Why Luke Skywalker ACTED EVIL in Jabba's Palace

Breaking down the corruption of Luke's mind, and how he felt the Dark Side when he infiltrated Jabba's Palace...
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[@huntergrant6520]

Luke grew up hearing all the horror stories of Jabba. Certain point of view.

[@dws84]

Makes sense doesn’t it? He would have heard all the oppression and cruel stories of him growing up.

[@thescepterofjudah12]

This makes sense, since his path to becoming a Jedi Knight was an unconventional one. He was a Padawan that had no living Master to guide him on the straight and narrow with lessons. He had to find his own way, but didn’t realize the knowledge and wisdom given to him by Grandmaster Yoda on Dagobah. So in my view, Luke’s path to becoming a Jedi (and eventually a Grandmaster) was the prophecy of “balance” seen in the Force by Qui-Gon Jinn decades earlier. Cal Kestis’ journey is identical to Luke’s, in fighting the conflict of succumbing to the Darkside, tasting a bit of it, but then remembering what it means to be a Jedi.

[@mlc9928]

Umm Cal embraces the dark side, beats the main villain and then the game is over. He is dark side. Btw that game sucked

[@thescepterofjudah12]

@@mlc9928 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Leondrius]

It's clear to me that his character gradually became darker throughout the original series. Luke was actually one of the most authentic Jedi ever. All Jedi have a dark side, but he actually acknowledged it and dealt with it. By The Return of the Jedi, he had basically mastered fear but was challenged by anger. He mastered that too. He chose his own path between the light side and the dark side.

[@marychasse8483]

As the Emperor felt, Luke had become very powerful with the force. He is not darker, he is more confident and more powerful.

[@jaydevon8985]

Almost embracing it almost like a mace windu. A Jedi but has a darkness tht made him a strong and militant like Jedi.

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

Personally, I never really took it as all that evil. He actually spent a lot of time negotiating with Jabba and offered him a lot of opportunities. I mean, sure there where some threats in it, but he seemed really calm about it and seemed to handle the situation in a more Jedi way than Anakin probably would have back in the Clone Wars.

[@marc80s]

What about when he used force choke on those Gammorean guards? Thats pure evil, dude.

[@danaripley1200]

I read somewhere that Princess Leia used the Force to kill Jabba while strangling him.

[@RetneysHolocron]

I just made a Short about that a couple days ago

[@epa316]

He should have gotten there a day earlier, and saved Oola 😞

[@KWK2022]

I always thought Luke was playing up his own abilities at Jabbas in hopes of avoiding conflict. In much the same way Luke had C3-PO talk up the droid's power to intimidate and scare off the Furries in ROTJ.

[@thebteamgamingchannel5701]

Imagine if it had been Luke and not Leia who killed Jabba, it might have been just enough to tip him over to the dark side.

[@ppacal1098]

Awesome analysis I think I sensed some of this but you go into so much detail you think "Why didn't I see all of this earlier?" Good job!

[@RetneysHolocron]

I appreciate that! Most of the info is just from the novelization, so I can't take all the credit tho 😂

[@bitpokit]

This makes sense, given that both Vader and Palpatine relentlessly tried to turn him to the dark, they probably saw the dark in him just as clearly as he saw the light in Vader. Really cool details thanks for sharing 🙂👍

[@daxtonedwards]

I have to watch it again now! Thanks for the refire!

[@slip4510]

He's not the same boy that wanted to go to toshi station to pick up some power converters

[@JoshuaArkwright]

I never really thought about it but he did

[@MrEloeniu]

If only Anakin had his character and control, He wouldn't have turned to the dark side...

[@dsteww172]

Jabba only understands intimidation. Luke needed to enter the palace like a dark Jedi.

[@dans5662]

Sometimes it takes monsters to kill monsters.

[@thetheorizermoore7476]

He is using both sides of the force

[@RetneysHolocron]

But he chooses only the Light at the end 🔥

[@wills.364]

Always enjoyed watching your videos😃 Luke isn’t tied down by the old Jedi order with politics. He walks his own path with the force guiding him

[@poseidon5003]

He didn't act evil. He "gently" choked them to prove a point. "You're NOT stopping me." Furthermore, Jabba is VERY evil. A jedi would have no issue.

[@marc80s]

The guards passed out, dude. Watch it again. Nothing gentle about it, Luke force-choked them into unconsciousness. That's pure Dark Side.

[@poseidon5003]

@@marc80s You're obviously wrong though. Show me the scene where they fully passed out.

