Posted on 04/13/2019 6:26:17 AM PDT by C19fan
The greatest moment of Star Wars Celebration 2019 so far
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They are pretending TLJ, and ROTJ didn’t happen? I guess that was the best option they had. Palpatine dies, Vader redeems himself, end of character arc.
Going 100% fan service.
He’s a Sith... he knows how to come back from the dead. But apparently it took him some time to pull that off.
Disney still making Star Wars movies? I thought their social justice warriors killed the franchise.
In the otherwise crappy prequels, palpatine did tell young anakin skywalker that together they can discover how to cheat death. I always though that his presence was still alive kinda like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings. Still Disney destroyed the SW franchise with crappy story lines that don’t make sense with canon SW knowledge and they have a lust of killing off all of the favorite characters as soon as possible. I can’t understand how Rey hasn’t been taught by anyone even Luke (he really didn’t) and can do advance JEDI moves
That was a used car salesman pitch to convert Anakin to the dark side.
I’d hate to defend any aspects of the Disney Star Wars movies, but Luke wasn’t exactly trained in a lot of combat techniques himself. He was mostly taught A) What the force was, B) Basic Jedi Philosophy, C) A few trivial excercises D) How to resist the dark side, and most importantly E) How to get over his own mental hangups using the force (you’re not gonna do what you believe is impossible). Heck the biggest lesson that Luke received, wasn’t learning, but “unlearning” what he had already learned.
The prequels really instilled in a lot of this idea that Jedi training was this long drawn out affair that took decades, but that didn’t really exist in the original films. I always got the impression most of that training centered around training people to resist temptation and the history/philosophy of the order. Most of the training was indoctrination, Luke himself skipped all that.
Here’s a real world training scenario from my own life that kind of mirrors Luke’s training in the Star Wars movies. My dad taught my brother and I skeet shooting. It basically amounted to teaching us how to stand and hold a shotgun, to lead our targets, basic rules of the sport. That’s it. My brother immediately took to it like a fish to water with what I found, as a kid, to be unnerving accuracy. I had a harder time at first, mostly, I hesitated to shoot; not shooting at all at most of the targets, and missing the few I dad shoot at. The entire issue was that I saw my brother shoot first and I didn’t like my brother doing anything better than I could, but he was so naturally good at it, I didn’t think I could be better. So I hesitated, trying to make sure I didn’t miss anything I shot at (and not shooting at all much of the time). A couple weekends went by, where my brother was shooting a lot of targets, and I wasn’t, but then something changed... I’d like to say that this is the part where my dad stepped in and taught me about confidence and not hesitating, but that’s not what happened. The truth is, I missed or failed to shoot enough times, that I decided that I was nowhere near as good as my brother and that I might as well stop worrying about missing anything (because not shooting at all is boring). The moment I stopped worrying about missing, is the moment when I started hitting targets; literally all of them. It turned about I was a better shot than my brother. He was hitting 90% of his targets, but I was hitting them all. Perfect round after perfect round. Not long after the game wardens were coming out to the property to see what the hell all the gunfire about. People must have been reporting because the shooting was near constant on the weekends. He ended up watching us shoot for hours, and then coming out every weekend between that time and hunting season watching us shoot. This went on for 2 or 3 years; it looked like I was destined for the Olympics, but then my parents got divorced, I lived with my mother, and other than a couple occasions, I didn’t really shoot skeet again for about 15 years.
“Let the Skeet flow through you, Lurk.”
Palpatine should have ended Luke a long time ago and finished this bloody series...
Although it wasn’t depicted deeply in The Empire Strikes Back...Luke was trained by Yoda. We don’t know how long and even when he fought Vader soon afterward the first time he wasn’t a Jedi yet according to Vader . Remember that Rey picked up a lightsaber and fought Kylo almost like a expert. She wasn’t trained by Luke not one bit saved for looking into her dreams and visions
There are so many evil characters from Star Wars books they could use in subsequent Star Wars films—why resurrect the dead?
Grand Admiral Thrawn, for example, from the Timothy Zane books, or Mara Jade, or thousands more...
I'd agree with most of that up until the last statement, that the originals didn't consider the training a long, drawn out affair. First, Yoda did not want to train Luke, as he said he was too old to begin the training. This implies it will take years. Then he asks Luke if he will finish the training if he starts, and Luke says yes. That wouldn't have been an issue if the training was a short period of time. (And Luke doesn't finish, he leaves the first time he detects his friends are in danger.)
When he does leave to help his friends, he winds up in a light saber duel with Darth Vader. If you watch the duel closely, you'll find Vader was just toying with him almost the entire time. Vader only got serious at the end because Luke landed a lucky strike on his shoulder, so Vader almost instantly took his hand off in return.
Then before the events of Return of the Jedi, Luke does go back to Yoda and gets more training for some period of months or a year. Then he leaves when Yoda dies, his training still incomplete.
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