#anakin's return

[bisexualvader]

[spiderbae2319]

We don’t talk about Leia killing Jabba enough. Her grandmother and father were born into slavery. Her blood was that of the desert sand and the shackles of bondage. Leia was never more a Skywalker than the day she strangled her slave master with the very chains he used to bind her. The daughter of Anakin Skywalker was the one who killed Tatooine’s most notorious slaver, and I find that really beautiful.

[darth-memes]

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983/2004) Ahsoka - Part Eight: The Jedi, The Witch, and The Warlord (2023)

[hmura-hmara]

“You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister…you were right.”

[starwarsfilms]

Return of the Jedi (1983) // Ahsoka (2023)

[gcballet]

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(I think of the Jedi every time I see this long textpost circulate)

[bibxrbie]

"Luke Skywalker isn’t like the old Jedi. He saves Vader with his attachments!”

Wrong!

Luke Skywalker, at the end of Return of the Jedi, after his confrontation with the Emperor drags Darth Vader through the destructing Death Star. He’s desperate, knuckles white under the heavy weight of his father’s body, a little boy dragging his dad to safety. He sets Vader down for a moment, to catch his breath or maybe to get a better grip. He goes to grab Vader again, but Vader, uncomfortable and in pain, asks Luke to take off the mask. He wants to see Luke through his eyes instead of the eyes Palpatine built for him. Luke refuses, says that removing the mask is a sure way for Vader to die. Luke doesn’t want Vader dead, he wants Vader alive. Not to hold him accountable for his many evil acts, but for the same reason why Luke Skywalker can’t kill Darth Vader; Vader is his father and Luke loves him.

And yet, after a moment, Luke removes Vader’s mask. He doesn’t want to, he hesitates, but he removes the mask with enough slowness to allow Vader to take it back. In that moment, Luke sets aside his desire for Vader in his life, sets aside his desire to see him live, and sets aside his entire mission, the reason he was even on the Death Star in the place. In his compassion for his father, Luke stays with Vader until he dies. It is this moment where we see him be the best damn Jedi he can be. I’d even argue that this moment is the greatest example of non-attached love we see. Because Luke lets Vader go! He lets his father die, and in some ways, by removing the mask, he too kills Vader, he stays with him until his last moment, gives him the kindness of granting his last wish and finally chooses Vader.

And Luke doesn’t have to do this. If Luke Skywalker’s love for his father was an attachment, he would ignore Vader and continue dragging him to the escape pod, put his desire for a father as his central focus and ignore Vader’s wants and discomfort. Maybe he would even save him. But he doesn’t. Instead, he watches as Vader dies.

He builds a Jedi burial for his father and watches it burn the remnants of Vader and Anakin Skywalker away. He mourns Vader, he mourns what they could’ve had as father and son, considers what ifs and maybe-if-I-did-this. Vader/ Anakin is released from his mortal body, from his ‘crude matter’ and Luke lets him go. He says one final goodbye to Anakin. Then, he joins Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, and the rest of the Rebels and celebrates their victory. He lives in the present and celebrates what he has instead of what he lost.

Luke Skywalker is THE Jedi. Everything about Luke Skywalker serves as the foundational cornerstone of the Jedi, everything about the Jedi as a culture and philosophy is reflected in his character. Luke’s desire for the New Jedi Order isn’t to throw away the values of the old Order, but to vitalise them, breathe life back into dying lungs, and rebuild a path that people set out on their way to destroy. (Yes, his Order is different from the Old, but that’s because it has to be. He doesn’t have the resources or the safety of the Old Order.) The philosophies of the Jedi are difficult and they aren’t for everyone, and like the perfect Jedi that Luke is, he struggles and stumbles and sometimes he even rejects it. But, no matter how far he falls, it is a way of life he chooses again and again and again. It is a way of life that welcomes him back each time

[faivsz]

i am a jedi, like my father before me

[darthvaders]

Which is to get rid of the Siths and bring balance to the Force.

[mmelolabelle]

➡️incorrect star wars

[softlightsaber]

father’s daughter

[tatooineknights]

"I've accepted the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father. It is the name of your true self, you've only forgotten," Luke replied. "I know there is good in you."

[guadalajarawontdonow]

"now... go, my son. leave me."

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN as ANAKIN SKYWALKER/DARTH VADER in STAR WARS

First appearance in: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983/2004) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022) Ahsoka (2023)

[padmestrilogy]

padme's prophecy

the phantom menace script (george lucas) / attack of the clones script third draft (george lucas) / anne carson / revenge of the sith script (george lucas) / return of the jedi script (george lucas & lawrence kasdan) / hanif abdurraqib