Did we watch the same movie? He didn’t kill him, and didn’t want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.
This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let’s be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.
Did we watch the same movie? He didn’t kill him, and didn’t want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.
This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let’s be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.
I think most people get confused by the different flashback perspectives…
In the scene the pic is from, Luke couldn’t have killed Ben even if he wanted to!
He wasn’t physically there, and would have more reasonably dropped the star destroyer on Ben than stabbed him with a laser sword.
Yes, that too!