The thing about ‘Star Wars’ is that every single person is important. Even though Rey is a big role, everyone influences everyone. If that wasn’t so, why would so many people remember Admiral Ackbar?
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My interpretation of the line is fairly simple. In telling Ben that “his father will always be with” him, Luke is saying that Ben is haunted by Han; that Ben can’t find peace because of his murder of his father.
Why can’t Ben find peace?
Because Ben “struck Han down in anger”— that is, because he killed Han unjustly.
Why would this haunt Ben?
Because Ben regrets it.
Why would Ben regret it?
Because Ben still loves his father.
Just like Ben still loves Luke, despite the horror and bad blood between them; the way that Luke still loves Ben, in their fascinatingly complicated way. Just like he still loves his mother, despite his feelings that Leia sent him away. Just as he still loves his family.
And Luke knows this. Knows that Ben still has a soul to save. When he tells Ben that should he strike him down, he will be haunted just like he is haunted by Han, he’s telling Ben that he knows Ben better than Ben in that moment is willing to know himself— that he cannot murder his family and feel nothing. That it would torment him just as Han’s murder torments him. Again, because there is still something in Ben to save. That is, in fact, part of why he projects onto Crait as something Ben cannot kill. So that Ben will not have more familial blood on his hands, blood that would eventually destroy him.
And in a way, his line to Ben is also a promise. In the moment, from Ben’s perspective, it sounds like a threat— that Luke will haunt Ben just as Han does. But what it really is is a comfort— that Ben will never be alone. That his family, like the Force, in the Force, will always be with him.
That was a single beautiful, wise and kind thing of Luke to say to this anguished boy – Luke CHALLENGED Ben to admitting he has a soul that aches and a tortured conscience, and Ben bites the bait right away, without pause. That is why Luke says good-bye the way he did, that is why Luke passed into the Force with peace and purpose. He saw what he needed to see in Ben – pain and conflict, more potent than anger, pain over Han too, hence – a soul that will be healed, eventually.
Yeah, it’s really unfortunate that dumblr’s doing this It seems like this is the way they’re trying to eliminate pornbots but they don’t realize that gifmakers add links to their posts too, so they’re getting rid of innocent blogs. It’s so stupid. Unfortunately, we’re not gonna be adding any sources to videos now, just to be safe (and I don’t want to have my blog terminated AGAIN and have to start over for the third time). Maybe we can add the source in the tags, like the name of the video/article verbatim? That’s the only way around it I think.
If tumblr would just stop being so persnickety and show that ‘source’ link section on post creation EVERY time instead of VERY specific types of posts, then this could all be avoided. maybe. but you would at least have a source link without being banned. ugh.
It seems like this is the way they’re trying to eliminate pornbots but they don’t realize that gifmakers add links to their posts too, so they’re getting rid of innocent blogs. It’s so stupid. Unfortunately, we’re not gonna be adding any sources to videos now, just to be safe (and I don’t want to have my blog terminated AGAIN and have to start over for the third time). Maybe we can add the source in the tags, like the name of the video/article verbatim? That’s the only way around it I think.
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