well yeah. Obi Wan takes it with the intention to give it to his kid, already spinning the lie abt how Anakin is "dead"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Ppl, I think, miss that the anguish in "NO THATS IMPOSSIBLE" is bc Luke's processing how Ben straight up lied to him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
it's not abt disappointment in the father he never knew, it's that his actual father figure is a lying manipulator
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Yeah. I think ultimately Rey will build a blue or green saberstaff, and Kylo will use Anakin's saber to "finish his work" >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
> by destroying the dark legacy of whatever is behind all this dark shit
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yeah I don't think Luke would want that thing back compared to the one he made himself
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that's the symbolism of that scene, too - he loses his fathers sword at the same time he loses his illusions abt his father
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
in the EU Palpatine somehow found the thing and gave it to Luke's evil clone Luuke
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Luke keeping it and giving it to Mara Jade was almost as bad as him marrying Mara Jade in the first place
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look I know ppl like her but the idea that you can be the Emperor's personal assassin but still not really a bad person is shit
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Luke letting go of that so easily is just like him not minding the blue lightsaber killed dozens of kids
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Well, I suspect Luke only finds out about that after the Republic gets a shot at the Imperial Archives post-RotJ
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I'm speaking in the current canon here
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