Luke's Thoughts on Anakin Being a Slave (LEGENDS)

After the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker went on a journey to learn about his father's past. A search that led him back to Tatooine...
Story from the Legends book "A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker."
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[@reconquista9548]

I simply love Anakin’s history. It’s so sad and perfect. Also, its just amazing to see his relationship with Luke.

[@quix99]

Greatest character even written in entertainment. Even though you know what happens, his turn still breaks ur heart

[@hassanmasood186]

Anakin Skywalker is my favourite character in the whole Star Wars saga

[@jadehathaway4336]

His sister was very ignorant until she knew about it every time she saw that hologram she's happy to see that he was a hero but she also feel sadness because he was trying so hard to keep promises that he could never fulfill

[@hellothwee]

​@@quix99I wouldn't say he's greatest character oat but there are some that are better

[@quix99]

@@hellothwee name 1

[@godzillakingofthemonsters8414]

Love how he cares for his father and wanted to learn about his past

[@theladddle]

True and a man like that would obviously try to help someone who's about to fall to the dark side and there's Disney trilogy which shows how they don't care about character development

[@godzillakingofthemonsters8414]

@@theladddle that’s why you ignore the sequel trilogy

[@preciousotoakhia9789]

Exactly 💯

[@brokenbridge6316]

I can appreciate why Luke wanted to know about his father's early life. Glad that he got to know this much.

[@FabledHeroes3351]

Man you just wanna give Luke a hug the more he learns about this

[@GM7Games]

Would love to see this story in live action. Shame is Disney, but it would be amazing to see Luke revisiting Tatooine and his thoughts about Anakin’s Life

[@andrewvasquez7872]

Lucas could have done this story at any point before he sold SOLD LucasFilm to Disney. Oh well.

[@emperorsean1]

Would've loved to have seen luke mark hamill be visited by his father as a force ghost.

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

I hope this gets included and mentioned in The Mandoverse. I'd love to see a 29-year-old Luke Skywalker revisit Tatooine, and have this experience, having a flashback (the deleted scene with Luke and Biggs Darklighter discussing the conflict between The Rebellion and The Empire) to the day before he left tatooine, in A New Hope. I also very much want to see him take up a Skywalker fan's invitation to pilot a newer model of the T-16 Skyhopper he crashed years ago, flying through Beggar's Canyon once more. The feels that would bring...

[@phantasticphizzle]

Knowing how stupid Disney is. Probably not.

[@Cuban20]

What angers me is that the Jedi just abandoned Shmi. And they did it on purpose. Because they knew that they needed to indoctrinate him to not have "attachments" and a mother is a serious attachment.

[@Tuturial464]

Ironic since the Jedi do have attachments in a certain point of view

[@NathanChun-y6u]

@@Tuturial464The Jedi have attachments to each other and the Republic because it is their version of Order

[@jaffarebellion292]

The irony is that Anakin might've let his attatchments go if he'd been allowed to get even the sleightest bit of closure on his past. If he'd been allowed to put the ghosts of his past to rest, he may not have been so ruthlessly haunted by them.

[@mirtalpur739]

⁠@@NathanChun-y6uIronic isn’t it that It’s their attachment to the Republic that lead to jealousy which led to Fear.

[@mikem2132]

These legends stories about Luke are awesome, thanks for the video!

[@SpideySkywalker]

I love the story of Anakin Skywalker it is simply amazing however it is also pretty sad

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

Anakin for his whole life felt like he was a slave to everyone, with watto, with the Jedi, and with the sith. Luke gave him that freedom a sense of peace now he's free from being a tool to anyone

[@GrapeCheckerBoard]

Anakin wasn’t a slave to the Jedi. The Jedi never forced Anakin to stay with them and would have sent Obi-Wan to look after Anakin if he did quit, per a canon comic.

[@immaoriginal7094]

​​The Jedi Council literally brainwashed Anakin to leave his mother behind to train to become a Jedi only to mistreat,disrespect,and mistrust the Chosen One who must fullfill the prophecy (of defeating the Sith,bringing balance to the force,saving the Galaxy) since he was 9 years old fresh out of childhood enslavement.Not to mention having to call your "mentor/friend/brother" master and other Jedis of higher ranking master must've triggered painful,traumatic memories.

[@clarkkent8286]

The worst secrets are the ones we keep from our loved ones

[@yinyangyt8749]

It’s sad that Anakin experienced everything. He could have avoided everything. I didn’t know Luke found out about it

[@hassanmasood186]

Obi-Wan must’ve told him

[@emperorsean1]

Or maybe Anikan came back as a fire ghost and told him. He came back as a ghost at the end of the ROTJ.

[@Tuturial464]

Or he would have found out afterwards

[@ThurmanFamilyMusic]

I see why Leia didnt wanna learn about anakin for the most part. Although yes Vader did some horrible things, but learning about you're heritage can be enlightening in certain ways.

[@0LadyV0]

He could have just asked Ahsoka Tano. Oh...wait. He no doubt did.

[@tidan4575]

I'm with Luke on his position with Darth Vader. Given what Anakin went through and how he was raised by the Jedi Order, his sense of morality was warped long before he turned to the dark side (and in my opinion the Jedis' sense of morality was worse then Anakin's). Because of all that I cannot condemn him for any of his actions as Darth Vader. At the same time I don't condone them or justify them either. He had ample opportunities to make different decisions that would've set himself free from both his inner darkness, the Jedi order, and Darth Sidious. Granted in his position and state of mind it would've been VERY difficult for him to do, and IMPOSSIBLE for him to go it alone(which is why he ultimately sought out Darth Sidious). But it was possibilities were still there.

