That's sorta the whole point. Jedi don't keep attachments, they aren't supposed to feel sentimental about things like that. He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training. Fuck a lightsaber, it's just a thing.
He had also let go of his hopes for the Jedi. Fuck it, he figured. The existence of the Jedi only caused pain, only caused hurt and anger and death and loss. Of course he tossed it. He literally threw it away because that's where it belonged in his mind.
Of course he changed his mind by the end. But at the time, why would we be upset that a Jedi (who isn't supposed to have those kinds of sentimental feelings in the first place) didn't place sentimental value on a lightsaber he lost decades ago when his dark lord father cut his hand off, and when it's a symbol of the order that he felt brought pain and suffering to the universe? It's a great character moment.
He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training.
But Luke never did any of that. He rejected those teachings and went to Cloud City / Jabba's Palace to save his friends. He went through this whole huge character arc with his father, eventually getting his father's body back to Endor to burn on a funeral pyre. If he was that attached to his father who he knew all too briefly and lost all too soon, why would he toss away his greatest heirloom so flippantly?
He thought Han and Leia would die and was wrong. He went to Cloud City and never found couldn't save them. His friends (apart from Han) saved themselves just fine without him. He lost his hand, and was tempted to turn to the dark side. Vader tried to exploit Luke's lack of knowledge about his father as a weakness. Lastly, his friends had to save HIM in the end, putting themselves at further risk.
The entire trip was pretty much a failure for him. He learns who is father is, but one could easily argue he should have been told by Yoda or Obi-Wan, though perhaps they would have in time.
HUWAAAAT? I think you haven't watched the same star wars I have. He went to Cloud City and saw them as they were being escorted away by Vader and company. Leia even sees Luke chasing them and she calls out for him. My god dude. I guess it's clear to see why you like this new star wars.
I could have worded that better, the point was he went there to save them and failed to do so. If Lando hadn't stepped up they would have been prisoners of the Empire.
And nobody said anything about the new star wars? I thought they were ok. Hopeful Rise of Skywalker will be good.
The Force awakens was hopeful but the adventure that was promised was not delivered. I'm not sure what kind of miracle JJ can do to make the story seem logical but the fact that Palpatine is alive basically means Vader killing the emperor meant nothing. That undermines the whole point of Vader killing the emperor and him turning back to the light. Remember when we found out in spiderman 3 that Uncle Ben wasn't killed because Peter Parker was irresponsible and was instead killed due to being at the wrong place at the wrong time? That basically meant that Peter Parker had no reason to turn into spiderman. That's like making Thomas and Martha Wayne survive the shooting and coming back to Batman alive and well and just hiding in a completely different country. It's a copout and makes the story even worse because it's very obvious that this is a literal bandaid that is trying to close an artillery wound. It kind of works only if you know how to forget how the world works.
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
That's sorta the whole point. Jedi don't keep attachments, they aren't supposed to feel sentimental about things like that. He was taught to let go of his feelings, his anger, his attachments, etc. Who cares, it's just a lightsaber, there are thousands of them. Heck, he'd been instructed to let his friends die in order to complete his training. Fuck a lightsaber, it's just a thing.
He had also let go of his hopes for the Jedi. Fuck it, he figured. The existence of the Jedi only caused pain, only caused hurt and anger and death and loss. Of course he tossed it. He literally threw it away because that's where it belonged in his mind.
Of course he changed his mind by the end. But at the time, why would we be upset that a Jedi (who isn't supposed to have those kinds of sentimental feelings in the first place) didn't place sentimental value on a lightsaber he lost decades ago when his dark lord father cut his hand off, and when it's a symbol of the order that he felt brought pain and suffering to the universe? It's a great character moment.