anakin skywalker – just moving along like everyone else

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#star wars #Luke Skywalker #Okay but look at the parallel with Anakin #how he listened to the jedi and ignored the visions and Shmi died and he made the worst decisions all through the Padme thing #and here we have Luke #all ‘nah something is wrong and I’m gonna check it out’#the funny thing is they were both told to ignore a sign of the force by a trained mentor figure #and it’s the one who was a ‘bad’ student and ignored the teacher who went and saved the galaxy

#bc said ‘bad student’ was raised in an environment where he was allowed to grow into his own person #before getting mixed up in all that Jedi tomfoolery
#but anyway: just for a second #i want to touch on how interesting it is to me that TECHNICALLY SPEAKING #Luke IS the bad student #he throws away almost every piece of advice Yoda and Obi-Wan give him #and in the process saves the day #and yet; fandom doesn’t treat him that way #and they don’t treat his mentors as bad mentors: even though Luke is only able to save the galaxy by NOT listening to them
#Luke is still seen as ‘the Good One’ in comparison to Anakin #WHICH HE IS; MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THAT #but
when it comes down to: who made a bigger effort to mold themselves into
the person Yoda and Obi-Wan thought a Jedi should be #the answer is unquestionably Anakin ‘yes Master. I try Master. I’m sorry Master. Obi-Wan’s going to kill me. #No I can’t go save Obi-Wan from Geonosis bc the Council Told Me Not To #Skywalker #who wasn’t necessarily the Good student #but oh boy did he try to be #and that was his undoing #anyway: I just thought this was an interesting comparison #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker

Reblogging for @flaminganakin‘s brilliant tags. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Anakin’s fatal flaw wasn’t his anger or his pride or his love for Padme. It was his deference. Luke is a good man because he refuses to compromise his morality just because some one else told him his should. Anakin fails as a good man specifically because he repeatedly compromises on things he knows are wrong. He gives in to his mother and Qui-Gon’s urging to leave Tatooine. He gives in to Obi-Wan’s orders to forget his dreams and his mother. He gives in over and over and over during the Clone Wars until, by the time of RotS, he no longer even knows how to listen to his own moral compass. As Vader, he is exactly the man the Jedi told him to be: unquestioningly obedient to authority with no attachments except the Force.

Luke is the exact opposite. He rejects the teachers of his ‘wise masters’ and insists, outright and without shame, on doing things his way. And he succeeds where they failed. Not by being a good solider (good soldiers fallow orders), but by being a good man.

“Anakin’s fatal flaw wasn’t his anger or his pride or his love for Padme. It was his deference.”

Funny how it’s Luke’s attachment and love for his friends (and later his love for his father, though he was corrupted) that saved the day. And funny how it’s Anakin’s continual sacrifice of those attachments (his mother, his wife) that leads him to complete mental instability.

This is from Dead Poets Society: “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” The Jedi are so wrapped up in their notions of spiritual purity that they become completely dissociated from their own morality, and they see the Force as an end unto itself, rather than a force (hah) for good.

Example 1: slavery’s still a thing in the Republic? Even though it’s illegal? Should we do something about that? … Nah, better to not get involved. What the fuck?

The Jedi think they’ve figured out the meaning of life, but they’ve completely neglected the purpose. Spiritual excellence becomes divorced from moral excellence in a way that is completely arbitrary and therefore inherently unstable.

this is all to say, FUCK YOU YODA

i think we’re about to see this moral borne out with the third trilogy. rey is going to be like “hey teach, show me how to hit things. no, i’ll decide what to hit, thanks.” the jedi way is irrelevant; her own conscience will be her guide.

scrappy desert kid versus jedi philosophy, three ways.