I’m not sure it ever sank into me until recently that Luke’s final trial to become a Jedi is to face Darth Vader, and he and everybody else involved all think it will kill him.
“Soon I’ll be dead, and you with me.”
He goes up there not expecting ever to come back. When Yoda and Obi Wan are talking to him about being the last of the Jedi, they really mean LAST last. They’re sending Luke off to clean house on this final problem they couldn’t solve themselves and his consolation prize is posthumous ascension to Jedi knighthood. And the warm glow of having done the right thing in his final moments, I guess.
I wonder what he thinks of that, a few decades later.
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