{"id":109742,"date":"2016-03-15T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/15\/jacquez45-persian-slipper-roane72\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T09:58:23","slug":"jacquez45-persian-slipper-roane72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/15\/jacquez45-persian-slipper-roane72\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

jacquez45<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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lenlenmitchell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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roane72<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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persian-slipper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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roane72<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s\u00a0\u201cbackground\u201d while working is Return of the Jedi (where\u00a0\u201cbackground\u201d means I stop everything I\u2019m doing to watch certain scenes).<\/p>\n

The Emperor seriously is an idiot. I mean, he ALMOST has Luke. If he hadn\u2019t started cackling every time Luke started to lose control and going\u00a0\u201cgood, good!\u201d he would\u2019ve won. Hey dumbass, if you manipulate someone into doing something they don\u2019t want to do, you don\u2019t POINT OUT that they\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n

Jeez.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s been so long since Palpatine had to manipulate someone like that he\u2019s forgotten how. He\u2019s also assuming Luke is like his father at that age: desperate for validation and stuck in a cycle of aggression, guilt, and repression. As this is totally not the case, he fails in his conversion effort big time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Holy shit, you\u2019re right. He\u2019s doing exactly what he did with Anakin.<\/p>\n

HOLY SHIT.<\/p>\n

*skywalker feelings increase*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OH MY GOD!<\/p>\n

This also gives me Uncle Owen and Obi Wan feelings because if Anakin was easily manipulated by Palpatine because it was the first time he truly received emotional validation from a father figure, that means that Luke had good emotional support from his father figures and ahshfkenf help<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

IT GOT WORSE<\/strike> BETTER.<\/p>\n

*skywalker feelings in overload*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Really, it chaps my Cheerios when people forget the role Owen and Beru played in Luke\u2019s life. Like, we only see them on-screen for a little while (and not in the most positive light, since Luke is being a rebellious teenager and they are being the mean parents), but they were the ones who raised Luke, who loved him, who watched him take his first steps and say his first words. Owen taught him to fly a Skyhopper and Beru taught him to fix vaporaters. You wouldn\u2019t have Luke Skywalker, stand-up guy, without Owen and Beru Lars, adoptive parents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I mean, the thing is, it\u2019s clear when you watch ANH as an adult that Owen and Beru love Luke and want what is best for him, and that although they disagree about what is best for Luke, they are coming from a place of love and caring.<\/p>\n

Luke is a huffy, unhappy teenager, chafing against restrictions, but no matter how\u00a0\u201cmean\u201d Owen is, it\u2019s perfectly obvious that Luke isn\u2019t abused in any way. He feels free to complain and sulk and ostentatiously demonstrate about how UNFAIR it all is, without fear of reprisal. He has his own vehicle and considerable freedom as long as he finishes his chores. Owen and Beru have obvious affection for him and for each other.<\/p>\n

And the way Luke\u2019s face shutters and changes when he sees the homestead destroyed and their bodies, the way that devastation clearly strikes to the heart of him but produces a calm, determined grief? That prefigures his calm before his fall on Bespin, and it also ultimately stands in opposition to Anakin\u2019s rageful, vicious, undisciplined response to grief.<\/p>\n

Obi-Wan knows it, when Luke comes back to say he\u2019ll go with him to Alderaan, that Luke is not his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s down to Owen and Beru and how they raised Luke. They weren\u2019t perfect \u2013 Owen is frustrated with Luke a bunch! \u2013 but unlike Anakin, raised a slave, made an orphan by violence, always susceptible to his own rage and loss, Luke had a bedrock.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jacquez45: persian-slipper: roane72: lenlenmitchell: roane72: persian-slipper: roane72: Today\u2019s\u00a0\u201cbackground\u201d while working is Return of the Jedi (where\u00a0\u201cbackground\u201d means I stop everything I\u2019m doing to watch certain scenes). The Emperor seriously is an idiot. I mean, he ALMOST has Luke. If he hadn\u2019t started cackling every time Luke started to lose control and going\u00a0\u201cgood, good!\u201d he would\u2019ve … <\/p>\n

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