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MARK HAMILL AS LUKE SKYWALKER Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), dir. George Lucas

He’s my brother.

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back dir. Irvin Kershner | 1980

@SWSOURCE STAR WARS WEEK Day 4: Favourite quote LUKE SKYWALKER IN RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

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The legend of Luke Skywalker

Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

MARK HAMILL as Luke Skywalker Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), dir. George Lucas

Return of the Jedi (1983) | dir. Richard Marquand

Mark Hamill in Eight is Enough

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MARK HAMILL

Behind the scenes of 'Empire Strikes Back' (1980)

STAR WARS: EPISODE VI – RETURN OF THE JEDI dir. Richard Marquand (1983)

OBI-WAN KENOBI | REVENGE OF THE SITH LUKE SKYWALKER | RETURN OF THE JEDI

Don’t mind me, just watching GIFs of Luke throwing away his lightsaber in ROTJ and reclaiming himself as a Jedi “like my father before me” and thinking about all the things that led him there and all the people who contributed to Luke making that decision. Yes, that decision was incredibly personal and speaks to how Luke has grown throughout the OT, and at the same time Luke himself would likely acknowledge that moment wouldn’t have been possible without everyone who has been a part of his life, who helped him get there. Some of whom he never even knew.

It’s a victory for Padmé Amidala Naberrie, whom Luke never knew but who managed to outmatch Sheev Palpatine so many times through her life, in part by refusing to play his game, which is exactly what Luke did here. Palpatine claims Luke’s faith in his friends is his weakness, but both he and his mother knew that it was a strength. Padmé’s friends (particularly Bail and Obi-Wan) are the reason the twins survived at all, the reason Luke had a sister and friend in Leia to lean on during his journey, the reason Obi-Wan survived long enough to watch over him and introduce him to the Force.

It’s a victory for Shmi Skywalker, whom Luke never knew but who influenced her stepson Owen Lars and her daughter-in-law Beru Whitesun Lars, who in turn helped Luke grow into the person he was. Yes, Anakin turned in part because he feared to lose Padmé the way he’d lost Shmi, just like Luke came close to turning when Vader threatened Leia, but I have to think that part of the reason Luke was able to stop was that he had that foundation of love and stability Owen and Beru had nurtured that made Luke remember who he was.

It’s a victory for the Jedi, whom Palpatine had manipulated and twisted and exhausted through the Clone Wars until by the time they faced genocide at Order 66 they were already a shadow of what they could have been. Luke reclaiming what it means to be a Jedi — and again, refusing to be defined by the structures and traps Palpatine had constructed for his father and for the other Jedi — would not have been possible without Luke being introduced to the Force by Obi-Wan, taught in the Force by Yoda, AND remembering himself through his bonds with other people. The fact that these Jedi who had survived a horrific genocide could still offer that connection, that hope, says that Sheev had not succeeded eliminating their light. Just like Sheev had not succeeded in eliminating the light in Anakin.

It’s a victory for all the beings with whom Luke was connected, because Luke had learned the thing his father struggled so hard to do: he learned to love, to trust, and to let go. At this moment, there was no guarantee Luke was getting out of there alive. In fact, a second later he’s being electrocuted by Palpatine and probably going to die. But like Luke said, Palpatine has already lost. Luke won’t turn to the Dark Side. He’ll keep trusting his friends, and trusting in the light. And everyone who has connected with Luke—Leia, Han, Chewie, Lando, his friends in the Rebellion, everyone — has been changed by that connection in a way that Palpatine can never take away. No matter who survives, that light in some form will survive.

I can't do it, Ben

LUKE SKYWALKER | STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI

(1983) dir. Richard Marquand

#SORRY MARK BUT JEDI TOTALLY PLAYED BASEBALL WITH THEIR LIGHTSABERS