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Tyranthraxus posted...

Yeah. I mean, when asked to kill Darth Vader in RotJ, Luke tosses his lightsaber and refuses. "I am a Jedi, like my father."

And the minute he threw it away was the minute the last jedi's arc for him became ridiculous.

He overcame this test already. Obi Wan told him vader was irredeemable. Yoda told him that dark side corruption was irreversible. Vader himself repeated over and over that he could not be saved.

And Luke went in, unarmed, and even in the absolute darkest of moments, turned away amd saved him anyway.

This whole "if you could go back and kill Hitler when he was a kid" angle is ridiculous. Because, no. Luke would not. Maybe in EMPIRE he would have. But RotJ was LITERALLY about refusing to take the "quick and easy path, as Vader did." That was the entire point.