I never understood why so many people like this character because of “how powerful he was” in a couple of books. The best thing about this character was that he was just a normal dude (sometimes even a pussy) that was able to do the impossible due to his embrace of love. He saved one of the most evil characters of all time not by being physically strong or powerful with the Force but because he was kind and loving and a son to a father.
Luke Skywalker
Ethan Davis
Austin Long
>I never understood why so many people like this character because of “how powerful he was” in a couple of books.
because they are dumb nerds and this was something of a novelty at the time, before we had GER and Demonbane and Powerman and what have you. simpler days
Samuel Parker
Nevermind
Joseph Ross
you're right. the original star wars oozed golden age christian americana.
Tyler Harris
Who are you quoting?
Alexander Reed
People love him because of the movies, not the EU. However, he was never an ordinary dude, to say so is disingenuous. He was the son a great Jedi Knight. It's made clear that farm life is not for him and that he's destined for greater things pretty much at the start of ANH. What makes him a good and likeable character is that we see him grow from a whiny kid to a wise and powerful Jedi Master throughout the 3 movies.
People wanted him to be a powerful wise Jedi Master in his elder years like Yoda and Obi-Wan because that was a natural progression for the character.
Hunter Foster
is my eyes playing tricks on me or can you see Luke’s cock and balls there?
Landon Perry
People who seemed to have all their love on the character from books where he became God Chad Skywalker, which seemed to take away from everything that the character was meant to be.
Yes, I think so.
Nicholas Morris
Luke was great because he was relatable, rational through the whole trilogy, and had some amazing powers that were fantastic yet mundane at the same time. He never lifted more than a few rocks, jumped 15 feet, mind controlled weak willed fools, or deflected blaster fire from more than 3 people at once (while having to concentrate and stand stone still) but all that made him feel more extraordinary than all the modern interpretations of Jedis as literal super heroes. He was always in danger, whether it was a lowly storm trooper on a speeder bike or a rancor, he never felt greater than human. And at the end of his journey, it wasn't super powers that saved him, or lightsabers, or what have you-it was just selfless love. He forgave his father and shed his hate and any lust for power or revenge and truly ascended and became something great.
That's why people loved Luke, and why there will never be another universally beloved character like him. Because he wasn't a super human. He was just human.
Ryan Harris
I loved Luke because it was me.
>stuck in a small town.
>wanting to be more.
>wanting to be a bit better than I could be.
>the space race and the air force were big in culture and he was a pilot.
>he cared about shit but wasn't a fanatic.
All the sword swinging was secondary
Feelsbadman.
Thomas Bennett
Being a tranny loving black cock sucking zoomer sure must suck
Gabriel Lewis
based
Grayson Cox
Honestly, considering the prequels and the masterful deconstruction of the Jedi in Kotor II, Luke became what he should have become in The Last Jedi; he had little training, and considering what we saw in prequels, and the insane nature of the force in Star Wars media, he never stood a chance at being a competent or true Jedi Master. The force produces force users and conflicts that would eat Luke for breakfast. Luke never stood a chance and became what he was destined to become; a scared old man.
Jaxson Allen
>stuck in a small town.
>wanting to be more.
>wanting to be a bit better than I could be.
This sounds like something that should have been a Disney song.
Noah Baker
I didn’t really mind this being the outcome for the character in theory but it didn’t feel befitting of Star Wars.
Samuel Sanchez
It's true bros. As a little boy I'd watch the sunset scene and it called to me. I watched it on beta recorded off of HBO until it was worn out and looked like all that shitty filtered vaporwave static nostalgia shit.
A new hope gave me optimism about life. About work. About school. About everything.
It was mostly bullshit but yeah. I dislike Lucas for a lot of things but I'm glad he's a romantic at heart.
Evan Foster
Jaxson Davis
>missing the point this badly
The old Jedi were arrogant and stagnant. Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Mace talk about it in AotC. Part of the reason the Sith defeat them is that they have changed and evolved, while the Jedi have not. The entire idea with Luke is that he'll re-create the Jedi as something new. The EU understood this.
>"Not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. The first of the new."
Sebastian Brown
If you didn't spend countless hours playing outside with a branch as your lightsaber and pretending you were luke then you really missed out
Nolan Cooper
Luke's costume in Jedi was hella rad
Charles Nelson
For me, it’s the Bespin Fatigues.
