I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father’s fall to the dark side.
As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say “Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it’s actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I’m a good guy, QED.”
Then Vader goes “Like this?” and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.
I never saw Luke considering joining the dark side. A MAJOR personal challenge of his, perhaps his greatest struggle, was reckoning with his father’s fall to the dark side.
As depicted in the only six Star Wars movies made before I started refusing to watch them, Luke Skywalker manages to be on the light side, and fully human. The Jedi as depicted in the prequel trilogy have to sand most of their humanity off in order to remain on the light side. No family, no friends, no favorite foods, and only emotions that Barney The Purple Dinosaur would approve of. Luke is able to let out a war cry, pound his father into submission, amputate his hand, and then say “Nah, see: rage and violence against abject evil while it’s actively trying to harm you, your friends and innocent civilans is something good people do, so I’m a good guy, QED.”
Then Vader goes “Like this?” and throws Monster Mash down the Lucas pit and his redemption is complete.
Moral of the story: Extremely hurt bad people.