December 18th 2015 Star Wars force awakens is released. THE biggest movie of the year, THE biggest movie of all time (possibly). There is a lot of speculation as to what will happen within the film, who the new cast are playing and what their roles are, and how have things changed over 30 years since Return of the jedi, since we know it's been that long at least. But it not just the new characters that people are wondering about, its confirmed that we will be seeing the 'Original Trilogy' cast return that being Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker. So what have the original cast been up to over 30 years since the battle of Endor? Has Han solo become an experienced squadron leader? Is princess Leia or who we have learnt is going as General Oregana at the helm of the rebellion and continuing to rebuild the republic like her mother before her? Are R2-D2 and C3PO still in a love hate relationship? One of the main theories going around is that Luke Skywalker, the main character of the Original Trilogy will or already has turned to the dark side and followed in his dad Anakin's footsteps. Im going to addressing the claim that Luke is actually an 'Agent of Evil' as Yoda once called it.
Im going to start by defining what it is to be a Jedi. The Jedi are peaceful, reasonable and always look to do things without the loss of life. They do this by removing their emotions from any decision they make, that is why you see so many young Jedi being trained and repeatedly Yoda reminds both Anakin and Luke that they are both too old to be trained Anakin being 10 and Luke being 19 , because by that point in their life they have formed emotional attachments that will blur their visions.
This is quite different to the dark side, they harness their emotions and incorporated with the force they use their anger to get whatever they want, such as a giant planet like structure capable of actually destroying a real planet. So why would Luke join the dark side? he's just destroyed the second incarnation of the death star, the Emperor is seemingly dead, and he made peace with his father, all whilst the rebellion is removing the empire from the galaxy and slowly regain control. The dark side feeds off of hatred and anger, sure Luke is probably angry at the things that have happened along the way like losing his father and seeing his friends captured and nearly die but in the end everything turned out alright.
Luke begins his jedi training fully after Hoth Battle when Ben Kenobi tells him to go and meet Master Yoda on Dagobah. Once the introductions have been made and everyone is fully weirded out by Yoda, he explains to Luke that 'Too old he is' to be trained after Luke begins to get frustrated with himself, Yoda eventually realises that Luke is the Jedis only hope of defeating the empire but already you can see that Luke has anger within him just like his father. As Luke continues his training Yoda takes him to the cave of evil, where he is instructed go in and all that will be in there is what he takes in with him, now at first it would seem like Yoda means any physical things, but once in the cave Luke meets darth vader, or a vision of him, seemingly Luke defeats him and Vaders mask explodes to reveal Lukes face, could this be a foreshadow to episode 7 that actually when Yoda was telling Luke that whatever was in the cave was what Luke took in with him, does Luke have the dark side within him and is that why he appears within Darth Vader's mask?
The growth of the dark side within Luke is evident further when he gets a feeling that Leia and Han are being tortured as they are captured at Bespin, Luke in ruthless and reckless fashion abandons his training to go and save them which ultimately lead to han still being frozen in carbonite, Luke losing a hand and everyone else barely making it out alive after Lando double turns to then help them out. This demonstrates Luke letting his emotions getting the better of him, going against the Jedi values of not letting emotion affect judgement.
In return of the jedi Luke seems to have a dark presence around him, especially in Jabbas Palace donning new black robes just like Anakin in episodes 2 and 3. Eventually thought began to creep into peoples minds that actually Luke could turn or die at the end of the movie, where Palpatine and Vader have him captured, Palpatine gives luke the option to 'Strike him down' and 'Join the dark side' amazingly Luke tries to, if not for Vaders interception Luke would have killed the Emperor. Luke uses his anger to defeat vader and when he cuts off Vaders arm, he then realises that actually they aren't too dissimilar as they both have the robotic arm and that through their anger they have both made mistakes which have caused them to become deformed in some way, Vader more so which Luke is seemingly on the path to.
The fact that we have seen literally one arm that we aren't even 100% sure is his in the build up to 'The Force Awakens' suggests that there has been an obvious change to Luke that would be very much apparent to anyone who sees him at all and so he has been kept out of the limelight with no merchandise, trailer appearances or any official word on what is going on with Luke 30 years after everything seemed so positive, is Luke even going to play much part in episode 7 and maybe it is about trying to find Luke as some theorists have speculated only to find out he is isolated, angry and losing control of the force. We do see a clip that shows Leia looking worried and from past experience we know that Luke and Leia communicate using the force that they both posses, just like at Bespin when luke is hanging with one hand after fighting Vader. Could Luke be in trouble or has he been in trouble for a while and Leia has been feeling it all this time but in order to help him she is keeping it quiet.
We can't be sure of anything in the Star Wars universe but with Star Wars The Force Awakens due to open in just 5 days we don't have long to wait.
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