[@poseidon5003]

@@marc80s I just watched it. He was subdued against the wall for a but, but there is no indication he was passed out. Besides, he shows up later and falls into the pit. Same guy.

[@DestinyFilmWorks]

After Luke says that there's a line from Jabba in the novel where he tells Luke he was killing his kind back when being a Jedi meant something..

[@JAHDUBProductions]

"You will take me to see Jabba now"

[@dcspidey1218]

Anskin: "sniff" that's my boy!

[@bloodangelsberserker1876]

Who can blame him for wanting to kill jabba? Its natural

[@beentheredonethat5908]

Luke used the force, all of it. There was no dark and light to luke. Force choke was forbidden by the jedi, but luke used it freely. He had no real teacher once he hit a certain point, mirroring vader having no teacher in the dark, bith had to seek knowledge on their own. Luke was a perfect force user. He was hopeful and brave, yet he had attachments and those he loved. Luke would touch the dark, just never becoming a slave to it. The jedis restrictions caused them to fail, luke didnt have those issues. Even when luke fought vader, he tapped into the darkside and was abke to still control himself to not fall into it. In the novels he even became one with the darkside and acted as the emperors apprentice, yet he was still luke, he had control of himself , he turned away at will and killed the emperor. Luke was truly a master of his self, and coukd use b9th sides with no issues, he knew it was dangerous , yet he , unlike his father had mastered himself enough to walk that line and even fool Palpatine.

[@EchosOfWhiterun_5555DocOfStyle]

@Retney: Your *Star Wars* videos have been very insightful and thought-provoking so I wanted to say *Thank You* for being methodical as well as awesomely in tune with what the *Characters* are showing you. You seem to have captured each one of their *Essencees* quite brilliantly!!! *Luke* is dark, *Anakin* is lost, *Palpatine* is evil, and *Obi-Wan*/*Yoda* are naturally just right in the middle of it all!!! 👲

[@RetneysHolocron]

Thanks for watching! 🙏

[@BandidFourLife]

This reminded me of that time George Bush Jr revealed to the whole world he was a Star Wars fan.

[@marc80s]

Luke should have been given some Dark Side points for those force chokes. 😂

[@PapaTagz]

Great Video , thank you

[@RetneysHolocron]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@georgecostan3248]

People forget that Luke never had an one-sided hero personality. He had plenty of shady, un-Jedi moments.

[@Nostradevus1]

No we didn't. The sequels still suck.

[@georgecostan3248]

@@Nostradevus1 glad to see you speak on behalf of others. The video just shows the contrary, though.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

​@@georgecostan3248Right??

[@Nostradevus1]

@@georgecostan3248 Shows the contrary to which statement? That we all didn't forget Luke had a brush with the dark side? Or that the sequels suck? It does neither. The whole point of Return of the Jedi was to showcase Luke's brush with the dark side, his realization that defeating the darkside was an internal struggle, and redeem his father. You mean to tell me it makes sense he would try to kill his nephew in his sleep after resigning himself to death via Force Lightning rather than strike down his father? It ignores all the lessons he learned in the OT and that is why it is a horrible story. The same thing happens to Han Solo. He goes from 2 bit smuggler for Jaba, to hero of the rebellion, back to 2 bit smuggler for no apparent reason. Nothing in this video can save the sequels and most of us aren't idiots who missed the entire point of RotJ.

[@georgecostan3248]

@@Nostradevus1 a brush? Both ep. 5 & 6 have Luke struggle against the darkness within. And it's nowhere stated that once his father redeemed himself, then the same recipe would work on anybody else, nor that Luke's inner darkness was fully dealt with. If we take into account the main inspiration for the Jedi order, the fight against darkness it's a life time struggle, not a 2 hours battle. Also, most interactions between Luke and Vader took place on screen, with a conflicted, but willing full grown adult to kill the Emperor and attached to his son. While the relationship between Luke and Kylo had years of attempts to expel the darkness from Kylo, which felt alienated by both his parents and Luke. He actually said he felt like a monster in the eyes of all those whom he loved. While Luke, a green master, feeling blinded by his obsession for the darkness inside his order, made a grave mistake, while being impulsive (like his father). TLJ didn't do a great visual storytelling on this part, but the plot itself and the acting are actually very solid.

[@b.lonewolf417]

Honestly, I never saw any of Luke's behavior in the palace as "acting evil." Simply confronting a malevolent and dangerous antagonist, and handling him accordingly by meeting him at his level, no more and no less

[@ccl7983]

He really looked like the knightfall version of his father almost .

