OK CAN WE
JUST TAKE A MINUTE
TO LET ME SCREAM ABOUT
THIS
IN THE NOT TAGS
BECAUSE JUST
THIS SCENE
IS THE DEFINING LUKE
SCENE
OK
JUST LISTEN
LOOK
Ok.
So: This scene comes right after Luke’s brush with the dark in the name of love (his desire to protect Leia) and his realization that what’s in Vader that made him what he is is also in him. A realization that doesn’t shatter Luke, or make him falter, or make him weak, or make him decide once and for all that Yoda and Kenobi were right about the dangers of love and emotion. No, no LUKE FUCKING RAY OF SUNSHINE GIFT THE THE GALAXY SKYWALKER takes this and finds the hope in it, the humanity in it, and he understands that he can’t FIGHT the influence of the dark side, he can only stand up to it and reject it. Reject the bloodshed and hate and vengeance and fear and the implication that he’s doomed to those things, that his father is doomed to those things. LUKE GODDAMN PUREST-LOVE INCARNATE SKYWALKER looks at what he’s done to Vader and why and he answers for it by casting aside his very ability to be tempted to hurt Vader again, to be corrupted by Palpatine. And to protect himself. He makes the most defiant possible gesture, trusting his friends to destroy the Death Star, choosing to live in the light or hell, die in it.
“I am a JEDI.”
thats. the. ultimate. Defiance of the emperor and everything he’s tried to destroy. It’s a proclamation of belief in an idea, in many ways, that implies that nothing can kill good forever.
But is this enough for LUKE ACTUAL ANGEL SKYWALKER? You bet your ass it’s not. Luke doesn’t stop there, choosing to fight and die GOOD, affirming the longevity of the Jedi and the Light, he takes his father with him. He sticks to his guns, his belief in Anakin’s redemption, that his father is still in there, even after he threatened everything Luke loves and Luke himself. LUKE BEAUTIFUL GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKER SKYWALKER drags Anakin with him into the light whether he’s ready for it or not, even after everyone around him has told him it’s impossible:
“Like my father before me.”
And that says everything you could ever need to know about Luke.
So, YEAH, this is IT. This moment is the defining moment of LUKE PERFECTION SKYWALKER’S absolute commitment to all that is good and loving and all belief in such in this world because Luke Skywalker is tHE WALKING EMBODIMENT OF LOVE AND SUNSHINE OK
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STELLAR OUT.
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