Originally posted by robakin
That may be true, but in Ep. 2 Anakin couldn't take Dookus force lightning at all, but in ROTJ Luke takes all of the Palpatine's lightning to save 'the chosen one'. Very interesting.
1) Anakin wasn't expecting force lightning to suddenly hit him. Luke was prepped to face Palpys wrath and probably prepared himself for a barrage of force evilness.
2) Anakin was a Padawan, Luke was a Jedi Knight.
It would be a fair comparison if it was Ep.3 Anakin getting attacked by force lightning.
Ep.2 Anakin got his ass handed to him. Ep.5 Luke had his ass handed to him. Both were "apprentices". Its hardly fair to compare Ep.2 Ani to Ep.6 Luke.
Remember, Ep.3 Anakin = Ep.6 Luke. It's GL's little parrelel to show where father and son went down different routes at the same point in their life. Anakin turned, Luke didn't.
Besides, how do we now know that Palpatine didn't just try to horribly damage Luke? Remember the "icing on the cake" for Anakin to turn into the final Darth Vader, is to fall into a lava pit (or something along those lines) - in the light of the prequels, Palpatine could have been seen to do the same to Luke, horribly wound him, but keep him alive, and end up doing the same as his father.
It also poses the question as whether Vader/Anakin saved his son from dying, or from turning into the next Darth Vader?
Just thoughts, thats all.
Err, Luke was also a learner. He's not a full Jedi until the end of ROTJ, or at least he had only beocme one at that instant.
But it is still not a fair comparison, as you say, Anakin was simply not prepared. Obi-Wan dealt with it with great ease. Besides which, the lightning was being used to hurt. Anakin was ALSO thrown at high speed into a wall.
all of Anakins millions of midichlorians remember Padme's sweet sweet sexy body, heart and soul... and those were the midichlorians that got passed into Leia, while the killer cool Jedi rebel fighter warrior midichlorians went into Luke, so that's why Leia remembers her mother while Luke remembers only to rebel and resist and fight and become Jedi knight, like his father before him...
yeah still, whatever, it's still the midichlorians, passed on genetically, that make it possible for Leia to have memories of her mother without really being 'of age' to remember such things, if its true that Padme dies soon after giving birth and the babies are taken away and hidden from Anakin/Vader...
all about the midichlorians, baby!
Originally posted by Red Superfly
I never understood why Luke could only become a Jedi Knight by facing Vader. Obi-Wan became a Jedi Knight by slaying Maul, as Qui-Gon said. The Jedi are a bunch of sadists! Yoda literally wants blood!
I think the idea is that a set of tests determines if you are ready, but if you kinda demonstrate that anyway they skip that bit...
Luke would only have whined about tests anyway...
Do think the title of 'ROTJ' is referring to Luke being the Return of the Jedi in the galaxy, or Anikan is the Return of the JediI always saw it as Anakins return , but it can also be that with the result of ROTJ Luke became a Jedi which ment the jedis were back after the death of Yoda. I still kling to the first though
Originally posted by Havok
do we know how long after episode 2 episode 3 takes place? I mean i know the movies hit theaters tree years apart and i think in the OT the tme was supposed to be three yeears in between. So I guess Luke and Keia could actully be three years old in episode 3
Ep3 happens 2 or 3 years after Ep2 and Leia and Luke are born in it.