[@Truewing777]

I dont know everything about his story.. but I believe after the events of episode 6 he dabbles a bit more with the dark side.. in addition..he seems to be one of the jedi with the longest string of what you may call a "Dark Streak" wavering between Darkness and Light.. a True Dark Jedi..

[@grindcoreninja6527]

He literally serves as Palps apprentice at one point in the EU.

[@Morgyborgyblob]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again Luke was the Balance that Anakin brought to the Force.

[@stevenjelinek5716]

I don’t think he was close to the dark side, I think growing up there he knew what Jaba would respond to, and played the part.

[@RetneysHolocron]

Come on bruh I literally explained how the book says the darkness was inside his mind and George stated that Luke was close to the Dark Side 😂

[@SpaceAcex]

@@RetneysHolocronindeed! George even came close to having Luke take vaders helmet and put in on at the end.

[@vincentharris2259]

​@@RetneysHolocronSince Jabba's Palace Was Filled With Evil Then Of Course He Would Feel Drawn To The Dark Side But In Order To Be Able To Confront Jabba He Had To Tap Into The Dark Side To Be Able To Deal With Him.

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

Luke choking somebody like Anakin did in TCW kind of says otherwise.

[@trentmonaghan179]

I guess I must have been really naive when I first saw this movie, because I had looked at him as the good guy. (But it must have been those teddy bears that distracted me. 🧸🐻)

[@DaveFu]

Luke force choked the gamorrean guards. The clones were slaves. The ewoks ate the stormtroopers they killed.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Now this was interesting

[@TheRealBullyMaguire]

He kinda did act evil in Jabba's Palace though

[@lake_cooper]

Interesting 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@soldatintelectual6544]

So much like his father

[@TheGr8-1]

Really enjoy this young ma s channel. Especially since he deals primarily with GL’s era. Disney really dropped the ball. The books, comics etc. Prior to Disney’s acquisition were mostly awesome. What we got instead was trash.

[@majin3844]

love your videos 💚✌🏽💯

[@JoshuaArkwright]

Who doesn’t?

[@TheRealBullyMaguire]

Same

[@RetneysHolocron]

Glad you like them!

[@johnmchugh8049]

Interesting take

[@RetneysHolocron]

It’s lore from the novelization 👍

[@johnmchugh8049]

@@RetneysHolocron right on

[@marychasse8483]

I disagree. Luke is the New Jedi.. not the old group that were destroyed by the Emperor and Vader. He was not hampered by the bureaucracy of the old Jedi codes. This was the will of the Force. As was his father in the end fulfilling the prophecy of destroying the Sith. It is a Much bigger picture. Galactic society rather than just the individual characters. Lucas has a much larger lesson in mind...

[@RetneysHolocron]

Interesting! 👍 Lucas stated that Luke was between the Light & Dark Sides and he dressed him in black to symbolize the Dark Side in “The Star Wars Archives Vol 1” by Paul Duncan. All the info in this video about Luke’s thoughts comes directly from the novelization of Return of the Jedi.

[@marychasse8483]

That's the Balance 😊

[@jaydevon8985]

Why dont we get a luke Skywalker series 🤷

[@CyrillKR]

We got three great movies with him already lol

[@jaydevon8985]

@@CyrillKR not as many displaying his Jedi image. It's a great time to do more between the return of the Jedi and after. Technology is better now. 😉 🤔Can you name the 3?

[@TheMan-je5xq]

To me it’s when he choked those two guards I mean he could’ve easily just force shoved em. Now during his talk with Jabba one could say he acted that way because he already tried diplomacy via R2 but choking the guards was uncalled for, if he killed them that is, I guess if he released the choke after getting out of range that would be ok

[@user-vb5tq2kv1q]

He is Anakin son after all

[@pixxilutia6108]

Man what is the name of the music in your videos ?

[@Sasquiny]

I agree, let's get some music info!

[@RetneysHolocron]

Its just an instrumental track that I cut together manually

[@yusrashah1173]

scawy luke

[@mlc9928]

Y’all need to stop confusing non canon. Luke was never Palpatines apprentice. Period.

[@kaikudo5745]

I don't see what's so wrong with it. Jabba ruins countless lives. He should be killed. But no, because if you want to kill someone horrible other than a sith lord, you are gonna fall down to dark side. It's such a BS. If it's so easy to fall down, then the force is such a evil thing in it's very nature.

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

As Yoda told Luke before, a Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, not to attack. What Luke did was the kind of "aggressive negotiations" that Anakin loved to engage in. One of the things that separate the Jedi from the Sith is that the latter believed their power gave them the license to impose their will on other life forms and their environment.