Sunday, January 31, 2021

Luke's character in The last Jedi isn't as OOC as people believe he is.


Hello, 23 yr old male Star Wars fan since 1999, and for some time now I've felt the need to express my thoughts on the writing of Luke's character on what people believe is the most controversial film in the franchise and ST in general (alongside TROS).Now as much as I would like to talk about the pros and cons of the sequel trilogy and episode VIII, but I won't. What I will say is that Luke's actions shown in TLJ aren't as out of character as some people say they are.Now, I will start by saying that if I was given the choice of picking both OT/Mandalorian Luke and TLJ Luke I would choose the former, mostly due to the fact that's the version I grew up with. But that doesn't mean I dislike the latter. I won't lie by saying that I didn't hope for a more mature, older, and wiser Jedi master like Obi-Wan and Yoda (or Luke in the EU) in the sequels, but I don't hate what they did with him.Luke's character throughout the entire trilogy when from becoming a immature young adult to becoming something greater (Hero's Journey) and beat his complete opposite on Vader (Path of the Tyrant), and so I get when people say they that Luke's character in TLJ wasn't something OT Luke would do.But they're forgetting a very significant characteristic about Luke................ his impulsiveness.Let's look back to A New Hope, what does Luke do when he finds out the Empire finds out that the Jawas sould R2 and Threepio to his uncle, he goes home without a plan, on a rush, and whith no weapons to defends himself. As Ben said after he came back, the Empire would torture and/or killed him and the droids would've been taken. Later, during his meeting with Han, his impulsiveness comes again when Han questions his pilots kills and tries to leave until Ben decides to stop him. And it comes for one last time when he finds out Leia is in the Death Star, and is only due to Han's (justified) deniability that he calms down a little and thinks of a plan.Onto Empire Stike Back. Granted, Luke doesn't have as many impulsive moments as ANH, but the one that stucks out the most is when he decides to stop his training to go save his friends, knowing there is possibility that he has to fight Vader. Yes, Luke did it so that he could help his friends, but we later find out that Lando had a contigency plan. And in the end what happened? Luke fought Vader and found out who hsi father was and we find out in ROTJ that Luke wasn't ready, which means Yoda (and maybe Ben) would've revealed that infromation when Luke was strong enough.Speaking of Return of the Jedi. While Luke isn't as impulsive as he is in the first two, it does come out in two important parts of the film. 1) When Palpatine taunts Luke, and Luke in order to stop him tries to murder him, again justifieable, but still impulsive. And 2) When Vader threatens on turning Leia to the Dark Side and Luke anger, and impulsiveness makes him almost kills his father and turn to the dark side. Again, is justifieable becomes Luke becomes angry, but he almost played to the Emperor's hand.Now let's get into TLJ, throughtout the film we find out that Kylo tried to kill Luke, and later we find out that on Ren's POV Luke tried to kill him, and we later find out that Luke sensed the Dark Side on Ben, and he out of impulsiveness tried to stop at once, and later saw he was going to do and felt shame, but unfortunately his choice already put things in motion and well, the rest is history.Now I know there is going to be people saying that the same character who tried to bring back Anakin wouldn't kill Ben, but let's remember that the circunstances behind Ben's turning to the Dark Side are very different to Anakin's, but I won't get into that in this post (but perphaps in another I'll talk about this), that's why I believe that anything that Luke thought of trying, and did try, wouldn't have worked the same as Luke tried with his father.In conclusion, Luke's actions in TLJ while questionable, they aren't out of character since it was an impulsive decision, and his impulsiveness goes way back to the Original Trilogy. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/3tds9Gy

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