gffa: HEY, GUESS WHO’S HAVING LUKE SKYWALKER FEELINGS?  ME, THAT’S WHO.Sometimes it

gffa:HEY, GUESS WHO’S HAVING LUKE SKYWALKER FEELINGS?  ME, THAT’S WHO.Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much Luke really did struggle with everything, because we get so used to how there’s such goodness in his heart and how much he cares, how iconic it was that he threw away his lightsaber rather than kill his father.It’s easy to forget that everything wasn’t easy for Luke himself.  He struggled with his restlessness and recklessness, he was angry and letting his frustrations eat into him on Dagobah, he rushed off to Cloud City before he was fully ready and basically was ready to almost commit suicide because he couldn’t handle the truth he learned.  He’d come so far, he was learning to control his fear, so much so that even Vader remarks on it (but can clearly still feel it), but when it’s dealt a real blow, he can’t handle it.Even in Return of the Jedi, it wasn’t an automatic thing for him to throw away his weapon–first he was FURIOUS, his anger and his hate were absolutely roiling inside him and he was going to town on Vader:The Emperor’s taunting him, using his friends against him, they wouldn’t have any place or meaning in the story if they weren’t something Luke had to overcome.  The most iconic moment in Star Wars, when Luke throws away his lightsaber, after Sidious taunts him and tells him to take his father’s place, and says, “Never.  I’ll never turn to the dark side.  You’ve failed, your highness.  I am a Jedi.  Like my father before me.”All of that doesn’t have the same importance if Luke didn’t struggle to get there.This is why I came around on The Last Jedi, because this is something Luke has always struggled with, that he feels responsible for others, he feels their deaths on his hands, even when he’s not actually responsible for them.  He retreats when he feels like all he’s going to do is get more people killed, he struggles with getting lost in those feelings.And that’s why Return of the Jedi’s iconic moment is so iconic.  Because he had to work to get there, because it was the culmination of so much struggling with his feelings, to triumph over them.And this is why I really love this moment in the comic, because it continues that in a way that fits perfectly with Luke’s character.  Vader kills all those slaves he was trying to help rescue, because Luke feels he’s not good enough yet.  Leia is so gung-ho in this moment, we’ve seen her just come off a scene where Ackbar and Mon are telling her that they cannot keep going full steam, they don’t have the resources or the reserves, even Leia’s team is already fraying at the edges.She’s pushing herself and her team so hard, of course she is, she just lost Alderaan and she’s so angry, and they struck a blow, she can finally start to destroy the thing that took her entire world!  There’s so much going on with her, she’s so driven and then she goes to talk to Luke, hoping to find someone as driven and on fire as she is, but he can’t do this, he’s struggling and he can’t do it.  He can’t even avoid the droid remote’s stinging shots!  He’s certainly no Jedi, he just got his ass handed to him by Vader, there’s no way he can stand up to him again.All of this on top of how everyone he knows and was counting on was dead because of Vader and the Empire.  Luke cannot handle another death, when his world was already ripped away from him twice.Luke and Leia both lost their entire worlds and are struggling with trying to find a purpose in going on.  It’s so fascinating that it’s these two who seek each other out and are being contrasted against each other.  Yes, they’re twins, but it’s more than that.  It’s about how they both lost everything and everyone they knew and how they react to that.  How they try to light the fire inside them.  How they’re different–how Luke has nearly blown out, while Leia’s fire rages all the hotter.AND ALL OF THAT MAKES FOR A REALLY GOOD SCENE IN THIS COMIC. -- source link

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