dark side or that he’s acting out of anger, but rather that killing enemies doesn’t seem to present a moral dilemma for Luke. Or any lightsider for that matter – after all, the PT Jedi racked up pretty high kill counts themselves.
I mean, to be fair(ish), most if not all of those people on Jabba’s barge weren’t exactly innocent I gather…
Vader saw his son crying,and knew it must have been at the horror of the face the boy beheld. It intensified, momentarily, Vader’s own sense of anguish—to his crimes, now, he added guilt at the imagined repugnance of his appearance. But then this brought him to mind of the way he used to look—striking, and grand, with a wry tilt to his brow that hinted of invincibility and took in all of life with a wink. Yes, that was how he’d looked once.
Owen and Beru died such horrible, undignified deaths really. They were shot and killed whilst in the throes of terror that their adopted son would be next, and then their bodies were dumped outside and burned.
Luke regrets their deaths terribly. He regrets that he wasn’t there to save them, even though there was probably nothing he could have done, and he deeply regrets that his last conversation with them was so charged with resentment. He knows they loved him, but there’s an awful lot of sadness there.
Luke doesn’t know, but he sort of suspects, that after his aunt and uncle died they were greeted by a familiar brown-eyed woman with flowers in her hair. “Thank you for looking after my son,” she said, hugging them.
