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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Luke was never on any kind of brand new level, force-wise, in the original trilogy. He was a competent force user and decent with a lightsaber, but that was always the extent of it. If Vader had been fighting seriously the whole time in RotJ, he almost certainly would have bodied Luke.

Then, Luke stood up to the Emperor only to immediately get clowned onto the floor by force lightning. It was like he took a chair to the back of the head, WWE style, and had absolutely no chance of recovering. He was toast. He didn't win the day by being stronger than Vader OR Palpatine...he won by expressing love for his father and refusing to surrender to the dark side. Which turned Anakin back to the light, thus enabling Anakin to be the one who hucked the Emperor down a reactor tube.

Luke basically did nothing but get his ass kicked by Vader and Palpatine, except for the brief moment when he nearly succumbed to the dark side in a fit of rage. The whole "Luke is the most powerful Jedi" thing just doesn't add up outside of the EU novels.

Exactly.

Even in "The Last Jedi", they make Luke look like a fool by doing an unnecessary action and dying for it.

It's like, seriously, you couldn't be bothered to hop in your X-wing and go save your family and friends?

You had to wait for so long that you remote in via Force Projection "Across a Galaxy" and do a unnecessarilly strenuous action that took your own life?

It would've been FAR less strenuous to Force Project from the other side of the mountain.