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ForestLogic posted...

Also "the entire point of Luke's character" is up for debate. You might see it as humble everyman idiot, others see it as "the chosen one".

Then those others are missing the point.

The thing is....Star Wars is really a space western. And with that in mind, you'd expect Han Solo to be the hero of the story, with Luke Skywalker as his pretty boy, wide-eyed idealist sidekick. But A New Hope plays with the audience's expectations a bit in that it's really a space western mixed in a fantasy story. The wide-eyed idealist Luke Skywalker is really the central character here, and Han Solo is his foil.

And absolutely nothing throughout any of the original Star Wars movies would suggest that Luke is the "chosen one". The idea of a "Chosen One" didn't even come about until The Phantom Menace. Luke Skywalker was just an average, run-of-the-mill Force user who was slowly becoming a more capable warrior, but this whole idea that he's the strongest Force user to have ever lived was an idea that was only supported by the EU, which, btw, turned the Force from a mystical, metaphysical concept to the equivalent of Dragonball Z power levels where for a while it became a game of which Jedi/Dark Jedi could pull off the most ridiculous absurd shit.
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