My headcanon is Luke himself did the digging, or at least was the first one to put together the pieces that other people did the digging for
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Ah yeah—I'd like some treatment of Luke pouring over some Imperial records Gandalf-style in Coruscant, following up leads he found in notes left behind by the original three Rebel conspirators.
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Replying to @mattsaler @della_morte_ and
I don't actually think TRoS contradicts TLJ that hard by depicting Luke as having been a busy galaxytrotting archeologist before his long exile I always headcanoned that *before* Luke fell into despair and gave it all up there was a phase where he really, really tried
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
Feverishly digging up every scrap of lore he could about the old Jedi and Sith, to try to find some kind of guidance, some explanation for how destiny works and why people fall to the Dark Side
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
At one point really believing Ben's fall was all due to Palpatine's machinations and thinking he could somehow fix it if he just dug up the very last bits of Palpatine's legacy and neutralize them (The real failing of TRoS was portraying this mad obsession as correct and valid)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
My headcanon is he took it really really hard when he found out that, as he puts it, at the very height of their power and wisdom the Old Jedi fucked up with Anakin even worse than he did with Ben and they really did bring it all on themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
And he went to Ahch-To looking for some kind of better answer, from the OLD Old Jedi, hoping the original Sacred Texts from thousands of years ago before corruption set in could give him some insight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
And halfway through translating the old books her realizes they're just saying the same shit he's been studying his whole life and the only answer they have to the problem of evil is "shit happens" and it was ridiculous to imagine reading a book could somehow fix everything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
Which is when he has his breakdown, throws his X-Wing into the ocean, stops showering, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mattsaler and
I love this whole reading and it just makes me like the sequels even more. The idea that evil is cyclical and never fully defeated is so powerful to me right now because it’s so demonstrably true. Accepting that is so hard but so necessary. You pass on the fight.
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The movie isn't saying that Luke is right to fall into despair after his failure but it is saying that there isn't any "answer" to failure, that you can't get anywhere by dissecting it and trying to make sense of it and trying to undo it or make it never happen again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
The only thing you can do is accept it and move on to the next thing Which, of course, is much easier said than done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Ehh, it also does say you can learn from failure.
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