#unless Favreau remembers to write Luke's streak of fire and defiance in for the next episodes

[psalmsofpsychosis]

So.

Before i get into it, i'd like to clarify that any and all points of view expressed here are strictly my own and i in no way am speaking for anyone else's perceptions of star wars characters, nor do i intend to render other people's interpretations as wrong or somehow less valid.

With that said, here is the way i see it: Luke Skywalker in tbobf episode 6 is extremely out of character and inauthentic to the portrayal of his narrative in the original trilogy.

Over the years the creators of Star Wars have had a persisting obsession with making Luke Skywalker in the image of Yoda as a misguided attempt to honor the "Humble Student Grows To Become As Good As His Master" archetype. This is the reason Luke's character in the sequel trilogy grew to become despicable: he's a flat mirror of Yoda as a teacher.  Episode 6 Luke Skywalker almost repeats Yoda's teachings word by word, his entire mannerism is based on Yoda and his supposed wisdom.

The point that these creators consistently miss is, the focal narrative core in the original trilogy revolves around Luke triumphing against evil and hatred and ending the cycle of violence because he is not Yoda and does not do as Yoda would. In fact, he's almost the exact opposite point of Yoda in mentality. Where Yoda was foresight and intellectuality, Luke Skywalker is action and practicality. Where Yoda was the image of calm, levelheadedness and impersonal judgement, Luke Skywalker is hot-tempered, passionate and in favor of subjective, self-driven decisions. He literally saved his father because he said yes when everyone else said no and he said kindness when everyone else said a hand for a hand.

Luke Skywalker comes like his father before him; he's inherently sentimental and idealistic and compassionate and driven by the righteousness of his own whims, and he's by design a stark contrast to the Jedi doctrine like his father was. He is unruly and thickheaded like Anakin Skywalker was and the only thing that sets Luke apart from Anakin is the fact that he used his gift of internal self-inspired guidance to be good, while Anakin was completely handicapped and suffocated by the fear and trauma that haunted his thoughts.

You literally cannot throw a piece of "you're so much like your father" dialogue at me when i look at episode 6 Luke and all i see is a tempered, detached, controlled and theorically methodical jedi. There's nothing of Anakin Skywalker's brand of fiery rebelion in this cardboard man, i simply cannot believe that the character standing here leading by the rules he literally broke in the mandalorian season 2 finale is Luke Skywalker.

Because Luke Skywalker would not make Grogu choose between being a jedi or being loved by a parent. He would not build an unbreakable wall between love and power where you get one and lose the other. Luke Skywalker, the man who didn't choose between the love of his sister and the teachings of his saber, the man who kept both the love of his father and the power of the force, would not think for a second to make grogu pick one over the other.

And he certainly would not mop around and ask for a third opinion on it. He didn't ask for a third person's opinion when he declared he's going to save vader, and he's not going to start now.