Of course the truth is I am far more Leia than Jyn Erso; the childhood identification holds even as I admire Erso
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I also go with the headcanon that Ben intentionally "failed" this part of the mission
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Owen got attached to Luke and began to openly resist Ben's attempts to be in Luke's life
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Ben feels bad enough about him and Qui-Gon ruining Anakin's life that he gives in
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theorizes maybe a normal childhood will help prevent that Skywalker omnicidal megalomania
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that's why Yoda's pissed off at Ben's ghost, Ben wasted 20 years of training time
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(unspoken is the fact training in itself doesn't matter that much bc a Skywalker is a Force version of a nuke)
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their concern in training is less Luke's power level and more his loyalty and stability
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if you rewatch ESB with this framing you get the sense Yoda is afraid of Luke
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he's talking down to him, making him feel like a raw ignorant student
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so that he doesn't go off the deep end of "I am a god and I make all my own rules" like his dad did
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anyway main thing I like about this framing is stuff they prolly didn't intend
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like R2 got himself and 3PO bought by Owen on purpose bc R2 knows who Luke is
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