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| Topic | People say TLJ was a betrayal of Luke's character |
| Hinakuluiau 05/30/18 12:52:46 PM #72: | Luke saw that Ben was going to become Kylo and he had a human moment of doubt where he considered saving millions of lives. Then it passed, almost immediately. Luke isn't supposed to be flawless. He had a single moment, that he didn't act on, where he thought, "I could fix this..." Then it passed, and he was ashamed. He didn't actually do anything. He had an emotion, in a moment of seeing basically a future holocaust. I don't see the problem there. And it makes Luke's character better for me. Less infallible, less boring. I guess the big disagreement between fans if igniting the saber counts as willing or not. Someone in here compared it to a gun and cocking the hammer, but I don't see it like that. A lightsaber only has two operations, on/off, and igniting it because he saw a dark future but never going through with it isn't "willing to kill his nephew" in any way for me. --- There are some things where I just bypass critical thinking. - ROD ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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