Robert Morgan
Ya that one's pretty rad too but nothing tops the solid black with a mandarin collar
It always bugged me that Luke never wore two gloves
I get it, muh symbolism, but why would he only wear one
Did he just throw all the gloves for his left hand away
Hudson Cox
I don't think Lucas planned it all the way back in the OT but what you said was already kinda hinted at from ESB. Luke was never going to be the Jedi 'chosen one' hero the old Jedi thought he would be, and every time Yoda and Obi-Wan tried to push Luke towards the PT-era of Jedi mentality (being detached from your loved ones and doing everything for the 'greater good' regardless of your own feelings and personal morality), Luke walked away. He saved Anakin by literally refusing his masters' advice.
Luke in the OT proves that love can coexist with the Jedi mindset and that the old harsh Jedi training was what left Anakin vulnerable to the dark side. Luke was Anakin gone right.
Charles Williams
Luke’s outfits are pretty kino. Going from pure white, to brown, to black as his character explores darker aspects. Only for it to reveal that it is white underneath the black.
In saying that though, the version with the tunic he wears most of the movie is fucking ugly. It is qt once he goes to the Death Star and drops it.
Samuel Jackson
Yeah, it's hard to avoid all the constant conversations people have about how they love Luke because of how powerful he was in some nerdy as fuck books like that like a total of 10,000 people read.
Elijah Garcia
>Claims I miss the point.
Luke is in a universe where the force allows darkside users like Revan, Kreia and Palpatine to emerge, and reemerge, with machiavellian traits that easily dominate minds and create empires quicker than Luke can keep up to fight them. Plot armor and a less developed universe protected Luke in the EU, and the newer content eats him up, because the newer content reveals Luke hadn't experienced the *big leagues* that are crazily complex for one lightside user to contain. The logical fate for Luke is a difficult existance, and for a while now, it has become clear that the Jedi ways are not the answer at all. They can't be the foundation for Luke to be successful in this universe's current fleshed out state. It turns out it is natural for a Obi-wan, Qui-Gon Jinn, and a Luke to struggle, die or sacrifice themselves. You missed the point, that has been obvious for a while.
Lincoln Butler
Dumbest comment I read all night. Does disney pay you well?
Aaron Walker
>hating the glove
It was cool af, I took off my left glove sometimes to larp as Luke. It got really bad on winters after I got my leather gloves tho lmao
Adam Butler
i didn't even notice luke when i watched these as a kid (the only time you should watch them). as far as i'm concerned he's han solo's cousin or something. little side kick hangin around
Carter Jackson
I like how his sister was 19 with a couple of Phds, and he, at the same age, was playing with a model spaceship in his parent's basement.
Carter Edwards
>Luke is in a universe where the force allows darkside users like Revan, Kreia
No, he isn't, you dumb zoomer. Those characters don't exist in the movies and they don't matter because they're from your stupid, shitty video games. Go back to Yea Forums and pay attention the next time you watch a 40-year old film instead of trying to co-opt cherry-picked plot beats for a head canon derived from vidya written by a homosexual schizo no one likes to work with.
Chase Ramirez
Luke was pretty Chad when it came down to it. Ace Pilot, Revolutionary, War Hero, Jedi Master. And he mostly got there though his own efforts. I don't know about any of the books but making him God mode Gary Stu would be missing the point of the character. He's a good person and great Jedi but he's still human. I actually liked his arc in Last Jedi, for what it's worth.
Lucas Powell
By the gods I remember begging my best friend's mom to buy this action figure at blockbuster.
Ryan Price
Everytime I see Luke in that outfit all I can think of is how he’s gonna lose his poor fap hand. :(
Owen Edwards
his haircut was a fucking mess, jesus
Hunter Perez
>Disney is literally attempting to make movies based on The Knights of the Old Republic game and completely rejected Luke's future from the books.
Your pathetic bubble that you think makes you right is pitiful.
Charles Perry
>Disney is literally adapting recycled EU content 1:1 and has no intention of simply cashing in on recognizable product name to make new product with female lead for politicized profit from trannies and soiboi (((journalists)))
you're fucking up everything but your spelling and grammar. lmk how you like your female/minority lead that has to go find macguffin to stop white dude that wears all black, because you're not getting kreia sitting down with the protagonist to talk about moral ambiguity for 20 minutes 4 times in a 150-minute runtime blockbuster released at christmas. you're getting more cgi schlock and quips
this isn't the pretentious "every story i write is the same thing" avellone industry. it's modern film industry and if you don't know how it works by now, you should end your vacation early and go back to Yea Forums
Andrew James
They say the force is female. I wonder if one day they will personify it in Episode 12? It could happen, you know, and worse will probably come. Rey will probably end up being the force master everyone dreamed Luke would be, lol. Life sure is funny.
Ryder Perry
Dude he blew up the Death Star in EpIV.
Jackson Young
Well said user.
Alexander Campbell
That's just EU shit, you dumb fuck. In the Lucas version the Sith were destroyed forever with the deaths of Sidious and Vader.