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Post #1493112

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yotsuya
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The Kenobi Movie Show (Spoilers)
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5-Jul-2022, 2:08 PM

Servii said:

And his first lesson with Kenobi was to act on instinct.

“Luke, this challenge with the training remote may seem silly, but there may come a time when you feel the need to sneak into your nephew’s room while he’s sleeping, probe his mind, and draw your laser sword over his unconscious body. And this will help prepare you for that.”

The whole chain of events surrounding the destruction of Luke’s temple is nonsensical. “Oh, my uncle apparently just tried to kill me, so I’m gonna proceed to murder all my friends.” Then, Luke just blames the Jedi as a whole for his mistake and screws off. He doesn’t contact Han or Leia. He doesn’t frantically go after Ben to try to right the situation. He just leaves to go die.

I fail to see how character regression is “epic.” And despite having different protagonists, these movies are still sequels to the OT, and meant to tell a continuing story. Whatever creative choices they make with the characters in the sequels will retroactively affect the original stories. TLJ solidifies that Luke was always just a loser on the inside who briefly became a strong jedi before returning back to his “true” whiny self.

Edit: It’d probably be best if we returned to talking about the show.

This relates to the show because Luke does the same thing in the ST that Kenobi and Yoda do between the PT and OT.

And I see how you are misreading what Luke did. You are jumping from Kylo Ren leveling the new Jedi Temple to Luke on Ach-to. He didn’t go straight there. He went on a quest for an explanation. He had to find Ach-to before he could go there. And his quest led him to the conclusion that he had followed the Republic era Jedi in a failed method of training.

Also, look at Anakin. There he was, fighting the Clone War, serving the Jedi, on the council, and then he uncovers that Palpatine is a Sith and shares it and then suddenly he turns and goes to Palpatine in order to save him. the next thing he is destroying the Jedi including the younglings. So Anakin’s fall to the dark side has a long build up and a very sudden fall. Ben’s fall is similar. He had Snoke influencing him for years and then Luke ignites his light saber and Ben lets loose and becomes Kylo Ren and destroys his fellow students. So the parallels of an abrupt turn and suddenly killing those he was just days before allied with lines up. And with Palpatine behind both, it makes sense that they are so parallel. Just with Anakin you have the need to save Padme and the weakness of his attachments and with Ben you have a troubled youth sent to his uncle for training so in him you have an even more precarious balance. Everything is there is the films. You don’t have to look elsewhere or make up theories. The data is there if you just look for it.

I think the choices made in TLJ and TROS really tie back to the PT and create that poetry Lucas likes and creates a truly epic end to this very mythic saga. I think all the side stories we are getting just fill more in the blank areas. Even seemingly distant stories are linking back to the main saga story. Kenobi gives us the parallel to Luke and how Kenobi overcame the state he was in at the end of ROTS. To me it is epic and in keeping with the mythic heroes journey (including when the old hero passes off to the new hero).