Everyone should put themselves through something really bad now and then do maybe a good idea. If they wanted to do something slightly less horrific they could stick needless in their eyes
Spoilers The Controversial Star Wars Opinion Thread
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Now, now, you guys don't watch pirated stuff...
(btw RetroRecipes put out a 5K AI updated version on Youtube just the other day...)
(btw RetroRecipes put out a 5K AI updated version on Youtube just the other day...)
Now I'm imaging Kirk being pestered by Jar Jar.
"Meesa tinken dere be a vessel at the heart of dees here cloud, boy-os!"
"Kirk-unit, try spinning, that is a good trick."
Luke is an ungrateful little d@@k.
When his aunt and uncle, who were virtually his parents and had loved and protected him all his life, died, his reaction was: "Oh well, too bad. Now I can leave. Where are we going, Ben?" and he gives them no more thought throughout the trilogy and other related works. When Obi-Wan (a stranger he had begun to get to know better in the last hours before arriving at the Death Star?) dies he's all "NOOOOOO BEEEEENNNNN". And he names him at least once in every movie and other apparitions, directly and indirectly.
And let's remember that his uncles had accepted a great risk in adopting him, because they knew very well whose son he was. A psychopathic mass murderer who had the resources of a galactic empire at his disposal.
But did he ever thank them when they were alive or after? Never. For him the only important thing is that he was able to start playing with lightsabers or moving rocks without touching them.
Ungrateful little d@@k.
When his aunt and uncle, who were virtually his parents and had loved and protected him all his life, died, his reaction was: "Oh well, too bad. Now I can leave. Where are we going, Ben?" and he gives them no more thought throughout the trilogy and other related works. When Obi-Wan (a stranger he had begun to get to know better in the last hours before arriving at the Death Star?) dies he's all "NOOOOOO BEEEEENNNNN". And he names him at least once in every movie and other apparitions, directly and indirectly.
And let's remember that his uncles had accepted a great risk in adopting him, because they knew very well whose son he was. A psychopathic mass murderer who had the resources of a galactic empire at his disposal.
But did he ever thank them when they were alive or after? Never. For him the only important thing is that he was able to start playing with lightsabers or moving rocks without touching them.
Ungrateful little d@@k.
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Wow...
If that's the read of scene then I can definitely see the negative interpretation.
Luke has always been considered "whiney" in ANH and really matures in ESB.
Did Owen and Beru know about Anakin turning into Vader? It doesn't seem like something Obi-Wan would reveal. At most it'd seem he'd keep with the story that Anakin was a passionate and headstrong Jedi Knight who got killed by Vader. That feels lke enough reason for Owen to not want Luke anywhere near the Jedi.
Fair point but can you point out all the parts of the original trilogy where Leia mourned for Alderaan and her adopted parents and presumably a whole heap of friends/family etc? She's horrified when the planet is destroyed and then...nothing.
1) As Stalin (perhaps) said "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
2) Maybe she was grieving at a time when we didn't see her. On the other hand, in "New Hope" we were practically with Luke until the end and we never saw him who shed a tear for his adoptive parents but was very sad for the passing of his dearest friend and mentor Obi -Wan who teached him the way of the Jedi for, I don't know, 40 minutes before he was killed by Darth Vader.
3) At that point Leia was practically one of the most important figures in the Rebellion. She had to keep a stolid and courageous face even if she was perhaps dying inside from the incredible tragedy.
I love the grace given to Leia. Too bad Luke doesn't get the same treatment.
Mark Hamill wasn't exactly the best actor back then and, to me, Luke was simply manifesting that he was a kid who had lost everything and accepting Ben's offer was a way to get away from (a cope with) something pretty terrible.
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He had to move forward. How else could he?
Except for TROS.
My controversial opinion? Thrift stores are great. All the biggest heroes shop there. 
I keep thinking I should add my controversial (or, at least, rare) Star Wars opinion, and this is as good a place as any: Solely in the context of the original trilogy, discounting what was in deleted scenes, novelizations, and the prequel movies, it makes a lot more sense if Beru was Anakin's sister rather than Owen being Anakin's step-brother or, more improbably, Obi-Wan's brother. It explains why Luke has a different last name, and fits with Beru having fond memories of Anakin and Owen's being less warm ("He's got too much of his father in him." "That's what I'm afraid of.") regardless of whether or not they know any specifics beyond, "Anakin left the farm for space-adventure and never came home leaving behind an orphaned son."
I need to find a time machine so I can propose a "Certain Point of View" short story for ANH showing Leia's reaction to Alderaan's destruction as a pastiche of the scene in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur Dent is mentally trying out different contexts and frameworks to so he can make the immense tragedy of the obliteration of Earth comprehensible emotionally. And now I need a second time machine to go back to High School and instead write my senior thesis on the use of relative scale in Hitchhiker's, which I just realized is the entire thematic through-line for the novel, from the very first line. I aced it the first time, but this idea is much better than the one I used in reality.
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