Luke: Padawan or Knight?

Luke resisted temptation and held true to the light side of the Force, which was his final "test" so to speak.

I've always thought Luke in Ep V was about equal to Anakin in Ep II. :/

Yes. Killing the Emperor would have been good and well.

But the question is *why*. Why would Luke have killed him? Because of hate? Because of fear? Because of revenge. These motivations lead to the darkside. Jedi does things because it needs to be done. No fear, no anger, no hate, no sorrow.

QuiGon: "I shall do what I must, Obi1"

Originally posted by Delta 62
I've always thought Luke in Ep V was about equal to Anakin in Ep II. :/

Well, they both did get limbs cut off by an older, more powerfull Sith, but I wouldn't think Luke in ESB capable of the things Anakin was able to do in the Droid factory/arena scenes.

Oh Lord no.

Luke was about as good as Obiwan after getting cut by Dooku....

But then ealry in ROTJ, Luke is bragging about his rank...

Han: "A Jedi Knight? I'm out of it for a while...."

I think Luke is a Jedi Knight. But not a Jedi Master.

ESB or ROTJ are not even on par with TPM Obi-Wan.

Yeah, he's more of a bastardised Knight...

Originally posted by Tangible God
ESB or ROTJ are not even on par with TPM Obi-Wan.

Right, which makes me think that he's not on par with AOTC anakin, either.

Originally posted by Traya
Yeah, he's more of a bastardised Knight...

😂

Originally posted by sithsaber408
Funny though, that Luke has the balls to refer to himself as "Jedi Knight and friend of Captian Solo."

Also remember Chewie telling Han that Luke is a Knight, and Han going. " A Jedi Knight! I'm out of it for a little while and everbody gets delusions of graduer."

I agree with all the above posts, he was a padawan who had to take "the trials", which for him, was to face Vader.

Funny that the little piss-ant tells non Jedi folk that he's a Knight though. 😄

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Jedi pecking order was a moot point by the end of ESB - Yoda had one foot in the grave, the rest of the Jedi were gone and Ben had limited interaction with the living.

So here is Luke; recently off the surface of a backwater dustball where he's been raised by an aunt & uncle (freshly barbequed by Imps as seen by Luke himself). Runs the DS gauntlet (including trash compactor). Saves princess and blows up DS using new found Force powers (this was pretty much the only pleasant afternoon he had).

From there he ends in Hoth's deep freeze, gets whacked by the abominable snowman and does the bacta backstroke in a diaper.

Off to Dagobah for his date with Yoda (don't forget the bad meal) and tries to cram (lets say 17 years) of Jedi training into 20 minutes. Fights an imaginary Vader, then off to Bespin to fight the real Vader, gets his hand cut off and finds out Vader is his father.

Ah, hell you know the rest - why am I freakin' typing all this....

Cut to the chase - if you look at Luke's experiences as tiny pieces of time, rather than a big picture, THEN add them up, its easier to see the hell the guy has gone through. Luke did the best he could in ROTJ - like Yoda says, always in motion in the future. The whole Luke-Vader-Emporer scenario could have played out in so many different ways, Luke had to handle the situation moment by moment.

To call him a Jedi Knight by the end of ROTJ I agree with. There was no Jedi Council, no Jedi Code to adhere to. It was what had to be at that point in time.