LogFAQs > #973349947

DarkBuster22904 posted...

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.

And there's something else really cool about this in the PT.

In RotS, there, Anakin has taken Palpatine into custody. They are stopped by Mace Windu who immediately tries to cut him down. Anakin even says at that point "This is not the Jedi Way" and instead Windu just doubles down insisting he's too powerful to live.

Later on, Vader is now the one being pinned down, and Luke is in Windu's position, but unlike Windu, Luke ends up making the correct Jedi choice, even at risk of death.

In headcanon retcon, this is the moment that gave Vader a reason to believe in the Jedi again.