[@JDog2656]

Agreed. At the end of the day, Palpatine was the dark master behind everything. Anakin was the apprentice who was seduced because of his own weaknesses.

[@alexandrostheodorou8387]

No. It was a decision to enjoy the evil he did. Vader was an evil monster. He butchered manny innocent people for his own satisfaction. And it all started from when he was Anakin and he would do murder in the name of the good. He became a monster.

[@SWDude2710]

​@alexandrostheodorou8387 actually, Vader does not generally take pleasure in killing people, even children, but will do so as a necessity.

[@rasmuslernevall6938]

This made me realize for the first time that the movies don't really make sense regarding this. The Pod Race would have made Anakin a local legend. Someone of all the people that Luke encountered during his childhood would have made the connection and told him about Anakin as they shared the same name - Skywalker.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Well the pod racing happened in Mos Espa, which is very far from where Luke grew up.

[@rasmuslernevall6938]

@@RetneysHolocron Seems plausible. Is there any mention in SW media of the distance btw? If it's true, then Owen went a long way to find a slave. Not that that wouldn't be possible or anything, just saying. 🙂

[@The_Griffins_99]

The young slave that would rise to be a galactic oppressor that would alter his insidious persona to spare his family

[@bakedgoods9182]

Owen definitely knew that Shmi was a slave, he’s about the same age as Anakin and Cleeg purchased Shmi no more than ten years before Attack of the Clones. Doesn’t mean Luke would know that though.

[@georgesisson8351]

So was this just a retelling of Leia’s trip to tattonie? Because I feel this hit a lot of the same markers as the book “Ghost of Tattonie” when Leia discovers her fathers past.

[@jadehathaway4336]

I think they both discovered things about their dad that's why leia ultimately realized he was a victim of manipulation anyone was to blame it was Palpatine but she also wishes that she could learn more about why he turned to the dark side I think she now open we knew that because of the death of her grandmother and ankin's friends including her mom is what drove him to the dark side including Ahsoka leaving the Jedi Temple

[@StarDark4]

The truth about anagon aka darth vader, he was born out of the evils of the world. Unlike osoka or Obi-Wan he was born into a hostile environment and his mother was the only one who looked out for him until Obi-Wan. Honestly anagan felt betrayed by the jedi which is why he killed them. He joined to protect those he cared for not to be a mystic pacifists and Obi-Wan knew that.

[@emperorsean1]

Didn't Anikan come back as a force ghost? He did at the end of ROTJ. Would make sence if Anikan came back as a force ghost and told him. Also r2d2 knew Anikan and Padme couldnt r2 have told him? He couldve shown him recordings.

[@peterchiappetta1241]

Just curious, to save time and energy and he would have all the information, why couldn't Luke ask the Force Ghosts of Anakin, Obi Wan, and Yoda himself instead?

[@thescepterofjudah12]

Despite Anakin being an arrogant and selfish person, the Jedi after Qui-Gon’s death did nothing to deal with the suppression of trauma from Anakin’s past life. Avoiding attachment and not giving real support only pushed a broken and desperate man to what he thought was his only option. Though Luke’s Order was not a utopia, it was by and large extremely better than the previous two Orders.

[@SWDude2710]

He wasn't that completely selfish, dude, because, despite his darker traits, he was still a good man who suffered so much trauma and lost his mother that it drove him to be so obsessive over his wife due to his inability to accept loss. He was prideful and arrogant due to his power and skills too, but it should not take away the fact that Anakin was always trying to be a good person and had a good heart and cared too much for people, which is why he would act like he does in terms of his aggressive moments and such.

[@thescepterofjudah12]

@@SWDude2710 In the end Anakin’s emotions were selfish and he killed his wife and attacked his Master and best friend. We agree the Jedi did nothing to help Anakin, but he knew what he was doing.

[@SWDude2710]

@thescepterofjudah12 true, though even then he hated his actions, as seen by his crying scene, and he carries that hatred of himself for the rest of his life.

[@thescepterofjudah12]

@@SWDude2710 That was a lot of guilt he carried, but he was so desperate he should’ve did what Ahsoka and many other Jedi did when they could no stomach the shortsightedness and stupidity of the High Council… leave. But because the Jedi were against attachment there were many that just felt they could do better, many turned to the Darkside and became Inquisitors, and some took the path that Ahsoka was famous for. In all the selfishness that Anakin displayed was due to the way the Jedi attempted to groom him, but it like many things Yoda was wrong about backfired.

[@SWDude2710]

@@thescepterofjudah12 he wanted to leave, but he felt he owed the order everything since they freed him from slavery, and how, besides his wife and few friends, he had not much family left since his mother passed away due to her being brutal tortured by the Tusken Raiders.

[@gradtonhair8404]

Hey when luke found out about his mothers identity?

[@andrewkind2820]

How did he react to the tragedy of Darth Plaugeis The Wise

[@jaieregilmore971]

Do think luke find out about his grandmother Shmi.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Yes, that’s part of the story in the video!

[@jaieregilmore971]

@@RetneysHolocron how about padme?

[@RetneysHolocron]

@@jaieregilmore971 Yes, he and Leia both learned of Padme later

[@TheDigitalcrack]

No they didn’t tell him because he would have saw that the Jedi were at fault, not Anakin. The selfish lying hypocrites

[@rootsandreforms]

Was C-3PO and R2D2 reprogrammed ? Because they could of spilled all the beans to luke

[@RetneysHolocron]

C-3PO had his memory wiped at the end of Revenge of the Sith. R2-D2 never did.

[@Mad_Mally]

I used to love Star Wars before Disney ruined it.