Disaster

Reasons the Jedi Should End 12/?

Actually, Yoda at no point insists that Luke kill Vader. Confront, yes, but confront can mean a lot of things, and is not synonymous with kill. And Luke does, in fact, confront Vader.

Yeah, I don’t buy it.

When Luke explicitly says he “can’t” bring himself to kill his own father in Return of the Jedi. Obi Wan does not comfort nor reassure him by telling him he doesn’t have to do that, only “confront” him.

Instead he says and I quote “then the Emperor has already won, you were our only hope”.

If the Jedi hadn’t intended him to kill Vader, why couldn’t Obi Wan offer Luke that reassurance of knowing he really was not being expected to kill his own father? Why could be not offer Luke that comfort?

I suggest because it didn’t exist…. They wanted Luke to kill his father. That was the intent. They didn’t believe he could be bought back to the light, and so killing him was the ONLY other possible outcome. Killing him to end the Empire’s reign of terror.

When Luke seeks comfort, all he actually got was ObI Wan trying to persaude him that killing Vader would not actually be the same as killing his father, because Anakin was “destroyed”. He had ceased to exist.

Of course, many people were uncomfortable with this, and so Lucas had to do some serious backpedaling.

However, the new Rebels series has added another dimension to this

By having Obi Wan tell Maul Luke was the Chosen One, it suggests that ObI Wan and Yoda planned this all along. The Jedi believed the sole purpose of the Chosen One was to destroy the Sith, ergo they believed that was Luke’s purpose.

Destruction almost always means killing. Its not ambiguous. Yoda and Obi Wan wanted Luke to fulfill the prophecy by destroying the Sith, that is his father Vader and the Emperor.

Ok, this is *exactly* on the subject, but I’ve always thought that Maul had meant Anakin as the Chosen One, and not Luke. It made more sense to me, since at no point in the show there is a scene or a mention of Luke. Like, after all, it was Vader’s choice to kill the emperor and sacrifice himself, bringing balance to the Force. He wouldn’t have done it without Luke actually confronting him, of course, but he was the one to do it nonetheless.

Also, then Maul says that “he will avenge us”. I think by “us” he meant himself, his brother and all the people that were once betrayed by Sidious, including both Jedi and former Sith, and Anakin himself. So, I don’t know what this all would mean in the context of your post, but…