Spoilers The Skywalker Saga

[Kor]

Yeah, it's like when you're in a big rush in the morning because you don't want to be late, so you're not careful and end up spilling your breakfast on the floor and on your shirt and pants, and then you have to clean up the mess, and you end up late anyway.

Kor

 

[Campe]

Yeah, it's like when you're in a big rush in the morning because you don't want to be late, so you're not careful and end up spilling your breakfast on the floor and on your shirt and pants, and then you have to clean up the mess, and you end up late anyway.

Happen recently?

 

[DigificWriter]

Luke was a rather indecisive wastrel at the beginning. First he dreams of going off to the (presumably Imperial) academy. If he did that and ended up working for the Empire, he probably would have been one of the ones just doing a job. He did make it clear to Ben that he hated the Empire.

Kor

Joining the Imperial Academy was Luke's way off Tatooine, but he wouldn't have actually been loyal to the Empire because his plan was to find Biggs and join the Rebellion.

 

[Kor]

Joining the Imperial Academy was Luke's way off Tatooine, but he wouldn't have actually been loyal to the Empire because his plan was to find Biggs and join the Rebellion.

Only in the deleted scenes, though. Not in the version of the movie that was presented to the public.

Kor

 

[Awesome Possum]

I just realized something that I somehow never realized before, while reading an article on Tor.com comparing elements of Revenge of the Sith and Rise of Skywalker. Anakin spends the whole movie worrying about Padme dying in childbirth, and in the end she does end up dying, because of what he did. So he ended up causing the very thing he was trying to prevent.

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Palpatine put it in his head too.

Joining the Imperial Academy was Luke's way off Tatooine, but he wouldn't have actually been loyal to the Empire because his plan was to find Biggs and join the Rebellion.

The Imperial Academy is basically flight school, everyone goes there to be a pilot. The better ones probably get recruited by the Empire, but some probably end up with a regular job like hauling cargo or travel flights. More than a few run off to the Rebellion too.

Luke thought his father was a navigator on a spice freighter, he probably would have gotten into something similar if he never met so Obi-Wan.

 

[DigificWriter]

In current Canon, Luke was wanting to attend the Imperial Academy solely to follow Biggs into the Rebellion... and this is communicated on-screen when the two characters reunite before the Battle of Yavin.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Only in the deleted scenes, though. Not in the version of the movie that was presented to the public.

Kor

Ah, but in the film, Luke clearly makes his position known when telling Obi-Wan:

"It's not that I like the Empire! I hate it! But there's nothing I can do about it right now."

That, and he willingly joined Obi-Wan, knowing the latter was intending to contact/help the Rebellion.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Back on topic: does anyone else feel that the end scene with Luke and Leia force ghosts should have included Ben and Anakin? To mark the end of the Skywalker saga, it seems appropriate to showcase all those Skywalkers who contributed!

 

[DigificWriter]

^ Ben, yes; Anakin, no.

Anakin is my second-favorite character in all of Star Wars, but there is not a single spot in this movie where having him show up as a Force Ghost would have fit the narrative.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Anakin is my second-favorite character in all of Star Wars, but there is not a single spot in this movie where having him show up as a Force Ghost would have fit the narrative.

I think Anakin would have been 100% appropriate to appear to Kylo, instead of memory-Han (in fact, I was hoping for that since TFA). I get it that the scene showed him choosing a different path, but rehashing this pivotal scene from TFA didn't work. Have Force Ghost Anakin tell him the err of his ways instead. After all, he was the one Kylo looked to as his guide to the Dark Side. It also would play on the "grandfather" theme of the movie (Rey's grandfather: Dark Side, Ben's grandfather: Good Side).

 

[DigificWriter]

Palpatine was the one who turned Ben, and he did so through false voices in Ben's head.

Ben rejoining the Light due to Rey and his biological parents - even in memory - is far more narratively relevant and powerful than a visit from a long-dead grandfather he never knew.

 

[Skywalker]

I do think it would have been nice if Ben's Force ghost had appeared with Luke and Leia's, similar to how Anakin's joined Obi-Wan and Yoda on Endor in ROTJ.