Getting SPICY

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]This is extremely viral right now, and it's super controversial. It's making the rounds. It's about Luke Skywalker, and this gentleman's take. His name is Pop Detective, as you can see right here. So, we're going to go ahead and react to it.

[00:00:14]>> I don't know who this impostor is, but it's not Luke. And I'm not just talking about the weird CGI uncanny valley thing.

[00:00:20]>> You know it's going to get spicy, bro.

[00:00:23]You know.

[00:00:24]>> I'm talking about how Luke Skywalker was never a badass. Throughout the entire original trilogy, Luke was not a badass.

[00:00:31]In fact, his story is the antithesis of a power fantasy. It's a deconstruction of a power fantasy. In many ways, >> No, it's the hero's journey, and essentially his whole point of being there was to be the catalyst to bring it full circle for Anakin Skywalker to bring balance to the force by killing the emperor. That was pretty much it. So, even during the OT, Anakin was still the chosen one, and George has said that many times.

[00:00:55]>> This scene is sort of the culmination of a weird Mandela effect phenomenon, wherein a whole bunch of Star Wars fans, including the creators of this show, have this false memory of Luke Skywalker being this badass Jedi warrior with almost godlike powers, but that never happened in the original trilogy. In the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker is a bumbling failure for the most part. He's constantly getting knocked unconscious.

[00:01:21]He's constantly losing battles, and he's getting captured all the time. The thing that people remember from Return of the Jedi is the scene where he enters Jabba's palace for the first time. And it seems like he's going to be a badass, but then he promptly fails. He fails to shoot Jabba the Hutt. He almost dies to the rancor, and he ends up in chains.

[00:01:40]>> He's still training. He's still learning. The whole point of Luke Skywalker, and this is I love these conversations, so this is exactly what it was like in the '90s and 2000s. It was these kinds of conversations. So, I've been doing this far before YouTube even existed. So, I'm ready, man. This is what I'm here for.

[00:01:57]So, Luke Skywalker, the point of his whole journey is to show him disillusioned as he's looking out to the twin suns. He doesn't know where he belongs.

[00:02:04]All of that, right? He's kind of this whiny kid. "But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters." And he was just super whiny and annoying, right? He just kind of sucked at everything. And Leia really helped steer that entire original trilogy. And she was, I would say, more of the badass for kind of helping these dopey dudes.

[00:02:22]>> Somebody had to save our skins.

[00:02:24]>> But then, Luke Skywalker steps up, decides to train a little bit, cuts it short, goes to fight Vader, gets his hand cut off, loses so badly, emotionally, physically, just but absolutely decimated. And then, goes back and trains with Yoda, comes back, and he is a total badass, which is exactly what he was. But he was still failing because he wasn't there yet. He only had a few years of training, even as the son of the chosen one. He was the one that was supposed to be the new which, to me, in Rebels, when they say like, "Oh, he's the chosen one." No, he's not, George Lucas always said that Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, was the chosen one, is always the chosen one.

[00:03:07]Even Luke Skywalker, during the original trilogy, Anakin was still the chosen one. And Luke was only the catalyst. So, all of this is showing Luke is progressing, and it's training, and it's character development. And it took three films for him to somewhat build up more character development, and he still loses to the Emperor. That is character progression. And then, when you see him in The Mandalorian, he is even further progressed. It's 5 years after he lost to the Emperor. He has trained. He has studied. He has scoured the galaxy for more holocrons, more information. He's meditated. He's become more one with himself. He has talked to the Force ghosts. And he has really expanded his understanding of the force.

[00:03:53]And he is now more of a badass. Now, is this his peak limit? No, absolutely not.

[00:03:59]That's the point. He's always improving.

[00:04:01]He's always getting better.