Star Wars: Episode IX

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by IMJ

My buddy who is a big Star Wars guy and I have had a decades long running joke about how Luke is actually basically a little whiny, bitch. And he's actually shown as such in the movies more often than he is heroic at all.

He had a lucky shot in the trenches, and he did alright at Jabba's Palace, but after that not so much. He's whiny throughout the trilogy, he gets strung up by a hair-monster, gets his hand cut-off and gives up for suicide after it, and repeatedly tells the Galactic Bad Guy that he won't fight him.

I'd still take Luke over Rey. Unless Rey wanted to get busy, then... definitely Rey.

I think it's clear that Leia is the only purely admirable (human) character among the franchise's main cast. Also, she should go by the name of Organa, not Skywalker or Solo, because Bail Organa and family are the unsung heroes of the galaxy.