• qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    4 days ago

    Turns out being exiled to suck grains of sand for individual molecules of moisture up through your early 20s isn’t as good for the resume as being inducted as a child into the fasttrack program for magic West Point.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      16·
      4 days ago

      …

      why did they fuck luke over? They put Leia in a hereditary monarch position, and him in some desert in the middle of fucking nowhere to farm moisture?

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        9·
        4 days ago

        /uj Wasn’t it implied (also in the obi wan series) that they needed to separate them literally as much as possible? So not just planetary, but also by the very walk of life, and by all reason, they shouldn’t have ever crossed paths, even accidentally. If they were both paupers on different planets and physically passed by each other, they might talk, but by separating them by class, even if they walked by each other, one is literal royalty and the boundary would be immense.

        So that they eventually crossed paths by fate, shows the power and will of the force to bring good people together or some bullshit.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 days ago

          makes sense. that’s great on the part of the fans to come up with decent explanations to plot holes that gape open more than anal acrobats’ prolapsed assholes.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    31·
    4 days ago

    Yeah it turns out cozying up to evil powerful people can advance your personal position more than fighting against them, who knew?

    Say what you will about Luke and accidental incest, but he’s not in the files, I’ll tell you that.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days ago

      Also sibling incest is a lot less often end up in abuse than parent-child incest. Every other argument against incest could be applied to a lot of other kinds of relationships, including the birth defects one.

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 days ago

        you’re ziltoid the omniscient and you can’t see that your statement might be a bit problematic… as in it might cause you problems?

        maybe you need coffee that isn’t fetid.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
    22·
    4 days ago

    By the destruction of the Death Star alone, Luke has a higher kill count than Anakin did at 22, saved the Rebellion, and became a decorated war hero. And Luke did all that in less than a week of getting caught up in events.

    Meanwhile Anakin had been building up to that point for years, and was only a General because all Jedi were Generals. Other than becoming a Jedi, it’s not like he did anything specifically to earn that position.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    5 days ago

    “The Strongest Jedi” definitely isn’t right. At best, he’s evenly matched with Obi-Wan. If you apply stupid “power scaling” rules, then sure, Obi-Wan got ganked by Dooku during their fight while Anakin handily beat him. But at the same time that Dooku pushes Obi-Wan, he easily kicks and downs Anakin who’s behind him; Obi-Wan was just the one he subdued by crushing him, ostensibly seeing him as the greater threat.

    We’ve seen Anakin lose to Obi-Wan at the (inherent) height of his combat prowess, and it was his own fault. Windu and Yoda probably also take Anakin one-on-one. (Windu, of course, was totally defenseless when Anakin severed his arm.)

    If we’re talking about things like the Force, Yoda is clearly much more powerful. There’s an argument Anakin was the most powerful pilot, but that combined with being very Force-sensitive and a very good duelist doesn’t make him “the most powerful” overall. Most potential? If he could keep his emotions under control, probably.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
    271·
    5 days ago

    I know… Somehow, I’ve always known

    Somehow Leia also just knew Luke would be one of those “chill” brothers who lets you kiss them on the lips for a few seconds to make your boyfriend/crush jealous.