You Know What's Kind Of A Messed Up Dynamic That's Not Really Explored In The Original Trilogy? How Luke

You know what's kind of a messed up dynamic that's not really explored in the Original Trilogy? How Luke is kind of caught in an ideological tug of war between Obi-Wan (and Yoda) and Darth Vader.

Obi-Wan wants Luke to become a Jedi and bring down the Empire and Vader, thus righting a wrong he was unable to right twenty years prior. Unless I'm misreading motivations here, that's already hecka questionable treatment of your vulnerable student, but it's made worse when he deliberately lies to Luke and stokes hatred/a desire for revenge in him against his father -- without ever telling him that the father he longs for and the monster he thinks killed him are one and the same. I can kind of understand Obi-Wan's line of thinking here, especially if Luke was potentially the only powerful enough to go up against Vader, but I still don't think it was right.

Then you have Vader, who is in some ways playing out the same script. He wants Luke to become a Sith and to be by his side as his son to redeem his failure from twenty years ago. He has a chance to make everything he did mean something because he didn't save Padme, but his son still lives. This desire is of course far from 100% benevolent and it's all twisted up with what the Emperor wants, so it ends with the same sort of vibe as Obi-Wan's treatment of Luke: it reduces Luke into a utility or object rather than a person.

Obi-Wan wants Luke to be the Chosen One.

Darth Vader wants him to be his heir.

The only people who want Luke to just be Luke are Han and Leia.

And then Luke wins by being himself -- by being the compassionate, forgiving son who just wants his father. And miraculously, that saved the galaxy.

one thing you won't know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn't matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.

Bear and Robin Welcome Spring by Paul Bransom (1925)

lots of research!

yr locked in a room alone with three adult men but you feel perfectly safe. who are they

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