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<blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 7305697" data-attributes="member: 6803337"><p>Luke was well-positioned to be in these movies what Yoda was in <em>Empire</em>: the guy who is going to prepare the new hero to do all the hard work.</p><p>The currently-inexplicable implosion of his original training effort (the members seem to have become the Knights of Ren - or dead - instead of Jedi) would have given him also a strong sympathy with ghost-Obi-wan's statement "I thought I could be just as good as Yoda. I was wrong."</p><p></p><p>Luke already has shown that he can come up with clever and subtle plans, for instance getting all his allies - who are being pursued by Darth Vader at the time - into Jabba's palace without alerting Jabba that anything might be wrong. He also came up with a plan to turn Vader instead of fighting him. (Execution of which was more yank-your-chains than pull-his-heartstrings, admittedly.)</p><p></p><p>Luke is tough and determined, too. He makes an instant decision to abandon Tattooine, and sticks with it even when his path is hard - he loses his mentor and has to figure out this Force thing by himself. He gets his hand cut off but is back up like nothing happened within days (yes, miracles of modern medicine, too) - and he is willing to fight again the guy who did it to him. He lets himself get captured by a ruthless and remorseless enemy on the vague notion that One Certain Important Figure will hear of it and personally intervene.</p><p></p><p>It would be reasonable that Luke, after the destruction of his Jedi Academy, would go to ground for a while. Then let the Force draw him to a prospective student, and effectively adopt the Sith Rule of Two. Yoda trained him without drawing Dark Side users down on both of them, so the possibilities for success look better. And, given enough time, Luke could send out a steady trickle of capable Jedi, each of whom can train their own apprentices, &c.</p><p></p><p>In short, Luke should have been working quietly and behind the scenes to set the stage to protect the New Republic he helped found, and towards the First Order's demise - likely in cooperation with Leia's public efforts.</p><p></p><p>I find it VERY hard to accept that the same guy who showed determination and increasing depth of thought through three movies would just decide to give up, crawl into a hole, and pull the entrance down on himself, when something went REALLY wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eltab, post: 7305697, member: 6803337"] Luke was well-positioned to be in these movies what Yoda was in [I]Empire[/I]: the guy who is going to prepare the new hero to do all the hard work. The currently-inexplicable implosion of his original training effort (the members seem to have become the Knights of Ren - or dead - instead of Jedi) would have given him also a strong sympathy with ghost-Obi-wan's statement "I thought I could be just as good as Yoda. I was wrong." Luke already has shown that he can come up with clever and subtle plans, for instance getting all his allies - who are being pursued by Darth Vader at the time - into Jabba's palace without alerting Jabba that anything might be wrong. He also came up with a plan to turn Vader instead of fighting him. (Execution of which was more yank-your-chains than pull-his-heartstrings, admittedly.) Luke is tough and determined, too. He makes an instant decision to abandon Tattooine, and sticks with it even when his path is hard - he loses his mentor and has to figure out this Force thing by himself. He gets his hand cut off but is back up like nothing happened within days (yes, miracles of modern medicine, too) - and he is willing to fight again the guy who did it to him. He lets himself get captured by a ruthless and remorseless enemy on the vague notion that One Certain Important Figure will hear of it and personally intervene. It would be reasonable that Luke, after the destruction of his Jedi Academy, would go to ground for a while. Then let the Force draw him to a prospective student, and effectively adopt the Sith Rule of Two. Yoda trained him without drawing Dark Side users down on both of them, so the possibilities for success look better. And, given enough time, Luke could send out a steady trickle of capable Jedi, each of whom can train their own apprentices, &c. In short, Luke should have been working quietly and behind the scenes to set the stage to protect the New Republic he helped found, and towards the First Order's demise - likely in cooperation with Leia's public efforts. I find it VERY hard to accept that the same guy who showed determination and increasing depth of thought through three movies would just decide to give up, crawl into a hole, and pull the entrance down on himself, when something went REALLY wrong. [/QUOTE]
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